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byberj
025 @06:50PM
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Attached to: UK To Tax Electric Cars by the Mile Starting 2028
When driving on those private roads.. are the ICE drivers not using road-taxed fuel? Seems to me like the difference would come out in the wash.
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byberj
025 @12:44PM
(#65812169)
Attached to: You Can Finally AirDrop Files Between Android and iPhone, Starting with Pixel 10
Nope. Just AirDrop it to your phone. It will end up in the "Files" app. You can then open VLC and open the file. I just tested this with VLC on my phone and a .mkv file from my laptop. Easy peasy.
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byberj
025 @12:37PM
(#65812155)
Attached to: You Can Finally AirDrop Files Between Android and iPhone, Starting with Pixel 10
I just use AirDrop from my laptop (or whatever other computer or even someone else's phone/iPad/whatever). I've never had any trouble with it except years ago with very large (>1 or 2GB) files. But even that works well nowadays.
For the most part it ends up in the "Files" app but I think if it's a video or image it ends up in the "Photos" app, contacts go to "Contacts", etc. Not sure if there are ways to configure that. It's never been a problem for me so I never bothered to look deeper into it.
Airdrop is pretty much the only way I transfer files between my machines nowadays (phone, tablet, laptop, deskop). It's transparent and couldn't be simpler to use.
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byberj
@10:41AM
(#65701002)
Attached to: Tesla's Lead in Car Software Updates Remains Unchallenged
Is this something we want to strive for? My hot take is that if my car is getting frequent (and automatic/forced) software updates then something is fundamentally wrong with that car and the company making it.
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byberj
25 @03:05PM
(#65661630)
Attached to: 'USB-A Isn't Going Anywhere, So Stop Removing the Port'
I couldn't care less about USB-A. I'm more than happy to have all USB-C on my laptop. The odd device that needs A (mainly wired mice for some inexplicable reason) gets a tiny little adapter permanently stuck to it and that's that.
I just wish I didn't have to sacrifice a perfectly usable USB-C port on my laptop for an HDMI that I use once a year or the SD card I use maybe once every two or three years. Ah well. First world problems.
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byberj
2025 @02:35PM
(#65654350)
Attached to: AirPods Live Translation Feature Won't Launch in EU Markets
You've never bought a car before? The year x+1 model is always released toward the middle or end of the x year. The majority (ie. 3/4) of iOS 26's usage lifetime will be in 2026. 26 is a perfectly apt version number for the version released now.
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byberj
025 @07:43PM
(#65649870)
Attached to: Apple Adds Hypertension and Sleep-Quality Monitoring To Watch Ultra 3, Series 11
Man, that seems like a massive pain in the ass. Also, maybe it's just me, but after awhile I just get annoyed with wearing a watch and am glad to take the damn thing off as soon as I'm home.
I'm struggling to reconcile these two statements. How is taking your watch off to shower a massive pain in the ass if you currently prefer to take yours off as soon as you get home?
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byberj
2025 @09:39AM
(#65196283)
Attached to: UK Users Show Little Concern as Apple Removes iCloud Encryption
In Canada for example, I would say iPhone represent about 10-15% of active devices.
Based on what data?
Nothing online comes even close to showing the number you're suggesting. The reality is more like ~60% of mobile phones in canada are iPhones. (and to answer your original question ~50% of UK users). Curious to see your data that counter these.
https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/1...
https://heytony.ca/usage-of-sm...
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-...
https://gs.statcounter.com/ven...
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byberj
5 @10:44AM
(#65155753)
Attached to: Trump Orders Treasury Secretary To Stop Minting Pennies
Canada made pennies out of aluminum for several years before abolishing them.
No we didn't. According to the Royal Canadian Mint the compositions over the years were as follows:
1908 – 1920
Composition: 95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc
1920 – 1941
Composition: 95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc
1942 – 1977
Composition: 98% copper, 0.5% tin, 1.5% zinc
1978 – 1979
Composition: 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1980 – 1981
Composition: 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1982 – 1996
Composition: 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1997 – 1999
Composition: 98.4% zinc, 1.6% copper plating
2000 – present*
Composition: 94% steel, 1.5% nickel, 4.5% copper plating OR 98.4% zinc, 1.6% copper plating
https://www.mint.ca/en/discove...
Production ceased in 2012.
A google search does show this AI-generated nonsense, however:
Canadian pennies were made of aluminum in 1973, 1974, and 1975. The 1974 aluminum pennies were 96% aluminum with trace amounts of other metals.
And then as a supporting link it gives a wikipedia page about an American aluminum penny. God AI is useless.
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byberj
25 @08:07PM
(#65062569)
Attached to: Apple Intelligence Now Requires Nearly Double the iPhone Storage
I'm not following you here. Are you saying that something in iOS makes it so that you can't update your banking, authenticator, etc apps? Just because you turn of *auto* updating of anything doesn't preclude you from updating things. I feel like maybe I wasn't clear in the post you're responding to, but I was specifically focusing on the *automatic* nature of these updates.
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byberj
@08:06PM
(#65060873)
Attached to: Apple Intelligence Now Requires Nearly Double the iPhone Storage
As I replied to someone else earlier. I prefer to worry about actual problems rather than future problems that I've made up in my head. But you do you.
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byberj
@08:06PM
(#65060871)
Attached to: Apple Intelligence Now Requires Nearly Double the iPhone Storage
I try to concern myself with *actual* problems rather than ones I make up in my head. But that's just me.
If the past is anything to go by, however, Apple has been *adding* options to disable auto download/install over the years. So the trend line seems to support that, even if the models are auto-installed originally (ie. the phone already comes with them or OS updates bring them along), this option will stay.
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byberj
@05:40PM
(#65060699)
Attached to: Apple Intelligence Now Requires Nearly Double the iPhone Storage
You can like/not like, and use/not use, whatever the heck you want. I couldn't care less. But none of this works this way. Apple Intelligence isn't downloaded/installed automatically and you can opt in or out of either downloading, or installing OS updates, or both. Same goes for the actual apps installed through the App Store. Nothing need happen automatically.
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byberj
@05:33PM
(#65060673)
Attached to: Apple Intelligence Now Requires Nearly Double the iPhone Storage
That's not how it works. If you don't want to download the 7GB of models then you don't have to. The only people getting this data and having it take up space on their phones are those who explicitly requested it.
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byberj
@05:02PM
(#65060599)
Attached to: Apple Intelligence Now Requires Nearly Double the iPhone Storage
Currently it's the other way around: you have to explicitly enable it.
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