It’s a really cool thing, but if we are honest: That is nothing for the general population. I’m not really sure what Apple is doing with that feature, but there is no way that Grandma Smith will 3d scan things and send them to her grandchildren for 3d printing
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It looks really goofy, but I like the concept. That gives your carpal tunnel hands a pause. Or it might free your hand so that you can type with two hands and still use the mouse. It also might help people who lost a hand or arm.
I really do not want anything innovative in my phone TBH. Android works ok and the heavy lifting is done with apps. I really don’t want Google to move more crappy features into the OS and I really do not need stuff like those LIDAR sensors modern iPhones have. Just give me a smartphone with several years of security updates, enough speed to run my programs without issues, give me a good camera and I’m fine.
Obelix@feddit.orgOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Tinker WriterDeck - Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck.English1·16 days agoIt is something to fight against the constant distraction of modern tech. It’s hard to write a novel when social media is just a click away, your friends are chatting in your group, you’re getting news alerts from everywhere and you even might fall into a wikipedia hole while researching about mongol tribes. So there really is a use case for devices who are only able to do one thing.
(it’s kind of the same with phones: Get a dedicated camera and go on a walk and you won’t be distracted be someone whatsapping you)
Obelix@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staffEnglish2·23 days agoYeah. I run Wordpress on my personal blog, but after this I won’t use it for future projects. A community fork without all that stupid Jetpack shit would be great
Exactly this. We knew that everything would get shaky after he fired all those people and a data leak is the consequence
Obelix@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employeesEnglish1·1 month agoWord and Powerpoint are not the worst - just think about all the time lost due to whatever Microsoft is doing in Teams or by random decisions like moving the start button to the middle instead of leaving it where it was since 1995, which automatically renders every corporate training video obsolete.
Obelix@feddit.orgto Fediverse@lemmy.world•I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.English4·1 month agoemail is a standard protocol. You can run your own server using FOSS software in 5 minutes if you start now. One of the biggest problems is that you will have a hard time “federating” to gmail and others due to the spam problematic, but that is something that we will see with Lemmy, too. Currently I can spin up my own server and start pushing shit to lemmy.world and other bigger instances, but I feel that this will change with the coming spam waves
Obelix@feddit.orgto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.English5·1 month agoYeah, those old forum threads really were great. Many forums had threads that were discussing topics for years, all in one place. There were people posting how they were building something and they would just reply to their thread with an update. It’s a great way to collect information and better than we are doing it here
Obelix@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•U.S. Government Removes Tornado Cash SanctionsEnglish2·1 month agoI’m really curious here: What are you buying and dealing with crypto? I am old and I remember the first discussions about Bitcoin and other cryptos and the privacy topic was discussed back then. People were skeptical of the technology, exactly because every transaction was public and people were even more skeptical after others started to use bitcoin to buy drugs with it online. So why are you using technology that is not really suited for privacy by design and expect privacy?
Obelix@feddit.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in AprilEnglish1·1 month agoOk, that is a totally different use case than mine. I’m one of those guys browsing a selfhosting community on the fediverse and I only want to stream my own stuff to my mobile and provide my wife with audiobooks. If you’re providing a bigger group of people with streaming services, who are not tech savvy, another software might be the better solution. But that doesn’t mean that Jellyfin is bad - it’s just another use case with different requirements
Obelix@feddit.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in AprilEnglish11·1 month agoBut let’s be honest - it really is not complicated. That was a one minute configuration in my router.
Obelix@feddit.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in AprilEnglish2·1 month agoI just setup jellyfin and it totally is the same. Install. Point it to a media folder. Setup port forwarding.
Obelix@feddit.orgto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin?English101·1 month agoAnd those lifetime subscriptions are also a trap. They know that you have the money and are willing to pay and that you’re using their service. Do you really think that some business suit will be satisfied by your onetime payment back in 2022?
Obelix@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgetsEnglish21·1 month agoI use LLMs for some things and they are great, but to be honest, I haven’t seen any real world usage of blockchains besides cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
Obelix@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location DataEnglish533·1 month agoSaudi Arabia isn’t a person.
Yes, it is. In an autocratic monarchy, in a dictatorship, everything belongs to the king. The house of Saud is treating the country as their personal property and let’s not pretend that anything would prevent the guy who killed a journalist in his embassy from accessing that data.
Obelix@feddit.orgto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Comparing User Activity on X and Mastodon.English5·1 month agoJust FYI: Data is from May till June 2023. Musk took over Twitter end of Oct. / Nov 2022. A lot of stuff has happened since then, so that study can’t tell you much about the current X
Obelix@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•New survey suggests the vast majority of iPhone and Samsung Galaxy users find AI useless – and I’m not surprisedEnglish214·1 month agoPeople here like to shit on AI, but it has its use cases. It’s nice that I can search for “horse” in Google Photos and get back all pictures of horses and it is also really great for creating small scripts. I, however, do not need a LLM chatbot on my phone and I really don’t want it everywhere in every fucking app with a subscription model.
I really would like to try those glasses. They sound cool. But at $500 they are too expensive for an impulse and there is no place around where one can try those offline