Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’
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Unless the app is delisted which can also happen. Flappy Bird was one of the more well known examples of that (I remember people seeing phones on eBay with it still installed for stupid money). If that happens you can't reinstall it.
Yup, have done that already but it only applies to the benchmark itself; if you go into the character editor after copying the file over it resets to one of the base hairstyles so you can't edit your character with your desired hairstyle active if it's not a base one.
You're right I think, I can't think of a way to change the icon to what comes up next. The only reason you can change icons at all is because you're linking it to a skill if you use /micon and it will show as whatever that icon currently would be (and icons like Gemshine change based on the active summon for example).
I'm glad you've been able to find something that works though!
So macros in FFXIV basically just run a sequence of commands. You can also include wait times in seconds (whole seconds only, you can't do 2.5s for example) after the action is complete.
Actions do respect trait upgrades too, so you can specify Gemshine as the action for example and the game knows to cast the appropriate action.
If you wanted to make a macro to summon Ifrit for example and use both casts, you could write something like this:
/micon "Summon Ruby"
/ac "Summon Ruby" <wait.4>
/ac "Gemshine"
<t>
<wait.4>/ac "Gemshine"
<t>
<wait.4>This would summon either Ruby Carbuncle, Ifrit or Ifrit II (depending on your level in the content you're in), wait for 4 seconds, then cast whatever Gemshine turns into for that summon, wait 4 seconds and then cast it again. You can then assign that macro to your hotbar. The micon command lets you pick a custom icon for the macro, and it will show as active, inactive or lit up like the real icon would (useful for summons).
The wait time here needs to be a bit longer than you think you need. Partly because you can't specify fractions, and partly because macros don't queue commands - if you're not quite ready to cast again when it reaches the next line in the macro, it'll just drop the command and not run it.
You get up to 15 lines in a macro, so you can add in the level 90 abilities for example (the gap closer for Ifrit probably doesn't make sense but Titan's Mountain Buster probably does) so they're all fired off in one go.
You can't do conditional logic. You can kinda fake it by putting commands in that can't fire if another condition isn't met. For example if you need to cast Bahamut to activate your other summons, the above macro would fail. So you could put two commands back to back knowing one would fail to kinda combine two skills into one. Combining Bahamut and Phoenix casts for example (although now I think about the base skills are the same so you probably wouldn't need to there).
If your goal is to consolidate buttons, half the challenge is working out what skills it makes sense to chain and then load them up with appropriate wait times. As you said it won't be optimal but it can definitely be done.
You won't be able to combine single target and AOE target spells in a way that would make sense though. You might need to get creative with button setups for that. I don't know if double tapping a button is something you're able to easily do for example but if it was you could set up a single tap to get to single target macros and a double tap to get to AOE ones so it's mostly the same sequence to cast.
Couple of fun and useful things on the benchmark. Firstly, if you want to use your own character's hairstyle but can't because it's not a base hairstyle, you can do it. (These aren't my videos, they're from Meoni who makes a lot of FFXIV update content).
Second, if you want to see a fun easter egg, set your system date to April 1st, then open the benchmark and run it with the default character (I.e., not a custom one, just basic Derplander). Or watch this video to see what happens.
I play on console so haven't been able to try the benchmark personally but am very excited for DT to drop!
With the spike in popularity that D&D has seen lately is that not the natural evolution of old school muds? Even if you can't be together in person, video streaming over the internet has made it so the old text interface isn't needed anymore, you can just interact in real time without being in the same place.
MMORPGs aren't really the same. You don't have infinite capability to do whatever you want, you're typically playing an RPG with friends, and most of the endgame is structured around keeping people engaged through progressively difficult content.
As AI get better and is capable of actually writing some more engaging stories in real time I think you'll see some convergence here. Like for example, a game where two kingdoms are at war (a common enough trope in RPGs), but you go full stealth, work your way into the enemy castle and kill their king. What happens after that? Have they got a contingency for that? Will they double their efforts against you? Does their army fall apart? Do they surrender?
You couldn't pull that scenario off in an RPG these days without it being scripted, but in the future as the tech gets better you've got the possibility of building living breathing worlds that can react to the actions of the player (or players).
I quoted this a week or two ago for something else on here, and someone responded along the lines of you know they'd be trying to up that %, and they were 100% right.
I'd second afraid.org, have been using them for years and they've always been great. They also support dynamic DNS so if you're on a dynamic IP address you can have the address be updated automatically when your IP address does.
