Real problem: we don’t *have* “AI”, we have machine learning, which is not even remotely the same thing.

Fingerprint scanners are the worst idea in phone security possible. To think they ditched something useful for a gimmicky way of compromising security is astounding.

> write the program in C or C++

Sure, high-end, yeah. I *think* the MacBook Air was the first one to use NVMe drives as standard, IIRC. Pretty startling back in the day. To bad NVMe makes such little difference in day to day work over SATA SSDs. Just SSD alone is a gigantic performance difference. At this point, I’d rather have a 4TB SATA SSD over a…

No, “all SSDs” are not PCIe-based. You get a much better deal even now on SATA-based SSDs as real-world usage shows they’re plenty fast enough for everyday use.

No headphone jack, but no waterproofing, supposedly the entire reason for ditching a headphone jack?

FYI for those trying to enable the newly added ‘App Authentication’ option on Instagram - you cannot (currently) do it via the web site, but must enable it via the Instagram app. But once you do, you can use the feature via the web site. Ridiculous implementation, but it works. (I then uninstalled the app from my…

That should be the default new tab for Edge - links to download Chrome and Firefox. Save some time.

See a need, Fill a need!

It is apparently still not available to everybody, because I see no Authenticator App option there. :(

Robots!

This will be a nice upgrade from my 801.11n router, but I’m much more concerned about getting WPA3, since WPA2 has been cracked.

* For various incredibly subjective values of ‘hard’.

This is apparently a fantastic device for determining if you work with utter assholes, which you apparently do. *sigh*

Most Japanese apartment dwellers aren’t allowed to have pets.

You think _that’s_ the absolute worst thing about air travel? Really?

Do Not Taunt Ookla the Mok!

“That cat’s not human!” - The Terminator

Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are two different phones. Rumors keep saying the only the XL has a notch.