• Hardware is good enough and that's perfectly fine
• It's repairable and can be easily opened
• Software is open which is increasingly rare there days
• Ability to play on TV, on couch (with headphones) and on monitor with keyboard/mouse is awesome
• Being able to play old games is great (I finally finished Assasin's Creed 2)
• It's still a PC where I can switch to Linux Desktop and tinker with stuff
• Battery life isn't the best but I almost always have power source near me
• Valve did awesome job with handling controls in games with Community layouts etc
• I finally found sense in USB-C where I switch between Deck and Macbook with a single cable
• Hacker community is vibrant
• It's an emulation heaven :)
Me too! It's the handheld gaming device I dreamed about when I was a kid. It's become my favorite platform, especially considering I don't game as much as I used to. It's perfect for a quick pick-up-and-play. I stopped using my PS5 last year, and the one time I did, I used remote play (chiaki) on the Steam Deck. And if I'm playing something that my kids want to watch, I can cast the screen to the TV via steam link. None of the other big companies will ever be able to produce something like this, especially with all the tweaks that can be made.
I need Thunderbolt! I don't hook up my Deck because my desk is built around a TB3 dock. That and USB-C at 4k 60hz isn't a given. Not that I'd run games at that resolution but it's sure nice for desktop mode.
I'm using Github to publish my code and seriously I don't care whenever Copilot was trained using it. I published it and in the end somebody can do anything with it without giving a damn about license, copyright etc - that's the truth of open-source.
This was the same mentality that brought copyleft to the masses in 1984. While you may not care, there are others who do care about the sanctity of license agreements. This is an argument where staying silent means you accept this approach. Of the millions of open source projects, a large portion of the contributors ARE speaking up because they don't find this to be acceptable. I personally think copilot is the future and all this discussion is doing is going to bring a license usage feature to copilot (e.g. i want only or i do not want GPL code in my copilot suggestions)
Please continue using GitHub as you were, but maybe consider acting on your words and either removing or changing licenses within your code that does not represent your ideals. Nothing is preventing you from releasing code into the public domain, so do that!
> Of the millions of open source projects, a large portion of the contributors ARE speaking up because they don't find this to be acceptable.
Is this true? Is there really a large portion of contributors speaking up against this? I got the opposite sense, that it was a very small portion of contributors speaking up against this but I don't have any evidence one way or the other.
No, that's your opinion, which as it turns out also has no legal basis. For me, I want proper attribution from people who use my code. And for any code that I release that's under copyleft, I absolutely do want that license followed.
You seem to be fine releasing your stuff into the public domain, and that's great that you want to do that, but you don't speak for everyone.
This is why there are a multitude of different open source software licences. Because some people care more than others about the terms in which their code is used by others.
I think the point is that you can store $16M in a bank and take need to take no precautions against casual theft (and often can recover the money via person-to-person interactions, if theft does occur).
I completely disagree, only the first $250k is insured. I would never store $16M cash in a bank. You aren't protected against the bank becoming insolvent.
No. FDIC is per depositor, per bank, per ownership category.
So if you have $300k in Bank A, and $180k in Bank B, and then suddenly both Bank A and Bank B fail, the US Federal Government promises you'll get $250k from Bank A and $180k from Bank B, and pretty quickly - but the remaining $50k from Bank A depends on what happens when they try to wind up Bank A, if it's a complete wreck you may see nothing or almost nothing back or it may take years to get 10¢ on the dollar for the remaining amount.
In some cases you may be able to create multiple ownership categories that help you, and I guess if you really had $16M you might do stuff like set up a multi-beneficiary trust fund that can have $1M in it with four beneficiaries for an additional $250k per person FDIC insured.
I would use the bank owned by my government, the National Savings and Investment bank. And I do.
The reason is that since the government owns this bank, and the government issues the money, if the bank fails the government fails too and the money is now worthless anyway.
AFAIK, the underlying assets in investment accouns are owned by their account holders, the broker just manages them. If the broker becames insolvent, these assets are not part of insolvency proceeding.
For regular bank account, there are no other underlying assets, it is just the sum bank owes to the account holder. If the bank becames insolvent, outside of insurance limits, these are just claims against the bank.
Well the fun part is that the way it's different is that there would be a bank account with your money in it, that the brokerage isn't allowed to touch. So, you're protected from the brokerage going bankrupt - your money is still yours if that happens.
But it's still in a bank account, so if the bank goes under you're screwed. See my other comment in this thread though...
The Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) was created to protect against the loss of customer assets at brokerage firms. SIPC offers protection of up to $500,000, including a $250,000 limit for cash, if a brokerage firm fails, and covers most types of securities, such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. [0]
My holdings accumulate capital gains and are insured by market forces rather than the FDIC. I can put them in volatile holdings like stocks, or fixed income or even just money markets. That's pretty much what banks are doing and just keeping a bigger percentage of the returns for themselves.
