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Re:The USB Situation on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:00AM (#47995335)
Those are out of spec though so should be used with caution.
The blank cards they sell are great. We borrow audio books from the library and I rip them to a card, you can reuse them as well so don’t need to buy too many. I also put radio streams on them, like classical stations for when my sons going to bed.
I’ve had an issue with it before in my work MacBook. It would just keep causing the system to hang, making the computer unusable. Had to get IT to remove it.
Re:There's something off about LED bulbs on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:09PM (#35375940)
The Phillips bulbs I bought have a ridiculously high failure rate. About half have failed within 6 months. Much worse than the supermarket own brands, or cheaper ones from Amazon.
Re:New iPhone SE on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:28PM (#22881979)
I’d never used a case until I got the iPhone 8 and had to buy one because of how slippery it is! Unless you put it on a perfectly flat surface it will just slide off on to the floor.
You’re able to create custom apps for businesses where you can distribute to selected businesses, although you still need to go through the App Store approval process. You can also require a login to your app to restrict who can use it.
Re:Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews (2014) on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:55PM (#18629863)
There’s a toggle for it in one of the menus, the status bar shows when you hover over a link.
Re:I woke up unable to speak English on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:05PM (#18259591)
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there are any cases of people with brain injuries speaking languages they couldn’t speak before. And any foreign accent is a case of someone’s speech becoming distorted and coincidentally sounding similar to another accent.
Re:App sizes are out of control on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:27PM (#14903143)
The reason the LinkedIn app is so big is the number of frameworks they use. 87 frameworks accounting for 248MB of the 277. The swift runtime takes up about 20MB, and something called VoyagerFeed takes up over 190. All the images actually only make up about 12MB. There's also about 0.5MB for each localisation.
Re:iPhone 5 with iOS 7 randomly shuts off on Thursday January 23, 2014 @12:36PM (#7109648)
This is exactly what happens to me when the batteries around 10-20%. If I leave it for 10 minutes it will switch on again and the battery isn't drained, it usually switches off when I try to play music or use the map, but not just navigating the phone. I wonder if the battery does just need replacing though, but strange that I have only noticed this since installing iOS7.
Re:Making iOS 7 squircles using CSS3 on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:31PM (#6572249)
I thought Nokia 'owned' the squircle http://interuserface.net/2011/06/own-a-shape/
Hyperventilating actually reduces the amount of CO2 in the body, a build up of CO2 is what creates the need to take a breath. (One of the few things I remember from scuba diving).
That's what Apple call them now, like it or not.
Re:Analytics for Everyone on Thursday January 24, 2013 @09:09AM (#5109551)
I like how they manage to quote themselves from a TechCrunch article. "Bringing Data Together" says their CEO.