I just don't get how Google was found liable and Apple was not. Google had at least alternate store (Amazon) while Apple has had none. Google allowed sideloading so there was (and still is) a way to load apps not in the store while Apple doesn't allow sideloading. You can say Google suppressed the development of alternative app stores, but Apple never even had to suppress because there was simply no way to get them on the device.

Easy, you're looking at it wrong.

The market is not Apple vs. Google. it's Apple vs. Samsung, Nothing, Oppo, OnePlus, Nokia, Motorola, etc...

The Apple App Store only runs on Apple phones. Likewise, Apple phones only run Apple's OS.

Google provides Android OS to hardware manufacturers like Samsung, etc. Google also licenses things like the Play Store to those manufacturers under a different agreement.

For Apple, it's like buying a Tesla and wanting it with a V8. As Tesla makes the whole vehicle, they are allowed to offer just what they choose to offer.

For Google, they're selling effectively a crate motor to anyone who wants to use it. (Most manufacturers do this - you can get a Chevy big block motor and stick it in your Ford, if you wanted). But they then offer the transmission that goes with the motor with a different agreement - if you want the transmission you must agree to have things done a certain way in your car.

That's the key difference. Apple makes iOS for their phones, and everything on iOS is keyed to their hardware. You cannot get the App Store on a non-Apple phone. You cannot get iOS on a non-Apple phone. If you wanted a phone with a folding screen running iOS, you can't, because Apple doesn't make one (yet).

it's what makes the EU DMA a bit odd on Apple, since they're basically demanding the equivalent of Tesla to offer a V8 option if people want it.

Or perhaps folks become obese enough to get diabetes, which causes them to decide to get on the GLP-1 and lose the weight, but kidney function does not return.

Insulin is produced by the pancreas. Type 2 diabetes is caused by a general insensitivity to insulin by the cells - think of it as a producer and consumer. Type 1 is where your pancreas fails to produce insulin, type 2 is where your cells fail to absorb insulin.

GLP-1 can't really solve your cells being desensitized to insulin.

Anyhow perhaps the other solution is food is so expensive that people are eating less? And fast food is so freaking expensive that you're not indulging on Big Macs so you're eating cheaper foods and less of them. Eating less is one of the biggest ways to lose weight.

Mercury amalgams are generally safe, but making them does involve handling mercury and spills have happened. And no doubt the tools and such may simply be washed down the drain. It's why most dentists these days don't offer amalgams - they use plastic resins which also have the advantage that they don't stick out and match the color of the tooth.

Alas, most dental insurance only pay for the amalgams. And dentists prefer the composite because it's easier and safer on everyone so they don't even offer amalgams.

You can get routers that run OpenWRT out of the box. GL.inet uses OpenWRT as their base router OS. They have wonderful travel routers but also make regular home routers.

And they support WiFi 7 as well.

They even list which version of OpenWRT are used on their routers.
https://www.gl-inet.com/suppor...

(And their stuff is easily available on Amazon)

This is a good example of why no-fault divorce is terrible idea for society. It is expensive and wasteful. Getting divorced is generally the WRONG decision, unless there is actual abuse or infidelity, or criminal activity of some kind.

No fault divorce is what lets one partner (usually female) escape their abusive spouse (usually male). Before no-fault divorce, women generally couldn't get a divorce because they'd need permission from the man in order to do so, and if you're escaping abuse, the chances of that happening are basically nil.

And you can bet they wouldn't certify anyone who disagreed with them as an expert...

You can find experts to espouse any view.

Heck, remember Surgeon General of Florida (who is a doctor) doesn't recommend vaccines. And there are plenty of scientists that deny climate change is happening.

And let's not forget the person who started the whole "vaccines cause autism" thing was a doctor.

So as much as the law might do something, I doubt it will do anything. It might just stop people parroting stuff, but qualified influencers have a huge range of opinions.

Apple can help, but they just don't want to.

How can Apple help? Because someone in a different situation will likely get screwed over by the exact same policy that Apple would have to enact to help?

Apple can help - you do it by legally compelling them to. As in, you get your lawyer back to family court and get the judge to issue a court order compelling Apple to fix the problem. Apple can do this with a court order (actually, they must).

