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AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses | AppleVis

Welcome to AppleVis Extra 101, where Dave Nason is joined by Xiaoran Wang and Huasong Cao from Agiga, the team behind the upcoming Echo Vision smart glasses. Check out some early demos, with more to come, on their YouTube channel at: https://www.
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Did you know undergrads at Oxford in 1335 were solving homework problems about objects moving with constant acceleration? This blew my mind.

As I explained yesterday, medieval scientists were deeply confused about the connection between force and velocity: it took Newton to realize force is proportional to 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. But in the early 1300s, a group of researchers called the Oxford Calculators made huge progress in understanding objects that move with changing velocity.

They discovered something called the Mean Speed Theorem: an object moving at constant acceleration over some period of time goes just as far as if it were moving uniformly with the velocity it had at the middle instant of its motion!

That's really cool. But it gets better. They gave homework problems called 'sophisms' to the students of Merton College at Oxford. And in 1335, one of them named William Heytesbury wrote a book called 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑠, which gives us a look at what these problems were like. Some of them required students to know the Mean Speed Theorem!

Later in the 1300s, Nicolas Oresmus in Paris gave a picture proof of the Mean Speed Theorem. For example, he pointed out that the triangle ACG below has the same area as the rectangle ACFD.

Why did it take so long for Galileo to rediscover this stuff? How did the knowledge of the Oxford Calculators get lost?

plato.stanford.edu/entries/nic…
plato.stanford.edu/entries/hey…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_C…

Two squares side by side F.E.D A.B.C have the same area as the right triangle .......G ....E.D A.B.C

group of humans

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Mastering Git: Hidden Commands Every Developer Should Know

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Mastering Git: Hidden Commands Every Developer Should Know

Git is a version control system that developers use to track changes in their code, cooperate with other developers, and even revert changes if something goes wrong. While most developers know common…
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btw, the way the commodore 64 mastodon client (which is called "MOStodon", very clever...) works is you host a server on another computer using a python script and connect to the computer like you would with a BBS, which is pretty neat. it would be cool if someone made a web proxy that worked similarly

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How to Upgrade to Fedora 41 from Fedora 40 | Linux Today

Need the newest Fedora Linux? Here’s our step-by-step guide to smoothly transitioning from Fedora 40 to 41.
LinuxToday

If you were in the #Dropbox #layoff today (or just otherwise on the #jobhunt):

I’m currently #hiring a Sr. Software Engineer with a strong focus on #Golang/Containerization and several engineers with #DevRel experience. All are remote positions within Americas time zones.

If that’s not you, I also offer LinkedIn profile optimization for fedi friends at no charge.

Here to help :blobfoxheartcute:

#hiring #golang #dropbox #jobhunt #devrel #layoff

#XDC2024: The individual videos for each talk from this year's XDC are now available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/xorgfoundation
XDC 2024

X.Org Foundation

The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.org community. The X.
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#xdc2024
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I honestly couldn’t tell if this was a joke but it did make me want to bike past doing a loud monologue
on the side of a hilly road with houses on the left side, a small yellow sign that says “please bike quietly - no loud speaking”
a closeup of the sign

git retch

who called it creating a new python package manager and not reinventing the wheel

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TFW you write lava in you D&D notes and realize you may have mispelled Java. Not really.

#dnd5e

#dnd5e

daniellecoffyn • 15h My poem won a Pushcart Prize alongside Diane Seuss and Joyce Carol Oats IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE by DANIELLE COFFYN from SOKTH MENIDIAN REVIEW There would be a parade, a celebration, a holiday to commemorate the day he sought enlightenment. We would not speak of temptation by the devil, rather, we would laud Adam's curiosity, his desire for adventure and knowing-We would feast on apple-inspired fare: tortes, chutneys, pancakes, pies. There would be plays and songs reenacting his courage. But it was Eve who grew bored, weary of her captivity in Eden. And a woman's desire for freedom is rarely a cause for celebration. Nominated by North Meridian Recicio

Not one conservative in a thousand understands this.
Photo farmer standing in front of a field of corn. Text: There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked. "Why sir," said the farmer, "Didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn." So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

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Very often drivers yell at me something like "go ride a bike way". It's often on a road where there is no bike way nearby and there is no legal restriction for me riding the road.
But when there is a restriction for motorized vehicles, nobody cares. Like literally every day on this road.
That's what #cycling in #Prague looks like.
#Prague #cycling

humor negro, negrísimo, la curiosidá mató al gato

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The media just conceded on #CBC their relentless push to expel Justin Trudeau has failed. Can we now get back to the business of the whole foreign interference thing and how the leader of the opposition won’t get a security clearance while he has foreign agents in his cabinet*?
#cdnpoli #Canada
#canada #cbc #cdnpoli

The result of the annual "Stop the US embargo of Cuba" vote at the UN.

