Last time Apple pushed a battery-related software update that avoided shutdowns (good), people had to sue them to get a compensation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate
You had to pick battery or strings attached cash, before the update arrived. And the battery replacement required you to send your phone off for repair leaving you without one, and Google didn't offer an sla for turn around.
And let's be honest, inconveniencing me is hardly acceptable, even if the company makes a token effort to put things back to before they inconvenienced me.
I find the Signal devs' attitude so frustrating; they deliberately disable the ability to use Signal in secondary device mode for phone-sized-devices, because they know the Correct Way To Use Signal™ is to only use it on one phone-sized-device.
It'd be weirder if they didn't, considering how much X, The Everything App by Elon Musk, prioritizes subscriber posts. The last time I checked my feed on X, The Everything App by Elon Musk, basically every surfaced reply was a paid user.
People always say this, but I haven't seen any evidence that it's true. In my view, the flying experience at least in the US has actually gotten better over the last few years. United, for example, added free seatback IFEs. (About 10 or so years ago, you had to swipe a credit card to watch anything.)
I don't know how long you've been flying or what airlines you use, but the situation was very different pre-9/11. 2 checked bags and seat selections were free, you could walk/pick up family at the gate, and onerous security checkpoints weren't a thing. More importantly, seats had more room.
Sure, you had to read skymall instead of watching a movie during the flight, but tablets didn't exist yet so we didn't know better.
Qualitatively the situation is worse today, even if the difference is usually exaggerated.
It got worse after the shoe bomber and then worse again when the airports found out they could make more money selling water after security by only having ‘convenience’ warm water in the toilets.
This is not just post 9/11. Airlines have been cramming more seats onto planes[1], the quality of the seats has been going down. There didn’t used to be a single airline that had no-recline seats, now there are many. Charging for carry on or forgoing drink service to save money also wasn’t a thing until a few years ago, now it’s everywhere.
Airlines are pushing people as far as they can in order to maximize cash extraction. It’s no surprise more people are snapping.
To be fair, it’s the security team’s idiotic position on IMAP that prompted the parent commenter to find a workaround.
It’s like how having super draconian password reset and complexity requirements ends up being less secure because users will start writing their impossible-to-remember passwords on post-it notes.
There’s a big difference between password reset rules, and giving third-parties access to emails and calendar.
There is nothing draconian about restricting IMAP - any app could exfiltrate confidential emails once granted access. It’s a very sane rule to disallow everything except webmail or first party apps.
Of course it does matter! Webmail is quite restricted and optimized for viewing and replying to emails. IMAP is great for that, while also facilitating exporting (exfiltrating) the entire mailbox.
"modern Auth" means OAUTH, so, you aren't giving passwords to the email application.
If you have IMAP on GMail you get two choices, you can admit you're sacrificing security, and they'll mint a random password just for that IMAP application, or you can use OAUTHBEARER. As I understand it if enabled IMAP for Office365 can do OAUTHBEARER.
The nice thing about OAUTH is that it's a natural integration for your multi-factor authentication, which as I understand it doesn't fit well into Kerberos. But to be sure Kerberos is much better than yet another human memorable secret password exchange.
It's the complete opposite, Office365 only supports OAuth with IMAP and is phasing out/has phased out Basic Auth for IMAP. Additionally more often than not organizations are actually running Microsoft Exchange under the hood -- the majority of MS Exchange servers have Basic Auth disabled for IMAP (I believe since 2017 it's been off by default).
Exactly this -- people have just seized on the the "not FDA approved" line because it sounds reasonable if you don't really understand how FDA approval works or what it really means. As soon as it's approved, the goalposts will absolutely move to "well, I don't trust the FDA".
For those "waiting for FDA approval", have you ever taken a vitamin supplement? Guess what, you're putting not-FDA-approved chemicals into your body.
The OG Rift is still pretty great -- unlike the newer products, it doesn't require a Facebook account, and you can use it with SteamVR if you want and not really even bother with the Oculus software.
For now, that is: I was warned that it will be forced on me at a later date during setup. My next headset will probably be an index as a result.
I had gotten the original oculus because I was afraid of missing out on oculus exclusives, but I would only really miss super hot. (I also don’t understand how they shipped the new oculus without the eye spacing adjuster; my partner and I have different settings for it and get dizzy using the wrong one)
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