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as for the rest, I fail to see why pay extra for this niche nonsense when you can achieve exactly same thing with whatever Android launcher you prefer, only differentiator of this device is physical keyboard
crap specs with only 90Hz display and MediaTek Dimensity 8300 for 600+ USD and it is not even released yet, but maybe in few months when these specs will look even worse than they already are
and yes, sure there are business people, they can enjoy getting stuck in traffic
What we/they play:
my favorite game (but they are sick of it, not appreciating it, most of the time I win) is Worms Armageddon (part of Worms Revolution collection)
Blur - racing with fun for me and son
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing or Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed - all of us including dauther
Little Big Planet - co-op platformer, all of us liked it until it got really difficult
NHL Legacy edition - all of us ocassionally
MotorStorm - Pacific Rift - racing, seems only son, but I can bear it for while
Children like (but without me):
Minecraft - PlayStation 3 Edition - they play it offline like all games we have, I guess it is co-op
Rayman Legends - co-op platformer
The Simpsons Game - co-op platformer, but needs to think, can get stuck in places
and since we watch together MotoGP and F1 they recently started to play F1 2013 - Complete Edition, but seems too difficult, for racing the best fun is first Sonic all star racing or Blur
on PS2:
LEGO Batman - co-op platformer, but requires lot of thinking
Shrek 2 - same as above
we liked from PS1:
Crash team racing, but now it is replaced with sonic with better graphics on PS3
Circuit Breakers (USA) - racing, all of us
FoxKids.com - Micro Maniacs Racing - racing, but with running characters
Tom and Jerry in House Trap - they like
Heck even here in Prague with less than perfect public transport I don't get people using taxi/uber, only reasonable scenarios to me are multiple people with lots of baggage on the way from airport or people going in night from pub/event after most of the public transport stopped operating (though buses/trams run 24/7, just less frequent in night).
In ~10 years living in Prague I used taxi I think only twice - with wife delivering baby on the way to hospital and with wife returning with newborn back home from hospital.
but I remember while travelling once in India in very hot bus one fellow traveller offered me watermelon with some spice which was very interesting flavor (as interesting as salted chocolate for instance) and good combination, but never figured out what spice they used, normally I don't like watermelon at all, but together with spice it was interesting combo, could never reproduce it again :-( it will be 20 years since my visit next year
As I said, if you wouldn't know bad durian reputation and just had blind test, you would probably not notice particularly bad smell, it has some distinct smell/fragrance, but I wouldn't call it bad. Some Czech cheese and many other European cheese varietes have way more unpleasant smell than durian, if I had to choose in what smelly enviroment I wanna be durian would for sure beat most of this European cheese.
Someone else told her she can fix it with help of local comunity and if she doesn't fix it, they will publish facts about her AI usage.
Judging by logic of some commenters if journalist ask someone questions, give them time to reply to give them opportunity to present their views and later publish it without them not meeting the deadline is now considered a threat.
Btw. I am also sick of AI slop everywhere in magazines, ads, etc., so if I can choose with my wallet whether I spend my money in AI slop shop or shop not using AI, it's easy choice.
It's nice that library is welcoming young people, though not sure if encouraging their smartphone addiction is the right way to attract someone.
*main reason for complaint wasn't kids staring at phones and playing games, but shouting swear words during gaming on phone and playing it loudly without earbuds, when I am visiting with small kids who are interested in actual books
btw. too sweet ain't good as well, sometimes I even liked little bit hit of sourness for change, shame here in Europe is impossible to buy good mango, only those red/green ones which taste all pretty bad
anyway I'd recommend everyone chilled dragonfruit, amazing tasty juicy fruit beating even mango and much easier to consume, can just cut it in half and eat content with spoon + no risk of anything being stuck between your teeth like with mango
never understood the appeal of Durian, it's not that interesting flavor for me, I don't mind the fragrance/smell, don't even consider it smelly, not sure why it has such bad reputation
Dacia CEO Katrin Adt has called on European law makers to relax regulation on small cars to reduce prices and restore the region’s automotive industry to growth.
Speaking to Autocar at the unveiling of the new Dacia Spring recently, Adt said rising car prices were driving a significant contraction of Europe’s automotive industry and cited increasingly stringent emissions and safety regulation as among the main causes.
"The world needs Dacia more than ever, and it's more difficult than ever to be Dacia,” Adt remarked.
"The European market has lost three million cars since 2019. It has never come back to pre-Covid levels," she said, equating the decline to losing the entire German market, Europe's biggest.
"And if you say it's three million cars, then do the math: it's 10 factories, 12 million tyres, maybe 15 million seats, nine million wipers..."
"This is a little bit scary when you think about economics in Europe, and if you analyse why this happened – because it didn't happen in any other region of the world – it is because cars are getting too expensive. And if you're digging down on why our cars are getting so expensive, the main reason is the regulation. This still remains an issue."
Manufacturers must adhere to an increasing amount of emissions and safety regulations in Europe, and 25% of Dacia's R&D budget and engineering workforce is currently dedicated to meeting the various rules.
"We have fulfilled around 100 regulations so far, and we still have another 107 regulations to fulfil by the end of the decade," Adt said.
"The question is: 'Is that exactly what the customer needs and wants?' The most used button in our cars is the so-called magic button, where you can turn off all the [ADAS] beeps.
"So we have asked the [European] Commission, together with other manufacturers, to have at least a regulation freeze on small cars to get a chance to offer affordable mobility."
Fabrice Cambolive, CEO of Dacia parent brand Renault, recently said its engineers were "dealing with a tsunami of regulations from Europe" and called for a regulation freeze for 10 years.
"Then we can focus on affordability, we can focus on electrification," he said. "This for sure will help the European market to reboot."
