Insiders is $5 a month, for the one app? For $5 more I can have 260+ apps with Setapp. It doesn’t feel like great value for money.
Have you thought about one off payments for maybe a year of updates?
It's not really 5$ a month. You can pay for just one month and then cancel the app. You can download it and use it even after that 1 month just without getting the updates. What really happens behind the scenes is that you just get removed as a collaborator from the project. So what you have locally (either the whole cloned repo or just the binaries) is all yours.
I am thinking about implementing one time payments but really it's a way of trying to sustain all my OSS projects for the long term.
> I've read so many accounts of people with Ring footage of a theft who tried to give it to the police and they refused to even look at it.
It’s even worse than that. I showed them two sets of camera footage of staff in my retail shop stealing from the cash register, and tallied it up my accounts to prove the amount…and CPS said “not enough evidence”. The camera footage was so clear you could see the 20 on the notes.
Wow, what country is this? Just to make sure I never live on it, even in rural LATAM you could persuade them to look into it. The lack of options in the first world is disgusting
That's interesting. I didn't think an extension could change the search engines available under Settings > Safari > Search Engine on iOS from the defaults (Google, Bing, Yahoo, DDG, Ecosia), or change the system-wide search used. Do you see different options now under Settings for search engines and did it change your system-wide search too (i.e. swipe down on home screen and then use the built-in Search)?
Swiping down doesn’t work, it’s in-browser only in the address bar. As for in safari, I don’t get options, but if the extension is enabled it redirects the search to Kagi.
Most/all of those studies have been proven to be falsified with repeated data and/or poor data. In fact, the company who make Ivermectin have even stated it has little or no effect on Covid. Why would a company that focuses on profits from the product categorically tell you not to use it?
Just a note about Starlink: they use what they call “cells”, so you can’t move around with your Starlink, which is a shame. Maybe they’ll create a plan for that at some point.
Funny thing about software is it costs money to produce and maintain. Another funny thing, is it runs on hardware which also isn’t free to buy or maintain. At Apple scale, that means for every new app or update, they need to compile it, scan it, pass it off for checks and then distribute it globally. That will be done many many many times a second.
On top of that they have to maintain a payment system that I’ve not once seen go down or had a problem with. Then they need to handle fraud, payment refund requests through support etc.
All I’m getting at, is it’s naive to boil what they do for that 30% down to “they automate some software”.
These problems can drive you nuts sometimes. I recently spent a day trying to figure out why I could use webrtc between node processes (with an automated playwright script) on my local machine, but the docker container versions refused to see my virtual sound card or mic.
Oh...I missed that small note that said “Chrome will only allow this over https, unless it’s localhost”!
I think the difference stated above, was that for messaging, calls and other phone related activities it’s not sent. I’m not sure you can say the same for Google.
On Pixel 4, 4a and 5, assistant does most queries on devices with the Neural processor. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring that capability to speakers too eventually. Though that increases the price of course. HomePod Mini is equivalent to Google Mini or Echo Dot but costs 3x the price. Maybe it's all the Apple Tax but my guess is that they had to put a pretty strong processor to do NLP on-device.
My interpretation of that was your voice query is still sent to Apple and interpreted as whatever text/command, but the contents of the text message are not pulled from iCloud, instead they are pulled from within your local network directly from your iPhone. So all of your requests still do get processed in the cloud on Apple servers, but they don’t wind up with copies of the content of your messages (unless of course you enable iCloud back ups or iMessage cloud sync). This is definitely an improvement versus how things work on the Google side, but it’s a far cry from nothing at all getting sent to Apple.
