On one hand, true, my mom still uses Yahoo. But email has a strong network effect - you need to update everyone & every service who has your @yahoo address. Switching does happen there are no network effects. Nobody uses Mapquest or Ask Jeeves.

Haha so many people were using Mapquest it was acquired in 2019

Foldables get this job done well. My (OG) Pixel Fold is a great size & aspect ratio while folded, easy to use one-handed, but has a giant screen when you open it up. The newer Pixel Folds and the other foldables on the market have all grown the screen vertically but they're still more compact than most flagships.

Except it's more than capable of solving novel problems that aren't in the training set and aren't a close match to anything in the training set. I've done it multiple times across multiple domains.

Creating complex Excel spreadsheet structures comes to mind, I just did that earlier today - and with plain GPT-5, not even -Thinking. Sure, maybe the Excel formulas themselves are a "98% match" to training data, but it takes real cognition (or whatever you want to call it) to figure out which ones to use and how to use them appropriately for a given situation, and how to structure the spreadsheet etc.

I think people confuse novel to them with novel to humanity. Most of our work is not so special

And what % of humans have ever thought things that are novel to humanity?

My Syncthing experience matches Oxodao's. Over years with >10k files / 100 gb, I've only ever had conflicts when I actually made conflicting simultaneous changes.

I use it on my phone (configured to only sync on WiFi), laptop (connected 99% of the time), and server (up 100% of the time).

The always-up server/laptop as a "master node" are probably key.

That is good advice from both of you. I knew it has to be me because it's honestly one of the most successful and popular open source tools I've worked with. I think I should've made that more clear in my original comment.

You can relock the bootloader but it still fails the SafetyNet check since it's not running an "official" OS signed with the manufacturer's keys.

yup it will, but this is where some legislation might help to get certified 3rd party ROM images that will pass. Its a tricky topic though.

Root access isn't available by default, but it takes about 120 seconds (including waiting for it to reboot) to add it.

Last I checked the situation was similar to what it is in Calyx, which is that it's not officially supported and you have to keep manually reapplying the root after every update.

Userdebug builds of GrapheneOS with ADB root access are officially supported. We recommend setting ro.adb.secure=1 rather than making a standard userdebug build with always-on unauthenticated ADB if it's not solely for development.

Modifying the official builds by replacing part of the core OS with Magisk and then using that to modify the rest of the OS dynamically is what's not officially supported and strongly discouraged. That doesn't mean there isn't official support for root, which is available in userdebug builds without the same massive negative impact to the security model of the OS.

I've been trying to make a UserDebug build for the last few days by following the official instructions at https://grapheneos.org/build, and am running into some trouble which I suspect are due to minor steps in the documentation that are missing or incorrect.

Is it possible to get some help on this? Posted some messages to the #general and #development channels on Discord (you mentioned in your very helpful comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42536302 that's the go-to for support) but am not getting any response. I'd even be happy to make a fat donation or pay for some support here.

Also out of curiosity, have you guys considered providing an official release that is configured this way, perhaps gated behind a giant "Proceed at your own risk" banner? Is your reasoning here influenced by a perception that providing root access without enough friction might weaken your bid for Play Integrity recognition or your chances of individual app developers like banks treating your OS on equally trusted footing as Google's?

Oh yep, forgot about that. I barely ever update so I only have to re-root 2-3x a year.

Price gouging on RAM is a very intentional decision by Apple to charge 8x market rate for it. Same for storage, you can get a blazing fast 4 TB NVMe SSD for just a few hundred bucks vs $2k or whatever Apple extorts from you.

It’s just market segmentation. Other companies do this by putting nonperformant CPUs lacking sufficient bus lanes in the consumer laptop. Apple gives the entry models a real piece of hardware, just with insufficient RAM. I like this situation better than the alternative.

Yeah I get that, but it still feels really unpleasant from the side of a regular customer. Sure, Apple is targeting the software industry and media industry who'll pay $5k for a fully kitted out MBP for all of their employees. And the regular normies who don't need much RAM/storage get amazing hardware at a good price point - good for them.

But as a regular guy who just has a lot of files and tends to keep tons of browser tabs open... it really sucks that I'm in the situation of getting extorted for $3k of pure profit for Apple, or have to settle for subpar hardware from other companies (but at a reasonable price). Wasn't an issue when the RAM & SSD weren't soldered on, but now you can't upgrade them yourself.

I think the point is that every manufacturer is playing this game, and with comparable margins.

I have no idea what the hip PC laptop is these days, is it still the Lenovo Carbon X1? I went to their website and picked the pre-configured laptop with the most RAM (32GB), best CPU, and 1TB SSD. This was $3k: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/t...

Roughly the same size and specs as the most expensive pre-configured MacBook Pro of the same screen size (the MBP has 36GB RAM, +4GB over the Lenovo, and a much better processor & GPU for $3.2k).

It's all market segmentation. Apple is just being upfront about it and giving you a clean, simple purchase page that shows the tradeoffs. Whereas Lenovo is using car salesman techniques to disorient you with a bewildering array of options and models all of which have decision paralysis-inducing tradeoffs not entirely in your favor.

Then go get another computer? Why do you rage against a product which you don't like? Forget about Apple and stick to other makers. There's plenty of products and manufacturers I don't like. I never think about them.

Not sure why you're taking it so personally and getting defensive. Was my comment not related and relevant to parent comment? I did in fact buy another computer because I don't like getting price gouged. Have a nice day.

> A lot of power users who buy flagships will leave for iPhones if Android ceases to be an open platform.

99.9% of people who use Android have never, and never will, install apps outside the Play Store, and aren't even aware that they can do so.

You think 50% of the 3.6 billions of android users know that?

There are countries like China, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela where installing an APK is the primary or only way to get most software, including essential bank and government apps.

Outside of the Western market, installing Android apps not from Google Play is a completely normal and regular thing. In countries like India, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Philippines (which represent a massive portion of global Android users) it is a standard part of using a phone.

He explicitly mentions it in the 3rd paragraph

> There are obviously countless issues in any analysis of this type, like ... how you ensure you are not getting reverse causality (i.e. bad economic times encourage the election of populists etc) and so on. For those interested in those issues the paper is very readable.

A year ago I asked it to do deep research on Biomin F + a comparison to NovaMin & fluoride. It gave a comprehensive answer detailing the benefits of BioMin & NovaMin over regular fluroide.

A year ago I asked the change of dolar euro and it made up the number.

How do you know it did not made it up. Are you an expert in the field?

I'd be curious if you have the same prompt and repeat it what you get.