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On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 14:46:48 -0500, rickman
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

Savageduck wrote on 1/3/2018 6:43 PM:
On Jan 3, 2018, rickman wrote
(in article <p2joea$37m$3@dont-email.me&gt:

Jolly Roger wrote on 1/3/2018 6:15 PM:

Multiple regulars in these news groups call him out on his lame-ass
trolls. But little, old *you* have decided to step in and support the
troll. Good work, there, junior!

No, I'm just calling it like I see it. You jumped into a reasonable
conversation making five (not four, my mistake) posts complaining about
troll behavior without indicating what was "trollish". Now you want to
argue about your trollish behavior and call me names. You are currently the
problem, not a cure. Why don't you stop being a troll and we can let the
conversation continue?

The source of the troll is the OP not JR, and guess who the OP is in this
thread. None other than the nymshifting troll from Santa Clara County. He
provides nothing constructive, just his never ending anti-Apple posts. I for
one have decided to not respond to him, particularly given the toxicity, and
of his posts to the Apple NGs.

Recently I have responded to one of his posts to r.p.d. which appeared to be
benign, and where he had used yet another nymshift. I did not believe that
particular post was a troll, but one which sought an answer to a legitimate
question.

I don't know about toxicity, but the best way to handle trolls is to ignore
them. I will be ignoring Roger.

First, there has never been a reasonable conversation with the person
to whom Roger was responding He really is an inveterate troll with
nothing to add to this newsgroup. I have kill filed every nym that he
uses that's identifiable and will continue.

We each have a decision to make regarding trolls. In this case JR has
decided to point out the troll. That is effective in warning other
posters.

You will be missing some interesting and edifying posts if you ignore
Roger.

 

[Fox's Mercantile]

On 1/4/18 1:57 PM, rickman wrote:
> I've killfiled JR, we'll see if the problem improves.

It won't until you killfile harry newton.


--
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Jeff-1.0
WA6FWi
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[pfjw@aol.com]

On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 3:39:21 PM UTC-5, Fox's Mercantile wrote:

On 1/4/18 1:57 PM, rickman wrote:
I've killfiled JR, we'll see if the problem improves.

It won't until you killfile harry newton.


--
"I am a river to my people."
Jeff-1.0
WA6FWi
http:foxsmercantile.com

Until it changes its name.

 

[Jolly Roger]

On 2018-01-04, rickman <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

Savageduck wrote on 1/3/2018 6:26 PM:
On Jan 3, 2018, Jolly Roger wrote
(in article <fb56fkF54akU1@mid.individual.net&gt:

On 2018-01-03, rickman<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:
Jolly Roger wrote on 1/3/2018 5:05 PM:
On 2018-01-03, harry newton<harry@at.invalid> wrote:
He who is Jolly Roger said on 3 Jan 2018 06:25:53 GMT:

Get some new material, old foolish troll.

Think about

Troll, troll, troll your boat...

I think we can see who the troll is. Anyone who o feels the need to
post four times complaining about someone being a troll *is* a
troll.

"Gosh, I KNOW, right? And anyone who calls out a racist for being a
racist *is* racist, y'all!"

Bullshit reasoning. The asshole currently known as "Harry Newton"
has been trolling the Apple news groups and belittling complete
strangers in them literally for hours a day for years now. He
constantly changes his name to avoid kill filters and pollutes the
otherwise peaceful Apple news groups with lame trolls filled with
lies and misguided opinions. Here's an incomplete list (and
counting) of his names:

Paul B. Andersen, Adair Bordon, Liam O'Connor, Juan Camilo Blanco,
Alphonse Arnaud, Danny D., Vinny Perado, Whitney Ryan, Tony Cito,
Adam H. Kerman, Werner Obermeier, Steven Bornfeld, Winston_Smith,
Mitch Kaufmann, Paul M. Cook, E. Robinson, Alice J., P. Ng, Tam
Nguyen, VPN user, Joe Clock, Marob Katon, Chris Rangoon, AArdvarks,
Conradt, Gustl Hoffmann, Henry Jones, Tatsuki Takahashi, AL, Horace
Algier, Karl Schultz, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algeria Horan, Horace
Algier, Raymond Spruance III, Martin Chuzzlewit II, John Harmon,
Yanis Bernard, Stijn De Jong, Abe Swanson, Misha Vasiliev, Tomos
Davies, Chaya Eve, Lionel Muller, Roy Tremblay, Frank S, Chaya Eve,
Blake Snyder, harry newton, Harold Newton

