Well, you can't. Way before you get anywhere near the speed of light, random hydrogen atoms floating in space become hard radiation that will rip you to shreds. The idea of manned ships traveling at those speeds is complete fantasy.
>>I never got any excitement from driving an electric car, with the exception of the 0-60 of the powerful ones.
I've owned some really powerful cars in the past, and I swear I have never had as much fun as I did when I took our little Volkswagen e-Up to the Lake District for a week, yes it only has 80bhp but only a tonne of weight and instant torque - it was sooooo much fun on these narrow tight roads, you could really push it and just enjoy every second of it. I even drove the Hardknott Pass several times back to back because it was so much fun - I'd take it over my Mercedes AMG any day, yes it was cool to do 160mph past Berlin at 4am in that, but the little 80bhp Volkswagen gives me about 20x more enjoyment in day to day driving.
...I assume that's satire? I plug in our EV once a week at home, it takes like what, 5 seconds? Maybe 10 if I'm distracted. Another 5 seconds to unplug it the following morning.
Lol, you mean like here in the UK where all banks are closing down branches left and right? I think my nearest one is a 45 minute drive away, and last time I went in they just directed me to a terminal that was basically my exact online banking interface and I had to log in the same way I would have done at home. I don't know what kind of query would warrant speaking to an actual teller. If you're regularly sending money or even want to check your balance this cannot be sustainable, would be an enormous waste of time.
On one hand, you have to care for the hand that feeds you. On the other, I'd love for NASA to basically ignore the orange convicted felon and see what happens.
private to private bribery is illegal, it doesnt matter if you're private or not. this is true in most EU countries, as well as the US, so I'm unsure where you're from
How would they? We've had iPads around for literally forever and there are still iOS apps that start in a pretend phone mode on an iPad. And that's presumably much larger market for apple than the Duo is - why or how would they force developers to support it if they don't want to devote resources to it?
I think a number of hybrid development systems still default to iPhone-only. I'm wondering how LLMs will affect that.
I modified my app to present its menu on the side for Duo. It's a bit of a pain, but an LLM helps. I am still waiting on user feedback from the field. I feel as if it's fairly ugly.
Personally, I'm in no hurry to get one, myself. I have an iPhone 17 Pro and an iPad Mini, which do it for me now. I would like to combine them, but I'm waiting for the inevitable "teething issues" to work out, first.
I think this will be different - you already have to include screenshots specifically for iPhone duo. I can easily see Apple just rejecting iPhone apps that don’t support it properly.
The stupid thing is, fingerprint unlock inside the screen is a long solved tech. The touch sensors on a modern Samsung or Oppo or Xiaomi are literally instant. Why put it on a button on the side? Just to be different? Or is that a patent thing?
Most underdisplay fingerprint scanners are between mediocre to garbage. Optical scanners are slightly better but considered less secure, ultrasonic ones are a flaming PoS. Both on Samsung S-line, A-line and several Chinese Oneplus phones I've used personally, for years at a time.
Usually they require a very specific state of the fingers, not too clean (don't work after washing and drying hands usually) and not too dirty, not too damaged, not too oily etc. Winter zero degree weather causing invisible condensation or wetness on a screen? Nope. Rain or drizzle? Nada. Also Samsung specifically on their S-line has some obvious software glitches I've confirmed on my phone. For example - in normal conditions, inside apartment, with reasonably clean hands, try to unlock and fail 5 times in a row, input password, then immediately lock the phone and try scanner once again and it will work realiably. It seems that having phone initially in "sleep/hibernation" causes its scaner brains to freeze and glitch, and only fully operational OS causes it to start working properly.
I can totally see why Apple would opt for a better user experience, even if it's not as hyped or flashy on a shop display.
>>Most underdisplay fingerprint scanners are between mediocre to garbage.
I don't think you've used one in the last 10 years based on your comment.
>>Usually they require a very specific state of the fingers, not too clean (don't work after washing and drying hands usually) and not too dirty, not too damaged, not too oily etc. Winter zero degree weather causing invisible condensation or wetness on a screen? Nope. Rain or drizzle? Nada.
Literally never had any of these problems and I unlock my phone 50+ times a day in all conditions. Again, try a modern phone and come back.
> I don't think you've used one in the last 10 years based on your comment.
The oldest phones with underdisplay scanners are from 2018, so 8 years ago max, just saying :) .
My current Oneplus is 3 years old and my current Samsung is also 3 years old. That's not that old by my standards. Maybe something magically improved specifically in the last two years, but I will believe it when I see it. I remember EXACTLY the same phrases in 2020 with new Samsung flagship and newest scanner tech. Then there were EXACTLY the same claims next year in 2021, with yet another Samsung flagship. And fast forward to 2023 and the scanners were still subpar. I don't know, we'll see if they will every improve to the level of standalone scanners.
Touche. I suppose it's because they clicked on the comments section where you read....comments. You reply to the the article or other comments - to me it's a conversation, in a way that posting a blog about why someone returned a phone isn't.
Blogging has historically been about someone sharing a thought, an experience, an idea... Which this is. Why gatekeep what can or cannot be blogged about? No one is required to read or like it.
Of course it is. It's the start of conversations like this very one. Or it's a personal blog that other people find and like to read. I don't understand why the author's motivation for writing something matters literally at all, except for a small group of people who really, really get off on X-style judging/hating everything for some reason.
Perhaps some introspection would be more useful/valuable than the sneering bullshit.
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