Adt previously suggested that looser regulation on small cars could be key to Dacia putting the Hipster microcar into production, but when asked for an update on that programme, she would only tell Autocar to "stay tuned".
Last week, Sanders and California Rep. Mark Takano reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, which would lower the standard workweek for nonexempt employees from 40 to 32 hours, thereby pushing employers to shorten schedules or pay overtime for the difference. Sanders, who has advocated for responsible AI use and, more recently, pushed for a pause on AI development, has pointed to the positive benefits he sees stemming from the technology: an ease on American labor.
“At a time when artificial intelligence and robotics will radically transform our economy, it is imperative that the financial gains from this new technology benefit working families, not just a handful of billionaires and corporate CEOs,” Sanders said in an announcement of the bill.
The bill, initially introduced by Takano in 2021, still won’t guarantee every American a three-day weekend. Instead, starting at least six months after enactment, it would gradually lower the overtime threshold for covered workers until it reaches 32 hours following four years of becoming law. Employers could still schedule longer weeks, but would owe overtime—and they can’t cut affected workers’ weekly compensation or benefits because of the change.
Takano similarly argued that labor law has failed to keep pace with nearly nine decades of technological change. “Since then, cell phones, the internet, and now AI have increased worker productivity,” he said. “Work has fundamentally changed. It’s time that labor standards caught up.”
The bill would also establish overtime after eight hours in one day and double pay after 12. Under current federal law, covered nonexempt employees generally receive time-and-a-half only after working more than 40 hours in a week, with no federal requirement for daily overtime.
The proposal arrives amid a corporate race to use generative AI to produce more work with fewer people. A 2026 analysis by Boston College sociologist Juliet Schor for the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute estimated that AI-led productivity gains could allow 35 million U.S. workers—28% of the workforce—to move to a 32-hour week within a decade. Like Takano, Sanders has also called for this in the past. He introduced a Senate version of the bill in 2024 and argued that reducing work hours was the next chapter in the labor struggle stretching back more than a century.
A century-old fight over workers’ time
Debs was one of the country’s biggest proponents of the shortened workday. In his 1890 essay “Eight-Hour Day A Righteous Demand,” Debs called shorter hours a matter of basic dignity. “By making eight hours a lawful day’s work, no man, woman, nor child is wronged,” he wrote.
Debs and other labor leaders pushed for shorter work hours when many Americans still worked 12-hour shifts six or seven days a week. (To be sure, Debs pushed for the standard eight-hour day, in a time when Americans worked six days a week). In 1926, Ford Motor Company became one of the first major U.S. employers to establish a five-day, 40-hour week for factory workers. Congress eventually cemented the 40-hour standard through the Fair Labor Standards Act, signed in 1938, which set an initial 44-hour week before phasing it down to 40 hours by 1940.
Nearly nine decades later, Sanders argues that the standard has outlived the economy that it was built on. Since 1979, net productivity has climbed roughly 90% while typical workers’ hourly pay has risen about 33%, according to Economic Policy Institute data—a gap advocates for shorter workweeks cite as part of the broader case for reform.
There is also evidence that reducing hours can benefit workers without damaging their perceived performance. In a six-country study coauthored by Boston College sociologists Wen Fan and Schor and conducted with the advocacy group 4 Day Week Global, nearly 2,900 workers across 141 companies cut their schedules by about five hours a week. After six months, they reported less burnout and better physical and mental health, job satisfaction, and work ability. For Sanders, the question is whether those efficiencies will result in layoffs and larger corporate profits—or allow employees to reclaim some of their time.
Still, moving from voluntary company trials to a federal labor standard would be a much larger test. During a 2024 hearing held specifically to consider Sanders’ earlier 32-hour-workweek bill, Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy argued that the added labor costs could raise prices and threaten businesses operating on thin margins. Cassidy now chairs the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which would consider a Senate version of the legislation.
“A 32-hour workweek is not a radical idea,” Sanders said. “It’s time to reduce the stress level in our country.”
I am using Whatsapp and I MUST have some SMS app in phone, if your app will support SMS and on top of that will provide Jabber/XMPP messages over data I will be more than happy to replace my SMS app with your app.
Sadly seems there is pretty much NONE apps where dev would bother to implement support for simple SMS. And if your app doesn't support SMS I am not going to install any other obscure app since I need SMS to receive 2FA codes/delivery notifications/doctor appointments, etc.
Signal used to be liek this until 2022, not many people used it, but at least you could use it for SMS and if there was Signal contact you could use their network, in their wisdom they removed SMS feature, so Signal was removed from phones of my whole extended family since we need SMS and not going to have extra Signal without SMS, if anyway majority use Whatsapp.
ordinary cars can get to 13kWh/100km which ain't that far from 7.5 you mention
I ditched xcancel for redirectors like https://twit.0r.cx/
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So now I must have extra dedicated app just for SMS, which could be replaced easily with another alternative messenger if ANYONE bothered to implement simple SMS support, but seems nobody is interesting in this, so I am not interesting in your messengers if you cant be bothered to support at least SMS and use Whatsapp (and have Telegram as backup if WA would block me again, appeal took ~5 hours to resolve).
and
"Long-term cohort studies tracking historical Swedish registry data from the early-to-mid 1900s indicate that approximately 2.3% to 3.6% of children experienced the death of a biological parent before reaching adulthood (under 15 to 18 years of age)"
so less than 4% of the kids experienced parental death, absolute majority was born into regular complete families, my point was like half of the Lindgren characters are missing parent for whatever reason, not one in 20 books main characters, she was clearly projecting something unhealthy unrealistic into her books, if she was following reality it would be rare in her books and not that many if not majority of her characters are from incomplete families
Emil of Lönneberga and The Six Bullerby Children are great books, the rest about traumatized kids/orphans not so much as kid books.