Multiple regulars in these news groups call him out on his lame-ass
trolls. But little, old *you* have decided to step in and support
the troll. Good work, there, junior!

Also, the cross posts to unrelated groups, and groups where he
anticipates some sort of support, and/or validation, are a pretty
good clue as to the trollish nature of posts from the Santa Clara
nymshifter.

This isn't my first rodeo. I've seen a number of ham groups destroyed
by this sort of behavior. One person is accused of being a troll, but
they aren't really a problem.

Harry has consistently and methodically disrupted the Apple news groups
with campaigns consisting of sometimes tens of separate threads at a
time, often with multiple nyms at a time, and more often than not
cross-posted to completely irrelevant groups, and you pop your head in
to claim they aren't a fucking problem. What fucking planet are you on
that trolls of the worst kind aren't really a fucking problem?

> They make their posts and people either read them or ignore them.

You're definitely not from around here, boy. This particular troll has
polluted these otherwise peaceful Apple newsgroups on a regular basis
with hundreds of posts under numerous and never-ending names to avoid
kill filters filled with misinformation and antagonizing and attacking
anyone who dare disagree or call him out on his bare-faced lies. And
they aren't just harmful little interactions that people can just
ignore, especially considering he *regularly* nym switches to avoid
filtering.

The problem arises when vigilantes try to "deal" with the problem by
turning the topic from the original to being about the accused troll.

No, the problem already existed. Whenever (which is constantly) it
becomes plainly obvious that "Harry" actively *ignores* and *disputes*
anything anyone says about the topic at hand that disagrees with his
lies, and attacks them instead, people *naturally* start examining his
character. His stubborn refusal to accept anything but his anti-Apple
position on a topic *forces* others to look at his personality faults as
an explanation for what might cause a person his age to literally spend
hours upon hours *daily* writing long, rambling, laborious posts where
he antagonizes and belittles complete strangers simply because he
dislikes Apple and people who use Apple devices.

> Instead of solving anything, they make the problem 10 times worse.

Projection. Victim blaming makes the problem ten times worse.

> That is what's going on here.

You're ignorant of the actual situation, and deluded.

> I've killfiled JR, we'll see if the problem improves.

LOL! Enjoy "Harry's" trolls, idiot.

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[rickman]

BK@Onramp.net wrote on 1/4/2018 3:27 PM:

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 14:46:48 -0500, rickman
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

Savageduck wrote on 1/3/2018 6:43 PM:
On Jan 3, 2018, rickman wrote
(in article <p2joea$37m$3@dont-email.me&gt:

Jolly Roger wrote on 1/3/2018 6:15 PM:

Multiple regulars in these news groups call him out on his lame-ass
trolls. But little, old *you* have decided to step in and support the
troll. Good work, there, junior!

No, I'm just calling it like I see it. You jumped into a reasonable
conversation making five (not four, my mistake) posts complaining about
troll behavior without indicating what was "trollish". Now you want to
argue about your trollish behavior and call me names. You are currently the
problem, not a cure. Why don't you stop being a troll and we can let the
conversation continue?

The source of the troll is the OP not JR, and guess who the OP is in this
thread. None other than the nymshifting troll from Santa Clara County. He
provides nothing constructive, just his never ending anti-Apple posts. I for
one have decided to not respond to him, particularly given the toxicity, and
of his posts to the Apple NGs.

Recently I have responded to one of his posts to r.p.d. which appeared to be
benign, and where he had used yet another nymshift. I did not believe that
particular post was a troll, but one which sought an answer to a legitimate
question.

