Posts by amess

European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones

Re: replacement cycles for phones extending past 40 months

Right! I have an iPhone 6s, with the 15.8 OS and no more updates. Battery health (capacity) is 97%, it does everything I need, so it’s not going to be replaced for a very long time.

Siri? Will tariffs hurt Apple? Tim Cook says brace for a $900M whack, for starters

Re: I'll never understand the stock market

Buy when the price is low, sell when it goes up. If it doesn't go up - don't buy.

EU irate about geo-locked Apple IDs

Re: untrue

I guess you don't live in France.

Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI

Re: There are people who do it for money

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2

When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

Re: Next time

Don't do it yourself. Get some other poor bugger to risk their lives, preferably a long way away, like in another country, where they won't ask too many questions when the reaction goes pop and the surrounding area is poisoned for decades.

Like Wuhan?

Huawei loses attempt to rescue CFO Meng from US clutches despite using 140-year-old law in High Court

Re: Don't break my laws but I can break your laws

"Try telling that to the families and friends of the 2,466,856 who have succumbed to this "negligible hazard".

Or the 97.786% who didn't sucumb. (same source)

Amazon blasts past estimates, triples profits to $6.2bn but says COVID will cost it $4bn over the next quarter

"You have no idea how this works, do you?" >> You have no idea how this works, HAVE you?

Feeling pedantic this morning

Lizards for lunch? Crazy tech? Aliens?! Dana Dash: First Girl on the Moon is perfect for the little boffin-to-be in your life

Re: Harry Potter, but with science, instead of magic!

Wasn't it "breathing in lizards"? As in; inhaling

Baby Diesel? Little d'Artagnan? There is another child of Musk in the world

Musky McMuskface

Oh my Tosh, it's only a 100TB small form-factor SSD, SK?

Re: No-one will ever... need more than 64TB on a 2.5inch SSD

Key Luke ... the old blind man in that Kung Fu type series with David Carradine in it?