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It's about 30 years ago that I quit smoking but it was a real bugger at the time.

Here's what helped me the most; every time you try to quit it gets a bit easier next time.

So if you try and fail, try again. Then keep trying after that.

So many people try to quit and get disheartened when they're pulled back.

Instead just think of it as another step along the path. You are training yourself to tolerate the itch and to do without nicotine.

A one time fee to use something you’ve already payed for?

They’ve really MBA’d the crap out of that brand and it serves them right now it’s going down the tube.

Yes it is for me. Google Maps has much better and more up to date information.

A number of times I’ve been set to the wrong place by Apple Maps.

If you’re going to be served ads either way you might as well pick the more reliable tool.

For maps Apple has a lower quality product, that lets me down when I really need it, and has no privacy advantage.

I like to buy music. I usually buy from iTunes but I hate that they keep pestering me for rent for their subscription service.

The latest think I've noticed is that iTunes now advertises at one price but actually bills me at a higher price (79p in iTunes, £1 on my credit card).

If Apple behaves like every other manufacturer it will stop being worth the premium.

Which is not that surprising given that BYD received 12.5 billion yuan in Chinese government subsidies in 2025 alone.

If you give any car company that amount of money every year they would be able to undercut the competition and grow their market share too.

When you don't need to make a profit you can afford to dump enough product to kill the competition.

https://eletric-vehicles.com/byd/byd-posts-first-annual-prof...

It's great that you can turn all this off but why is it tucked away in Screen Time of all places?

What's the thinking behind that?

Can I tell what’s AI generated?

Well if I can I’m not going to help train more slop image generation.

Bouncing on AI generated button as fast as possible without looking at the images got me 6,000 points.

For me, it’s either Staunton or St George.

Every thing else is very pretty but feels a bit weird and off.

You can look at it but you wouldn’t want to play with it.

This is so funny.

An article about internet censorship of an archive site that requires an archive site to read!

That’s Brilliant! :D

I’ve seen businesses try to push that here. It’s surprising how fast they can suddenly respond to other forms of communication when money is involved.

If you don’t want to live under Zuckerberg’s boot you should fight him every chance you get.

SMS still works.

This is really cool. I like the idea of combining it with a offline Wikipedia cache.

As I said it in another post, what does Trump expect? His negotiations are all stick and no carrot.

Canada is bound to look for new trade opportunities in the face of that.

You make a deal with Trump, it's always worse than what you had previously.

Then, no mater what you do, he breaks the deal 3 months later with some kind of implied military threat if you complain.

All the comparisons with personal relationships here are silly. This isn't a marital split. This someone who thinks they're the only customer saying they don't want to buy something and the vendor saying fair enough, I'll sell it to someone else.

Trump won't like it but what does he expect? His negotiations are all stick and no carrot.

Canada is bound to look for new trade opportunities in the face of that.

You do make a deal with Trump, it's always worse than what you had before. Then he breaks even that 3 months later with some kind of implied military threat if you complain.

Trump is just really bad at business.

How? They stopped making that stuff years ago.

They whole point of that article is that it's a weird, curious thing from the past that doesn't exist any more.

> I don't know about Canada, but most of the EU runs on US Big Tech to name just one sensitive sector.

That's true, right now. The way things are going though the EU is spurred to finally cut the cord with US Big Tech because of the security risk.

It didn't used to be like that before Trump got into power. Trump is bad for business because he's an unreliable partner that's turning on his allies.

> British, Scottish,

You do realise that British implies Scottish don't you? On which island do you think Scotland is located?

It's not that they want to enter a trade war with Trump, it's that there's large room for growth in trade between Canada and Poland (your example).

Since Trump is hostile to trade with both parties there's an opportunity to replace lost US trade that's probably not coming back.

Trump has weakened himself and his allies where as mutual trade between Canada and the EU makes both stronger.

That's true but all the cool SMC-70 features, like the graphics modes, were custom to it.

CP/M programs written for other machines couldn't really make use of any of that unless they were rewritten specifically for the SMC-70.

If you just wanted the CP/M text compatibility and not the extended features you could buy a machine capable of that for much, much less.

As Kalleboo points out, if you wanted to buy off the shelf CP/M software you'd probably have to buy an external 5 1/4" disk drive too.

Many Russians think of themselves not as European but as Eurasian, as if that's something different and special.

They have a whole political doctrine about it. It's crazy identity politics.

