cybersandwich

Haha! That’s what I did. When my aunt tried to friend request me on Facebook, I bailed.

I joined back in college when it was an invite only walled-garden of college kids. Zucks pic was still in the banner when I joined iirc. They hadn’t release “the wall” or much of what Facebook eventually became.

But when parents and coworkers started trying to friend request me I realized it was time to bail.

So 12 years ago? Maybe just 10.

I have never missed it at all.

IMO this is where Apple Intelligence could really shine. Imagine asking siri to do a semi complex task and have it create an apple script/shortcut/automation for it without having to know anything about how it works. Talk about a killer feature.

As an American who has lived in Germany and visited on a dozen occasions I can confidently say you’ll be fine.

You’ll think Americans are too nice. As soon as they hear your accent they will get pumped and ask you all sorts of questions about where you are from.

Seems like a bad feature update tbh. Although, as a brand new iPhone owner, the settings experience on iOS is almost comically bad. Ironically, I think the fact that the settings are now in their new spots is more consistent with every else.

A stupid spot? Yea, but they are now in a stupid spot with the rest of them. Maybe that was the goal of the update and they inadvertently didn’t keep the “state” that the user had when they moved the settings location.

The sad reality is that most people, like an overwhelming majority, won’t leave. Most don’t even have a clue this is happening in the first place, those that do, love their family and friends more than they hate Mark.

And where are they going to go? I heard Cory doctorow liken it to Anatevka (the town in Ukraine from fiddler on the roof) the people were sad they were leaving because they knew it would never be the same again and they might not see each other again. They didn’t like getting beat by Cossacks and it was a shitty place to be but they didn’t want to leave their people.

Dumping a platform that has your friends and family is a hard thing to do especially if it’s the only meaningful way you can connect with them otherwise. Especially if you know some won’t leave and some aren’t going to go to the same place you are.

I watched this yesterday. I am so pumped for when this hits prime time. I installed one of the first alphas on an old laptop and love where they are headed.

It just occurred to me that this might be happening because they are doing on-device inference for their apple intelligence, they likely have to push model updates to the phone. I bet we are seeing more updates because they are tuning the models.

Isn’t this related to rolling out their apple intelligence stuff?

It seems like they are releasing and patching “on-the-fly” with this stuff.

Ohhh, look at Mr. Fancy Pants over here with his backup servers! What, ya scared the internet’s gonna go poof and you won’t be able to access your little spreadsheets? ‘Oh no, my cat memes are in danger!’

Listen, buddy, some of us are just out here raw-doggin’ the web like real men. What’s next, you gonna put a generator in your bathroom in case the toilet paper dispenser fails? Fuggedaboutit!

Can’t speak to back then since I just got my first iPhone but I might like Maps more than Waze and certainly more that googles maps.