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sflocal said:

I can't think of anything better than its citizens to rise up once and for all and topple that government

I bet most of the Chinese citizens would beg to differ. Their government isn't as bad as our media depicts it to be, and many are just perfectly fine with it.

Such nonsense response for a $1000 device. Your "production standards" are too low if a bent product exceeds your standards.

It is wonderful how so many people here are bashing CR. CR used the same testing methodology and ranked the past MB models high. CR also used the same methodology for all other laptops without this kind of jarring finding.
Reasonably, users other than web developers would not turn this option on. But they would not reload the same page ten thousand times before the battery dies either. This setting is just to mimic a use case when the user is browsing different websites, and is completely fair since CR uses it across all laptops.
Apple admitted it is a bug in Safari that cause the fluctuation, but people are blaming CR for using the browser wrong. To me, apple fanboys are saying when CR recommends MBs it is trustworthy, when it does not it is crap.

cat52 said:

Apple decides to swallow its moral compass

A world view model that always takes a black and white naive viewpoint on every matter doesn't work with real life issues. When cops' family and children get threaten to avoid work or school; when the public transit system gets smashed and burned every day causing it to shut down; when every public figure, businesses and restaurant, and even nameless citizens get boycott, vandalized, and humiliated if they don't vocally support the protestors' cause... You have to admit that the issue at hand is more complicated than "good people trying to fight against tyranny".

My series 4 bricked too

rotateleftbyte said:

Oh well, that's one thing I'll disable.

How does it know that you are not intending to use something like... A torch or one of the measure/ruler apps?

Not everyone is addicted to taking Selfies.

Courage? Innovate? Really?

Only in locked mode though. If you are using an app you won't hold your phone in picture-taking position for a period of time while the phone is locked would you?

bulk001 said:

I am in total agreement that there should be no backdoors. With one exception - if it could help save my wife or kid’s life or heaven for it, bring their killer to justice. And their lies the rub. I don’t trust politicians or government agencies to be able to resist temptation to expand a back door or keep it safe. 

We all want a thing that could be used in justified ways, only by the good guys, to stop the bad guys. But the problem is such thing couldn't possibly exist.

bakerzdosen said:

I can't see anyone who has been paying attention that's surprised by this.

Reddit has said they don't want to shut down 3rd party client apps, but they also just want to be paid for the infrastructure they have built and maintain.

I see both sides of this story, but considering how chatty Apollo is with Reddit's API, this was one of only three possible outcomes:

• Reddit caves on their pricing demands
• Apollo shuts down
• Apollo is re-written to be more efficient in its communication.

The protest is supposed to accomplish the first point [narrator: it won't], and the developer has said the third point wasn't really feasible, so... surprise! We get option 2.

So users suffer and Reddit gets a black eye. But the internet has a really short memory

Can you elaborate on the "chatty" point? From reading the dev's reddit post, his app uses about 345 requests per user per day, compared to maybe 100 of some other apps. That does not look wildly inefficient to me. Reddit limits API use to 60 per minute per user, so 345 is a tiny fraction of that limit. Maybe users are just on Apollo longer, maybe Apollo is a tiny bit more inefficient. Nothing outrageous.

The main issue though, is that Reddit gave the dev a month from announcing the new rate before starting to pay at the rate. There's no chance a dev can roll out a significantly more efficient version in a month.

I have no empathy in Apple neglecting macOS and not setting up a bounty program for the platform.

"Apple has revealed it will release iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 to the public on Sept. 19, while version 13.1 of each will arrive on Sept. 30." No, iPadOS will be released on Sept. 30, not on the 19th...