I don't know about toxicity, but the best way to handle trolls is to ignore
them. I will be ignoring Roger.

First, there has never been a reasonable conversation with the person
to whom Roger was responding He really is an inveterate troll with
nothing to add to this newsgroup. I have kill filed every nym that he
uses that's identifiable and will continue.

We each have a decision to make regarding trolls. In this case JR has
decided to point out the troll. That is effective in warning other
posters.

JR has gone *far* beyond pointing out a troll. He has gone so far beyond
that he has become the troll. To point out that you think someone is a
troll only takes a single post of a few lines. His less annoying posts were
the uneducating, "So few facts, so much time. Life's hard for an old troll!"
and "Get some new material, old foolish troll." When I point out his
excessive complaining he only comes back with much more annoying posts.
These are not intended to be educational to anyone. These are the rantings
of someone who feels he is on a mission, a very misguided mission.

Just as bad are the many posts attempting to justify his behavior.

You will be missing some interesting and edifying posts if you ignore
Roger.

It is not unusual for trolls to make worthwhile posts. But you have to
consider the noise level they bring as well. In this thread all but one
post was noise. That's an unacceptable level.

--

Rick C

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998

 

[nospam]

In article <p2m8as$5hc$1@dont-email.me>, rickman
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

It is not unusual for trolls to make worthwhile posts.

actually, it's extremely unusual.

trolls post for a reaction, not for content.

 

[rickman]

Fox's Mercantile wrote on 1/4/2018 3:39 PM:

On 1/4/18 1:57 PM, rickman wrote:
I've killfiled JR, we'll see if the problem improves.

It won't until you killfile harry newton.

Unlike you, I was learning something about the topic issue until I was
sidetracked by the multiple troll accusation posts. In this thread Harry's
posts are on topic at least.

How about we just don't respond to the posts we don't like? I don't see any
value in discussing this further, so I won't be replying to posts about the
trolling going on and in particular to posts containing personal insults.

--

Rick C

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998

 

[rickman]

nospam wrote on 1/4/2018 5:05 PM:

In article <p2m8as$5hc$1@dont-email.me>, rickman
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:


It is not unusual for trolls to make worthwhile posts.

actually, it's extremely unusual.

trolls post for a reaction, not for content.

And yet Harry's posts have been informative for me. I guess that shows he
isn't trolling.

--

Rick C

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998

 

[Jolly Roger]

On 2018-01-04, rickman <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

BK@Onramp.net wrote on 1/4/2018 3:27 PM:

First, there has never been a reasonable conversation with the person
to whom Roger was responding He really is an inveterate troll with
nothing to add to this newsgroup. I have kill filed every nym that he
uses that's identifiable and will continue.

We each have a decision to make regarding trolls. In this case JR
has decided to point out the troll. That is effective in warning
other posters.

JR has gone *far* beyond pointing out a troll.

Yes, yes, folks. I am the devil incarnate! I have dared to give the
troll a taste of his own fucking medicine! Surely this is a worse
offense than the attacks from the troll himself! I HAVE BECOME PURE
EVIL! MUAHAHAHAAA!! >: D

Let me assure you, coming from someone who is new to the Apple
newsgroups, your completely misguided opinion means OH SO MUCH!! Thank
you for enlightening the group with your supreme instant wisdom, Rick,
man!

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JR

 

[rickman]

nospam wrote on 1/3/2018 8:38 AM:

In article <p2i0de$anm$1@gioia.aioe.org>, harry newton
harry@at.invalid> wrote:

but remember
this is an Apple-only problem

nope. it's a battery chemistry issue which affects android and any
other device that uses a battery.

there is *no* avoiding it. *every* battery ages.

Yes, but it doesn't have to impact the operation of the product in the first
year. A well designed product would be sized to continue to operate as the
battery ages. I've had laptop batteries that worked nearly as well as new
for two or three years. Do you not understand the issue? Apple would seem
to have either not given this attention in the design stage (indicating
incompetence) or they made a conscious decision to allow battery
deterioration to impact the operation of the phone in the first year of
operation (with potential warranty issues).