This is a situation where the courts have to fix it. Any other solution is just going to arbitrarily hurt people in a similar situation but where issues are reversed. That's what family courts are for, and lawyers.

The court can also "free" their devices so they can be registered under new accounts.

There is a Democrat at the FCC? I'm surprised!

There are supposed to be 2. There are 5 commissioners, two from each party and the chairman (from the party in power).

You can guess what happened to the other commissioner.

it's also the interface. The Steam Deck had an interface designed for a controller.

The Windows handhelds though, has to deal with the Windows UI, which is barely usable with a small touchscreen, and without a virtual mouse, impossible to do a lot of things.

I have the Ally and Legion Go. The Legion Go is more usable because it has a huge screen which means it's actually possible to use the touch screen. And the mouse touchpad is somewhat usable. The Ally (the original unit) has no mouse emulation and thus gets very finicky to use.

No it doesn't make sense.

It was done as a joke by Ben Franklin where he suggested people wake up earlier in the summer to save candle costs.

In the equatorial region, it makes little sense since the sun gets up and sets pretty consistently all year round.

At the poles, an hour shift does absolutely nothing - at the extreme ends, 24 hours of sunlight means no daylight to save - the sun is up and stays up (and consequently in the winter, it never rises)

When you have 16-18 hours of sunlight, DST makes no sense at all - no one cares if the sun is up at 3AM or 4AM, likewise no one cares if it sets at 10PM or 11PM. In the winter, you get so little sunlight, well, it's rises at 8AM or 9AM and sets at 4PM or 5PM. Either way your kids are going to school or coming home in the dark. And you only see the sun while at the office.

It only really makes sense in the US around the California band, where the day shifts only a little bit longer in the summer so an hour shift tends to keep the daylight hours consistent year-round. For everywhere else it's just an oddity because the shift is too little and too much.

Does prontodb contain ALL Windows games? I doubt it.
When are games added to protondb? Either when somebody knows that it is working on Linux, or when they with that it would be working.
So protondb is biased towards games that are working on Linux, and does not actually represent the Linux-playability of all Windows games.

ProtonDB is skewed towards games that are sold on Steam mostly because it's easy to get updates via the steam API. But for the odd game not on Steam, it can be added especially if it doesn't work. The goal is basically to share tips and tricks on how to run various games on Proton.

I saved $50 a week after quitting Door Dash! Too bad rent is $2000...

$50/week is $200/month. That's 10% of your rent, which is a significant amount of money...

You also save if you pick up the food yourself. I've seen people DoorDash food from the place across the street. Many places let you order food for pickup online so you don't even have to order and wait for it.

Yes, cooking yourself is the cheapest option. But if you go out, bringing it back yourself is cheaper than DoorDash. And if DoorDash is cheaper than bringing it back yourself, you likely make enough money that rent isn't an issue.

So it doesn't matter if you're doing good work you're still going to get a B or a C because there's a pecking order and we are going to maintain it.

AKA grading on a curve. It goes both ways - if a test was exceptionally hard and everyone fails, you might curve the grades so it's not everyone failing.

Likewise, if there's too many A's, the curve will spread it out again.

It happens. There are classes that routinely have midterms that average around 40%.

And sometimes, you have classes where everyone gets 100%. of course, it's much harder to scale grades if it's based on some objective test like multiple choice, but if it's free response it's a lot easier to spread the marks out.

The problem is, do we want to replace coders?

RAD tools evolved in the 90s where anyone and everyone could create programs. One became especially popular (Visual Basic), and has a reputation not because it was a particularly bad tool, but because it was used and abused to the point where a manager created a tool that evolved into a giant mess that's now a critical business application.

No one wants to touch it, you must click things in a certain order, and looking at it funny will cause it to crash and corrupt itself and all the backups. And the byzantine logic and spaghetti code means it's impossible to figure out why it's doing it or how to fix it.

Vibe coded apps are going to be the next big thing in critical business applications and it's going to be yet more fun with poorly coded applications. The only good thing is that vibe coding has just as much chance of working as it has of destroying the program it was trying to create - as part of many revisions the AI decided to wipe out the core logic of the program.