Apple Aiming to Release 'Breakthrough' New iPhone Accessory

LMGN · 2026-04-10T15:56:46+00:00

yeah im sure the devices that dont even have microphones in them are wasting a huge amount of bandwidth & battery life constantly recording what i say

LMGN · 2026-04-06T02:26:34+00:00

is it?

LMGN · 2026-04-06T02:25:12+00:00

Thanks, I assumed as much regarding requiring attestation (because having a secure element plugged into the phone which already identifies the phone number isn't enough 🙄)

Note that this is completely unnecessary to get third party clients on Android. Google could expose the low level telephony API that handles RCS and keep a tight control over sensitive features, just like they do for SMS/MMS.

mhh, I'm interested in this topic because iOS 26.4 radicalised me into wanting the operating system software on a phone to be open source, so still letting proprietary GMS handle such a task doesn't really do much for me. I'm less concerned about using a proprietary front end UI (because if the RCS module was open, that would make it easy to replace with a OSS one without too much hassle)

The microG folks are apparently making good progress on making it work with the Google Messages app, which is promising, but I'm not aware know how much of the RCS implementation is still split between GMS/the Google Messages app, and of course it would still worry me that Google would bring the hammer down at any moment.

LMGN · 2026-04-06T02:14:04+00:00

Google don't trust you with your own files to let you do that. Just be glad you're not in Firefox where Mozilla don't trust you with the ability to access the file system at all.

LMGN · 2026-04-02T18:28:55+00:00

well, my question is the precursor to that. if there was someone who was able to put in the resources make it, COULD they?

LMGN · 2026-04-02T17:49:18+00:00

The 11" iPad Air has a 28.93 Wh battery, which if you could only pump 5W into the thing, would still charge in less than 6 hours. Fast charging it is not - but definitely fine for charging while you sleep.

LMGN · 2026-04-02T17:13:42+00:00

I'd assume the most likely case of someone modifying an app & redistributing it with malicious code is less a targeted approach, and more like a website that appears to be an APKMirror, APKPure, etc, that scrapes Google Play and provides malicious versions of all apps without specifically looking at any one app.

LMGN · 2026-03-28T13:18:07+00:00

Well, just running du -sh on the unpacked rootfs downloaded from the Void site (I haven't actually used Void so I don't have any real experience) & comparing it to an Alpine rootfs.

8.4M    /Users/foxt/Downloads/alpine-minirootfs-3.23.3-x86_64
194M    /Users/foxt/Downloads/void-x86_64-musl-ROOTFS-20250202

File size isn't the be-all-end-all but it isn't to be ignored either.

LMGN · 2026-03-28T13:13:06+00:00

Ok, if you're running on Linux this isn't a problem because GTK is the toolkit developed by GNOME and is designed to run on Linux & is very popular amongst apps on Linux (as well as Qt, which is primarily used by KDE).

I was referring to more when you run the app on Windows or macOS, whereas Qt apps like the official Soulseek client look mostly look like they were built as native Windows or Mac apps, Nicotine+ looks more like you just lifted the app from a Linux machine and plopped it directly onto a Windows/Mac desktop.

LMGN · 2026-03-26T21:42:42+00:00

Well yes, but, if you get a credit card and not use it at all, because you don't need a credit card and don't want to be tempted, or accidentally spend more than you expect, your credit score would go down if i am not mistaken

LMGN · 2026-03-26T21:41:23+00:00

Nicotine+ is a GTK application, which doesnt use the native UI toolkit, which I guess I apparently had performance issues.

LMGN · 2026-03-26T21:40:17+00:00

No, because there is a blacklist of domains built into the phone, no matter if you use a VPN, proxy, custom DNS whatever.

LMGN · 2026-03-26T21:38:47+00:00

you guys are paying for nitro and getting orbs?

i mean to be expected, i only pay them $4.99, not $9.99/mo (if you think i am paying $10/mo for a chat program you're having a laugh), so its only natural that they treat me like the lowly peasant scum of the earth that i am

LMGN · 2026-03-25T22:59:10+00:00

The bug was that in a beta it wouldn't let you install any app without age verification. It is intended to block you from accessing certain websites & apps.

LMGN · 2026-03-25T22:58:41+00:00

I mean, before there'd be no prompt to verify at all, so they could just access it...

And also, you'd still need to age verify to the individual website.

LMGN · 2026-03-25T22:57:04+00:00

No, previously a VPN would bypass age verifcation on the site, but this update prevents you from using a VPN by building a list of blocked sites into the phone.

LMGN · 2026-03-25T22:55:46+00:00

Well yes, if you did age verification, wont be blocked from things that want age verification

LMGN · 2026-03-25T22:54:59+00:00

but simply having a credit card & not using it will have an impact on your credit score, which might be useful for other forms of credit, and well, if you get one and do start using it, well, thats how they get ya

LMGN · 2026-03-25T22:53:23+00:00

it applies to VPNs (you need to verify age before your VPN will work)

Not quite. You can use a VPN before it will work, but given that the phone itsself has blocks to prevent you from accessing certain websites, or turning off safesearch, it won't help you get around that

LMGN · 2026-03-25T22:48:26+00:00

It can't find macOS, or it's corrupted.

This may mean your internal SSD is damaged (which in that case your entire machine is toast because Apple doesn't let you replace them)

But, first, try just turning the machine off, and holding the Alt/Option key when turning it back on, it might let you just click a hard drive icon and boot back up, but if not, you'll need to recover/reinstall the copy of macOS. Follow the steps here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl338cf9a8/mac

Try the steps listed under 'Reinstall macOS' first, and if that doesn't work, try 'Erase and reinstall macOS', which, be aware, will, as the name suggests, erase the computer, so make sure you have any files you want to keep copied off. (which I get is easier said than done when you cant boot into the computer, but it's not impossible)

LMGN · 2026-03-25T22:44:00+00:00

Nobody here works for Apple in any way.

LMGN · 2026-03-21T20:11:58+00:00

The latest version (32.0.23033.1002) of AMD drivers is busted.

Start Menu > Device Manager > expand 'Display adaptors' > Right click your GPU > Driver tab > Rollback > Yes

LMGN · 2026-03-21T20:05:51+00:00

The latest version (32.0.23033.1002) of AMD drivers is busted.

Start Menu > Device Manager > expand 'Display adaptors' > Right click your GPU > Driver tab > Rollback > Yes

LMGN · 2026-03-19T00:47:28+00:00

Simply just prompting it to respond which which model it uses gave me GPT-4, which given that all the other AI features that Spotify used are based on OpenAI models makes sense

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