#Cuba #UnitedNations #Israel #USA #Politics

A table showing the votes of UN member states. It shows around 190 votes in favour with only the US & Israel voting against.
#politics #USA #israel #cuba #unitednations

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 323
Minimus oculos rotundos et os subridens in peponi insculpit (Minimus carves round eyes and a smiling mouth into a pumpkin). Silvius cupit cultellum tractare, sed tata eum vetat (Silvius wants to handle the knife, but Daddy forbids him).
Photo of Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, standing on a fallen vine leaf. Minimus is carving a face into a tiny pumpkin with a little penknife. Silvius is watching him very closely, hoping to be allowed to have a go with the knife
#fabulamurina

#curl source code age, take 4
#curl

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Jean Luc POI I7FI 🕯️
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Watch out for diamonds or other gemstones in the older layers near the bottom, from the digital mesoproterozoic age.
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Daniel Böhmer
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Really the best visualization of this dataset so far!

I find it confusing that only even years like 2000, 2002, etc. are listed. Did you skip every 2nd year? If data for each two years is accumulated please write "2000-2001" in the key.

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@dboehmer as said in the top, they are two-year segments. It's just a limit I decided on to keep the number of fields reasonable.
@Daniel Böhmer
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Daniel Böhmer
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Oh, I didn’t see/read this bit 🙈 Maybe that’s an indicator that this might be too subtle …
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@dboehmer I wanted to keep the labels simple to reduce the amount of text, as it quickly becomes "heavy" otherwise. But yeah, I'll think of how to improve it.
@Daniel Böhmer
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Daniel Böhmer
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May a make two (edit: three) suggestions:

a) write "2000 f." for 2000–2001 like common for giving page numbers in citations.
(I just learned that "f." is for giving someone’s birthdate in Swedish 😁 )
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.#Adje…

b) Use "≤" or "≥" mathematical operators. As the key is most probably read from the top to the bottom maybe give the lower number year instead like
- ≥ 2023
- ≥ 2021
- ≥ 2019
- …
- < 2000

c) short form 2000/01 to 2023/24

f. - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Wiktionary
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Daniel Böhmer
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You’re so quick! I find this better than take 4, for sure.

If you want to minimize text space I’d consider this the optimal solution.

But to be honest I think it’s a bit too technical even—for software people. it takes a moment to understand this means each color represents two years …

More than ½ h after posting my suggestions I tend to think option C (that I added to the post) might be the most common notation: just "2023/24". Don’t you think? At least Germans use that a lot.

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@dboehmer unfortunately I think that version gets too messy, probably because too many numbers. Without being crystal clear what it means. I think I'll stick with the ≥ for now.
@Daniel Böhmer
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@dboehmer for me, reading the graph part makes everything very clear. Like, the year number is just a point in time, at the transition between two years (e. g. black covers 2010-2012).

It would also be possible to work with dashes, like saying "up to 2002", though that needs a different numbering then:

- 2000
- 2002
- 2004
...

@Daniel Böhmer

"Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is ‘very short-staffed’ amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama"

MAYBE THAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF YOU DIPSHIT FIRING EVERYONE WHO'S NOT A FUCKING SYCOPHANT?

Goddammit. What a dumbass.

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Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama | TechCrunch

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says the company is "short-staffed" amid WordPress's ongoing drama with WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress.
Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)

"A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he ever gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits ten minutes, then asks the backhoe operator for directions."
A slide from a Sumitomo Electric presentation Studies of Historical Cable/Fiber Failure Causes, Reported Failures, % Dig-ups, 172, 57% Craft/Workman Errors, 22, 7% Rodent, 13, 4% Fire, 11, 4% Vehicles, 11, 4% Defective Cable, 8, 3% Firearms, 7, 2% Intrinsic Electronics Failures, 6, 2% Flood, 6, 2% Lightning, 4, 1% Extreme Temperature, 3, 1% Ice, 3, 1% Steam Damage, 3, 1% Other, 15, 5% Unknown, 16, 5% Total, 300, 100% Ref: V. Hou, “Update on Interim Results of Fiber Optic System Field Failure Analysis”, NFOEC Proceedings Vol. 1, p. 539-545, (1991)

Congrats to the @thunderbird team and especially @cketti on the Thunderbird Android release! 🎉

It's been a while since the Prototypefund [1] days and me complaining about the white icon background during 36C3 and being responsible for the pink icon background about an hour later [2]. (Which caused a steady supply of angry users after this was released as a stable version 1.5 y later.)

Sorry but not sorry😅.

