I suppose they think that if America didn’t have so much cachet, that calls to 911 in Europe should route to a recording of someone chewing you out (in whatever the local language is) for being a cultural imperialist.

I actually disagree with this. The reason why people call police is that they know that the so-called “mental health crisis” is extremely dangerous, in a physical way, not just “emotionally triggering.” Like the dude I saw on the news in NYC last week who was lunging at the police with scissors who eventually ended up shot after the taser failed to get him to stop.

I guess people would like to believe that there’s an army of well-trained social workers out there who could be dispatched to the scene to simply talk someone down from a total psychotic episode, but the fact is that the type of person who’s going to be shot by the police would’ve also stabbed the social workers with scissors too.

The reality of the matter is that people who are severely mentally ill can be very dangerous to others. There’s not an easy way to guarantee they’ll never come to harm unless you’re willing to sacrifice the safety of everyone else by renouncing any possibility of using force.

As with anything, of course it’s going to be partisan, too. NYC leftists don’t want Albany dictating how their police operate, and rural Californians don’t want the uniparty government in Sacramento controlling theirs.

1. In practice everything that saves a passkey requires a biometric to unlock each time, so you SHOULD not be required to use another factor (the secret is “something you have” and the bio is “something you are.” In practice though, now every F—-ing site insists on the damn “we emailed you a code” BS.

2. Passkeys certainly don’t need to be changed every arbitrary period like some idiotic sites (or IT admins) insist for passwords.

3. If one becomes compromised, you can revoke just the one. Unlike a password.

I think that is a big step down from the convenience and friction level that the native password managers get you, where you save your password once and for the rest of your life, as long as you maintain fealty to Apple/Google/Microsoft, your password will always be there in autofill.

It otherwise does look quite a bit derivative of the iMac G4 though.

It would pretty obviously be easy to add a wizard that prepares the iPad to be repurposed as a stationary home hub, setting the battery to be held at 50% and neither charged nor discharged, sending a notification to your phone if it's unplugged, choosing a slideshow to double as a digital frame, etc. But to be fair to Apple, no other companies would build such a thing either, it's just the consumption oriented system we live in.

Why though? Doesn't anyone into Apple ecosystem enough to buy this already own an Apple TV?

And don't forget whatever the current phrasing is for "I'm sorry, my shit's all fucked up" and "My network connectivity had a blip and I'm unwilling to retry" and "Even though I have on-device STT models, and now LLMs too, and an on-device database of your music, which is downloaded, I won't bother without the cloud.

And even when it's getting it right, and if there's only one Walmart in Beaverton, it still to this day needs to ask "One option is Walmart on Expressway Road in Beaverton...." Maybe it's correct in its 0% confidence level there, since it's so bad, but... I don't get how you could design something that bad, even before LLMs existed. I feel like I could do better, even using their Speech-to-text engine, with the processing backend built of pure regexes and if/elses.