Some people don’t understand the difference between testing and use. You can afford to test when your launches cost 1/100 of SLS launches instead of risking human lives. Artemis II was human rated with zero launches of its life support equipment, modeling failures of its heat shield, multiple power issues in its only predecessor flight in space. Starship will carry humans after hundreds of launches and landings.
I don't believe that to be true. Starship may host humans next year if it can get to a stable orbit and manage to demonstrate sufficient control for docking. It is extremely unlikely to demonstrate any environmental control before that.
Sure - what I mean is that being able to run an equivalent GUI to Windows (Gnome, KDE) using less memory than Windows requires is a benefit, but not the most important one to me. There are other bigger benefits to using Linux+GUI instead of Windows than saving on a bit of RAM.
No keyboard, no mouse, tiny screen. Every single action you'd like to take is slower and more cumbersome. Want to selection a portion of a URL? Well, get ready for an adventure. Tap the URL bar once, then -- oops, now it thinks you want to copy. You can't tap the individual sections. Try to move the little "copy bars" but oops, the press didn't register because they're tiny. Spend about a minute randomly pressing the URL bar until you can actually get the behavior your want. Or, try to switch tabs. It's not hard per se, but it's an order off magnitude slower than ctrl+tab. Or search within a page. Can you just hit ctrl+g and start typing and then press ctrl+g again? No, no, you need to enter a menu, enter a submenu, then wait for the onscreen keyboard to show up, then glide your finger over that with a few corrections, then move your finger down the the tiny next button.
It's all objectively terrible, and it accomplishes nothing except allowing the user to use the internet right then and there.
Phone networks by design track you more precisely than possible over a conventional internet connection to facilitate the automatic connection to the nearest available network. Also, for similar reasons it requires the phone network to know that it is your phone
The phone network already needs to know where your phone is to be able to route incoming calls.
Also, I don't get how the situation with your home internet connection changes much. Your ISP knows exactly where you are because your house doesn't move.
The phone network has a low-resolution triangulation. It does not have high-precision GPS, potentially augmented by WiFi and bluetooth. And it doesn't sell its signaling data to anyone and everyone. Equivocating smartphone tracking with cell tower pinging is disingenuous.
Installed apps can track you even more, so what you're arguing for is presumably not "don't use websites on your phone", but rather "do not use your phone, just use your desktop computer".
Which sure, not using your phone is more secure, but good luck convincing users that they shouldn't use any apps or websites on the go.
My law of headlines is, "don't take them too seriously, don't develop too many expectations about the article, skim the article (or the comments) to know what it is about and whether it is worth your time".
Taking feature lists and plans at face value is offensively shallow; the typical Rust fan arrogance pattern can be an explanation (if the Rust rewrite is "better", it doesn't have to be compatible with the rest of the world who uses the actual C SQLite).
Sort of, but be warned it wont automatically revert a time machine backup of your Tahoe files to a Sequoia system, you have to manually copy them. Similarly you have to recovery boot into disk utility to flatten your hard drive before installing Sequoia from (say) a memory stick.
It all seems a bit needlessly tricky. Frankly though - for me at least - it's worth the trouble.
Always write what you want, however you want to write it. If some reader somewhere decides to be judgemental because of — you know — an em dash or an X/Y comparison or a complement or some other thing that they think pins you down as being a bot, then that's entirely their own problem. Not yours.
I add em dashes to everything I write now, solely to throw people who look for them off. Lots of editors add them automatically when you have two sequential dashes between words — a common occurrence, like that one. And this is is Chrome on iOS doing it automatically.
Ooh, I used “sequential”, ooh, I used an em dash. ZOMG AI IS COMING FOR US ALL
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