iPhone's 80% Charge Cap Barely Boosts Battery Life in the first year

It's entirely possible that there will be a bigger benefit at the end of the second or third year. Maybe the year-over-year dropoff will be along the lines of 6%, 12%, 18% instead of 6%, 18%, 36%. If your battery is good enough that an 80% charge gets you through the day, it seems there's no reason not to.

I posted this elsewhere a few weeks ago, right when we hit 200k deaths in the US and 1M total deaths worldwide.

1. The US has 4.4% of the world's population.

2. The US has 20% of the world's Corona deaths.

If you are an American and you don't see a problem with those numbers, you are a fucking idiot.

There's some shit going on. YES, if you have a medical exemption, DO bring it.

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Pic 6 shows a disco ball and a stripper pole. Other rooms are worth looking at too.

Looks like it'd be awesome for parties, more so than survival. Not sure how necessary the Flintstones-inspired grill (pic 8) is.

1: What was that sound?
2: I think it was a but-for.
1: What's a butt for?
2: For pooping!

"Tell me again why self driving cars are a good idea ?"

Because human-driven cars cause over a million deaths each year worldwide? There's PLENTY of room for machines to do better. We should give it a shot and see what happens.

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"I highly recommend Sunday afternoon golf for this purpose."

Has the voting closed for "Biggest Elitist Douchebag" awards for 2019?

"Pick better shows to watch, people!"

Don't tell me how to spend my time, author!

"41 percent of Americans are busy messaging 'friends/family about content they are watching.' And can it be good for us?"

Um... wasn't it just a few years ago that everyone was worried about people sitting alone watching TV and not communicating with other humans?

Seriously, this is the shittiest article I've read all year.

I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet.

I hated using Slack, until I had to start using Teams.

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And yeah, all the numbers come from MS moving away from Skype for Business. So duh, of course the numbers are going up.

I had a cheap Windows phone that I bought because I wanted to check it out and it was hot garbage. How cheap? SUPER cheap! I think it was $49 from the local MS store. A whole phone! $49! No contact! How crazy is that?!? Can't lose, right?

Every corner of the UI was unpolished, like this screenshot that shows white icons on a white background when putting the phone into light mode instead of dark mode. Or this one, where the designer didn't realize that you shouldn't have a hot white picture of the sun behind what will surely be white text.

Because it was so cheap, my thought was "I'll check it out and see what it's like, and I'll give it to my kid (about 8 at the time) to use as a camera and media player when I'm done" but every aspect of it was so horrible I returned it instead.

Note that this was a Lumia phone in 2014 -- SEVEN YEARS after the iPhone came out.

Whenever an executive says "we're committed", pretend they said... nothing. Because it doesn't fucking matter. They're just words, and they aren't worth the paper they're printed on (or the digital equivalent).

It's funny 'cause they swear a lot!

Out of the hundred angles you could take on this story, "A new iPhone feature poses a threat to opinion pollsters" would be way down on my list of possible headlines. I'd start with "A new iPhone feature will make life measurably better for millions of users" and work my way down from there. All you need to do is remember to turn it off if you're expecting an unusual call, eg. if a plumber is coming or you're waiting for a tow or something.

Remember, kids: legit calls will leave a voicemail. So if it's your doctor or something, you'll still get the news if it's important.

If you want to be nice, take a few minutes and update your outgoing message to say, "Hi, I have my phone set up to send all unknown callers straight to voicemail, so if this is important, leave a message."

And as a bonus, iOS's voicemail transcription is pretty decent. I already manually ignore unknown calls, and 3 seconds of reading the transcript means I don't have to actually listen to a recording of any bullshit sales calls. ("Please call us immediately regarding your car's warranty!" -- seriously, fuck you.)

Continuing the long, proud tradition of shitty names for OSS projects. This is one of the worst I've ever seen.

A 13MB GIF at the top of the page? Fuck you, The Verge.

Could be worse. You could have an Android phone. 5 years of OS support isn't too bad. (iPhone 6 came out in 2014.) Believe it or not, Apple leads the industry in supporting old hardware.

And the phone will continue to work just fine for another year or two. It's not like it's going to shut itself down if you don't update it. Most apps will continue to run on the one-down-from-current version of the OS.

And I say all this as the owner of an SE, which will probably lose support next year. But I'll continue running it until I literally can't. (Or I'll replace it, if Apple releases another small phone.)