Apple is (rightfully IMO) far more notorious for taking something that’s been around for years already, adding it to their product line (or as a feature in a product), and then pretending they invented it. Almost every company will copy features/products from other companies, but they don’t usually pretend to have invented the whole thing.

Example: Gmail. It was revolutionary, but not because Google really invented much (or indeed claimed to). Rather, it was revolutionary because it provided features that already existed in paid options (e.g. full IMAP support, large mailbox sizes) for free, with a good web interface.

Linux has the secret service API that has been a freedesktop.org standard for 15 years.

I’m a monthly donor to KDE EV and to the Mozilla Foundation.

Yeah that’s even less than what the standard is. That’s just saying “you have to do what’s in the conditions of your parole, and we won’t accept sneaky technicalities.”

But I suppose “appeals court rules that you have to obey the terms of your parole” is far less ragebaity.

It still does. People who like cryptocurrency are crypto bros (regardless of gender).

Here’s a real-world use case that also won’t require insane GPU power.

Here’s a real-world use case where this difference is noticeable to the average person. We don’t need to render video games at 1000 Hz, but many things that can be rendered with comparatively low GPU power could be made a better experience with it. The real question is whether/when the technology becomes cheap enough to be practical to use in consumer goods.

Here’s a big part of why they want 1000Hz. You don’t need to fully re-render each frame for most cases where 1ms latency is desirable - make a 100 Hz (or even 50 Hz) background and then render a transparent layer over it.

I thought one of the main advantages of sodium-ion batteries was price? Great for the applications you listed

Personally I feel like Windows has been progressively getting worse after it peaked at Windows 2000.

Unless of course you’re willing to expend the effort to set up Windows Server as a desktop and put up with the limitations you get there.

For now. I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft enabled DNS over HTTPS by default “for security” and then made it impossible to turn off or change for the ads

I’ve had three sets of earbuds where the right one has died of no apparent cause shortly after the warranty expired.

I’m starting to think it’s intentional.

Yeah, and when we find cases like this the best thing for the industry would be for a company or two who are very affected (e.g. Red Hat) to step up and offer a trustworthy person payment for maintaining it.

Theoretically yes, but in practice for the vast majority of users it makes no difference. Very few people are going to go through the trouble of vetting another source, adding it, etc. That’s what the tyranny of the default is all about.