@arstechnica Ipads suck. I don't care that it has a M2 chip if I will never be able to actually use the M2 chip to its full potential because apple has disabled general purpose computing in software. My Pixel Tablet may not have as much horsepower as a M2, but I like the software and it does what I want it to do.
@arstechnica I read a book called fossil future by alex epstien. Link here: https://www.amazon.com/Fossil-Future-Flourishing-Requires-Gas-Not/dp/0593420411 The environmentalist framework, at least the mainstream one catastrophizes side effects and ignores benefits. Remember that Paul Erlich, a prominent enviromentalist in the 70's, when he heard reports of profitable nuclear fusion being available by the 80's, remarked that power should be more expensive, not less and that it should be a crime for power companies to make power cheaper and encourage people to use more. Which is why the environmentalist movement feels threatened by nuclear power, because they don't want cheap clean carbon free energy, they want less wealth for everyone, especially the poor. Then again read the book and the sources alex epstien cites, don't just take it from me. Also read https://www.amazon.com/False-Alarm-Climate-Change-Trillions/dp/1541647467 and https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691/146-9274173-6563829?psc=1. I am not defending big oil, I am simply stating what is true.
@arstechnica Remember that environmentalism was the excuse for removing the charger brick from the box of the latest iphones. This is just another step in removing things from the box so that you have to buy them separately. I wouldn't be suprised if apple removed the USB type c port to make you go out and buy an apple branded wireless charger. Don't give them any more ideas, I don't want them to get courageous again lest android phones follow suit.
@arstechnica The sea dragon rocket solved this problem by being so big it could launch a 550 ton third stage in the second stage. Might want to consider an ablative hull shield on the covering the capsule using a material like starlite to protect the ceramic tiles underneath.
@arstechnica I think interner service providers should have a duty to deal, in which they have to charge everyone equally for the same service and have to forward all traffic of their customers without preference and in the order received according to the priority header chosen by their customers. Why make a new legal framework when you can simply use one that has worked for centuries and simply apply it to current technology, just like railroads and telegraph operators were subject to back in the day.
@arstechnica I don't care how powerful the M4 ipad pro is, that means nothing when the software is inferior. I use a Google Pixel Tablet and I don't care that it doesnt have as much horsepower as an ipad pro when I can take full advantage of the hardware because the software lets me set it up exactly how I like it with minimal bloat and the ability to use Firefox with ublock origin.
@arstechnica When I own my own trillion dollar company I its headquarters will be a 1 mile high skyscraper in a roman neoclassical architectural style with a titanium frame, not a circular postmodern abomination like the picture above.
@arstechnica Having to ask apple for permission to sideload defeats the point of the EU regulation and the EU needs to make sure you don't have to ask apple for permission. All apple would have to do in good faith is put a switch in the general settings called "Allow Sideloading" with a password prompt and confirmation and then you can install any IPA you want.
@arstechnica This is on top of charging to use the data you already have for a mobile hotspot and carrier locking phones so that you cannot install an improved version of android like graphene or lineageOS.
@arstechnica The cell carriers know that the FCC will protect them from any meaningful competition and that putting up cell towers is expensive even if you get permission from the government first.