Definitely not universally true. I was a big introvert in high school and college, but now as an adult I am way more extraverted and have more friends than ever.

I just put a donate button in my free apps and make a little every now and again from the kind souls who decide to send money.

I was always afraid of some sort of implied level of support or quality from something that I charge money for, but maybe I'm overthinking it.

I feel like if I release it for free then there can be no expectations.

My hobby projects were created mainly to serve a need for myself or a close friend, or to create an opportunity to develop my skills, hopefully both at once.

I am speaking about this all from a pre-LLM world and mind, so I realize that LLMs can change this somewhat.

Huh, my iPhones have never come close to this. They are always under 80% capacity before 1000 charge cycles.

unfortunately, it will be based on _design_ / _rated_ capacity, probably.

It will be based on what Apple self reports.

Watch apple secretly defining 1000 charge cycles as 1500 10%-80% "normal use" days. (Remember the "full charge in 8 minutes fiasco? Well, I searched a reference but I didn't find any :/)

My iPhone 13 Mini is almost 5 years old and well over 1000 charges and the battery health app reports 81% which I believe.

But even if I don't drink? Seems like a bar is not a place I would want to go. I know there can be other things to do there than drink, but still.

I find camaraderie is excellent through sports leagues and board game events, stuff like that.

Go to a 'bar' in Italy and people are just as likely to get a coffee as they are wine at night.

"But age verification requires identity verification. Identity verification requires digital IDs."

Um, no? iOS is doing age verification just by your credit card. I never saw people all that upset about giving their credit card info to their phone wallet app or even to a bunch of websites.

Are you going to give your cc number to every website in the world? Also, is that really an ID?

It's not necessary to give it to every website. Verification to the website can be a true/false from the OS. In fact that's how it already works now.

I would say it's not really an ID no, which is the point. The post is claiming that a digital ID is necessary for age verification, but clearly it isn't.

The next likely tokens for a response to a question that can't possibly be answered from the context should be "I" followed by "don't", followed by "know".

Subsidized smartphone is definitely still here.

I got my 17 Pro ($1100) from ATT for free which is almost twice the cost of the phones back then. And my monthly cost is only $35/mo as well for the 3 year term, for unlimited data too, which is cheaper than the data plans back then.

8% savings accounts? It says today 0.01% below that, but there are definitely high yield saving accounts in the 4-5% range today...

So sure it's half as good, if 8% really was common back then... but weren't loan interest rates even higher back then than today too?

You can get a miniDSP 2x4HD for like $225 that supports Dirac Live.

The optional Dirac Live firmware/licence for the miniDSP is an extra $199, so it's really $425.

I have one and personally didn't bother, did the usual UMIK-1 + REW to create the room correction.

> https://www.minidsp.com/products/dirac-series/index.php?opti...

Well they said hardware that supports it is expensive, so I was just mentioning the hardware price, not the Dirac license cost.