--

Rick C

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998

 

[Jolly Roger]

On 2018-01-04, rickman <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

Fox's Mercantile wrote on 1/4/2018 3:39 PM:
On 1/4/18 1:57 PM, rickman wrote:

I've killfiled JR, we'll see if the problem improves.

It won't until you killfile harry newton.

Unlike you, I was learning something about the topic issue until I was
In this thread

The extent of Harry's trolling of the Apple news groups extends far
beyond this thread, junior. You're clueless.

> How about we just don't respond to the posts we don't like?

Ah, is that what you did with my posts?

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[Jolly Roger]

On 2018-01-04, rickman <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

nospam wrote on 1/4/2018 5:05 PM:
In article <p2m8as$5hc$1@dont-email.me>, rickman
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:


It is not unusual for trolls to make worthwhile posts.

actually, it's extremely unusual.

trolls post for a reaction, not for content.

And yet Harry's posts have been informative for me.

No, they were filled with lies, like:

"Apple basically admitted today they permanently chopped CPU speeds in
half"

The CPU speed isn't only cut in half, but on a curve, and it's not
permanent but only when the device is doing something that specifically
requires more current than the battery can supply, and only on devices
with batteries that are on the way out.

And:

"they were trying to secretly mask defective batteries"

No evidence of that, and the feature in question was specifically
mentioned in the iOS release notes - hardly a secret.

> I guess that shows he isn't trolling.

No, it doesn't. You, on the other hand, are in very shady territory and
company.

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[pfjw@aol.com]

On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 5:17:15 PM UTC-5, rickman wrote:

nospam wrote on 1/3/2018 8:38 AM:

Yes, but it doesn't have to impact the operation of the product in the first
year. A well designed product would be sized to continue to operate as the
battery ages. I've had laptop batteries that worked nearly as well as new
for two or three years. Do you not understand the issue? Apple would seem
to have either not given this attention in the design stage (indicating
incompetence) or they made a conscious decision to allow battery
deterioration to impact the operation of the phone in the first year of
operation (with potential warranty issues).

Rick C

Dayum, but you know next-to-nothing about battery chemistry and/or the aging process. Knowing now that you are likely unencumbered by the thought process (insult) and likely on the Spectrum (not an insult, but a reach for an explanation for your apparent-deliberate ignorance), batteries age. They age in two ways:
a) Not able to deliver the necessary amperage at a given voltage for as long as before.
b) Not able to deliver sufficient voltage as before. Subset: voltage is OK, but the amperage is not.

This is true of every kind of chemical battery from a liquid lead-acid battery used for backing up POTS systems to a Tesla battery.

I keep radio-control submarines. On them, I have a device that reads the state of the battery, and if it goes critical, immediately surfaces the boat, and will not permit diving. I can determine the age of the battery by when that happens on a run.

Again, this is a chemical issue true of every kind of chemical battery over time. Cell phones make heavy demands on batteries depending on what they are asked to do. Some simply cannot meet that demand with an old battery, and so 'limit' the phone much as the "Sub-Safe" device does. That Apple explained this badly is the issue. Not what happened.

Getting back to Jimmy Neutron - he offered a Conspiracy-Based explanation for an obvious phenomenon in order to light off his personal tempest in his virtual teapot. It was neither thoughtful, nor offered as a basis for actual discussion.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

 

[nospam]

In article <p2m8ml$5hc$3@dont-email.me>, rickman
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

It is not unusual for trolls to make worthwhile posts.

actually, it's extremely unusual.

trolls post for a reaction, not for content.

And yet Harry's posts have been informative for me.

how so?

nothing he's written has any basis in fact (despite his claims
otherwise).

he is regularly proven wrong. he claims things can't be done on ios or
macs even though it's been explained to him *exactly* how to do it. he
snips to alter context to avoid admitting he's full of shit.

I guess that shows he
isn't trolling.

nope.

what it shows is that you'll believe anything without verifying it.

