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New comment by tw600040 in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

tw600040 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:48:30 +0000

Naive question may be. But if quantum can break bitcoin, won't it also be able to break other encryptions that literally everyone else uses as well? So, it's not that bitcoin is particularly vulnerable right any more than banks and Gmails?

New comment by tw600040 in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

tw600040 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:53:37 +0000

Research anything and everything on your own dime. if it's taxpayer's money, then yes, it has to have at least a probability of profitability.

New comment by tw600040 in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

tw600040 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:06:15 +0000

I am okay if some edge case needs tinkering. As long as every day common use cases just works. There is no distro that even meets that?

New comment by tw600040 in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

tw600040 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:01:24 +0000

Need a suggestion, and thought might as well ask here. I use a Mac now. Last windows was more than 15 years ago and now I want to try Linux. which version would you recommend? should I go with Ubuntu or Debian or Mint or something else? I am not a tinkerer. I want something that just works, on the lines of a Mac.

New comment by tw600040 in "Apple Renames 'Apple TV+' to 'Apple TV'"

tw600040 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:32:00 +0000

//Apple TV is available on the Apple TV app

What's confusing about this?

Netflix is available on Netflix App. HBO is available on HBO app. Normal people don't care.

It's perfectly normal for Netflix the company to run Netflix the service on Netflix the app on Netflix device if they release one. It's not confusing at all. What would be confusing is if they all had different names.

New comment by tw600040 in "iPhone Air"

tw600040 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:32:10 +0000

> Do you have any evidence behind it?

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

New comment by tw600040 in "Apple Watch Ultra 3"

tw600040 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:06:12 +0000

I once thought I wouldn't need a mobile phone and that landlines were sufficient.

New comment by tw600040 in "Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW"

tw600040 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:41:16 +0000

the biggest problem with switching away from Mac is losing the ecosystem benefits. When Apple TV automatically knows to fill your iCloud password, all the Apple Watch integration, syncing everything from notes to reminders. I can't see how any Linux can match all that.

New comment by tw600040 in "Mary had schizophrenia, then suddenly didn't"

tw600040 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:36:58 +0000

Should be obvious, but ability to function triumphs ability to be 'creative'. Hell with creativity in fact. It comes last in the list of priorities..

New comment by tw600040 in "iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie"

tw600040 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:52:22 +0000

//Have you tried to use Windows lately?

I haven't. When I read that I was wondering if you were going to say it got better and is good now or something. Oh well. Good to know. Thanks for the info.

New comment by tw600040 in "Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf]"

tw600040 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:36:33 +0000

When someone asks how something is fair - coming back with life is like that or life isn't fair is not a valid response. Humanity should strive to make the systems as fair as possible while accepting the fact that unfairness will still exist. Why will theft etc be a crime if not for the idea of fairness. You can make the same life is unfair argument to defend theft but that's not the way it should be / is.

New comment by tw600040 in "Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB"

tw600040 — Tue, 06 May 2025 17:07:18 +0000

Not related to this post, but why in the world is anyone using TUI. Either go with GUI or go with commandline. This no man's land in the middle is the worst of both worlds..

New comment by tw600040 in "Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals"

tw600040 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:11:52 +0000

It's not about whether consumers like interoperability or not.

If scenario-1 - is no interoperability but superior user experience]

scenario-2 - is interoperability with subpar user experience

there are those that would rather have the former than the latter. Pretty sure Apple can provide a better user experience without the constraint of interoperability than otherwise.

New comment by tw600040 in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

tw600040 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:15:01 +0000

I just realized ADP is not same as Lockdown mode. which Apple mentioned that only people that are likely to be targets need to turn on.

Now I don't see any reason why I shouldn't turn ADP on. Turning on now.

New comment by tw600040 in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

tw600040 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:55:39 +0000

Ok, I am not very technical. Can someone help me understand this. I don't have Advanced data Protection on. Does that mean UK Gov can see my data now?

New comment by tw600040 in "Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]"

tw600040 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:43:04 +0000

that AGI, instead of benefitting the whole world, in which Musk is a part of, will end up only benefitting Microsoft, which he isn't a part of?

New comment by tw600040 in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

tw600040 — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:50:16 +0000

I am getting conflicting opinions on this, so I will ask. My company has filed a 485 for me (currently on H1) and my wife is a dependent. My wife is currently on O1 and her company wants to file a separate 485 for her (with me as dependent) for backup. But my company's attorneys are telling me that's not recommended and it's better to withdraw one before filing another. Is that so or can 2 485s be filed?

New comment by tw600040 in "Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headset"

tw600040 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:35:25 +0000

//They are famous for protecting their walled garden and hostility towards cross platform development tools.

Trying to deconstruct this to understand better.

2 possibilities.

1. Supporting cross platform development tools is actually in Apple's interest/business and they are being stupid not to support them. But so far it doesn't seem like they are losing anything by not supporting it going by their financials.

2. Supporting cross platform development tools is not in their interest - in which case they are doing the right thing by doing what's good for their business.

So, where is the disconnect?

New comment by tw600040 in "Apple Music Classical"

tw600040 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:43:57 +0000

Please if someone from Apple is listening: Please pay some attention to Indian music as well. I mostly only listen to Tamil songs and when Apple came out with iTunes Match or something where they analyze your library and match it to what they have in cloud, they just incorrectly matched songs with the Telugu version and ones from other languages and totally messed up my collection. And, this day and age, why should all Indian music be clubbed under "Foreign" genre by default?

New comment by tw600040 in "Nalanda University flourished for more than seven centuries"

tw600040 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:34:42 +0000

It's like weapons policy. If country A is going to have them country B will be foolish not to have them.