Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/25939068

Jony Ive will be on BBC Radio 4's 'Desert Island Discs' today, Sunday 23 February 2025. Press reports quote him saying that he feels responsible for the 'not so positive consequences' of the iPhone, but that he is still proud of his work.

Speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Sir Jony said: “I celebrate and am encouraged by the very positive contribution (of the iPhone), the empowerment, the liberty that is provided to so many people in so many ways.

“Just because the not so positive consequences, I mean they weren’t intended, but that doesn’t matter relative to how I feel responsible, and that weighs, and is a contributor to decisions that I have made since, and decisions that I’m making in the future.”

Listen on the BBC Sounds web page or app from 10.00 London time, and the programme will be archived there to listen again for the next 28 days. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00289vf

Apart from hearing what he has to say about his work and about technology, it will also be interesting to hear which selection of records he would chose to have if he were marooned on a desert island.

This is Maramureș, Romania; back then called the Romanian People’s Republic. My mom gave birth to me here in June 1952 at the age of 19 at one of my father’s vacation houses. My dad was already married with kids. He used this location to keep her a secret and my mom loved the place cause of the nature, peace and quiet. My mom lived here with me until I was 10 and going into 5th grade - when dad brought us back to Bucharest.

i have an old samsung a8 that i want to try rooting on but the volume buttons are broken so i can't do the whole volume down + power button thing. is there a way to do it from PC or something?
i'm on linux mint if that changes anything

And what would take for it to be noticed?

Currently, it is possible to follow both Lemmy users and communities from Mastodon.

When you follow a user, all their posts and comments show up as posts on Mastodon.

When you follow a community. The community boosts all posts and comments made in the community.

I think it would work better, if for users, only posts showed up as posts and comments showed up as replies (meaning unlisted).

For communities, I think it would be better if only posts were boosted and not all the comments.

It is possible to find the comments by clicking on the post on Mastodon, so the comments would still be visible.

As it is now, following something from Lemmy from Mastodon is a noisy experience. I think it would be a lot better if only posts were boosted and shown as posts :)

I hope this is the right community to share this. If not, where can I share this ?

Have a nice day :)

I'm just wondering, because I have seen some negative comments on here about him, but they don't usually provide specifics.

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I came across this cryptic phrase in a description of an old D&D adventure Tale of the Comet . In context, it seems to describe the designer solving a problem of game balance by having the powerful technology items have limited charges / uses before expiring. But I cannot parse prophet-squeeze-monster and I certianly don't recognise it as a classic trope. Any ideas?