 

[nospam]

In article <fb7nrmFn2gnU3@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

It is not unusual for trolls to make worthwhile posts.

actually, it's extremely unusual.

trolls post for a reaction, not for content.

And yet Harry's posts have been informative for me.

No, they were filled with lies, like:

"Apple basically admitted today they permanently chopped CPU speeds in
half"

The CPU speed isn't only cut in half, but on a curve, and it's not
permanent but only when the device is doing something that specifically
requires more current than the battery can supply, and only on devices
with batteries that are on the way out.

yep.

put simply, the peaks are clipped.

for everyday tasks that don't push it hard, such as reading email or
web surfing, there is no slowdown.

And:

"they were trying to secretly mask defective batteries"

No evidence of that, and the feature in question was specifically
mentioned in the iOS release notes - hardly a secret.

they were actually trying to *extend* the life of batteries.

 

[nospam]

In article <p2m958$bs8$1@dont-email.me>, rickman
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

but remember
this is an Apple-only problem

nope. it's a battery chemistry issue which affects android and any
other device that uses a battery.

there is *no* avoiding it. *every* battery ages.

Yes, but it doesn't have to impact the operation of the product in the first
year.

it doesn't. it's not based on how old it is.

it depends on the battery health and the specific power demands at the
time.

A well designed product would be sized to continue to operate as the
battery ages.

exactly what it does.

I've had laptop batteries that worked nearly as well as new
for two or three years.

'nearly as well' means there's a noticeable effect.

laptop batteries also have a *much* higher capacity than what's in a
phone and capable of much higher peaks.

they are also powering a different processor with different power
demands in a product with a different thermal profile along with
numerous other differences.

in other words, not a good comparison.

> Do you not understand the issue?

far more than you do.

Apple would seem
to have either not given this attention in the design stage (indicating
incompetence) or they made a conscious decision to allow battery
deterioration to impact the operation of the phone in the first year of
operation (with potential warranty issues).

both false.

 

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 17:03:08 -0500, rickman
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

BK@Onramp.net wrote on 1/4/2018 3:27 PM:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 14:46:48 -0500, rickman
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

Savageduck wrote on 1/3/2018 6:43 PM:
On Jan 3, 2018, rickman wrote
(in article <p2joea$37m$3@dont-email.me&gt:

Jolly Roger wrote on 1/3/2018 6:15 PM:

Multiple regulars in these news groups call him out on his lame-ass
trolls. But little, old *you* have decided to step in and support the
troll. Good work, there, junior!

No, I'm just calling it like I see it. You jumped into a reasonable
conversation making five (not four, my mistake) posts complaining about
troll behavior without indicating what was "trollish". Now you want to
argue about your trollish behavior and call me names. You are currently the
problem, not a cure. Why don't you stop being a troll and we can let the
conversation continue?

The source of the troll is the OP not JR, and guess who the OP is in this
thread. None other than the nymshifting troll from Santa Clara County. He
provides nothing constructive, just his never ending anti-Apple posts. I for
one have decided to not respond to him, particularly given the toxicity, and
of his posts to the Apple NGs.

Recently I have responded to one of his posts to r.p.d. which appeared to be
benign, and where he had used yet another nymshift. I did not believe that
particular post was a troll, but one which sought an answer to a legitimate
question.

I don't know about toxicity, but the best way to handle trolls is to ignore
them. I will be ignoring Roger.

First, there has never been a reasonable conversation with the person
to whom Roger was responding He really is an inveterate troll with
nothing to add to this newsgroup. I have kill filed every nym that he
uses that's identifiable and will continue.

We each have a decision to make regarding trolls. In this case JR has
decided to point out the troll. That is effective in warning other
posters.

JR has gone *far* beyond pointing out a troll. He has gone so far beyond
that he has become the troll. To point out that you think someone is a
troll only takes a single post of a few lines. His less annoying posts were
the uneducating, "So few facts, so much time. Life's hard for an old troll!"
and "Get some new material, old foolish troll." When I point out his
excessive complaining he only comes back with much more annoying posts.
These are not intended to be educational to anyone. These are the rantings
of someone who feels he is on a mission, a very misguided mission.

