more like "Sam Altman said"

I hate this kind of thing.

I can imagine if vi or emacs wasn't open-source, and then "someone" decided that it was cryptic and not new-user-friendly. Then they decided that their "notepad with emoji" would be the replacement.

I thought airdrop also used bluetooth

Only for discovery. The actual transfer happens over WiFi, which is many times faster.

right, but that could set up the adhoc wifi network.

zyxel gs1900 series - can be low power, or go up to 48 ports, and even with POE (of course more power because, POE)

runs openwrt

There are realtek multigig/2.5GBASE-T switches that idle at 1W, or 2W for 8 port. Even the 4 port version here does 5W, and is just gigabit.

do they run openwrt?

no, even though I'm not sure they cannot.

I rented a place and they wanted something like this (for proof of income, not purchases). I said "hard no" and had to give them 3 pay stubs.

what was also annoying to me was the package room. They had a company that managed the package room, and you couldn't get packages without signing up and agreeing to the (non-)privacy policy where they could take pictures and videos of you. you would have to use your phone to access the package room.

(the company was luxerone.com)

If they had phone access for apartment door locks, I wouldn't have rented.

Would this be a retroactive tax? Is that possible? I know the FTB has long arms...

I recently read "Difficult Conversations", a great book. There are ways to communicate with others that will be constructive.

for example, when talking about what happened, there are three stories - your story, their story, and the shared story. If you are a "nice" guy, you might not tell your story. If the other person is afraid of conflict, they might not share their story. You need to both be assertive/curious to get to discussing the this-is-what's-going-on shared story, like from a third person point of view. Then the discussion could get on track.

I think saunas and heat-shock proteins are harder for pharma to put in pill form.

we're already there. When apple announced the iphone, the price of software went from can-make-a-profit-$39.99 on a PC to $4.99 and then $0.99 for a phone app. Which became "that's too expensive" at some point, and then reset to free.

I backup my iphones to linux using libimobiledevice

the commands I use are:

see if phone is connected:

  lsusb

1) backup entire* device to filesystem:

  idevicebackup2 backup <backup-dir>

2) backup photos/other data:

  ifuse mount -o allow_other /mnt
  rsync -av /mnt <out-dir>

command 1 will create an entire backup of the device, but in a wierd apple format. It can be restored to a clean device though.

command 2 will create a directory containing most of the phone data in an understanable format. for example photos will be in <out-dir>/DCIM, for example DCIM/100APPLE/IMG_0170.HEIC

*: what apple allows you to back up. for example, if you have the kindle app on your phone, neither the app itself, or the kindle books will be backed up. If you restore the backup, you will have to re-download the kindle app, and re-download the book files.

How much user interaction is needed in the phone to make this happen nowadays? I havent used libimobiledevice in ages but I can remember that nm the past in order to get everything your phone would need to request an icloud backup (as most data lived there and not on the device back then) and often the process would just stall if the phone fell asleep.

The lack of selfhosting support on iPhones is the main reason why I'm on android.

IIRC you have to click "trust the device" on your iPhone and then it just works.