What you mention about Galaxy watch is why people who want stuff to "just work" should not buy 3rd party OEM devices and stick to flagship products by the operating system owners. E.g. use Microsoft Surface products for windows stuff, on Android use Pixel devices.

3rd party OEMs are there to help drive down the cost of devices but the user experience is almost always crappier and more prone to bugs.

> “The problem for Hawking was his struggle to understand how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life,” says Hertog, a cosmologist currently based at KU Leuven University in Belgium.

Didn't he "solve" that question by invoking the anthropic principle? As per the original book, if we apply strong anthropic principle, the universe is perfectly hospitable precisely because we are here to observe it, if it was not perfect, there wouldn't be an observer.

Guess I'll have to read the new book when it comes out...

On newer versions of iOS you can set up focus modes and have it silence certain apps and notifications depending on time of day or your location.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212608

I use it to block work emails or social media, depending on whether I'm at home or at work.

There should be something similar in android too

Actually, it looks like this new rule brings texting in line with spam calls, which are already required to be blocked:

> The FCC already requires similar blocking of voice calls from these types of numbers.

Well, this one dude called Stephen Hawking did some maths and had some things to say about this:

https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen-hawking-s-final-theory-about-our-universe-will-melt-your-brain

https://www.livescience.com/62073-stephen-hawking-multiverse-theory.html

Doesn't actually prove or disprove it, but he did try to answer the question

On the subject of modularity, with the waterproofing and USBC, we are seeing the phone/tablet losing hardware features and becoming a "pure" computer these days. I would argue that with gadget/appliance makers putting in Bluetooth/WiFi connection and integrate with a phone app, it's a way of making the phone "modular".

Instead of buying an expensive modular camera part for my modular phone, buy a mirrorless camera with Bluetooth and now that can send photos to any phones

And if someone really want high quality analogue audio, instead of the headphone jack in the phone, they can buy a DAC that's dedicated to doing just that.

Outside of stuff like machine learning or graphics processing, IMO a modern phone don't really need to be updated for a while. With stuff like cloud gaming and other cloud based services being more common place, it's likely that we only need a simple device that's capable of streaming content.

Edit, just saw your comment about laptops. I hold similar views there, I think they are getting to a size that more or less plateaued, there's not much to gain to make them even thinner. Yet I also don't think they need to be modular anymore, when USBC gives you all the expandability. Webcam, WiFi chip, display, even graphics card, plug it into the USBC port and it's done. While any more involved processing would be done on the cloud.

Could you elaborate? From my experience the newer phones has been pretty great, much better in terms of both hardware and software reliability than the iphone 5 I had ages ago.

That's only because dubs tend to be an after thought / cash grab in the older days. There's always the good dubs that are on par or even are better than the Japanese VAs. E.g. Cowboy Bebop, Stein's Gate, Kaguya Sama, and just for the lolz, Ghost Stories

I don't think Tesla is going for the low cost low margin route, pretty sure the model 3 is the cheapest they are gonna get. With other manufacturers getting into the game, they'll be facing stiff competition for a race to the bottom.

Also their production capacity can't even keep up with whatever they are selling now, so I think their best next move would be to put focus on the higher end market and maintain their "luxury" brand image.

Edit: Nevermind just saw OP's link

Not me either. I'm not from the US tho

It's just the Gartner hype cycle. We are at the Peak of Inflated Expectations atm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

Not from what I've seen.

Wait, iCloud data has never been end to end encrypted. I thought this is public knowledge?

Only niche cloud storage services (like MEGA) have end-to-end encryption. Apple would be the first of the big players to have it.

What, I've always cracked it against an edge, and I literally don't remember when was the last time shell got in. Circular crack actually makes it hard for me to break open without dropping shells in

For a second this reads like a lore shard from Cyberpunk 2077. Their satire of corpo control on the internet is spot on

OP should look up local renter laws and understand their rights too. Apparently in my state, you can put holes in the wall in your apartment, and as long as you putty it, the landlords can't withhold the security deposit.

But you're right, they should definitely check.

IIRC the human element wasn't considered much between the 19th / 20th century (after the industrial revolution). Studies were all about making the factory more efficient, they thought that workers wouldn't work much harder even if you treat them well.

Studies like that is what started changing the mindset of factory/business owners.

Actually that's literally what your brain does according to modern understanding. It flushes the cache (short term memory) once your context changes (switching rooms).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/