The directors really did squander the whole franchise with how they handled it. People were naming their kids after characters, “Winter is coming” became commonplace and merch was everywhere. Then seemingly overnight after those last two seasons it’s all gone. I feel if they’d bothered to give it any time and care it’d have had the same staying power in our culture as Harry potter, lord of the rings, and star wars.

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If you specify "against stealing except food in times of starvation or hunger " it replies “utilitarian” instead. Just an FYI.

Yeah. Imo their one hope was to make trackers that leverage both networks, as a sort of middle ground device for like a family with 1 android and 1 iPhone. Without that pivot they’ve seemed dead since the airtag launch.

I self discovered this years ago. Smoking regularly stopped night terrors I experienced since I was a kid, unfortunate side effect is I don’t (seem to) dream at all, but it seems a small price to pay for not waking up drenched in sweat screaming and scrambling for the nearest escape.

Allegedly.

Sounds like a history of poor management. Wonder if that was a contributing factor behind the scenes.

Most UPS systems of quality will come with software capabilities. You can leverage this and just use a daemon to check the charge status every minute or so. If it’s ever off AC or reporting charge levels lowering, you can toss the system into a low power profile. This might accomplish what you’re trying to do.

It is odd how we conflate the relatively small harms of a more harmful (% wise) operation with the large harms of a less harmful (% wise) operation. It’s like we forget the downsides of scaling up to current insane population sizes. There really are ~8,120,000,000 of us, perhaps our brains just aren’t ready to handle the reality of that.

Lol not sure why people are giving you shit! It’s clearly organized, although perhaps not how some people would personally like it. Glad you’re having fun with it!

Lol your yuck is always going to be someone’s yum and vice versa, so careful where you throw that disgusting word around, it’ll come back to you eventually.

I’m also not sure where they got their idea that cloud is cheaper from. On prem has always been cheaper, I’ve had to walk through fire and flames to get my company to approve cloud hosting as we simply do not have the capacity to be our own mail host. Goodluck explaining tech debt to upper management though, it’s like they’re allergic to the idea of understanding it.

No, but they have to disclose all possible avenues of collection. I for one like storing my health data in icloud for processing and retention. They take that data, run it through algorithms, and use it to provide me things like estimated sleep cycle details.

Yes. Also yes. I find quite a bit of it distasteful, but as a systems administrator I have to be informed of all privacy policies guiding the disclosure and use of company data. It sucks, they’re lengthy and overwhelming, and often you’re right they do ask for too much but at the end of the day it’s less than you’d expect and they never make their money selling it, which is more than you can say about any software company of Apple’s scale.

If I set the boundaries they’d have none. That’s my preference and why I E2E encrypt everything on my device. I’d give up features and self host if I could, but all of that just isn’t possible for your average user or for them to stay competitive in their business model. Users don’t want to know what E2E is, they don’t want things “losable”, and honestly don’t care about their privacy (check the privacy policy of meta and TikTok vs Apple if you don’t believe me that there’s a difference and the vast majority do not care). That being said Apple provides what I see as the best middle ground. Enough privacy to remain confident my data is secure (E2E icloud backups, E2E messaging, etc) but enough gathering to keep their services competitive with more lucrative competitors with looser policies. Oh. And it would be too far when they started selling it to third party companies. That’s what msde me leave my android phone behind, when Google started migrating all the apis to Google Play Services instead of ASOP apis.

No offense taken, I understand your rage and I agree with your sentiment. They ask too much. But when you compare the other options, it’s the safest path in my honest opinion.

I unfortunately don’t have much to share beyond a decent understanding of compute systems at an enterprise scale (where we utilize these low level subprocessors to do various things such as gather asset data or deploy operating system configurations, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology). The point I’m trying to make though is that current operating models don’t allow for system trust. If you can’t trust apple with high level data like that needed for llm models on-device (which is how they’ve configured it, requiring a specific user approval and interaction before forwarding minimal data to private process servers) then you shouldn’t trust any device that lacks a complete open boot/firmware/ and OS stack because if these companies were going to exploit your data that egregiously, they already have the lowest level (best) access possible to a system that can transparently (without your knowledge) access encryption enclaves, networking, and storage. Truly open alternatives do exist by the way (see Coreboot, etc) but you’re going to be looking at devices 10-20 years old since almost the entire industry runs proprietary at that level and it takes time for the less heavily funded community players to get up to speed.

They’re not just security platforms. They’re low level computer systems with entire bespoke operating systems and better-than-kernel level access to the system (networking, etc). You have no idea what you’re talking about. Please inform yourself.

You do understand they use all this data to provide services using it and as such they have to disclose that in their privacy policy, right? For example, health data collection, is literally required to be disclosed to offer health services such as step tracking. You’re way way off base here.

Their justification is that their base doesn’t care to ask.

You almost certainly run all of your software on code you lack access to the source for. Firmware and etc has been completely proprietary for ages. There’s even a tiny proprietary os embedded in almost every processor on the planet. Your statement lacks context of computing and shows a misplacement of trust.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor

Apple secures third party audits for their devices and designs, additionally security researchers have methods of verifying certain aspects of device behavior. People dig into stuff and Apple has not only a history of good privacy design, but as far as I’m aware they’ve never been caught doing anything remotely out of scope of their tight knit privacy policies with user data. Your complaint is baseless.

Who’s gonna stop them? The anti corruption police? Sounds like another person that just needs bought off, and when you’re exploiting so many that isn’t a hard ask…