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  • Review: Level Lock is the invisible smart home lock with HomeKit for your front door

    ajmasajmas
    At 317 CAD I’ll wait until the price comes down or the exchange rate improves. 

    The review video gives a better impression of the lock, showing what the outdoor side looks like. This shows that you can keep the regular metal key (on the condition they key hardware is not flush) and are not slave to the app. This is important, since sometimes you get home and find out the battery of either the lock or the phone have gone flat. I wasn’t originally sure, since the website only seems to show photos of the lock from the indoor perpective. 
    watto_cobra

  • Initial failures of Apple's butterfly keyboard doomed it from the start

    ajmasajmas
    I never owned a butterfly keyboard, but I wasn’t a fan of the times I tried one. Then again keyboards are highly personal. There are people who swear by loud mechanical keyboards, while others will swear by whatever keyboard they feel good with. 

    Beyond the typing experience and the apparent failure rate, I feel that what hurt the most was the cost to fix the keyboard out of warranty. From what I understand, because of the way the keyboard was attached to the frame it made it very difficult to just fix the specific problem, without replacing the whole  upper frame. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Nobody in America cares about pixel loss caused by iPhone notch, says judge

    ajmasajmas
    gatorguy said:
    DAalseth said:
    Frivolous lawsuits should have consequences.  

    Pay for wasting the courts and Apple’s time...
    Yes, I've come to support Loser Pays all expenses in these kind of suits. I understand the arguments against the model, but I've come to feel that the benefits outweigh the costs.
    Sometimes lawyers (actually the plaintiffs) are ordered to pay, it depends on the specifics of a case. Apple right now is demanding recompense from one of he companies who had brought a frivolous case against them and so far the judge has looked favorably on it. 

    Loser pays as a general rule of law tho would not be a good idea IMO. 

    Any 'loser pays' rule should be surrounded by a bunch of conditions, because while it could help dissuade frivolous lawsuits, it may also dissuade legitimate lawsuits. For the latter the offending corporation could just pad the bill and scare off any plaintiff. At the same time, if a lawyer is in the business of organising the class action, in the sense they are the one who initiated it and recruits members, then they should certainly be on the hook, since it then could be considered suing 'for income', as opposed to 'for cause'.
    netmagechaickatyler82watto_cobra

  • Aspyr ends 32-bit Mac game sales in shift to 64-bit support only

    ajmasajmas
    razorpit said:
    Isn't this just a matter of re-compiling to 64-bit?
    Not always. For example, if there were any assumptions made about the size of an integer, for example that can break things or an assumption was made on how an external function does things, but that function has its own bugs revealed with the change in bitness.

    Some other are indicated here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9728250/migrating-from-32-to-64-bit-releases
    1STnTENDERBITStyler82razorpit

  • Surviving the most technologically advanced trade show solely on USB-C was a nightmare

    ajmasajmas
    I imagine one of the challenges with producing a 4 port USB-C charger is what wattage do you support? For example do you go and support 65W per outlet (total of 260W total), or one 65W port with 3 10W ports? Also, doing this while ensuring it is travel friendly, with voltage switching. 

    Outside of the power issues, what percentage of the market is USB-C focused. This will be the other deciding factor on how much effort is put into this. The solution proposed by Satechi is one that shows that the era of USB-C is coming, but we aren't quite there yet.
    baconstangwatto_cobra