Celestus

Haha, okay let’s ignore the fact that Apple Maps shows Taiwan as a province of China, but only for Chinese users. It’s been like that for years, but we don’t care about China or Taiwan, so Apple gets a pass there. We can also ignore the inconvenient fact that Google changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico in Google Maps too. I suppose it doesn’t matter that the US GNIS officially changed the name of the Gulf, and that Apple is simply following its obligations as a mapping provider by respecting a region’s naming preferences for disputed entities (similar to Google). We also don’t care that Apple is clowning on the US by only showing the new name in that region. No, fuck Apple for not taking it upon themselves to decide that the current US administration is illegitimate, and not being petty by refusing to rename a thing in their mapping app

I totally understand complaining about Apple doing this, but to actually boycott them over this is childish. Go ahead and get rid of your iPhones, though. Just don’t forget to boycott Google and Android too. You won’t do it, but to anyone who actually does: respect

Sorry about the rant, but this is just insane to me

Damn near 100%, yes

https://caniuse.com/?search=canvas

Yeah, I bet it would be trivial for one of their engineers to whip up a universally compatible, hardware accelerated image file converter in JS, using no external dependencies, and less than 50 lines of code. Hint: it uses Canvas

This is probably a clever way of doing native JPEG image conversion on the front end, instead of pulling in (or reimplementing) a universal image conversion library

Haha, I wondered if that was sarcasm. Looks like I’ve been fooled!

Hahaha, the Fediverse has very little tolerance for “wrong” opinions. As if opinions can even be wrong

Also, the obligatory: *dissenting (sorry)

Prey is so good! It’s one of my favorite games. It is not really like Starfield, though

Ah, it looks like it doesn’t support the AirPlay video format yet, so you wouldn’t be able to watch videos over it, except via the screen mirroring protocol, which is much lower quality for something like Netflix, FYI. Thanks for the link, though! Definitely adding this to my toolbox

Ohhhh, it’s an AirPlay server for Linux! That’s awesome!

Sort of a tangent, but I’m curious what advantage Uxplay has over the built in macOS AirPlay server. I’m unfamiliar with it

I’m not an automotive engineer, so I don’t have a great understanding of the benefits as perceived by auto manufacturers. Still, here are some benefits as I see it:

• Cheaper (fewer parts)
• More reliable (fewer moving parts, cables strained less frequently, fewer broken door handles)
• Recessed door handles are more aerodynamic (not necessarily an advantage of electronics)
• Remote door release (helps with frozen handles in the cold)
• Cool factor (helps sell cars)
• Flexible design (allows designers to do creative things with door handles/controls)