Apple stock loses 7%, Apple freezes stock trading for 20 minutes under guise of "upcoming news"

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Down 7%, huh... That doesn't sound too bad...

That's only... $64.9 BILLION DOLLARS!!!

[–]Mnemonic 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

M: Hey

T: Hey, how are you?

M: A bit down...

T: Awww, how much?

M: Just 7%

T: That's $64.9 BILLION DOLLARS!

M: LOL, yeah it sounds like a lot, could probably feed a continent with it. Ah well.... Look at it from the brightside! next year we will have asshole recognition! So your phone has a 50/50 change of detecting it has fallen into the toilet!

T: Why 50/50? It has front- and back-facing cameras!

M: Because if it identifies an asshole, it could be seeing a user's face.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's hilarious!

In addition, Facebook messenger is listening and thinking, "Hey... I know those assholes! One of them thinks he just lost 64.9 BILLION DOLLARS! The joke's on him, cause my AI buddy did that."

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Time to throw Apple TV out there and whatever ideas they have left. $1000 phones don't seem so hot next to $100 equivalents.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Apple products have some fatal flaws.

The laptops are too thick... and they have too many ports that aren't dedicated to dongles...

Apple needs a champion.

Things could have been so different... If it weren't for... The catastrophe!

If only Jobs hadn't uploaded his mind onto a computer. Alas, it could not be undone. The old Steve was gone forever; having transferred his consciousness into an Android... He now lives forever. ;-)

[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

refurbished Android which support Replicant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system)) or other Google free OSes are numerous also!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

A used S3 would be good but they don't support many phones: https://replicant.us/supported-devices.php

I wish Google free was more numerous.

[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

With Yalp store and F-Droid (or G-Droid {alternative GUI}) and deletion of play services and other system apps with system-mover (IIRC) {So you can move 'google system' apps to normal apps and remove them} you can transform a stockROM into a google free one, while getting the rom updates.

Though I think linux ROMs will do better in the future of taking over android phones. It's just that people somehow prefer fancy gui interaction bloat over minimal usefull apps. Google already has gotton a few fines from the EU for their Microsoft like practices (microsoft having IE per default etc.).

There is hope once the 'fanciness' hype wears off, but the MSM isn't helping in the promo side of things.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh system mover for deleting Google apps sounds cool, I might give that a go. My phone is too janky for LineageOS. I have heard that location reporting is a core OS feature, as part of the Play store, but any step in the right direction is a good one.

Yeah damn those fancy apps all full of ads and slowness. Hopefully 2019 will be the Linux phone breakout year with Purism setting the trend. They've got like 50 apps ready to roll.

[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My phone is too janky for LineageOS.

Got the same prolem, S5 'Neo' isn't supported and the unoffial Linage ROMs for it seem to have bad connection.

I have heard that location reporting is a core OS feature, as part of the Play store

I believe it's Play services, but you can delete the playstore andplay services and then use Yalp instead of the play store while blacklisting the downgraded playstore (so it won't update again and install play services).

Some apps will complain that play services is missing but usually will work fine anyhow (Just set their 'messages' to off, so it doesn't up up everyday). {You can use Google maps, it will complain on startup about the 'play services' missing [Probably because that is the ALWAYS ON connection to google] }

You can do this without rooting and without using the system-app remover. Just disable the 'apps' (like play store/services) by deleting them, stopping them and blacklisting them in Yalp so Yalp doesn't download 'updates' for them.

  • Disclaimer: I'm not sure about newer phone provided with newer preinstalled playstores (removing it makes it revert to the ROM's default version, so maybe newer phone it gets more dificult.

[–]crypt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How does LineageOS with microg compare to Repiclant. Does replicant keep up with the security patches or is completely separate.

Do you use replicant and are you happy with it? Any drawbacks?

[–]Mnemonic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I only run it on a galaxy (the original) and had to get the firmware for the wireless communication (wifi, I guess Bluetooth) from a cyanogen mod.

I've never had updates from it, but it transformed an old phone in a great portable media player.

[–]Mnemonic 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I might have 'heard' the upcoming news on the radio: In The Netherlands there was a study by civilian/government group about facial recognition being easily decrypted by using a photo of the user. But at the end of the news report about that item they said: The new iphone (not mentioning WHICH, like is that the 1000 one or the shittier one? what?) and the new Samsung (again WHICH!?) were 'safe'.

I'll tell you NO! we have 3d scanning techniques I used in projects over 5 years ago and now they are hand held, I swipe a (lookd like one) Iron (for flattening clothes) by your face/head and BOOM I have a 3d image including color of your head (unless you have a very large {lengthy in height} head).

This 3d and photo information is enough to unlock phone and high end laptops (which feature better software/hardware).

If you have sensitive information on your phone, Use a PIN and consider local encryption of files before facials!