Sure:

Afaik all Logitech controllers use a somewhat different tech for the analog sticks than what PS and Xbox controllers use. As a result, the inputs are less precise (with smaller total range of values), but stick drift in particular is either very rare in comparison, or doesn’t affect them at all.

In my anecdotal case, I have two wired Logitech controllers, both possibly fifteen years old, neither have problems with sticks. Even after I spilled beer on the one I currently use and am neglecting to clean it properly for half a year so far.

From Apple’s side, this situation is indistinguishable from the phone having been stolen.

P.S. Although maybe there’s a way to learn to what account a part is locked, and write to them ‘hey bro, could you please unlock this phone you threw away’. Then again, the repair shop also can’t know that the phone wasn’t stolen.

The internet doesn’t stop existing when your phone breaks.

Ask the previous owner to remove the locking, same way as they would need to if you bought the device to use it. What’s the problem?

Again, says right there they should just remove the device from ‘Find my’, which disables Activation Lock, the very same feature that prevents theft for reselling the device for regular use.

Instead of using Repair Assistant to unlock the part, you can remove Activation Lock using Find My.

Sounds like this is to prevent theft for parts. Considering it says right there that parts can be unlocked with the user’s account. So it’s the same mechanism that makes a stolen iPhone non-functional unless unlocked by the user.

Iirc PS3 in particular was marketed as an all-in-one entertainment center, with the ability to play bluray and whatnot. By the time of PS4, that was probably already a non-concern, since most people were just using the web for everything through their computers and tvs.

In my experience 2.5" drives are much less prone to failure, so I’m not buying a 3.5" again, unless maybe super cheap just for torrents.

Just FYI, I’ve seen and heard a speaker looking like a tin can, sitting on the desk, perform very solidly — and I myself was using Sennheiser headphones and pretty respectable boxy speakers by that time. This was ten years ago. By now any little standalone speaker can probably outperform one embedded in a tablet.

Regrettably I don’t know any model names, might have to look for them myself sometime.

Exactly, this depends on the circumstances. E.g. cats tend to bury the waste so it doesn’t smell, while other territorial animals piss on everything in sight to mark the land. Nevertheless, when an animal is jumped by another, they often drop deuces all over while hitting the road dramatically. There’s a recent-ish clip on Reddit of two hippos fighting, wherein one of them decided to do the helicopter distribution of dung in the middle of the altercation.

Not really, it’s well known that animals tend to shit and piss, dropping the weight and encumbrance, right before executing on the fight-or-flight response. People are likewise prone to soiling themselves in fear. So idk why it’s the other way around when just going on my walks, but I’m not gonna complain about it when my city doesn’t have many public toilets open at night.

In my unscientific experience, if I’m on the go as in walking, the piss can be kept in for an hour and more. If I stop, I don’t think willpower alone will prevent me from pissing myself. So the dance is probably simulating the conditions of being too busy for a toilet break.

You probably want to pick something supported by the Rockbox firmware, in case the native firmware is so-so.

Hammerspoon and Alfred are way better automation utils than alternatives in Windows or Linux. The absence of these two makes me weep regularly.

Karabiner might be the best too, haven’t looked into third-party Linux remapping utils yet. Both Cinnamon and KDE support only predefined remapping out of the box.

HyperSwitch and a dozen other utils allow customizing cmd-tab switching, namely add switching between windows instead of apps.

Native Clipy clipboard manager is way snappier than CopyQ. At least for Windows there’s Ditto.

There’s even an util called Mos fixing the fact that apps with foreign UI frameworks don’t understand the mouse scrolling speed properly, and treat the mouse and the touchpad differently. Which is also present in Windows.

You know about the touchbar? MTMR allows custom buttons on the touchbar, with custom actions. I’ve used it to connect/disconnect bluetooth headphones or hand them over to the phone (which was also set up as an Alfred command and as buttons on the phone itself, with bidirectional logic everywhere).

Shortcat allows keyboard access to arbitrary UI elements in the active window: sorta like Vimium for browsers, but you type a bit of the text label instead of a two-letter shortcut.

Hazel automatically processes files saved in particular folders, with particular rules — like the downloads. It can e.g. rename, move, or tag them. By the way, did you know that MacOS has tags for files while Windows and Linux have jackshit?

MacOS’ Cocoa UI framework allows addressing any element in an app’s window via xpath (iirc) and manipulate them, if given accessibility permissions from the user. Which permits doing a lot of UI automation without fiddling with mouse coordinates and faking clicks. And can be done with native AppleScript (although I’d prefer that they properly supported JXA instead). By the way, more than a few apps provide their own support for AppleScript, such that for example you can access notes in Evernote with it.

P.S. I also forgot about Automator, which is a first-party app by Apple, bundled with MacOS, that allows creating custom workflows for particular files, apps, or whatever. Neither Windows nor Linux ship with anything remotely like this, and even third-party apps in Win/Lin suck in comparison. iOS also has something similar with the Shortcuts app, while Google phones have the Assistant, which afaik can’t work without phoning home.

There are tons of utils to customize the MacOS UI, including lots of open-source ones and some that kick ass off anything on Linux or Windows. Anyone saying that MacOS can’t be customized, has never used MacOS.

I guess then that they just block popular third-party VPN services. Still not sure why, though, if it’s not mandated by law.

You are somehow interpreting me not seeing the good in AI as if it was the same as less-able people being unworthy of aid?

I provided examples of the good delivered specifically by AI for disabled people, you still continue to dismiss it. This means that either you’re particularly dumb, pretend to be so, or are a bigot. Choose for yourself which one it is.

I simply say AI is not the way, or even a way. AI is the solution to an invented problem

Blind people not being able to see unless someone, or an AI, describes the surroundings for them, is an invented problem? You seem to be doubling down on either the bigotry or the idiocy.

But wait, since you say AI isn’t the way, you surely have another solution in mind. You know you’re free to advocate for that solution instead, without being an asshole toward disabled people.

when people say “only AI can cope with the scale”, have you stopped to ask, where does the scale come from?

That video is from 2020. Pray tell, were you also protesting against AI in 2020, or did you finger your ass instead until it’s become fashionable to hate ChatGPT, so you could blindly transfer that hate onto Apple too? Have you ever spent a second to learn that the Neural Engine accelerator for AI functionality was included in iPhones since 2017, or did you just pull your ideas about ‘AI scale’ out of your asshole? Do you even understand what it means when AI processing is done locally on end-user devices, or did three buzzwords about AI hate block the entirety of your feeble reasoning ability?

And, for that matter, 85% of what people call “AI” is actually just remote operators in Kenya or India

Or really, please feel free to provide any semblance of proof that Apple’s AI is done by people in Kenya, India or wherever, despite the Neural Engine chip. Be sure especially to highlight how the poor overworked people are able to do sub-second responses to millions of queries every day, with no change in the cadence of quality of the responses.

To disguise the traffic completely, you can use either aforementioned Shadowsocks or obfs4, which both make it look random and are used by Tor bridges to circumvent packet inspection and whatnot. obfs4 is a bit ass to setup standalone, because it was made specifically for Tor — you need a different piece of software to make it work like a proxy. Dunno about Shadowsocks.

Regarding VPN blocking in general, I wonder how the UK or your provider deal with the fact that a lot of businesses use VPNs for their day-to-day operations. From quick googling, VPNs don’t seem to be banned nationwide, so it would be nice if you asked the sysadmin at your work to set up a VPN, see if your ISP blocks connections to it, and raise a stink if they do.

‘iPhone Magnifier and Voice over’

I don’t hear her complaining.