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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 29th of August 2021 10:24:36 PM Filed under
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  • T-Mobile slowly bricks Sprint phones and then offers you a T-Mobile phone that the store doesn’t carry.

    I was having reception problems with my Sprint phone, which T-Mobile was still selling last year after they changed it over to the T-Mobile network experience SIM card.

    Essentially, it was a threat that you can keep using a Sprint SIM card, but the experience would degrade as they changed their towers, or you could put a TNX card in your Sprint phone and keep using it fine.

    The problem is that T-Mobile’s network has frequency bands that Sprint phones will never support, even though they were still selling Sprint phones several months past the merger.

    So now, T-Mobile is offering “Sprint Select” offers where they straight up swap your phone, no charge after bill credit, to an actual T-Mobile phone. They offered to swap my Galaxy S20 FE 5G for a Galaxy S21, and they offered to swap my spouse’s iPhone SE 2nd Gen for a T-Mobile version.

    Unfortunately, you have to trade both phones on your account for the offer to be valid, and there’s no Galaxy S21s in any of their stores because of a “chip shortage”, but Customer Care will still happily waste your time to drive over there to be told there’s no actual phone and they don’t know when they’ll get them in or if that offer will still be good when they do.

  • Clearing The Air About Proprietary Consumables With A Xiaomi Filter DRM Resetter
  • K Lars Lohn: Summer of Math Exposition

    This is whole system of relative judgment is quite fascinating. Over my career, I witnessed and/or participated in Mozilla skunkwork projects that had a similar form: a novel newly published mathematical method of drawing conclusions from a data set and a self selected population that produces the data. At Mozilla, it was all "Likes" and "Activity Streams" with the additional complications of privacy and anonymity.

    The organizers of SoME are not a large influential Silicon Valley corporation, but a small group of computer-adept academics. This project, thankfully, is free from the anonymity/privacy complications that Mozilla faced. In the similarities, I also see some of the potential for the down sides of the approach. I've often noticed that the distillation technique of the collected data didn't actually optimize for what the researchers intended or hoped.

  • Mozilla plans to complete WebRender deployment on Firefox 92

    If you are a Firefox user, and there are not many left out there – compared to the bulk of web browser users, most of them accommodated in Chrome and a few, increasingly, in Microsoft Edge – you may already know WebRender, one of the key components of the browser in order to stay current in the market. Well, reportedly its deployment could be nearing completion.

    We talked about the deployment of WebRender, for more information, the next generation web page rendering engine for Firefox , which Mozilla has been working on for years. Years throughout which its implementation in the first line, in the stable version of the browser for PC, has been a trickle, prioritizing certain hardware and operating systems. However, the transition period could be celebrating its last bars, if they confirm what they count in gHacks .

  • TxDOT terminates tollway operation contract with IBM, citing ‘numerous difficulties’ for customers

    The Texas Department of Transportation announced Friday that it would terminate a tollway operation contract with New York-based tech giant IBM, citing “cont...

  • July/August in KDE PIM

    Since the last report, dated the third of July, Version 21.08 (aka 5.18) of all the PIM applications was released. 31 contributors made more than 1,500 updates in the GitLab repos. And work continued apace on preparations for the new release of the Qt backbone on which KDE software relies.

    Here is the news about recent activity affecting various components of the Personal Information Management system.

  • This Is Fundamental To Linux Adoption - Invidious

    One mistake I see a lot of Linux users who want to see Linux adoption increase make is trying to convince people to fundamentally change the way they do there computing and not trying to understand why they use there computer the way they do.

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