More relevant to the question, I'm pretty sure you can create NS records for a subdomain as well. I was experimenting once a few years back with a DNS tunnel service and was able to get the DNS side of it configured. Never did get the service itself working but it was more of a curiosity at the time so didn't spend a massive amount of time on it.
Did the KFC console ever actually release in the end? I remember when the specs got announced but I don't remember it ever actually going on sale or anyone getting one.
I've been seeing clips from Ready Player One recently and this reminded me of the main bad guy's philosophy on advertising in the OASIS.
we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures
Can't help but feeling there's some parallels there.
"It's okay when a major American company does it." - FBI/DOJ
Fixed it for you. Guarantee if they found TikTok doing this that ban would be going through today.
Preorders also go on sale this Tuesday at 9am local time (except for Steam, that'll go live at 9am PDT regardless of where you are).
You need to have the preorder code active on your account prior to the early access date to qualify for early access, otherwise even if you add it on after that date but before launch you won't get early access.
Sorry, that sounds right. As I said, was going off memory, thanks for clarifying!
If Nintendo's history of litigation is anything to go on, there'll be plenty of opportunity in the future.
From memory FOM were alleging she leaked confidential information to Toto and that a number of teams had raised concerns. However every single team publicly came out and said they hadn't raised any concerns, and the Wolffs both came out saying nothing had been shared. FOM eventually dropped their investigation.
The Thaleia gear is, yup, but the coins you get can be used to buy the upgrade mats for the comedy tome gear, which gets you to 660. They were previously capped at one per week, so unless you were doing savage or hunts, you were limited to one piece of gear you could upgrade per week. That cap is gone now so you get a coin every time you run the raid.
On one hand, uncapping Thaleia coins will make it a lot easier to finish getting your gear up to i660 ahead of Dawntrail. On the other, if you haven't got the gear you want yet it's about to get a lot harder 😳
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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’s not a fan of “green texts on iPhones” and that it’s “time to break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly,” but statistics show the tech giant doesn’t have exclusive control over the market.
The Department of Justice announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple in March, accusing the California-based company of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors, stifles innovation and keeps prices artificially high.
Warren took to social media this week, displaying her support for the suit that takes aim at how Apple allegedly molds its technology and business relationships to “extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants, among others.”
Warren specifically called out how people who don’t have iPhones are blocked from sending blue iMessages as messages from Androids and other devices are green. Those without iPhones also face other restrictions, the Massachusetts senator added.
“Green texts on iPhones, they’re ruining relationships. That’s right,” Warren said in a video posted on X Thursday. “Non-iPhone users everywhere are being excluded from group texts. From sports teams chats to birthday chats to vacation plan chats, they’re getting cut out.”
“And who’s to blame here? Apple,” she continued . “That’s just one of the dirty tactics that Apple uses to keep a stranglehold on the smartphone market. … It’s time to break up Apple’s monopoly now.”
Critics quickly called Warren out for spreading misinformation and for focusing on what they believe is a non-issue.
“It would be nice if Android users could use iMessage features,” an X user responded, “but why would anyone think this sort of micromanaging of businesses is the legitimate role of the government?”
An alert attached to Warren’s post shows context that readers added and “thought people might want to know.” It includes data from Statista highlighting how the iPhone had a 57% market share compared to Android’s 42% in North America, as of January.
The alert, which was removed as of Friday evening, also contained information from Investopedia around how a “monopoly is exclusive control, or no close substitutes. The current market share of iPhone v Android does not meet that definition.”
Attorneys general from 16 states filed the lawsuit with the Department of Justice in federal court in New Jersey. Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell did not sign onto the suit which seeks to stop Apple from undermining technologies that compete with its own apps — in areas including streaming, messaging and digital payments.
The suit is the latest example of aggressive antitrust enforcement by an administration that has also taken on Google, Amazon and other tech giants with the stated aim of making the digital universe more fair, innovative and competitive.
“If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement last month. “The Justice Department will vigorously enforce antitrust laws that protect consumers from higher prices and fewer choices.”
Apple has called the suit “wrong on the facts and the law” and said it “will vigorously defend against it.”
If successful, the lawsuit would “hinder our ability to create the kind of technology people expect from Apple — where hardware, software, and services intersect” and would “set a dangerous precedent, empowering the government to take a heavy hand in designing people’s technology,” the company said in a statement last month.