“Do you want me to use ChatGPT to do that?”
No. I don’t. I really really don’t.
Start tracking politician phones. Oh look who paid a visit to the lobbyist house this week! That shit will get shut down real quick.
Yes. A repair website would rather you repair your phone than recycle it. You are free to do that.
And if you don’t want to go through ifixit to do that, you can go through Apple for the first five years of the product life (7 in California) and even do the repair yourself:
You can take your iPhone to any authorized service provider for a replacement battery. Apple charges around $99 for it. It’s a trade off to make the device better sealed to increase waterproofing.
And if you want to do it yourself, you can:
Sorry, but this article is mostly bullshit. Apple is a leader in recycling their products, and in making them out of non-plastic materials like aluminum and glass. They take back their products at their stores for recycling, and have even built machines that disassemble them into individual parts. iPhone has one of the longest lifespans in the industry — receiving updates long after competitors have abandoned models of similar age. Repairability has also been improved on the recent iPhone models.
Apple adopted both USB C and RCS. These are ridiculous talking points.
Airpods — yes, the design isn’t serviceable, they’re made from Virgin plastic and their tiny batteries aren’t replaceable. I agree that should be improved. But at least Apple recycles them for free.
If you really want to bitch about something hard to repair — look at the current iMac design. Again though, it’s mostly aluminum and glass.
Tesla sales are down.
“While some other automakers see rising EV sales in the U.S.—just look at General Motors or Kia—Tesla is on track for yet another down quarter. Cox forecasts that Tesla’s U.S. sales will decline 7% on a quarter-over-quarter basis, and 7.3% year-to-date. The firm pegs Tesla’s Q3 sales at 152,829, down from last quarter’s 164,264. Tesla’s sales dropped on a year-over-year basis in Q1 and Q2 as well.”
Max Headroom had a chat show for a short time.
It’s not really a closed garden when you can subscribe to the service from outside the app store and it still works.
I’m guessing this change was made because tv channel purchases made through AppleTV are subject to “family plan” sharing rules. I seriously doubt that this is about the 15% to 30% convenience fee Apple charges the provider.
Or we could just get rid of sugar and corn subsidies and let the prices go up naturally.
So is there a way for businesses to disable this garbage feature through managed device settings or something? I’m guessing corporate legal departments aren’t going to be too thrilled with this feature.
If you’re hype for this, make sure you’ve watched the original movie version from the 1970s. It’s very well done.
I wonder what the investors like Condé Nast/Advance Publications think of this?
Meh. It’s zuck’s private platform and Zuck hasn’t been running around yelling “absolute free speech!” like some of the other billionaire megalomaniacs have.
In Europe. I doubt we will get any of these in North America.
Pull their sheets off and start filming them. See how they like it.
Sounds unnecessary. Maybe use that Amazon money on another season of The Expanse instead.
So are these built by Schneider Electric? I wasn’t clear after reading the article.
It’s still fishy that Proterra went bankrupt. It made no sense with all the electric school and public transit bus orders coming in.
Police “G files” now public
More than a year after Austin voters OK’d a measure to make them public, the so-called “G-files” of police officers accused of misconduct are now available to the public. Disclosure of these disciplinary files was a sticking point in discussions…
Bluetooth headphones/headset/earpiece. You too can look like Uhura from Star Trek by sticking a wireless speaker in your ear!
“Near Houston” — looks more like edge of East Texas to me.
Most CapMetro stops don’t have a bench
A new audit by the transit agency finds 53% of the agency's 2,500 bus stops lack a bench. More than two out of three bus stops have no shelter.
Or shade.
I am also reminded of how CapMetro spent money to rip out the perfectly fine existing shelters and benches to replace them with the newer, flimsier ones.
Council rejects Texas Gas rate increase
Despite reining in its initial proposal, Texas Gas Service has still failed to win over City Council in its endeavor to raise prices for Austin ratepayers. The utility faced backlash this summer with news of its plans to aggressively hike…
Feature request: show clipboard on paste
So I know we can post text and images using the link button, but it would be nice to confirm what’s being pasted before uploading. A show clipboard, or a small preview of the clipboard would be nice.
