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native UIs. Platforms look and work differently and it’s annoying and dumb that every app thinks they need to either reinvent the wheel with their own bespoke UI/UX bs or to use ‘native controls’ but completely ignore any actual platform conventions and make the lowest common denominator of everything.

This sentiment is sorely missing from the endless Rust re-writes.

For people with a normal screen size, having the click targets be of infinite size is still very useful.

Maintaining the same functionality advertised or realised at the time it was purchased.

The key to what? If you want to have a search box that doesn’t need some setup wizard, then you have to pick a default.

And I think a typical user, generally, would expect that a browser saves history and so on by default. People like AutoFill!

I’m not sure how much more of an opt-in you could make it than a button you have to click to turn it on.

Again, though, I haven’t set up a Mac fresh in a while.

> It also contacts google by default for searching, character by character quick search completion

Similarly to the parent comment, I am quite comfortable with Safari sending my search query to Google when I perform a Google search.

I’m not sure how that’s nonsense.

Doesn’t it come up with a notice underneath the box that you have to click ‘Continue’ on to see online results?

Cool, but the information on government websites generally meets a higher standard than just ‘making shit up all the time’ so it’s not really a relevant comparison.

What does being a ‘fanboy’ mean in this context?

Using the cameras to estimate depth information is not really a better solution than using the LiDAR sensor because the cameras are so close together that the effective range for parallax depth estimation and the effective range of the LiDAR sensor are very similar.

> At the same time, about every two minutes, code checked that the camera was still running and logged the message, “Who’s a good boy?!” More than 12,000 of those messages appear in the recovered logs.

I'm not sure why 404 has decided that the number or content of watchdog messages is so significant, but in other coverage of this article, (namely non-technical people making short-form technology 'content'), people seem to be really clinging onto this.

In addition to the third-party installation capability mentioned by siblings, Japan also has a regional capability for reassigning the side button to a third-party voice assistant (`com.apple.developer.side-button-access.allow`).

The only thing Safari seems inferior at is draining batteries.

If you’re trying to quantify fun, you’ve already well and truly missed the point.

Doesn’t it? I do trust the manufacturer of the thing that I keep within arms reach from the moment I get it, and which knows more about me than I do, to have better security than whatever the hell a TUYA is that controls the lights.

My experience with phones like that are that they tend to fall apart when subjected to impact, which is pretty counterproductive to features like, I don’t know, being able to use the phone immediately after an impact (car crash, fall).

> google's ai says

Copy-pasting AI output is uninteresting and rude.

'Solved' by having measurably worse ingress protection than leading smartphones?

How do you think that this wouldn't "work in the current timeline"? This sounds like a deep misunderstanding of media.

How is the title misleading?

Everything involving geography is a regional feature because it takes time to create things for physical stuff across the physical world; its not just some arbitrary limitation like streaming media.

> no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch

I regularly use hiking and topography maps on my Apple Watch with the first party maps app, so it sure what you’re talking about

Some of these are questionable, but 3 and 5 stick out. Being included makes it sound like whoever wrote this list doesn’t really know what Zed is?

It’s a local text editor. The only thing an account gives you is access to their specific flavour of coding agent and a collaboration server.

> If your payment lapses, they reserve the right to delete your account and all associated data with no liability.

Pretty much the only associated data is your payment info.

> Your statement uses the presence of bugs to indicate a product is worth using.

This is not correct; "If a product is worth using, then it has bugs." (P→Q) does not imply its converse "If a product has bugs, then it is worth using." (Q→P). Buginess is presented as a necessary condition of being worth using, not a sufficient one.

It does, however, imply "If a product has no bugs, then it is not worth using.".

The thing they “didn’t want to [do]” was infringe on the Linux trademark.

> including a new option coming this summer that will enable businesses in the U.S. and Canada to place local ads in Maps during key search and discovery moments.

The enshittification knows no bounds.

What else is a shame is claiming that some single language feature supports a foregone conclusion that the writing's been 'molested'. It's hard to imagine what a constructive comment this could've been with the minimum of effort to know that the author has written this way consistently since at least 2021, before the first public release of ChatGPT.

I think this’d be a good comment if it weren’t for the superiority complex :/

I’m fairly confident that the Venn diagram of (a) nine-year-olds that are playing with a computer and (b) people who claim that access to kernel source code is a prerequisite to “learning about computers” is two circles that are barely touching.