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DECO (from Associação de DEfesa do COnsumidor, i.e. Consumers’ Defense Association), originally created as a sort of institutional ombudsman, publishes Proteste (from proTESTE, as in testing, it has nothing to do with protest), a mostly decent magazine equivalent to Consumer Reports, but eventually devolved into this sad peddler of junkware to their members.

How can anyone take them seriously when they always pester people with offers of “great” products such as really janky Android tablets and useless plastic gadgets in exchange for attracting more members? Products that, mind you, would be completely destroyed under their own testing parameters? My mom used to be a subscriber, and the previous owners of my flat are at least members and never got around to update their address, so I always knew of and keep getting their stupid advertising in the mail. While their recent work regarding electrical bills is commendable, when it comes to consumer products they completely lost their way and should be ashamed of themselves.

Thatguy2 said:

Kamala is the democrat nominee? Who voted for her. Oh yeah no one. I remember now. She stole it from Joe, who we did vote for in the primary. Now that’s the decorum of cheating and stealing. Yup she’s just like us

She was part of the package because her boss/WH mate didn’t try to get her hanged by a mob and, much like she would be his automatic successor should he kick the bucket or resign, she was also the natural one when he dropped out. You might make that argument for Walz, but the same logic applies to unelected VPs in those succession scenarios, so… there’s a clear precedent of trusting POTUSes to pick their mates, and I don’t see why it should be any different for presidential candidates.

Also, much like the Electoral College holds the real and legal power in the General Election, the Party delegates also do in the Primaries and she secured their support – and, yes, votes – in a matter of days.

Quit whining and making a mountain out of a molehill, as if she was even the nominee of your party of choice.  You don’t care, and the fact that you are most definitely willing to vote for a guy who talked about suspending the US Constitution – and, thus, elections altogether – is proof positive of that.

MagSafe Duo is looking to be one of the stupidest, most quickly outdated Apple products in history. It's now both a bad fit for the flagship iPhone 13 *and* a bad choice for the flagship Apple Watch Series 7.

Why couldn't they release an updated MagSafe Duo 2 version alongside these two products? Maybe it's not selling that well but, honestly, if that was the case, they should've discontinued it altogether. Keeping ill-fitting but premium-priced products in their line-up is just one of the most un-Apple moves they have made in a looong time.

Objectively and geometrically speaking, the leaf design is way too similar and it’s on the same side. Also, its angle is similar, only mirrored. Apple does have a bit of a leg to stand on here, I’m afraid.

And no, I’m not (just) a fanboy, but a future PhD in design, and even an undergrad with a keen eye would spot the similarities right away… This isn’t much different from spotting plagiarism in typography, you just have to overlay the curves and see how well they match. Do you want me to?

22july2013 said:

[…] It might even impact European elections to get rid of the hostile politicians. […]

Dude. Have you looked at a calendar or the news recently? That ship has sailed, this election cycle for the European Parliament just ended a bit under two weeks ago, on June 9th. Bar some insane scandal, there’s gonna be no changes to said “hostile politicians” over the next five years.

I will just say this: what tf are Apple engineers doing when they release several new M1 Macs and can't implement an amber LED on them, opposite to or even in the same well as the green LED next to the iSight camera?

As a matter of fact, all they had to do was add a red element and activate both of them at the same time to get the amber colour. That way, whenever the microphone was on, even if somehow the red or the green element failed for some reason, the other one would still show up, making the system extra resilient even against hardware issues.

As for the Mac mini and Mac pro, ffs, just add an amber element to the same well where the white LED power indicator is and have it turn on, and allow those users who have their machines on their desks to toggle the yellow dot from the menu bar. Boom, problem solved.

And the same goes for the iPhone. Even if has to stay permanently on for those who have always-on “Hey Siri”, put an actual LED on the thing (a subtle one that doesn't illuminate an entire dark room, of course). Again, a two green+red LED system would work great: green+red (i.e. amber) for microphone on, red for an actual recording or on-line transmission, and green for webcam on (especially useful for floating, Picture-in-Picture FaceTime calls where you can't see your own thumbnail).

elijahg said:

godofbiscuits said:

A conservative politician who cares more about corporate profit than actual people.  Shocker.

He's actually a Liberal Democrat. Or was. David Cameron's whipping boy.

Potayto, potahto. Kind of like trying to distinguish our local (and now collapsing) CDS (Christian Democrats) from PSD (Social-Democrats). It’s all “Tory-like” toffs, the entire lot.

For context, those are Portuguese parties, and it’s kind of appropriate, seeing how our new mayor (a PSD leader-in-the-making, supported by a coalition including – you guessed it – CDS and other gems such as PPM, a monarchist party in a country that’s been a republic for 111 years now) is a class-A hypocrite, who used to parade himself on a bike while being a EU commissioner in Brussels, and hinged his entire mayoral campaign on suppressing a controversial (but increasingly popular) central bike lane. Either he goes forth with his plan, which will make him objectively a terrible politician as he’ll eventually end up with literal blood on his hands, or quietly shelves it, which all but confirms how much of a hypocrite and a liar he is.

And now it feels very fitting that he should host an also controversial event (for added context, that Paddy Cosgrave bloke has acted towards us, the actual citizens of this city and this country, as a weapons-grade insensitive idiot, by having the gall of even entertaining the thought of inviting the neo-fascist Marine Le Pen to WebSummit a few years ago), and that we should be graced with the presence of such a fine LibDem specimen because of it.

By the way, I'm sorry for posting a duplicate comment, but the forum software would't let me commit to edits to my original one. I'm getting this at the end of the text input field instead of the regular “Cancel / Save Comment” buttons, maybe because I put an emoji at the end of it?

… or you could open the Terminal and type “sudo xattr -cr”, drop the app on the window, press return, type your admin password and press return again. Boom, problem solved.

y2an said:

Sorry but this goes back to the PA Semi acquisition in 2008. A clear move to become wholly market leading in chip design. 

It’s almost as if Apple execs always regarded the switch to Intel as a stopgap measure, i.e. being dependent upon Intel wasn’t any better than being dependent on IBM and Motorola, in the grand scheme of things, but it was just technologically expedient for the time being. Steve and his minions, and their successors alike, have always been playing a really long game of 4D chess.

killroy said:

Should've had a sticker on the phone for each country it went to.

On top of a vintage suitcase-styled case. :P