JWBananas

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Starfleet certainly isn't, as evidenced in Twovix.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Betazed intelligence? That makes sense. There has surely been a thread or two asking why that wasn't a thing.

Laughed out loud at the disappointed Romulans. It was cheap, but I still adored it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I paid $1 for Reddit Sync Pro and used it for hours a day for 13 years. In that time the developer provided dozens of updates, multiple major overhauls, and continual usage of functionality that requires the developer to pay ongoing API fees to provide.

Sync for Lemmy pricing is exactly as much as it should be.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

No more than 215

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That could have easily been the line on the last panel

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The alliance with the Romulans during the war was tenuous at best. They never could have swung that. At minimum they would have needed to share the tech.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Welcome back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Net neutrality would not control that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even if this change is only temporary, it still improves things for that time.

That could very well not be the case. Major policy changes like these require a lot of preparation and are often scheduled to actually take effect on a far future date. So it could end up getting reverted again before it even happens.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I want to preface this by saying I am genuinely asking. I did a bunch of searching and only found articles about what may or what could...

But can anyone name concrete examples of what actually did change for them after the end of net neutrality?

Again, I am genuinely asking. I support net neutrality. But I cannot recall any way that the repeal actually affected me personally.

Please share your stories.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple had planned to have its modem chip ready to use in the new iPhone models. But tests late last year found the chip was too slow and prone to overheating. Its circuit board was so big it would take up half an iPhone, making it unusable.

Considering how bad some generations of Qualcomm chips have been about this, the Apple chip must have been seriously bad.

“Just because Apple builds the best silicon on the planet, it’s ridiculous to think that they could also build a modem,” said former Apple wireless director Jaydeep Ranade, who left the company in 2018, the year the project began.

Well yeah. It's certainly much easier when you start with ARM reference designs. Apple has what, the modem IP they bought from Intel? A company that, for all its prowess, decided to give up the modem market after only a few years rather than continue to refine the modem that they already brought to market?

Even Samsung gives in and uses Qualcomm modems in the US. And they're a major provider of the baseband hardware on the other end of the connection!

Apple will get there. But there is no way that their aggressive timeline was ever reasonable. Gotta make big promises to the shareholders, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can also swipe along the volume bar

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