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Could be, but it always looked to me more like a gold-painted piece of plastic. If it’s an actual bar of gold, this must mean they made it look like that on purpose.

My favorite moment of the entire Trump presidency. That gift is such an obvious piece of trash, they probably had to tell janitors at Apple to not throw it away by accident.

Guess he remembered the piece of junk on a gold-plated turd that Cook gifted to him, and which any janitor at Apple would throw away.

Cory Doctorow predicted this fifteen years ago, although in a different context (transcript here).

It’s typically known as ‘sour cream’ in English-speaking countries, although apparently the specific product can differ.

In Eastern Europe, it can be added to soups, particularly borscht; works well in some burrito-style wraps (shawarma, spring rolls and such) and on sandwiches, instead of mayonnaise, ketchup or whatever. Or better yet, it goes nicely together with tomato sauces, hot sauces or mustard, especially if not mixed but put next to, so both sauces are tasted together.

But especially, you want to get some crepes, wrap marinated mushrooms in them, and dip into sour cream mixed with strawberry jam. It’s fantastic.

Depending on what kind of products you mean, licensing might be required for them to do their job. The same way as when you upload an image to a social network, you automatically give them a license to display said image.

(I don’t use Amazon so idk if they sell digital goods.)

I thought yall guys over there are all proud of how the US is the epicenter of the whole internet. Hmmm, I wonder, where said internet is hosted.

The locations of the ‘troll factory’ offices in SPb, formerly owned by Evgeny Prigozhin, are well-known. Although this particular operation seems to have been shut down following Prigozhin’s shenanigans.

That’s not how any of that should normally work. And I doubt it that your colleagues have insight into Russian operations unless you’re either in the NSA or in the FSB.

I doubt the story of the bots disappearing, but Yandex a) has specifically given control to Russian government, by providing a super-share that doesn’t pay dividends but gives the deciding vote, to Sberbank (this kind of share shenanigans are possible under Netherlands’ law, where Yandex is incorporated for this very reason); and b) does provide cloud-hosting services the same way as Amazon does. Yandex is generally considered to basically be a government corporation by now, it’s one of like three candidates whenever the government decides to introduce some ‘sovereign’ service like Russian analogue of YouTube.

Arkady Volozh, the surviving cofounder of Yandex, has left Russia over disagreements about the war and the government’s control, taking for himself some side business that Yandex was doing abroad, either drones or self-driving cars or something like that. And relocated some 1000 Yandex employees that decided to leave with him.

I assume that includes the ones in which Piefed, Lemmy.world and Gizmodo are hosted?

And Android is as full-featured as a desktop?

Jobs was pretty much describing iPad as what computers would be like ‘in the future’ in interviews in the eighties. It was his vision for ages. IPhones and iPads allowed more people to use computers than all desktop OSes combined.

And again, what does this have to do with the processor? You people just jump at any opportunity to mention how you hate Apple?

Who said anything anything phones specifically? You pulled some random criterion out of your ass.

And by this logic, Google also doesn’t let you run desktop OSes on phone CPUs, because their phones don’t do some random thing that you saw somewhere.

“Won’t let it” by putting it in a Macbook and running MacOS on it?

I was starting to doubt my memory of this happening in Firefox Android, but I’m happy to report that I’ve gotten that issue just now. Opened a pic from a Lemmy comment in FF because it wasn’t showing in the app, and the tab was sitting there doing nothing. Had to close it and open another one. So you can judge how pressing this problem is for me, by it occurring once in 23 days (likely more) — while I was browsing on the phone quite a bit and opening images from Lemmy regularly due to the ISP’s shenanigans. But it does happen.

This is your usual daily reminder that each of the tech giants obtain something like 3000 patents a year, by patenting everything under the sun. For the sole purpose that if one of them sues another for the violation of one such patent, the other can dig up a hundred of them to countersue.

Is that better than Super Ultra Intelligence II’ X Turbo Hyper Fighting Plus Extra Special Champion Edition Revival: The World Warrior New Challengers Tournament Battle Grand Master Challenge?

Yeah, Apple were doing so great with their engineers until 1997, and then Jobs came back and ruined things.

Cook diversified Apple’s product lineup, overseeing the introduction of many new products such as the AirPods, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, AirTag, Apple silicon in its Mac lineup and expanding its services business.

it’s a modernist essence that has never been properly ejected from postmodernism

That’s like saying that the essence of windows wasn’t ejected from a house.

As for your other claims, you should look into the concept of touching grass, it’s pretty cool. Clears the head wonderfully.