This is the dial in our current late-90’s apartment (apologies for the limescale). It is gradated in Celsius

My kids like something in the mid-30’s, I like just under 40, my wife like closer to 45. A pretty decent range IMHO

I’ve never had this problem anywhere I live (Sweden and Japan) so I’m assuming it has to do with some kind of especially cheap fixtures?

I guess technically, yes

The old internet, where the worst crime you could do was hot-link an image, and the worst punishment there was was having it replaced with goatse

replacing them with three main product lines: Dell (yes, just Dell), Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max.

PC/Android companies not trying to blatantly rip off Apple challenge: Impossible

Yeah it feels like even Apple is half-heartedly invested in it. Lots of the first-party Apple apps are basically just iPad apps, a year after launch. And there’s no real video content, just a bunch of short 7-minute teasers.

Apple should be subsidizing the shit out of developers to get some killer apps on there to prove what it can do. They seem to have assumed if they built it, they would come. But nobody showed up to the party. Developers who DID build apps, that even got featured by Apple, say their sales basically paid for the developer adapter, not even the headset itself.

When I went to university in 2003. The telephone exchange in the village my parents lived in finally got upgraded to ADSL in 2004 or 2005 I think after a grassroots ISP collected enough subscribers to pay for it (after which the national telco was happy to start offering service, screwing over the grassroots ISP)

University internet was 10 Mbps, but the year after they kicked the dorms off the school network and put us on the consumer city fiber network which was 100 Mbps. About a decade later I moved in somewhere with 1 Gbps.

And I now have 10 Gbps at home. How times have changed…

I was looking for some reddit-tier joke of a big dildo under the bed or something

Microsoft try not to copy everything Apple does challenge: Impossible

At least “Apple Intelligence” is cute because the initials for it are A.I.

They should have built a solution where the phones that haven’t been tested get cut off, but get an SMS telling them to activate the phone, call SOS once. For the first SOS call, they intercept it, check that the phone was able to make the call, then unblock the phone, and after that, allow SOS calls as normal.

That would require “actually doing work” though.

Thunderbolt optical cables exist if you need them, and for anyone who doesn’t the extra cost of the optical interface is a waste.

Is number spoofing really a problem outside of North America (+1 country code)? Over the past decade or so I’ve had phone numbers in 5 different countries across several continents and never had any issues with number spoofing or really any spam from phone numbers at all (since a year ago, I get at most 1 spam SMS a month here in Japan, not one call ever), but I keep hearing only Americans talking about it as a problem.

I have friends who still have iPhone XR, XS etc and those came with USB A bricks. And any time I buy some cheap gadget with a USB-C port it just comes with a USB-A to C cable. So I can see lots of people still out there with only USB A chargers, although you’d think they would be in the minority now.

Because “Japan so weird” gets the clicks

They’re not even selling it, they’re just giving it away due to incompetence.

They added the pixel to track their ad click through rate (and to automatically optimize the targeting based on people who click through).

The pixel sends off the URL of the current page when a user visits. The search form put the GPA you entered to search for in the URL, so it gets sent off as part of the URL.

There’s no way Facebook even realized this or utilized the data in any way, it just happens to be in the URL by mistake and they get millions of URLs sent to themselves every second, no way do they actually bother to sit and analyze what’s in them.

Neat - these things usually show up in the news as a render and then you never hear about it again. Being actually built full-scale is pretty cool.

Sails obviously work, the two questions with an automated metal sail for cargo ships are cost and reliability. Making moving parts that don’t break down in high wind and salt water isn’t easy.

You can still have protrutionless handles without making them electronically retractable. Just have a spring-loaded metal flap that you push in with your hand

Why is it always DNS?