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If you don't trust the software to do what it says, then none of this matters anyway since they could have added this in silently ages ago or they could push custom firmwares out to targeted individuals to do it.
Everything is based on the trust of the OS and hardware so it's not a useful point to make.
They show it clearly above the slider when shutting down. Since this is a feature virtually 100% of users want on. This seems appropriate.
For the average user they are the same thing. "off" is not even a state the average user uses. It's either open and connected to the network or closed and in sleep mode.
I would think the normal drain of a battery sitting on the shelf is more than this feature uses.
The security of key fobs is not a great concern when the windows can still be smashed.
It's absolutely a good thing that these cameras are required with how many children are run over frequently as drivers reverse their cars.
It literally tells you about this right next to the slider to turn off. If you tap the message it lets you turn it off. I see absolutely no issues with this.
looks like another 10 years at most going by the current rate. And I expect it will speed up at the end when we reach something like 90% and some sites go v6 only.
I get away from this by just not caring about work or what happens on a personal or emotional level. If I'm getting paid good money and I'm physically comfortable, I'm not really bothered what is going on because I won't stress or lose a minutes sleep over it.
Eventually I want to save up enough money to be self sustaining off investments and then spend my time doing whatever I want to do.
It's not a currency but a utility. You can't buy and hold bandwidth like you can currency.
scanning on your phone (not in the cloud)
The scanning only touches photos which are stored on iCloud. Yes it does it on your phone but the reality is the same on iCloud or Google Photos. Both Apple and Google can push out changes live to every phone without warning, so what they may do in the future doesn't really matter. Only what they claim to be doing now. This is actually a more privacy friendly approach because it would be compatible with encrypted cloud storage.
Yeah I just went from an average Adelaide job to a highish end Melbourne job working remote from Adelaide and the change has been amazing. Almost everyone from my last company just left for remote jobs paying way more.
Companies seem to hand out only crumbs for pay rises but are willing to drop mountains of extra money when hiring fresh people. In 3 years of working at one company, they gave me an extra $20k in pay rises. After leaving that job for another one, My pay went up $60k AUD in one go.
This makes no sense. If you want to hide, just tap the warning and it gives you the option to turn off the feature.
So it works best for everyone. The average person can track their stolen phones now. And people hiding from the government can still turn it off.
That has nothing to do with this change. It doesn't even seem like they had their phone turned off for this to be in play anyway. The most likely answer is that they hit a bug in the new update or that they placed their phone off centered on a wireless charger. I'm not sure why the general public should care about rare bugs in day one updates which get patched pretty quick anyway.
The turned off pings use an ultra low power mode similar to the airtags which should last months on a "flat" battery.
This is sort of more of the same as what I was saying. Android phones have horrible hardware flaws and they don't gain much attention. At the same time as "You are holding it wrong" Nexus 5x phones where bricking due to bad NAND chips. Nexus 6P phones where crashing due to battery issues similar to the iphone but they did not throttle the phone and left it to crash. Samsung had phones that would explode in to fireballs. Samsung's flip phones crack at the fold and are extremely expensive to fix. Google Photos has been doing the exact same image scanning for the whole lifetime of the product and no one noticed or cared.
All OEMs have had hardware issues or scandals but they are all quickly forgotten while any fault on an iPhone becomes memorialized forever. They were all real faults but they weren't ever any worse than the rest, only more news worthy.
There are an endless
Depends on what amounts we are talking. You and the people you know are probably already on the top end of pay and can chose anything. The devs I know saw $40k-$60k AUD pay bumps by switching to remote work for companies in higher paying areas. That kind of extra money is pretty life changing especially when they offer almost exactly the same work environment.
But this role wasn’t a fit, and the timing was off. The environment was not correct. The work didn’t have the impact they wanted, finding their dream job instead. Perhaps I was ineffective at communications, championing above, or slow at sponsoring elsewhere
This seems to miss the most obvious reason. That they found more money elsewhere. Of every developer I have seen leave, their primary motivation was a higher pay. Having a team you like is nice and all, but owning a house or being able to go on nicer holidays is better.
The company I worked at this year is falling apart because all of the actual talent has found higher paying jobs and all that is left is the juniors who will struggle to keep things running.
It's just another barrier. With enough hassle, people will move to stealing other easier things. When find my was released, phone theft went down massively. Not every criminal wants to make the jump from just grabbing a phone off the table, to having an RF blocking bag, transporting to an RF proof room, and then pulling the phone to bits to sell for pennies since the parts don't work properly when swapped in to another phone.
And for those people, you can turn that setting off. It even warns you about it on the power off screen. If you don't trust the setting to actually turn off, then you shouldn't trust anything about the phone and should smash it up with a hammer.
Almost all of the digs at Apple have been things that apply industry wide and it is an interesting observation. There was one recently worded something like "EU to require Apple to update phones for 7 years" but if you look at the actual proposal, it applies to all phone makers and Apple is the only one anywhere close to compliant to this proposal.
Other scandals like Samsung disabling the cameras when unlocking the boot loader go practically unnoticed. Almost everything said about Apple is true and I don't dispute that, but people seem to believe that Apple is the only one using questionable labor, gluing in batteries, or applying software restrictions when it's basically industry standard right now.
You can drop the phone in an RF blocking bag if you want to go off the grid.
Ultimately it doesn't really matter anyway. Unless you are the worlds most wanted criminal and Apple is working with the government to track you down via your turned off iphone. And in that case, you should have done your research to see this anyway.
If the average user blows past this message, it has no impact on their life.
They have two use cases. You can use it to just click a link and close but the use case they go for is a full social media like reddit where the full features of an SPA make sense. Drive by viewers are probably lowest priority as they do not generate much revenue.
They were forced to go down this path as it was clear reddit would add their own image hosting and remove the need for imgur so the site would have to be self sustaining.
These kinds of things never work because people will come up with infinite dog whistle terms for blocked terms. Things like "egg plant", "13%", etc. You couldn't possibly block all of these things without blocking a lot of legitimate discussion.
Silos work really well. Discord may have literal terrorist / hate groups on it, but as a user I do not see any of it and the platform only contains a group of my friends. There is no marketing, no spam, only content your friends have posted. And then discord can sit in the background deleting ToS violating groups while I don't see or care about any of it.
I have done this for years and it just works. You know these users give off a bad vibe and that others are put off by it. Just remove them and ignore the complaints from the user. They can find another space that accepts them. I don't even bother writing rules lists because they are pointless.
I do give warnings out first but usually that does nothing to change behavior anyway.
Eventually someone will come around and build a "Google docs FUSE" tool that stores arbitrary data in your system. I suspect this is the main reason Google switched docs to actually count against your usage. For normal users you can still store hundreds of millions of documents but it's pointless to encode data in it over just uploading it to drive.
Only works if it's generic spam not targeted to your site in particular. Otherwise they will just adjust the script to not fill it.
Does it matter when face masks completely cripple facial recognition and are much more acceptable than walking around looking like you have muscle control disorders?