Author: John

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Planned Obsolescence

On By JohnIn annoying, techLeave a comment

I have an iPhone 6 and beta tested iOS 11 on it. It ran just fine during testing with the exception of the odd functional bug here and there. But now on the latest public release it’s suddenly taking far more time to do the most trivial tasks.

No argument that there’s a distinct difference in performance capabilities between hardware levels – and the benchmark apps all clearly show a difference in capabilities. But I’m starting to think somebody’s inserted a few random equivalent bits of…

if hw.version != iphone8 or iphonex:

  sleep random(10)

endif

B******l Ruling

On By JohnIn annoying, sociologyLeave a comment

Whilst we’re all initially very disappointed in the military justice system for its final ruling, let’s remember that a Dishonorable Discharge is equivalent (in many states) to a felony conviction. There are a great many things that a convicted felon cannot do in the USA.

Perhaps simply living a very long life in complete disgrace amongst the populace is a punishment far worse than being housed, fed, and isolated in a military prison.