lordjohnwhorfin

European regulators have a history of shooting their citizens in the foot, I think it’s really interesting to compare their approach to web site tracking (forcing each web site to implement an infuriating, often time consuming dialog for each new site you visit where most of the times the only way to turn off tracking requires reviewing a bezillion options, forcing most people to give up and choose the easy one click solution where you agree to being tracked) to the one implemented by Apple, where one simple click resulted in wiping out 2/3 of Meta’s ad revenue.
Check it out next time you visit Europe (or if you have access to a EU-based VPN). Mind boggling. But hey, at least now they forced all-USBC on phones (filling up landfills with billions of Lightning cables, well played)

European providers charge their users a fortune for sending SMS to the US, anybody knows if RCS is subject to the same sort of fleecing? It’s one of the reasons that drove users to Skype and then to WhatsApp, in addition to rich messaging.

jeffharris said:

M3 MacBook Pro would be PERFECT for me!

My 2019 i9 MacBook Pro chugs along. Sometimes painfully. Slowly.

We shall see…

You obviously didn’t live through previous CPU switches… (68k to PPC then PPC to Intel). Within 2 years the fanciest machine with the old architecture became worthless. Honestly at this point I don’t understand why anyone buys Intel computers. Sell that i9 while you can still squeeze some bucks out of it.

Guess they had no backup plan…

For the numbskulls who say well done, now the truck owner is facing murder charges, prison, crazy legal bills. Yeah, it’s annoying to have a car stolen. Don’t be an idiot. Call the cops. There are enough stories of cops recovering cars and bikes to shut up the idiots who claim cops won’t do anything.