Currently when pasting an image into a Lemmy post, it only shows a Lemmy URL before committing, not the image. Kind of unnerving when you’re thinking “did I copy the right image for this post, or is it about to upload something I don’t want it to?”
Fun 5th circuit case about nuclear waste in TX
This time, they’re imperiling America’s ability to store nuclear waste.
Cancellations and renewals - Oct 2024
Renewed
- Criminal Record
- Palm Royale
- Dark Matter
- Sugar
- Billy the Kid (third and final season)
- The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
Canceled
- That ’90s Show
- UnPrisoned
- Black Cake
Linked article also includes ratings news.
Texas electric grid to finally connect to US grid
The DOE announces $1.5B for four transmission projects – including connecting the Texas grid to the rest of the US for the first time ever.
Part of the larger federal grid infrastructure updates announced today.
Wrestling comes to HBO/Max
AEW’s weekly shows will livestream on Max.
The Zaslavification continues.
Apple renews “Sugar”
Surprising. I didn’t think this one had much buzz. Also felt like a one season show.
Rosemary differences?
So I had to pull up some huge rosemary plants in the front yard to have some plumbing work done. I noticed that the rosemary I’ve bought to replace it has completely different leaves. The old plant was more like an evergreen with oily needle-like leaves. The new plant has soft flat leaves but still smells like rosemary.
Are these two plants actually related? Are they both edible? The “evergreen” One was fairly hearty and grew quickly. Will the other variety act the same?
Renewals and cancelations 9/20/2024
https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/renewals-and-cancellations-industry-orphan-black-echoes-time-bandits-and-lorne-michaels.php
In:
- Emily In Paris
- Industry
Out:
- Orphan Black Echoes
- Time Bandits
Broadnax hiring his Dallas coworkers
Eddie Garcia will begin serving as Austin's assistant city manage overseeing public safety this fall.
Elon Musk's Secret Campaign Against Progressive Austin Prosecutor
He is bad at everything, even dark-money campaigns.
How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer
“The local utility says it’s going to need a million gallons of water per day and 150 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes per year. “
I wasn’t sure what they meant with that water usage. Like does the water get recirculated and it’s a one time expense? Or is it a million gallons discharged into a river or sewer ever single day? Is it tainted? Or just evaporates from a cooling tower? Seems like a huge waste.
Installing Ubuntu on a separate partition?
So I’ve got an old Mac I use as a Plex server and I’m considering installing Ubuntu on a DOS-formatted partition I’ve already set aside. What I’m wondering is:
- Do I just need this one partition, or is it going to need an additional blank partition for VM/Swap?
- can I install Ubuntu on an external drive and then clone or dd the external install onto the internal partition I’ve set aside?
“Ghost Story” with Craig Wasson
Just finished this movie after reading the book. A lot of the plotlines were way too truncated, but I was actually fine with them leaning more into the “ghost” aspect rather than the book’s ending.
The IMDB entry mentions there was enough content for a mini series, so a lot of it ended up on the cutting room floor. There was a lot of potential here in no small part due to a helluva cast. I would love for the studio to dig out the footage and re-edit it. It’s unlikely to happen but it does make me wonder if one of the streamers would ever consider making a more complete mini series version of the story.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0082449/
Parts of TX “out of water” says ag commissioner
But that’s ok because Nestle will upsell it back to you in a bottle labeled Ozarka after they’ve finished pumping it all from Canton.
Larry Ellison (Oracle) to run Paramount
So although Paramount is being purchased by Skydance media, it’s being bankrolled by Ellison of Oracle software fame. Why he wants to run an entertainment studio, I have no idea.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/billionaire-larry-ellison-control-paramount-after-deal-bloomberg-news-reports-2024-09-05/
WB and Crichton’s widow in row over ER knock off
“It’s not like ‘ER.’ It’s not kind of ‘ER.’ It’s not sort of ‘ER.’ It is ‘ER’ with the exact same executive producer, writer, star, production companies, studio and network as the planned ‘ER’ reboot.”
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/michael-crichton-the-pitt-er-reboot-john-wells-noah-wyle-1236120015/
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/warner-bros-tv-michael-crichton-lawsuit-response-er-the-pitt-1236120286/