Just as bad are the many posts attempting to justify his behavior.


You will be missing some interesting and edifying posts if you ignore
Roger.

It is not unusual for trolls to make worthwhile posts. But you have to
consider the noise level they bring as well. In this thread all but one
post was noise. That's an unacceptable level.

By your definition you have become a troll. IOW why don't take your
own advice and not respond as you have several times. JR has less
posts about this than you now.

 

[Jolly Roger]

On 2018-01-04, rickman <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

nospam wrote on 1/3/2018 8:38 AM:
In article <p2i0de$anm$1@gioia.aioe.org>, harry newton
harry@at.invalid> wrote:

but remember this is an Apple-only problem

nope. it's a battery chemistry issue which affects android and any
other device that uses a battery.

there is *no* avoiding it. *every* battery ages.

Yes, but it doesn't have to impact the operation of the product in the
first year.

Where's the evidence that all (or even the majority) of iPhones are
impacted in the first year? Answer: it doesn't exist because it's
bullshit hyperbole.

A well designed product would be sized to continue to operate as the
battery ages.

Apple devices *do* continue to operate as the battery ages. I've got an
eight year old iPad 1st generation sitting right here beside me that's
working just fine on the original battery. And the feature in question
actually extends the *runtime* of devices with dying batteries rather
than putting so much load on them they fail outright and shut down the
device. Personally, eeking out every little bit of runtime possible
happens to be precisely what I *expect* from the OS that runs on my
devices. Is that something that sets Apple users apart from the rest of
the herd?

I've had laptop batteries that worked nearly as well as new for two or
three years.

Just two or three? I'm posting this on a six year old MacBook Pro with
the original battery (486 cycles and counting and 88% healthy) without
any issues. I have an iPhone 3GS that still works on the original
battery. I have a 2010 iPhone 4 in the car as a dedicated dashcam that
still runs great too.

> Do you not understand the issue?

Do you?

Apple would seem to have either not given this attention in the design
stage (indicating incompetence)

Nonsense. Apple's customers have good experiences, which is why Apple
tops customer satisfaction and rakes in the profits. Real-world use
trumps some blogger with a slant any day.

or they made a conscious decision to allow battery deterioration to
impact the operation of the phone in the first year of operation (with
potential warranty issues).

Anecdotes and hyperbole don't equate to pandemics. This entire "issue"
is a big, overblown bucket of bullshit from people who don't understand
the engineering involved. And a few months from now it'll be forgotten
and replaced with the next new "scandal".

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On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 17:09:25 -0500, rickman
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

nospam wrote on 1/4/2018 5:05 PM:
In article <p2m8as$5hc$1@dont-email.me>, rickman
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:


It is not unusual for trolls to make worthwhile posts.

actually, it's extremely unusual.

trolls post for a reaction, not for content.

And yet Harry's posts have been informative for me. I guess that shows he
isn't trolling.

No, it shows that you aren't knowledgeable enough to see his idiocy.

 

[Jolly Roger]

On 2018-01-04, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article <fb7nrmFn2gnU3@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

It is not unusual for trolls to make worthwhile posts.

actually, it's extremely unusual.

trolls post for a reaction, not for content.

And yet Harry's posts have been informative for me.

No, they were filled with lies, like:

"Apple basically admitted today they permanently chopped CPU speeds in
half"

The CPU speed isn't only cut in half, but on a curve, and it's not
permanent but only when the device is doing something that specifically
requires more current than the battery can supply, and only on devices
with batteries that are on the way out.

yep.

put simply, the peaks are clipped.

Exactly, and the benefit is a device with longer runtime towards the end
of its battery life. I'll take it.

for everyday tasks that don't push it hard, such as reading email or
web surfing, there is no slowdown.

Yup. But details like that don't fit the troll narrative.

And:

"they were trying to secretly mask defective batteries"

No evidence of that, and the feature in question was specifically
mentioned in the iOS release notes - hardly a secret.

they were actually trying to *extend* the life of batteries.

Yes.

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JR