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Jawwal who are owned by Paltel.

It also spent the last few years making the problems out there worse. They are themselves complicit in this outcome.

There are no winners in this conflict on either side.

Think something is borked there. Mine doesn't do that.

I completely agree with your latter point after being a windows dev on and off since windows 3.0. It’s been one hell of a rollercoaster.

Running it already. Seems pretty solid. No compatibility issues. UI changes are fairly ok. Glad they got rid of launcher and merged it into spotlight.

Thinking? Plan?

Only thing going on is maximising capital extraction from the moat they created. End users no longer matter as long as the numbers keep going up.

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Yeah and outside benchmarks you have to consider the power envelope and platform on top which is definitely out somewhere on its own.

This is how I roll. Turn up next to the £100k EVs at the office in my 15 year old turd.

I go on holiday 6 times a year for that money.

The 15 year old turd seems to go wrong less and cost less to fix when it does as well.

I’m currently enjoying a competitor in our market make a wonderful mistake in this area. They want all in on vibe coding and AI and announced to their customers that they’d rewrite their 25 year old rotting platform using it in 12 months.

6 months late and I know a clean up contractor who is making bank there with no hope of recovering it apparently.

They saw it as a way out from their cheap assery, lack of talent and lowest bidding outsourcer over the years and it’s a dead end. I wonder how many other projects are in this situation.

Bit more complicated here in the UK with salaries in academia. But in private sector I was earning 1.5x average mathematics professor salary before I even had a mathematics degree. And equity on top of that. Not the smartest guy in the room by far but the most useful.

I did consider doing a mathematics postgrad qualification but my IQ is high enough to realise I liked actually getting paid decent money.

I am GP :)

Might want to check the French position there. But you don’t need nuclear weapons to take out munitions factories.

Blow those up too.

Best to strike production capability than pay for missiles to shoot them down.

I think that's really that most people don't know or don't care enough about photography. Which is fine. That's up to them. But some of us do care.

"The best camera is the one you carry" is about opportunistic capture of moments i.e. it's better to record them on anything than nothing. That doesn't always work. I've lost more moments than I gained on a smartphone camera which won't focus on what I want, does weird uncorrectable things with white balance, has a pretty nasty digital zoom, or has gunk on the lens from being handled.

Very US centric view. I doubt it. I didn’t know who the hell he was until 3 hours ago and will probably forget he existed within a week.

As for lowering the temperature, good luck. Anyone with above average influence is in a position to try and extract as much personal gain from this already.

It kills me inside because I would like to live in a world where this isn’t the case.

Looks like it has the same primary/wide cameras as the base model. You just gain the telephoto. It's fine for casual photography.

I have a mirrorless camera if I want to shoot telephoto. That has 375mm reach at the long end on proper glass with no ML crap.

They're incrementally better each cycle. I don't want something radical.

For me, and a lot of people, we get a new phone every 2 years and hand the old one down to family. I've got 3 kids and 4 iPhones in service that get handed down every 2 years. Equivalent in the UK of about $80 a month to run 4 iphones including phone service contracts is pretty cheap.

No point in buying a Pro now. Will get a 17 to replace my 15 Pro, give that to my eldest kid and be done with it.

Well we don't have working fusion reactor topology yet but the current "reactor" components are low level waste so safe within 40-100 years. Which is still a hell of a long time. Also they still will require biological shielding and associated materials are quite difficult to deal with (concrete etc).

I expect that the longevity of their attention is considerably less than this, particularly if the LLM boom crashes. ROI will not pay for the disposal later down the line.

I've looked into this before. I gave up. It had little utility, even in daily life because humans make mistakes regularly. I have a mathematics degree so it's not like I can't do it but I quote one of my tutors "better to use a calculator than fuck it up and find out a page of working later". So I use a calculator.

Ah yes a nuclear race to the bottom. Sorry but that will be a monumental fuck up if you have any historical knowledge about how we handle nuclear materials.

Capitalism fails very quickly the moment you try and push past sensible regulation and legislation. Look at the whole US situation right now.

It's expensive as hell already and we still don't handle waste or environmental issues properly. Capitalism isn't going to solve anything other than the price as it'll defer the rest until it's someone else's problem much like it does not on every single damn sector's waste.

I'm not anti-nuclear. We need it. What we don't need is tech companies getting into the market.

The one company I really want to see involved in dangerous things with clean up and serious environmental risks is the company that has serious production QA problems, an attention span of about 2 minutes, regular bouts of corporate schizophrenia and a policy of forcing half the planet to abandon working hardware.

Nothing good can come of this.

Microsoft needs to start asking if it should do something before it does it.

I would use mine as a dumb phone but the apps are useful.

I don’t have any social media apps on mine though. That’s what kills you.

M4 Mac. Not going back now. It’s like skipping a decade ahead.

I’ve given up both.

Yeah I have done this as well.

I write programs that run on the target OS again. It's much easier, turnaround time is much quicker, it's faster. Even battery lasts longer on my laptop. What the hell have we done to ourselves with these numerous layers of abstraction?!?

Screws are incredibly difficult to hammer in. Use a big hammer.