Oracle would like to know your location, but seriously they would so they can throw lawyers at you.

It really depends on the user. I mainly use iPhone, but there are definitely some odd limitations here and there. I’m glad Android exists to provide some alternative.

I’m not so sure this holds up as well as it once did. You can get some pretty cheap iPhones and Apple even sells some more value-oriented options , although not as cheap as some crappy Android phones. You can also buy Androids much more expensive than any iPhone.

But I hear what you’re saying. I believe you are saying that cheap often means more popular but that doesn’t mean good.

I used to have a ball, but I got rid of it because I heard reports that it can be dangerous and may not be very effective. It made me paranoid enough to just watch my equipment better.

Just adding onto this comment with quotes from the article:

Not because it’s not great — it is great! It’s just that for $250 less, you can get the base iPad, which is just about as good at every common iPad activity.

Not sure I totally agree with this reasoning. I buy flagship phones not because there aren’t cheaper phones that do the same things, but because I enjoy them from an enthusiast point of view. I wouldn’t argue that they enable workflows I couldn’t do before.

Overkill hardware is OK with me. As long as it meets the need and has good battery life, I’m happy, but I don’t see overkill as a selling point.

My iPhone is absolutely overkill in the CPU department. I never push its capabilities. but I didn’t buy it for the benchmarks. I bought it because it’s a pretty good phone.

Yes, they did a really good job. It handles the logic, but keep in mind the ROM itself is going to have operations that talk to the hardware that does things that just don’t exist in the code. The function will actually be in the hardware. Those pieces still have to be supplied of course.

I did a quick Google search, but I’m not familiar with this project and it’s not obvious to me what this project is.

It looks like the project is really careful not to include copyrighted materials in their distribution.

I see the misstep but truthfully I’ve seen way worse.

In this release, we added a big claw you can use to pinch the nose of someone who was foolish enough to buy a phone from our competitor.

We couldn’t because… reasons?

I’d like to gently un-recommend Shark. I’ve had two warranty replacements in 6 months. They stand behind the product, but it would have been nicer if it worked consistently.

That’s some deep magic you’re wielding. Excellent work.

Anyone got a paywall-free link?

Memory safe languages tend to be easier to use and to learn especially at lower skill levels with languages like Python and JavaScript. It’s a nice thought, but the White House encouraging memory safety seems like a relatively insignificant push. It’s the weight of legacy code and established solutions that will hold us back for a long time.

I always start off being nice until some leader insults me for no reason.

More blood for the blood god 🤷‍♂️

I didn’t see a brief description for this community, so please excuse me if I’m off topic.

Small victories: I set up my first containerized WordPress application with the whole nine yards. Object cache, DB, PHP, web server in separate containers connected together by a simple and readable compose file. The task was easy. What was hard was changing the way I think about running a server as this monolithic thing. True, it’s all on one physical server in the end, but the changes in mindset are becoming more difficult for me as I get older. I had always hated Docker as this wasteful oxymoronic “serverless” thing, but then I saw how I could use it to control dev environments. From there I’ve started to understand when the tool makes sense. For the first time, I feel like I get it.

Crowd sourcing. AirTags and other similar trackers emit weak, short range Bluetooth beacons that any iPhone can quietly detect and report along with where they were when the beacon was seen. There are privacy implications for sure, but it works.

This perverse incentive has been brought to you by…

Capitalism! ✨