https://www.cms.gov/priorities/your-patient-rights/emergency-room-rights

The exact level you charge it to matters less than what the battery ends up sitting at. Batteries are happiest at about 40%, but very rapid get unhappy the lower they go. The closer you can keep it to within the 40-60% the better.

Depends on how long you plan on ignoring them.

Gonna use it once a month? Yeah 40-60%s a good range to keep it in. More than a few months? Depending on the idle discharge, but probably want to charge it higher so it doesn’t go flat. 0% charge is a lot worse than 100%, especially for LiPo batteries.

Once you start opening programs your OS is basically negligible.

Sure windows might use 5 gigs of ram on startup. But when you’ve got 100 tabs open using 20 gigs of ram the 3 vs 5 gigs is a drop in the bucket.

As long as it’s above 0F I’ll wear shorts. My legs don’t get cold unless it’s really windy.

What about a nice middle ground option? It has all the features that most sane people would want, but not the kitchen sink.

I hate diagnosing 3rd party jank so if I had to pick one or the other then I’d pick all in one. Oh you updated and now your whole ui is broken? Good fucking luck guessing what adon wasn’t updated for this change.

What OS?

Without any software if you open the iPod in file explorer or maybe finder you can show hidden files and just copy paste them. The problem is they’re organized in whatever fuck ass way Apple organizes them and none of the names make sense.

There’s software that will extract it nicer but I can’t remember the name for the life of me.

I have never encounter a DisplayPort device that doesn’t support hot swap. From the early days, all the way to the latest and greatest they all support it.

I think of it like this. They’re a 90s baby, not a 90s kid.

90s kid would be more like born in the mid 80s to mid 90s so you have actual memories of the 90s.

If you want good Linux support avoid the Surface at all costs. Holy shit is it a pain to deal with. Yeah there’s Linux Surface, but do you really want to go through that trouble just to get it mostly fully functional?

I mean in terms of disk space sure it takes up a good bit. From what I can tell winsxs takes about 10 gigs of space. But the actual wow64 subsytem only takes a 1-2 hundred MBs of RAM which is nothing for giving you that much backwards compatibility.

Rosetta 2 is going away in the next Mac OS, but that’s not going to have a massive impact on anything. The biggest impact will be the installer will be half the size since it doesn’t need twice the executables. You can download an Intel or Arm specific installer of Mac OS and it’s already half the size.

why doesn’t Microsoft treat Windows in a similar vein?

Because then nobody would use Windows. People use windows because it runs all of the programs they love. If it didn’t people wouldn’t put up with their bullshit.

When I vote on the machine it fills out a paper ballot for me, then I just check it and turn it in.

It all depends on your state, city, and county and how they have it set up.

Windows’ bloat isn’t because they have to maintain backwards compatibility. It’s because they keep adding more shit, and the shit they add isn’t exactly hyper optimized.

If something like Windows 11 requires specific hardware in order to install it, why does it need to accommodate compatibility for archaic devices/software?

Because my computer from 2024 doesn’t run software made in 2024 or newer. I use a mixture of the latest and greatest™️, and old stuff.

Apples transition to arm was not a rewrite, nor is the software any better. It’s the hardware that’s better and makes using Mac OS on an M1 MBP so much better than an Intel one.

I can’t speak on which is the best. I haven’t compared them on modern systems.

But what I will say is make sure you’re not artificially limiting your power levels or clock speed too much. Big fat Intel CPUs like that are power hogs when active. They need to reach an idle state. I have a laptop with an i9 11950h which is the same thing. But with the power plan on the lowest I get worse battery life and performance than if I just left it on balanced. But it depends on the workload. If there is no idle then power save might be best. But if you’re browsing the web and not constantly scrolling then balanced might just be better.

the law didn’t even get written

https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1043

Current Status: PASSED

Ummm… what?

My dynamic IP almost never changes. I’ve had 3 in the last 10 years. How often does yours change?

There’s also dynamic dns if yours changes often.

What makes them background? I still had to reboot my phone to complete the install.

Once you accept the certificate it being not blessed isn’t much of an issue. And just turning it on should just generate a self signed certificate on anything not a piece of shit.

A new Camera Remote feature allows users to press the Digital Crown on the AirPods Max 2 to take a photo and start or stop video recording

Uh… cool? Do you have to be wearing them to use this? Or can you hide them awkwardly behind your back?

They don’t normally do that for high end stuff. Like they’ll sell the iPhone 16 still, but not a 16 pro.