kalleboo

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[–] kalleboo 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thunderbolt optical cables exist if you need them, and for anyone who doesn't the extra cost of the optical interface is a waste.

[–] kalleboo 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Milennial. Got started with computers when my dad brought home a Mac Classic for Christmas 1990. Our elementary school still used Apple II machines for a while (number munchers, ad libs and so on) before switching to Macs. Didn't even see a PC until years and years later.

[–] kalleboo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah my kids get to play 90's CD-ROM infotainment games. World of Richard Scarry and such. Basic math, phonics and spelling haven't changed since then and these games are guaranteed to not have any in-app purchases or ads! First it was on a PowerBook G3 that is going bad so it's been swapped out for an iMac G4.

[–] kalleboo 7 points 1 year ago

Power plants use lake water directly for cooling - they use a heat exchanger

[–] kalleboo 1 points 1 year ago

such as the ability to quickly switch between different sets of Wi-Fi, Ethernet and other network settings depending on the location

They added that back in the x.1 update BTW

[–] kalleboo 1 points 1 year ago

MySpace actually let you put in custom CSS and it was a huge free-for-all, everyone's page looked completely different, and usually it was a tacky unreadable mess of hot pink comic sans text over a bright purple texture background, absolutely horrible but very charming. Facebook very explicitly in contrast allowed no customization at all as a reaction to how bad users could make their pages look.

[–] kalleboo 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always assumed they just called every single number randomly. Since you don't pay for failed calls, the cost is zero.

[–] kalleboo 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is number spoofing really a problem outside of North America (+1 country code)? Over the past decade or so I've had phone numbers in 5 different countries across several continents and never had any issues with number spoofing or really any spam from phone numbers at all (since a year ago, I get at most 1 spam SMS a month here in Japan, not one call ever), but I keep hearing only Americans talking about it as a problem.

[–] kalleboo 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have friends who still have iPhone XR, XS etc and those came with USB A bricks. And any time I buy some cheap gadget with a USB-C port it just comes with a USB-A to C cable. So I can see lots of people still out there with only USB A chargers, although you'd think they would be in the minority now.

[–] kalleboo 1 points 1 year ago

The MagSafe ones can still charge over USB-C if you want to, using MagSafe is optional. I never bring the MagSafe cable when I travel and just use regular USB-C cables.

[–] kalleboo 2 points 1 year ago

Right? All my old phones go to my wife, and her old phones go to the in-laws, etc etc. The cables can be handed over along with the phone.

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