[1] prototypefund.de/project/jmap-…
[2] github.com/thunderbird/thunder…


add background color to adaptive icons by Bubu · Pull Request #4411 · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

This adds a desaturated version of K9-Mails envelope color as the adaptive icon background color. This should look a lot better than a plain white background. Also slightly enlarge the icon shape. ...
GitHub
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @cketti
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Question for #screenreader users: do text emotes like kaomoji generally cause your tools to read out noise or annoying nonsense, or does it just not pronounce it? I am wondering whether it's okay to use them or whether I should go back to good old emoji (that, to my knowledge, get properly read out).

Like this one:
˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )‧º·˚

#accessibility #totallyblind

#Accessibility #screenreader #totallyblind
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Lianna
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@NVAccess That's very enlightening, thank you! I suppose it's not really a solvable problem with dictionaries, because as opposed to standard smileys like colon and uppercase D - this one :D - Kaomoji are very, very varied and can be personalized.

I am wondering whether some traditional machine learning classifier could be good at detecting what is and what isn't a smiley.

@NV Access
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NV Access
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Since Microsoft do definte a whole list of Kaomoji, if Unicode or someone even just defined descriptors for those, we could perhaps incorporate it as a starting point. Although as you say, as soon as you change one slightly, it will break that. So it may be something solveable with machine learning, perhaps as an NVDA add-on (there are several for image description and other things, so it would certainly fit) - definitely interesting!

Well, I went out for 2 minutes and was about to strangle one of the kids, so I went back in. I'm sorry, but a 9-year-old doesn't get to play blind games with me. My wife wasn't around, but she sure gave him a lecture when she came back out. I have tons of patience with kids, but when they try tricks, only because I'm blind? It angers me.
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Tamas G
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lol that was one of the most common annoying ones for years in HS / college! Or when even people you thought were friends who wouldn't trick you would do the hiding one, trying to notice if you can sense their presence with your special super-sonic blind hearing. xD
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@Tamasg when people ask me how many fingers am I holding up, I just say one, and put up my middle finger, and say this one. lol. I wouldn't do that to a kid, but there you go.
@Tamas G

Unlike iPhone 16 Models, Apple's M4 Macs Lack Wi-Fi 7 Support macrumors.com/2024/10/30/m4-ma…

Unlike iPhone 16 Models, Apple's M4 Macs Lack Wi-Fi 7 Support

Apple introduced new Mac mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro models this week, adding faster and more efficient M4 chips, along with some other updates like...
Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)

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#curl source code age, raw line numbers

Next I'll see if I can make a version where the early code stays at the bottom of the graph.

#curl
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@jvossen I'm writing a tiny custom script for this that generates all the data, then I render graph from that using gnuplot. I have them all in a git repo, but I'm still polishing these ones.

Others have mentioned this existing tool for this: github.com/src-d/hercules


GitHub - src-d/hercules: Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history.

Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history. - src-d/hercules
GitHub
@Jake Vossen

howtogeek.com/mistakes-beginne…

10 Beginner Linux Command Line Mistakes:

- Assuming You Know Your Location
- Reckless Use of Elevated Privileges
- Skipping Package Updates Before Installing
- Unintentionally Overwriting or Deleting Files
- Confusing Path Types
- Ignoring Built-in Help Resources
- Not Using Shortcuts to Speed Up Navigation
- Dismissing Error Messages and Logs
- Neglecting to Make Backups Before Making Changes

Each item above is explained in the article & how to avoid it.

#linux


10 Common Mistakes Beginners Make With the Linux Command Line (and How to Avoid Them)

Avoid common Linux command line mistakes with these tips.
Richard Dezso (How-To Geek)
#linux

> As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and I’m truly sorry to those impacted by this change.

So you firing yourself?

Something worth reiterating: The fediverse consists of people, no algorithms here. Anything you see happens because someone took the time to interact with a post (e.g. boost) or typed out a post or a reply.

A lot of posts deserve attention, so don't be afraid to boost or favorite what you read Favoriting shows that someone out there actually read the post and liked it. Engagement is key.

Be kind and interact away!

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Starlink Mini review: super compact and light, can be powered by a small power bank, installs quickly at new locations, but Wi-Fi range is sometimes a concern (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

theverge.com/24275688/starlink…
techmeme.com/241030/p31#a24103…


Starlink Mini review: space internet goes ultraportable

SpaceX’s Starlink Mini satellite dish provides fast battery-powered internet with low enough latency that can be set up quickly in places 4G and 5G don’t reach.
Thomas Ricker (The Verge)

Seamless migration from any VMware environment to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon EC2
aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/s… #aws #blog

Seamless migration from any VMware environment to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon EC2 | Amazon Web Services

Over the last 20+ years, commercially available compute virtualization solutions such as VMware have become powerful tools used to lower costs, improve efficiency, ease management tasks, and improve on-premises flexibility.
Amazon Web Services
#blog #aws

Apple launches entry MacBook Pro 14-inch with M4 chip, 16GB RAM, new Center Stage camera, more 9to5mac.com/2024/10/30/apple-l…

