Rootiest

I suspect cigarettes generated a lot more litter but with a lot less precious metals in it

“I don’t have any side projects so there’s no reason you shouldn’t pay me a living wage”

Nope Apple has NFC payments locked up in their garden

To be fair it doesn’t have to be a hat. They have the pcie lane rigged up to an FPC connector similar to the DSI ones. So someone could easily design an m.2 drive enclosure, PCB, etc that just accepts the FPC ribbon and you can mount it wherever you’d like

It does support m.2 (and presumably other single-lane pcie devices via a HAT apparently.

So that’s an improvement

Keep your dirty cross-origin paws off my pixels!

hundreds of dollars worth of equipment

More like thousands, Hue is way overpriced

You had me second-guessing for a minute, but I think the other commenter is correct.

One can definitely use Spaces in other clients, even Beeper supports them. So if it was an Element-specific feature, it doesn’t appear to be any longer.

Although it doesn’t have servers like Discord

They’re called Spaces on Matrix

I agree with that other reply.

Linus knew just enough to be dangerous.

My experience with most Windows users and their first encounter with using a Linux terminal is every single warning/error they see no matter how mundane is a big deal.

Things like the boot text or a random apt install on Linux will often display various warnings or even “errors” that are really of no concern but ime tend to freak out new users.

Linus is in that narrow band where he doesn’t really know shit but knows just enough to be falsely confident and ignore all the warnings/errors instead of just the irrelevant ones

Neat I didn’t know that

What really blows my mind is not that the lower-end models have USB2.0 speeds, but that all iPhones always have in the past.

Lighting truly was ancient.

They were well aware of it, even contributed to the design

Apple literally contributed to the design of USB-C, it’s not as if they had no idea it existed or it was some sort of reactionary design in response to Lightning

If only they had the foresight to predict the needs of their customers a year or two in the future.

Or maybe they just went with Lightning because they could take a cut of every product using their proprietary connector.

If it’s all about pumping up Lightning, why did the iPad leave it?

Because Lightning is too slow and low-power for the functionality they felt necessary for the iPad.

You can’t do real video output over USB2.0, charging current is limited, and you can’t effectively use it for data and charging at the same time outside of limited configurations.

Your mistake is overlooking the fact that Lightning is woefully outdated.

iPhones have been able to get away with it this long by doing most everything wirelessly and convincing users like you that it’s somehow better to have a slower, less powerful connector on their phone.

They couldn’t get away with the same limitations on a tablet.

I guess if a new/better connector comes along we have to wait for the EU to give everyone permission to move the technology forward?

The EU is mandating open standards, not specific open standards.

If a new and better connector comes around they are welcome/encouraged to use it. As long as it’s an open standard and not proprietary e-waste generating junk

If they kept the 30-pin for another year or two they could have been one of the first with USB-C and it would have been good for two decades or more and we wouldn’t be having this discussion

USB-C was finalized 2 years later so the decade of Lighting e-waste is still on Apple for holding out as long as they did.

Maybe instead of designing a whole new Lightning connector they should have been pioneers and been one of the first to make a USB-C phone.

Could they?

Yeah probably. USB-C connectors are ubiquitous, I’m certain they could acquire the necessary components in short notice if they had to. From my understanding they essentially did just swap the connector and kept the same USB2.0 controller.

Did they?

I doubt it, they had plenty of notice this was coming and were likely already preparing for it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the second USB-C iPhone release gets a modern controller with USB 3.2 or even 4, and Apple talks it up like they have single-handedly made USB-C fast all by theirselves (and imply that other mobile devices haven’t had the same for far longer)