Posts by Detective Emil 419 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Feb 2010
Are there nefarious actors at play here, an automated process that auto-rejects apps with elevated access requirements, or is it just simple incompetence?
There's a third possibility …
The Register repeatedly asked Google to comment, but it failed to respond.
They just don't give a sh*t.
Blimey! I'm amazed nobody has yet mentioned the time when Apple, in its C-suite wisdom, plonked an unrequested U2 album into every iTunes account that existed in 2014. The digital equivalent of bleach wouldn't shift it, until they hastily provided a way to delete it.
Depleted U238 is used in kinetic weaponry to pack the heaviest (literally) possible punch. But high explosives seem like a much better idea for a (non-nuclear) torpedo. Nuclear torpedos might, I discover on reading that Wikipedia page, use U238 as a tamper.
Adobe Photoshop can technically run on Arm through emulation
Adobe says that Photoshop & Lightroom are already native on ARM Windows, and more Creative whatever apps are coming sooner or later. And, yes, until then, use emulation.
And another thing: according to Reuters, Qualcomm has had an exclusivity deal for Windows on ARM for eight years. Strange we're only seeing somewhat good stuff from them just as the deal's ending.
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We've decided not to replace our medium-recent, medium-premium car just yet, not because we don't like EVs, but because anything we might buy is encrusted with stuff we don't need, don't want to have to stab at a screen to control, and don't want to pay for (and to keep paying for). And it's likely to be nosey. We can tell ourselves we're being virtuous by postponing the carbon cost of building a new car.
Just watched It's quieter in the Twilight [IMDB]. Most of the people keeping the Voyagers, "humankind's greatest exploration," alive came to the US as immigrants 50 or more years ago.
Apart from anything else, if he had not been around last week, Tesla's whacking GPU delivery (for which it presumably had a use it considered good for its bottom line) would not have been diverted to umm … something or other.
I have a lot of Sonos kit that I bought early on — hell, I even managed to buy their own remote control before it was discontinued in favour of apps. I'm happy to say that everything still works (except the long-dead remote, which stopped accepting touch input). This is no thanks to Sonos, which keeps pulling stunts like this: I had their servers blocked at the router for a long time, fearful that they'd follow through on threats to brick stuff they considered too old. And I used iMazing to make sure I had a copy of a known-good version of the app in case I updated an iDevice by mistake. Sonos' continued behavior does not tempt me to update to current hardware. Maybe it's time to install those blocks again.
Mercedes came up with it in 2019 or so. A quick search suggests that pricey Rivian and BMW models have it too.
That "large clock" inevitably reminds me of the "Stop the Film" segment of Monty Python's Blackmail [YouTube].
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Apple's recent whopping fine for unfair business practices may have tipped the balance (although Amazon recently did get out of a large EU tax penalty on appeal).
I wonder how the energy saved by not building a year's worth of hardware compares with the extra energy used by old hardware relative to new. Of course, the tendency to buy more compact but wattier and more capable replacements when end-of-lifing may make a comparison moot.
I'd say the Australian Robdebt scheme was about as bad, although subject to investigation more quickly. Hands yet to be laid on the shoulders of the perps, however.
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