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Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:05AM (#50087979)
What happened after that? How was it resolved?
Re:Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome) on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:50AM (#50085543)
I'm not sure that developers are the target audience the article is trying to reach.
Re:Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome) on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:47AM (#50085519)
Do I get it right: Chrome and Safari and many others are all "excellent"?
Re:Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome) on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:43AM (#50085477)
Do you mind to address some of the points of the article that claims that Chrome is worse?
Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:21AM (#50067976)
In Germany there is no VAT for solar installations - I'm not aware of any other "subsidies".

We (northern part of Germany) installed 7 KW panels with 10 KW battery for €15K in 2024. My neighbor is installing 10 KW panels with 10 KW battery for €18K this week. So it seems the total costs have not dropped any further in the last 2 years.

Re:Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:12PM (#49983406)
No, the thing he was arrested for is having classified documents in his possession.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:53PM (#49821574)
But many nuclear power plants in europe are running on russian uranium - so I don't get the argument that you are "hostage" to foreign oil just to become "hostage" of foreign uranium.

Something like wind and solar combined with batteries would be a more sovereign form of energy generation that is (as a bonus) more decentral and less prone to attacks.

Sitting all alone in the plane I'm reminded of the movie Knight and Day (Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz) where they are nearly the only passengers (with some adversaries).
Re:Apple's Dimensional Drawings on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:40AM (#49694200)
About a year ago I was designing a 3d-printed case for my iPad and found nothing online. I tried to locate the magnets with a magnetic flux detector but the results were very inaccurate. Great that this info is now available.
Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:05PM (#49649497)
I remember the presentation of the first iPhone and the extreme contrast of Steve Jobs to the representative of the cellular provider. Scroll to 1:11 and see for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg

Yes they head some good other presenters at the keynotes but Steve Jobs was extraordinary.

Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:56PM (#49649390)
It's interesting that unit sales as a metric was there from the beginning of this kind of discussions (which company is more successful) - and is still in use.

It had not hurt Apple to not have the most unit sold in the past while taking most of the money.

I imagine that the $2000 Samsung Phone has a healthy margin and makes money insofar it's not great for them that apple enters this segment of the market.

But of course you are right: Samsung is of course not dead in the water. But it's obvious that it already lost in regard to mindshare (exemplified by the number of comments here).

Re:The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates on Friday August 21, 2026 @06:15AM (#49386045)
It is one of the games that are timeless as they work for different generations. I played on an Atari ST aged 13 and my sons played the iPad version at about the same age.
Thank you! It works. What I don't get: Why they don't provide a way for a normal user to switch the audio.
I had to endure the ai-translated speech in german - it's unbearable. Usually I download the video and enjoy it in its intend form but my yt-downloader (Downie) does not work anymore atm.

Any Ideas how to get the original sound?

A very cynical way to put it: "Why should I learn something when AI could do for me?"
Re:Relax with Coax on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:01PM (#48863164)
"I put every Star Trek series into a Collection on my Plex, pointed Coax at it and now I have a channel that's playing a random Star Trek episode at any given moment. It's fantastic." (https://mastodon.social/@Moltz/116896945313382677)
Re:AI Poisons Creativity [video] on Saturday July 04, 2026 @03:31AM (#48783387)
It's ironic that I had to download the video to get the original version in english language. Youtube thinks that I would like the awful ai-translated german version. And there's no other way to disable this behavior.

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