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I could not agree more.

It probably doesn't help that I just spend an hour trying to figure out how to update to 18.7.3 on my iphone. It turns out you can't. The only way to get security updates now is to upgrade to iOS 26. Apple no longer supports security updates to old major versions if the device is capable of running the new major release. Apple is no longer making choices that benefit customers, but ones that benefit project managers.


Wow, I just checked and looks like I'm stuck on 18.7 for the rest of the life of this iPhone I guess. That being said it looks like I can opt into ios 18 beta. I wonder if that would include security patches? Actually maybe I don't want security patches. It would be nice to have a jailbroken iphone again one day...

It won’t.

If in the past it has, it was precisely to reach the present situation. It's naive to expect these companies to be pro-costumers. They would rape your mother if they could - the only reason they don't is because that would make you not buy their product and falsehoods.

> It's naive to expect these companies to be pro-costumers.

For the last 20 years this is exaclty what Apple fans have believed. Its refreshing to see people finally realise that they are just a normal company, making money at the expense of their customers. Its just they dont hide it as well anymore.


> the only reason they don't is because that would make you not buy their product and falsehoods.

I’ve seen enough people defend these companies and their billionaire CEOs often and fervently enough, even in response to news that unilaterally fuck customers, that I’m not convinced people would stop buying even in your scenario.


18.7.3 is still available for download via a paid developer account, not sure about a free one.

Thanks, I gave it a try. I see the download, but it isn't signed for newer iphones. Only ones that don't support iOS 26. So frustrating. I'm on a 12 mini and people report that 26 runs horribly on it.

Does switching to the public beta no longer work?

A video with Gordon Boettger about it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8p95a4JRcw


Kind of ironic that there's a big overlap in the venn diagram between 2nd amendment enthusiasts and the crowd that is cheering on the government's authoritarian actions.

Because the visible 2A enthusiasts essentially trace a lineage to the KKK. Of course, they don't actually care about upholding the Constitution or fighting tyranny. That was just a convenient cover tactic and accusation to use against political opponents.

There isn't, it just appears that way. There is a subset of people that are cheering on the government in this situation and they are 2nd amendment supporters but the 2nd amendment supporters are much larger than that overlap.

Things like this is just another way of trying to drive a wedge.


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>vigilantism (what Renee Good was doing)

Good luck defining vigilanteism in a coherent way that includes "operating a motor vehicle near ICE agents".


These are also easy to DIY with a raspberry pi, rfid card reader, some blank cards, and phoniebox [0] for the software. I don't have much electronics experience and had it up and running fairly easily for under $40.

[0] https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID


I thought the same before we actually got a Yoto. This is one of those "I could easily DIY that" things that you really couldn't.

I have a DIY one, which took two evenings, but it's limitation is that it isn't portable.

I expect there are big benefits to portability, but I'm okay with not having them.

Is there anything else I'm missing?


Access to the audiobooks published for Yoto. Yoto daily (daily podcast for kids that my kids absolutely love). A button that plays relaxing music to help them go to sleep. The display (they love this a surprising amount). General polish (I imagine it's pretty janky if it took 2 evenings).

Thanks.

I had a listen to Yoto Daily, and it's nice! https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/yotodaily

The relaxing music plays the same track, or varies it? I guess it's on for ~20 mins or so?


MacOS seems to be going the way of Windows, with unnecessary and distracting notifications for things users don't care about. Then on top of that, the whole liquid glass redesign that hurts usability and information density.

Definitely moving in the direction of "what is good for a particular PM" and not "what is good for the user." I would have switched to linux years ago if it were not for the great hardware and I like having access to iMessages from the desktop.


Almost a thousand pages of presumably well thought out and neatly written notes. For lectures, and not even his own research. I'm always amazed at the productivity and output of the great ones.


Yeah well he didn't get addicted to computer programming so that gave him a lot of extra time to just think.


At that time there was less publish or perish and fighting to actually obtain a tenured position. In such a comfortable situation, you can invest more times into preparing good lectures.


And to think, people are concerned that humans will struggle to find meaning in life after the AI utopia obviates the need for work.


"Obviates the need for work"

More like the need for workers and that is a problem.


https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hatred-of-israel-caused-irans-wa...

This editorial elaborates on some of the political corruption, as well as Iran's dismantling of cooperation with foreign water engineers.



It is a misconception that credit card rewards are a transfer of wealth from poor to rich: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/credit-card-r...


That's an incredibly misleading graph. Never look at something with a growth rate on a linear scale, as it will always have a "hockey stick" shape, even with constant growth. If you look at the same series on a log scale, you see high inflation in the 70s, but from the '80s on it looks pretty similar to the pre-70s trend.


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