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Wow, that's shitty. There's certainly plenty of company in the 'never buying a Pixel again' crowd.

I've not heard anything good about Google's support in general.

Their partner repair company which did my screen replacement tried to refuse because it was running GOS - had to use all my charm to convince her to do it.

Oh I thought you meant recently. My bad

Whaaa? It gives me £65 even on an iPhone 12 in good condition. £50 for an 8 Plus. Same amount for 11 Pro or 10a

£50 for the 8 Plus isn't too bad though

(€150 = £127)

> PIP recipients aren't allowed to save up for anything

That's incorrect.

Some, not all, PIP recipients are also in receipt of means-tested benefits, such as Universal Credit for example, which has a £6k capital disregard, and a reduction of benefits between £6k and £16k, and no entitlement over £16k. (Also I'm sure there are PIP recipients who work and receive no other benefits)

There surely are PIP recipients who would end up with savings of over £6k if they did not spend their PIP on anything else, and Motability is a legitimate way to spend it in the eyes of the DWP.

> Just be careful with the 8

Don't forget the notorious vertical pink line issue! Luckily that had (has?) an extended warranty programme.

I wonder what the comms would have been without the Motorola partnership

I tried but the wife just won't let me put an SMR in the garden.

"New and used vehicles are substitutes. When the price of a good’s substitute increases, the demand curve for that good shifts outward and the equilibrium price and quantity supplied both increase. Thus, increasing the quality-adjusted price of new vehicles will result in an increase in equilibrium price and quantity of used vehicles....Practically, when new vehicles become more expensive, demand for used vehicles increases (and these used vehicles become more expensive"

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2022-04/Final-TS...

Being interested in/annoyed at the price of new cars even as a second-hand car buyer is somewhat justified

(N.B.: I'm not anti EV)

Enjoy the overnight cheap electricity while it lasts. The only long-term strategy is investment in solar and batteries – use your temporary savings the government is giving you to invest in solar etc. Some governments are signalling that we have a role to play in electricity infrastructure investment...

Governments are only temporarily letting you get away with not paying the 0.35-0.80 EUR fuel duty on each litre of petrol/diesel (which then has VAT added. These taxes amount to 100s of billions a year across all of Europe). UK is steaming ahead with a per-mile tax on EVs and hybrids, for example.

The hyphen tends to get dropped when it a word becomes more ... commonplace.

Your morality won't save you in WW3, but the armed forces might

Not many wrenches needed for the modern push-fit plastic fittings (which break all the time).

I should correct my previous comment - you get the bus pass at state pension age.

The equivalent in London is therefore the Older Persons' Freedom Pass, which I believe is free to apply for

The 60+ Card is therefore something most of the country doesn't benefit from from age 60, and the fee is perfectly reasonable

This is sidetracking anyway

Without question. Absolute kangaroo court.

Only slightly less absurd than the witch trial in Monty Python's Holy Grail.

IMO there's unspoken context: the over 60s are given a free, physical pass that does not require a smartphone to apply for or use. There is no cost to apply nor renew. It is not means-tested. There is obviously a large cost to that - nearly £1bn across the whole of England.

It's a political choice whom to inflict operational burden or cost upon.

I'm trying to reconcile such wildly clever people not wondering if they were being surveiled? Or didn't they care?

A step in an easily avoidable muddy puddle

I got one 8 years ago and I don't own a car (too poor right now). My biggest problem is there is nowhere secure enough to leave it in my nearby towns and some cities. But the villages are safe enough. And luckily our trains permit ebikes

Is he a confident person and handsome/good build?

Ie maybe it's not the suit or the suit alone

> I'm not sure what that looks like though

Two wheels and some impressive leg muscles !

Yup. In the UK you can be arrested for almost anything, have silence used against you, subject to warrant-less search of your home, compelled to decrypt devices, stopped in your vehicle for any reason etc. They have an angle for everything. Our legal system has accumulated a ton of narrowly defined powers

But then again we don't fear police and ICE shooting us dead and our government wasn't subject to a coup in 2021, so there is that. Swings and roundabouts

I'm not saying it's an impossible defence. But a jury has rejected the "I forgot it" defence in 3 or so cases IIRC

I'm just saying the police will unlikely drop their line of questioning after you claim you forgot the PIN. They'd probably then seek to prove you did know it - eg ask where's your boarding pass is, ask if you messaged/called anyone before/during your flight, try to establish the time the phone was last used, reducing the period of forgetting etc

IANAL/officer of course

> Or pretend that I forgot my pin and accidentally lock my phone down

Err our policing and judicial systems weren't born yesterday. You'll be treated as having refused to unlock/decrypt, as devices are so ubiquitous and people unlock tens or hundreds of times a day.

Recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893653

For Apple at least, don't most users have ADP disabled, so the Gov has access to the data anyway?

And quite a bit of backed-up data on Android is not E2EE encrypted

Yeah the world is in a 60 year trend in declining births. An app isn't going to fix anything

Increase women's education, labour participation, reduce infant mortality, have good access to birth control, and make life expensive...You're not going to get babies

Over double. 1.5m in 2001 to 3.9m in 2021, estimated 4.1m today though I think that's a slight underestimate given recent immigration

No idea about direct attribution to the UK's alcohol consumption though

M4... Let's see what asahi achieves

That infrastructure fee isn't going to go down despite your new capex (and opex) costs. Congratulations, everyone just got duped.

Sure it starts out covering edge cases but the more they realise they can shift a burden - and cost - to homeowners, it'll spread. I don't want grid infrastructure in my home personally

What happened to economies of scale?

It's more important for shareholders to increase profits than to actually invest in infrastructure.

> macOS 15 is the last usable release.

Same. Will sell my Air when security updates stop for Sequoia