It’s ridiculous to me that they got a presidential override once before, and it’s ridiculous they’re hoping for a second one.

If some other company was found to violate Apple’s patents, and the president made the whole thing go away, Apple would cry foul.

Right? It shouldn’t be that hard. It should be possible to enable E2EE for this using a private / public key approach, where the app delivering notifications encrypts them using a private key unknown to Apple, but it’s encrypted such that all the devices receiving the notifications can decrypt the notifications.

Also, for anyone really worried about this, there are modified versions of Android that avoid using any cloud notification features (including the Google one that spies just like Apple’s). I know that doesn’t help if you want to use an iPhone, but phones do exist that bypass this whole thing. It’s also one of the reasons I wish Apple would open up iPhone more. Why do I get the option to remove the spying features on Android but not iOS?

I was thinking a lot of those patents are FRAND (or compulsory). Are they not?

I don’t think the Pixel punishes you for unlocking the bootloader, does it? I bought a Pixel just to run GrapheneOS, and I feel like it’s the best of all worlds. It’s Android, so it has app compatibility, but it’s privacy respecting (even more so than iPhone) and security hardened.

I’ve debated switching to iPhone, but I suspect my country won’t get side loading, and then there was that research that pointed toward Apple tracking your activities even when you ask them not to (https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558). Between those two things, I just didn’t think I’d be happy with an iPhone. I might change my mind if we get side loading in the US, but I still don’t like their dishonesty about tracking.

I’ve decided the most privacy-conscious but still functional (in terms of app support) device is ironically a modified Pixel.

Recent Intel chips have proper P cores and E cores. E.g., on Alder Lake the cache size, reorder buffer, number of execution ports, and IPC all differ between the P cores and E cores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Lake

It’s still a manual process even with FileBot, though. I guess you could argue that is semiautomatic, but, for a lot of discs, it’s not a hell of a lot easier than doing it manually. You still have to manually look up the show name, manually figure out which episode is in each file, manually split the video file if it has more than one episode in it, manually merge the episode if it’s spread across multiple files, etc.

My complaint isn’t that it requires using more than one program. My complaint is ARM, even with FileBot, isn’t really a solution. The problem is that there isn’t really a solution. Ripping DVDs is just a crappy process with a lot of manual work involved.

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I don’t think it will do this, will it? The guide on the A.R.M. website says that it just rips all the titles from DVDs that contain TV shows, and they suggest using FileBot to rename these files afterward.

I feel like most countries have a history of building cars that are deathtraps, depending on which years you’re talking about…

I guess it depends on which market and what you mean by a foothold, but they’ve had some success. The second best selling electric car in the UK is from the Chinese-owned MG, for example.

And Schmidt released a report a while back with the headline claiming that every fifth new pure electric vehicle in Western Europe this year has been made in China.

China isn’t dominating the market by any means, but it seems like maybe they do have a foothold now, IMO.

There are various models of wired headphones with easily replaced cabling. E.g., Sennheiser, Audio Technica, and Bose all make (or have in recent memory made) over / on-ear headphones with detachable / replaceable cables that just use a detachable connector at both ends instead of being permanently attached.

Sony and others make in-ear earbuds with detachable cables as well.

Regarding updating software on the Pixel after EOL, keep in mind that those updates might still result in unpatched vulnerabilities. After EOL, Google will no longer release patches for anything SoC-related, and using a third party ROM will only get you fixes for OS issues. (That’s why Graphene isn’t supporting the Pixel 3 anymore – they’re not considered secure.)

A “slight” 20% increase.

So you’re looking for a camera with no interface at all, even to set or change the password? Just a camera that serves an unauthenticated steam?