stasomatic
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Comment · 2 hours ago
I find that Apple sleep tracking concentrates on how early you go to sleep and how many times you get up. I haven’t tried anything else, but the Apple thing doesn’t tell me what I don’t already know. Any suggestions for something basic, BPM and simple alarms ant timers? About to ditch my Ultra S3.
Comment · 2 hours ago
I saw a newish Subaru this week and there was a thin strip near the left rear light that spelled out “symmetrical AWD”. That gave me a slight chuckle. Same with 16g, Turbo or Platinum or “sea salt”.
Comment · 1 day ago
If I can play Specter or Shuffle board air hokey, the BW boulder dash clone, Marathon, I'm game. Can I? You just cost me some, now a search for a Mac classic. The emulators don't do it for me.
Comment · 5 days ago
I can't answer the ethical question, but I don't think it's binary B/W. We are not talking Oppenheimer here who's been elevated and his sins "pardoned".
I've listened to the most recent books, e.g. "Apple in China", "Steve Jobs in Exile", "Apple the first 50 years". By all accounts, he was a very difficult persona, but somehow folks gravitated to him or he changed gravity. Not trying to idolize the guy but failing, but I'll tell you I cried and my heart sank when I heard the news of his passing.
Who can you name now at the helm of any tech company today that has anywhere same gravitas? The charlatans at the 2 top AI firms? Certainly not MSFT, Google, Amazon and FB ether, imo. Nobody cares about their CEOs.
The stakes are not nearly the same when we're talking about luxury consumer tech gadgets. How much do workers need to be abused just to produce those?
But on this, vote with your wallet. This is not luxury though, this is - https://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/prod293940005
Neiman Marcus The 2026 Fantasy Gifts Star Wars Legacy Experience $182,500
iPhones are just phones at a different price point at a different quality point with different levels of support. Some like Hondas, others - Lexus'. I can't say about abuse, I haven't been to China or India, but do you think any people on Android assembly lines fare better off? Not arguing, just spitballing.
Comment · 5 days ago
And yet mine won't ship until the end of January. We don't know how many they've made.
I would argue that this is an attractive selling point for tech enthusiasts, but most people aren't going to care.
But people camped out at my Aventura Apple Store in Miami at 8PM the previous day. Not a nerd hub really.
Comment · 5 days ago
But would we have what we have now without SJ? I read (listened) the book. I've worked with phony CEO talking heads with zero "vision". Apple has gone through many like that and still ended up on Steve, that says something, no?
Comment · 8 days ago
TOTK requires too many button gymnastics, it won't be playable on an iPhone without a gamepad shell and the iPhone screen is too small. I've played through both BOTW and TOTK to the end.
Comment · 8 days ago
Understood. Other people bother me little, but If it happens, I’ll sit elsewhere, no big deal. It is certainly cultural but my 35 years in the US, I’ve seen most everything … I’m pretty immune.
Comment · 9 days ago
Hmm, I live here (Miami-ish) and sometimes you need a canoe or a Tacoma with a snorkel to get up to the surface. Or, just stay at home. 2 years ago my wife was stuck at intersection for 8 hours 1 mile away from home, I had to relieve her on foot. It's not just about the wind, the infra here is outdated (drainage). I've seen it, I've been there got the tee, it's not hypothetical.
Comment · 9 days ago
And this way of thinking, believing it is the service employee's fault seems to be the American way of thinking, you don't see it anywhere else in the world.
What's this got to do with American whatever? I paid for the ticket and will use the bathroom as often as my body requires. Should I relieve myself in the seat?
The problem is never caused by the employee.
You can even report the company itself but never the employee because they are just robots.
Calling flight attendants robots is low. Nicest people in the world, especially given their grueling schedules.
Comment · 9 days ago
In my building, people walk into the elevator with their speaker on full blast without paying any attention to the rest of the riders. Same in stores or gyms, just blissfully yada-yading. I blame the Kardashians.
Comment · 9 days ago
In many places, farmer markets aren't a thing. I live in South Florida and there is just one farmer's market near me that's open on weekends. I tried the organic eggs at $3 each, or geese eggs at $5, meh, stinky and gamey. So I get my eggs through Publix or Winn Dixie and they charge what they want to. It's pure price gouging, a dozen of eggs was under a $1 6 years ago, now it's $4. I wonder how the things compare in Europe, eggs there taste on another level better.
Comment · 9 days ago
I sympathize with the OP as I have roots in the former USSR, but this is unfortunately true. My previous workplace in the US straight out rejected any resumes that smelled Russian.