Part of Putin's war on Ukraine is that he doesn't want them to think of themselves as European either (although they obviously are).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia#Russian_geopolitical_i...

Yep, I had the same thought. As simple heuristic, text written in all lowercase is often just hot takes and so not worth taking the time to read.

LC;DR :P

At a guess I'd say that the spec wasn't quite competitive enough at the price it was pitched.

Consider that the C64 was also launched in 1982 for a much cheaper price and was available in non-NTSC regions too, so would have had a bigger software library available to it.

Many people can put up with less convenience with peripherals if you're paying an order of magnitude less up front.

Even the software on cassette and 5.25" disk would have been so much cheaper to distribute than the newly launched 3.5" disks (which were much better).

All I really want is a spellchecker as good as GNU Aspell and a way to turn off all AI features I don’t use to get battery life back.

For me it would not be about commuting so much as about leisure. I work from home and so have no commute at all.

I’m a mountain biker I want to put a tow bar rack on the back with the bikes.

That will reduce range on its own and added with the long journeys to bike parks I would prefer to be able to not have to charge if I can avoid it.

Or at least to have more options on when, where and for how long I stop.

I'd rather have longer range than faster charging because I pay so much less for electricity at home than at a public charging station.

Being able to bring more energy with me is a very useful.

Why can't an electric car be fun to drive? I have an old car I'm not planning on changing but electric cars I've driven just seem quieter, smoother and just better than ICE vehicles.

I turn it down straight away for being Russian and I'm suspicious of anyone that mentions it positively.

Russia is in a cold war with democracies in general and a hot war with Ukraine. It has an autocratic dictator as leader and state control of media.

It has a well documented propaganda campaign with the goal of destabilising other countries through agitation. We even know the address of the building in Saint Petersburg it's run from.

Why would anyone try to assess Yandex's results? They could be like a slot machine serving good results 78% of the time and slipping propaganda in when least expected.

Why bother with that when there are good, free alternatives?

I guess what I'm saying is that Gantt charts have been tried before, they aren't novel or new. Your suggestion is hundreds of years old.

So I would definitely take that bet against you.

One of the issues is that Gantt charts don't explicitly including rests as symbols. In standard notation everything adds up to the bar length including the rests.

They also fail a bit when it comes to showing discernable short notes and long notes in the same passage of music. That's fine in a DAW because you can zoom in and out but you can't really do that as you're playing.

Finally, learning the basics of musical notation ain't that hard. If it was we would have replaced it already.

Think about this way, computer based sequencing with Gantt charts has been common since at least the Atari ST. People know about it and they use it on a computer.

But they still don't want it for paper. Ask yourself why?

Do you really think it's because everyone is just stupid and old fashioned or could it be something else maybe?

I would bet that your clever "genz/genalpha/ gen++" would be more likely to introduce better teaching system than establish replacement for musical notation.

Can you give a specific example of a drum patten you think can't be represented with music notation then?

Since you mention Drum and Bass, here's the Amen break in drum notation:

https://www.elephantdrums.co.uk/blog/guides-and-resources/am...

Haha! I've been using Ableton since 2007, it's not something new or secret.

You can use a scrollable chart to display notes on screen and still want printed music for live use.

I'll bet you that if your friends are professionals and using live musicians to play their their compositions then they are distributing music to them in notation form not screenshots of Logic gantt charts.

There's nothing "nonsensical" about notation, it just serves a different purpose to a DAW screen.

If you want to read from paper and play what you read in real time, a Gantt chart is harder to use not easier. Use the right tool for the job.

Anything that can be played live, can be represented with music notation.

If anything does comes along that people want to do live then notation will be extended yet again to include it.

DAWs have been around for a few years now. If you were right and they really were 100 times easier to comprehend people would you not see people using printouts of piano rolls to read from?

What you’re suggesting is actually hundreds of years old from well before the existence of computers or DAWs but still no one is using it.

It turns out that judging the relative length of lines is difficult at speed compared to reading distinct symbols.

Also that 88 note piano rolls are a very space inefficient way of representing music on a page. Even a chromatic stave would be inefficient.

That really matters for people that want to sight read with other musicians and have as much viewable as possible in a compact area.

Finally, standard notation is very rich and evolved, as you’d expect for something in active use for so long. It has extensions for lots of instruments.

When people say notation can’t show X it’s usually that they just don’t know it can.

The only downside is that you have to learn it.