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In case you mean the games on iPhone on the App Store, they generate revenue for Apple via in game transactions and not by game sales necessary. What people typically play on PCs are not the same games. Most of the games, as you can see with CS2, aren’t even available on iOS or macOS which is a problem. Outside of that I think you can run the games for iPhone on Mac as well but even then optimisation is necessary.

That‘s what I use on Windows machines as well. I have to admit that I don’t care too much about duplicates as long as it’s not Gigabytes of dupes. There is software that might help with getting rid of duplicates (see Excire), the question is how much time it would take and how many TB of storage I could buy with the time lost. Outside of that: if images are meaningful to you, think about printing them out. It’s a different way of remembering the images and a printed out version feels different than digital. You don’t even have to hang them but touch them and go through them once in a while (I tend to not look through digital images ever after „archiving“ them). Good luck and don’t give up. It’s ugly for the first time but if you control the influx of new images in a meaningful way it‘ll get easier.

My naive solution was to gather everything at one place before sorting everything and backing it up on a NAS. It was a lot of work but I didn’t find anything that could’ve helped me to accelerate the process so I did it manually. After having everything at a single place it was pretty straight forward though. I’m using directories to sort my stuff because at the end it’s independent of software and tags that might deprecate at some point. I’ve backed everything up using rsync.

I was working with drones for a while and one issue with carrying weight was distance. If you want a drone capable of carrying weight it has to have a specific size to accommodate the heavy object as well as batteries that get heavier the longer you want to fly and the more power you need to transport said object. Outside of that rules about line of sight were a thing, so you couldn’t just let the drone fly a pre-programmed path but you also needed to see it. There is also a risk of being shot down. I think at the end of the day search and rescue or coast guards might use drones to deliver something very quickly if there is no other way but outside of that I see challenges that are rather hard to overcome.

Netflix was great but it got more crowded due to everyone wanting a piece of the cake. Now there are few shows or bunch of movies interesting to me that are either distributed evenly on multiple services or not available at my location at all. I’d be okay to pay as I go if there was at least one central way to access all content without ads and on demand but no one seems to be interested in that.

That’s what I’m stuck with as well. I wish I could get my due and planned dates into a Google or iCloud calendar but it unfortunately doesn’t work that way. What does not work as well is using Google keep because it’s not as good as TODO.

Overall I agree, better safe than sorry. However, at the same time I think that you have to manage risk properly. How likely is it that OPs dad will end up in a situation like that and does it make sense to use other means of ad blocking and educating him about some common phishing strategies or advising him to call him before he pays anything at all. I‘m facing a comparable situation, my dad is quite good with computers in his age range but sometimes I ask myself if I could do more to make it a more enjoyable/safe experience.

Sunk cost fallacy is playing its part as well I think. I can’t bring myself to read anything I don’t like anymore. I’m a slow reader so working through a book takes its time and I want to get the best possible experience out of it. Won’t happen if I don’t like the book. It’s not only valid for books but everything else: series, movies, video games. If it doesn’t work, why push it?

When using a huge pre-trained model from the internet that has been trained on a wide variety of images, it might not include a specific set of data. In this case that’s satellite remote sensing data (imagine images from a satellite). Moonshine seems to provide a pre trained weights and models that have seen remote sensing data during their training and therefore solve domain-specific tasks better than a model with weights that have been trained on a more general set of data.

I have an iPhone 12 Mini and in the Photos app I can e.g. search for specific faces (it groups similar faces behind a folder) and can e.g. search for „Dog“ and it gives me all dogs. I don’t know by how much the cloud solution is better though and maybe I didn’t understand it and you mean something entirely different?

This is why my phone looks like I’ve been to war with it. I didn’t pay the price to grip five dollar plastic cases and after my phone has been unbearably slow, no one wants to use it anyway.

I’ve had success in research with printed out mind maps, hand written notes and sticky notes. I put sticky notes on everything and remove them when I don’t need them anymore. I’ve tried everything and I still do though.

Can’t leave Maps as well. I usually keep both on my phone but Maps is taking the cake. Apple Maps is far from usable in some scenarios where I am unfortunately. Also I’m not sure if I want to put everything in apples basket either. I usually feel overwhelmed honestly, no idea how to keep everything as private and not miss out at the same time.