Indeed I was! I’m not sure the studies you linked would either confirm nor refute that point. I agree with your supposition that studies on Indian call centers probably don’t generalize particularly well.

You didn’t address my point at all — I’m talking about remote schooling, which I believe studies showed did not do well.

I agree with you that the WFH “productivity” studies are suspect since it’s difficult to measure productivity in any meaningful way.

Why not? Remote schooling was generally viewed as a poor substitute for in-person schooling, so it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that there could be benefits to doing things in real life.

Exactly, which is why I said “charging people to play pirated games” (though I suppose it was really just one game, so no plural was needed.)

Internet people: NINTENDO IS DESTROYING ALL EMULATORS raaaaaaaa

Reality: Nintendo sued exactly one emulator that was literally charging people to play pirated games

Seems about the same?

The best cheese temperature is fresh out of the refrigerator and I will die on this hill!

I downvoted it because it’s blaming the wrong entity; the real bad actor here is Apple.

The AltStore should be free and it should be available globally, but neither are possible thanks to Apple’s anticompetitive shenanigans.

Agreed, most of the characters in the book are so flat, and only do things because the plot needed them to do that thing.

The Netflix series managed to make the character’s motivations seem more believable which I appreciated.

Nice! Gotta catch em all!

If only they had functional data backup and export on non-Android platforms…

Ah, you’re right! I evidently mixed up the expensive Apple accessories haha

My favorite post-Jobs keynote moment was the confused laughter when Apple triumphantly announced the price of the $699 Mac Pro wheels.

So disappointed they’re still doing the prerecorded presentations. The old live ones were so much more fun!

Seems they are aware of that problem, according to the article:

Taxis can use Market Street but Uber and Lyft can’t — an aspect of the system that even planners say has problems, since so many people use those ride-booking options, but there’s no obvious way to let them cross 10th Street without allowing all other drivers, too.

Agreed. The problem was they had planned to redo the streetscape as part of the Better Market Street initiative, but the plans fell through because the Board of Supervisors spent so much time infighting that they lost the federal funds that would have funded it:

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2022/11/119462-san-francisco-returns-15-million-federal-grant-market-street-improvements

I can finally follow ZUCC on Mastodon, at last

In keeping with the Siri brand, Apple has to make sure LLM-Siri’s underlying model is bad at everything

…does anyone actually have a stereoscopic monitor?

Japan! It’s a stairway leading to the Toei Ōedo line, among the deepest subways into the world.

At this point, I feel like Apple is just playing chicken with the EU. If this isn't "gatekeeping" (ie, the thing the DMA is supposed to prevent), then I'm not sure what would be.

Eh, I think the problem is the customers just take what apple gives them

I think this is true to an extent, but my argument against it would be to point to the period where Apple resisted making large phones, while Android phones were getting bigger and bigger. (This would be approximately the era of the 5/5S) In the more wild-west product lineup of Android, it became clear that bigger screens equaled more sales, for better or for worse.

Eh, I think the problem is customers just prefer bigger phones. I mean, personally I prefer the mini, but I think it's clear I'm in the minority.

Using a rebrand to try and downplay the compactness may work for sight-unseen buyers, but in the end if they're shown the bigger phone in-store, past sales would suggest they're likely going to pick the bigger phone. (Phones ended up so big in the first place because people preferred them, too.)

I just wish Signal had better history and backup features.

Oh I wasn’t being sarcastic or anything, I think it’ll make a great addition.

This is absolutely the reason why Apple sticks with a rectangle, but that said, I'd still love to see them try for a round face.

Round faces look amazing for analog watch faces and only for that—but I'd still get one if they offered it.

You just know this is going to get mentioned at Tim Cook's next iPhone keynote.

Why not everything? Honestly even 25 years seems too long, make it 10.

Wish the TouchID rumors were true; I have the iPad Air M1 with the side TouchID button and it works amazingly.

I wish Apple would bring it to their phones, but they really seem to like FaceID for some reason.

Yup. Lest we forget, Android is Linux-based, and it's the most popular consumer operating system in the world.

Exactly! The great thing about Lemmy is that if your instance’s admins start doing stupid stuff you can just go to another instance.

As fun as it is to watch Musk do dumb stuff, giving him credit for killing HSR is a reach. There’s a really great article about it here — even Epstein was involved for some reason!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html

Well, to quote a classic film:

"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."

All Elon had to do was stick to the rockets and cars!

But no, he has to go pick fights with random people online and espouse stupid talking points. It’s like a masterclass in killing your personal brand.

What did you think of the second one? I liked how it was open world, though the story itself left a lot to be desired IMO

New Coke was the 80s, not 70s — they actually briefly brought it back as part of a Stranger Things tie-in. Super interesting to actually taste it.

Attitudes like this are much worse for the health of the Fediverse, IMO.

A popular instance with users and content? Kill it immediately, we can't risk people actually using the Fediverse.

I miss AskScienceFiction; it was always fun reading those in-universe answers.

There's one here on LemmyWorld, but it's pretty dead: !AskScienceFiction@lemmy.world

Wow, the level of detail on this theme is really impressive!

As as aside, I didn't realize that GTK had officially banned theming. That seems...dumb.

IIRC, my dad bought progressives from Zenni and said they were as good as the ones he got from an optician.