I keep hearing that, and yet see mailbox hacks where the attacker tells accounts payable to update the payee's account and the money goes bye bye. Seems to turn into an insurance matter. I'm not sure why, but apparently just getting the bank to get the money back isn't so simple. Nobody talks about it in public. Haven't personally seen 8 figure amounts, but have seen amounts around a million dollars.
To store $16M you definitely need to take precautions. Someone could steal your identity or compromise your account. It seems like different vulnerabilities rather than one that only exists for crypto.
While not guaranteed, it's pretty likely that you'll be able to get your $16M back if you lose it to identity theft or a compromised online account. You may have to escalate from customer service to legal action, but there are usually ways to reverse fraudulent transactions in the traditional banking system.
On the other hand there's basically no way for this user to get their bitcoin back.
is it fair to say he could put that $16M in a digital equivalent of his mattress? Had he placed in a reputable exchange, or spread the coins across multiple exchanges, he would have been safer?
Huawei P30 Pro uses a 'periscope' style design (using a mirror to put the lens alongside the phone's back instead of back-to-front) to get 5x optical zoom, so it can be done
Year after year of new iPhone's premieres I wonder for how long I'm going to use my iPhone SE - 3,5years has gone and nothing new for me on the horizon :(
I don't care about missing jack, USB-C, cameras and other things - just make it smaller and it will fine by me.
I feel the same, I’ve had an SE since it launched. The devices released since then are just too big. I was hoping we would see something new in that form factor during today’s event.
How's the SE treating you in 2019? Trying to switch from Pixel to iPhone, but don't want to drop significant money until USB-C, which is rumored in 2020. Figured an SE might be good for me until then
Get an iPhone 8 instead, probably the best value out there for iPhones.
If you are worried about shelling out money, remember that an iPhone 8 isn't $449, it's $449 minus whatever you sell it for in a year (probably not much less). And it's even less if you just buy it used or Apple refurbished in the first place.
The iPhone SE works fine but the screen size is too small for many apps that get scrunched up pretty badly. You’re using a screen size that a very small fraction of Apple users are still using, which means app developers don’t care to make it work nicely for you.
The camera is bad by modern standards, I can see a big difference even for small 4x6 prints, and Touch ID is the slower 1st generation. It's just really old hardware all around.
On the plus side, it has good battery life, a headphone jack, and it's still an iPhone running full iOS.
> Get an iPhone 8 instead, probably the best value out there for iPhones.
I have an SE and love it, but this. However, consider the deals out there for something like the 7. Metro PCS has the iPhone 7 for $50, I'm sure there are comparable deals out there too.
In addition to Dangus' comment with iPhone 8 you'll also get the same CPU that powers the iPhone X, which will be more than fine for quite a few more years. Furthermore I'm confident it will be supported with major software updates for a long time. It is the sweet spot for customers on a low budget or looking for a small phone. The iPhone SE, as much as I like to form factor, isn't a good new purchase at this point.
My understanding is that the iPhone 7 has a few more common hardware issues than the iPhone 8. Apparently a lot of iPhone 7 models are affected by messed up speakers and mics, the audio IC defect. Kind of an important feature.
I’ll admit that’s a pretty big price difference but I wonder if that has to do with the 7’s hardware issues making it a phone to stay away from. Or maybe it’s just old and that’s why it’s cheap.
Ah, maybe hardware issues. I will say, I have an 8 and the camera randomly broke on mine, and when I talked to someone who repairs them, she said that lately many of the 8 cameras have been breaking.
That said, the repair was fairly easy, it was a $30 camera and 20 minutes to repair it.
I had to replace my SE battery earlier this year (well, I didn't absolutely need to, I did it because I intend to get another two years out if it). Otherwise mine is still chugging along perfectly well.
Software wise it's a perfectly fine device, definitely some limitations, but only because the processor is a four+ year old design. Some SPA or otherwise heavy webpages cause it to choke (ex: it hates USAToday), but 99% of what I try to do works great. Per Apple and MacRumours, the SE will get iOS 13. No idea how well that will run, but we'll see.
If you can get one in good shape to hold you over you'll probably be happy with it.
Yeah I replaced mine at the Apple Store this year (Apple covered it). Now I get well over a day's battery on it, amazing. Granted, I intentionally avoid installing hefty apps so that would also help achieve this kind of battery life.
Before that it would die in ~2hrs and instantly die in high heat.
I have an SE still, it works completely fine. I don't really use my phone for much besides maps/social media/web browsing so I never felt like i needed a more powerful device. The camera is great.
The quality of DigitalOcean communications in this case - especially email responses look like worst examples from some pretty terrible corporations. I thought DO was (is?) trying to differ from them.
