echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago

You can tell it's about to start repeating itself when kids start getting called the names of your great-grandparents.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 5 days ago

Well it had James Cameron as a director which automatically meant was going to make money. Also it was technically very impressive for the time which was kind of the point. Cameron made a huge deal of how this was a story that he'd wanted to tell for ages but hadn't been able to until the technology got to the point where he could use it.

After the movie came out there wasn't really any obvious path forward. It wasn't supposed to be a franchise it was just a movie that stood on its own. So nothing happened for years.

Then things like the volume came along and it started getting used even in TV productions, and suddenly a whole new level of capability arose and so they decided that they would make another movie only this time why stop at just one?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago

Perhaps you should broaden your horizons somewhat. Tankies are an international group whereas democrats only exist in the US, so you can't really compare the two. For one thing, they have different ultimate goals and motivations.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

You should try the every time somebody gets unhappy they splinter off and form their own party political system. It essentially amounts to the two-party system in any case but provides more entertainment.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Its traditional definition works fine for this.

Just because women are doing it doesn't make it right.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I could see it being left like this for an hour or so while someone finds out what the actual security configurations are supposed to be, during which time it wouldn't have any data in it. But to leave it like this for any period of time is ridiculous and to release it like this is criminal.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Even an AI wouldn't do something this stupid.

Every piece of information it its data set about Firebase would have told it to secure the database.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 5 days ago

In fairness if you leave Firebase in its default settings it won't shut up about it.

You get warnings on the website, and constant emails telling you that you're being a pillocked.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How does that work if I've still got a dead-end job though?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How is this hypothetical child being raised? Are we talking Capri sun here or Tropicana. Do they get an iPad?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

It might simply be my my use patterns but in my experience they tend to require a battery replacement in that time. Apple charged so much for the replacements it's often not really worth it unless you get some guy in a strip mall to do it

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Well everyone says, and has said for years, that the best phone would run iOS but with the hardware innovations of Android phones.

Hell we're on the 7th generation of foldables and Apple still hasn't got one. I get they're not for everyone, and that's fine, but they should have the option.

If Apple offered an iPad that I could fold up and put in my pocket I might actually consider switching over. I'm not particularly bothered by iOS on a phone but iPad OS on a foldable phone I'm pretty sure that would sound like hotcakes even if it was 3K.

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