@christianselig By the time it was revealed that he set up a department in Tesla specifically to gaslight people about battery range while falsifying possible range in the OS, it’s more wild to me that it took this long!
@dangillmor My understanding is there was actually a bug where some iCloud syncs failed, including deletes. So these items were in some limbo land with a cached event still attached to them for years until Apple fixed the bug and flushed the stuck event. But since they never fully executed the delete, they became active again.
Which is to say, the failure to fully delete was the bug, the patching of it returned the zombie photos to life, and if you kill them again they’ll really go away?
It’s drizzly but otherwise nice today, which makes it a fine time to peruse a stack of new books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound. Which of these books are particularly catching your eye today?
@arstechnica Since the term “cord cutters” was coined specifically for people fleeing big cable bundles, I suspect this is a harder sale than they think it is…
@georgetakei I just want #Apple to bring back truly random shuffle. The pseudo random version they have now is horrific because so frequently hearing a new band means you know another track by them will play in like 2-6 more songs.
Also, never implementing album shuffle on iPhones is incredibly lame and lazy of them.
People are buying this stock not as a solid investment but as a symbol of allegiance, which is cult thinking. The stock is massively overvalued and these small retail investors are going to end up taking a bath that they can't afford to take. They're going to lose their retirements, all for a man who would loathe them individually and to whom their only value is the money they can give them. They're not even being (actively) defrauded. They're doing it to themselves.
Recommendations for a daypack that A) is able to be stashed into a larger carry on backpack, and B) can carry a MacBook around during the day? Ideally packs and smushes quite flat when empty, but a bit of padding for the laptop
@christianselig I randomly got this Mountainsmith day pack with a separate padded laptop pocket and I love it, especially because you don’t have to open the main compartment to get to the laptop area. Fits my 2021 MBP 16” perfectly.
EDIT: It’s called the Divide although today’s version looks slightly different.
@arstechnica Man, literally the only thing that I caught that doesn’t feel authentic at the end (aside from the obvious additions like an ADB port and a hidden card reader) is that I have pretty strong memories that you had to hold down the mouse button to eject the disk after a restart, didn’t you? Otherwise it just rebooted on the same floppy again. It’s been a hell of a long time since we owned a 512 when I was in high school though, so I could be wrong.
Lossless audio sounds better than the MP3s I made in 2000, when I encoded them at the lowest viable resolution to get as many as possible on my Creative Nomad Jukebox. It does not sound notably better than the high-resolution encoded MP3s I make today. That said, when making music or uploading it to streaming, I do it with lossless files because in those situations, more information is better.
@TucsonSentinel Remember, #Arizona people! Vote the Republicans out of your state legislature this November if you want actual health care and sane government.