Apple launches entry MacBook Pro 14-inch with M4 chip, 16GB RAM, better battery life, more - 9to5Mac

Apple has unveiled the new M4 MacBook Pro in several models, including a 14-inch version that serves as the more budget-friendly entry model.
Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)

How to Install Seafile Self-Hosted Cloud Storage on Debian 12 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

How to Install Seafile Self-Hosted Cloud Storage on Debian 12

Seafile is an open-source file-hosting system written in the Django web framework. This article will guide you through installing Seafile on a Debian ...
Arvid L (Howtoforge)

I've been recently tinkering with #Python to build myself a better RSS feed experience with Youtube and GitHub feeds.

hamatti.org/posts/i-built-cust…

#blogging


I built a custom RSS hydrator for better GitHub and Youtube feeds

Youtube and GitHub RSS/Atom feeds didn’t quite offer the experience I wanted so I built a web service that takes in a feed, hydrates its contents with more useful stuff and outputs a new feed.
Juha-Matti Santala
#python #blogging

in Mac OS 15.1, I was casually reading system information app with VoiceOver. I navigated into the hardware overview text area, then back to the list, and chose "software." here's where things got strange. Arrowing around in the text area would read me the hardware overview in one single chunk, but listening to it upon focus read the new content. So I ask: What the heck is going on with VoiceOver?
What would cause the virtual buffer and focused content to go out of sync like this?
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Q&A with scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, who sent the first Arpanet message in 1969, on what the internet has become, lessons from Arpanet, and more (Scott Nover/BBC)

bbc.com/future/article/2024102…
techmeme.com/241030/p8#a241030…


'We were just trying to get it to work': The failure that started the internet

On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed.
Scott Nover (BBC)

The drawback of leaving the Fascist Bird shite is that "brands" haven't migrated.

So I can't ask a car maker why their service (repairs) is worse than MAGA-Mobile which is a landmark in shittiness.

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Hubert Figuière
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FWIW it has been a month and a half and Nissan still doesn't have the replacement bumper.

(my *brand new* car was rear ended in its parking spot, 20m DOWN from the kerb)

Thinking getting a Nissan?

Hahahahaha! #WhatsApp survey question I just received asks:

'How visually appealing is WhatsApp’s design (that is, the way the app looks) to you?'

#whatsapp
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Andre Louis
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These days apps are far more complex than they were in 2010, so if you don't explore by touch and at least try to know where common things are, you're going to have a very slow time indeed.
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yep, sometimes, explore by touch is the only thing that would adiquately work in some apps, if VO loses focus or reaches some kind of boundary that doesn't exist, but it decided to do so. Same thing used to happen with talkback and other readers. It's good to know both. Speaking of using that, how would you teach someone the concept of explore by touch? I honestly can't explain it well I suppose, but I am trying to help someone from around here. What do you compare it vs swiping, for example? To me it's just like drawing on your screen, but drawing lines. also I am one of the people who uses explore by touch a lot, and also manages to guess half of the things on the screen if apps are well-made.
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Rebecca
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@tardis @jscholes Have they used tactile maps? If so you could say it's a little bit like exploring a tactile map but it's just your phone screen. I know speed dots have shut down but when I had them they really helped me orient to my phone at first.
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Oh, these never shipped here, well, yeah I tried that approach but I guess they didn't get it, so I tried drawing. It's a person who likes working on a computer, so.
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James Scholes
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@tardis The majority of physical surfaces a blind person will encounter don't support sequential swiping. Explore by touch has to be the default for restaurant tables, kitchen counters, a new computer, etc. So I don't think you need a fancy explanation for how to find stuff on a screen; they can just be explored like those other things. I'm no teacher though so what do I know. @FreakyFwoof @silverleaf57
@Rebecca @Andre Louis @Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yeah, trust me, neither am I. But at least I am getting paid. and I better be. I spent three hours trying to make this guy learn how to use iPhone, because he wanted an iPhone. And I could've done something else with my time, too. Plus, he insisted on paying, so, well, I don't deny.
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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the three hours were spent trying to disable subscriptions he subscribed to. Because Apple is, well, Apple, and the appstore isn't translated in my language. and then trying to disable the personal data thing icon. and it turns out it needed screen recognition, but I can do it with VO turned off, so go turn on that, swipe a thousand times through settings. and someone setup the iPhone by transfering from android, so now, it's a mess. Even the apps went to transfer. also, Apple photos sucks now. No idea what they did to it, but unless you use explore by touch, you screwed, unless you have like, two photos, but I have at least a few hundred even with the recent cleanup. So, yep, explore by touch in my opinion must be taught to people, the earlier the better. also, it's just easier. Haha.

Whenever companies “overinvest and underperform,” for some reason the people that have to go are never the execs who made these strategic mistakes.
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