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Well, my Galaxy S22 (from well: 2022), which still works great will no longer receive _any_ updates after February 27, so I'll have to get new one, or potentially suffer open security holes in the future.

Also, even now I only receive security fixed on a quarterly schedule.

Still not keen on switching to the walled garden - I like the apps I have, including custom browser engines. I like having F-Droid with open source apps.

Will probably get another Samsung, as they have extended updates to 7 years for newer S models.

Even with inotify failing, if the system is plugged in and idle, it could quickly do a scan for files with update date > last known indexed time and index those. Like once per day maybe. Wouldn't take much load or memory, IMHO.

You mean like Zuck prevents me from seeing any Instagram content without login?

Love this. Stay hungry, stay bullish. :D

Maybe reporting is the right idea, but Google the wrong target to complain to.

Maybe we should report obvious fraud or illegal content to the authorities.

You mean the legalization argument, where people get well-dosed drugs from the doctor or pharmacy instead of mystery powder from the black market.

Exactly.

If you want to test military missiles, you do it in the f'ing desert, not from New Jersey.

You want to run ai without guardrails, do it in an airgapped system or be held accountable.

The different is who's operating. In one case you only tell the car to get from a to b, in the other case you explicitly instruct the ai to do things. If the ai causes damages, I'd say it depends on what you prompted. Did you try to find a security hole in system X, or did you ask it for harmless information (in which case rather the ai vendor might be held accountable).

All this is not how the legal system might or might not work, of course.

I wonder if these could be dangerous if there is ever a leak releasing the CO2. I believe humans only tolerate very low concentrations in the air.

Happy they named it EcoCute, that's so much better than ElectroCute :)

Indeed, on modern laptops and phones every UI interaction should be instant (check out BeOS in 1995 for comparison). For background stuff, add some progress indicator.

Can't believe the crap OSes and frameworks add these days in terms of performance cost (and sadly, Apple doesn't exactly shine in that regard)

Then don't. Isn't the whole point of long support cycles that you can keep using your phone for 5 years +, if it serves you well? (typing this from an S22)

I think local-first is a good heuristic in that it would avoid needless pushing of goods around the globe (or needless round-trips of lots of data around the globe).

Also, some people might like it if a product or service was made in US, Switzerland, Germany, Italy etc... for purely personal reasons (feelings).

Clearly not, or this wouldn't be something people discuss at all.

There are lots of people who belong to the above groups, sure, but at least here in Germany Nazi is now applied to basically anyone who doesn't vote green, it's ridiculous.

I think there is value in an app you can drag/drop or exe you can just click (trust issues aside, maybe get them from some marketplace or walled garden) and that will keep working after the next OS update or get updates for future changes in XYZ.

It's called omakase, or rather aimakase in this case.

People will always pay for packaged convenience and a vendor that will keep things working/compatible in the future, IMHO.

Also worth mentioning Twilight on Android.

You could say that the difference between "don't be evil" and having no backbone at all is quite a strong incentive (and strongly influences your brand valuation), but once your reputation is in the gutter, maybe it doesn't matter anymore.

Welcome to production software, where you really want to pin all uncertainties and dependencies, and roll back in case a major problem occurs.

With load on it and a bright room (= display reasonably bright as well) my M3 also doesn't always last 8h. But it gets very close. Intel machines are more like 3h in that case.

Is it fanless, too? (or has the fan pretty much always off like a MBP)

Funny how the US produces many more and more successful startups, while in Germany health insurance is like 200 bucks a month (if you have no income) and I think even free if you're unemployed.

If you're eating "well" but don't feel/sleep well, are you really eating well?

Tell that to Germans. Winter air here is extremely bad.

Rising natural gas prices due to the Ukraine war also made even more people install fireplaces (as if that was cheaper).

They also had furniture built by prisoners in East Germany, and I don't think they got paid.

I once mentioned a street name to a Dane, who didn't understand me, and when I showed her the written name she pronounced it the same way. Maybe sometimes people have weird assumptions how foreigners are supposed to sound.

I believe that how you feel after a night's sleep is mostly due to nutrition (long term, not just the day before).

In Germany there is the NINA warning app which filters based on region. You'll sometimes get warnings that there's is a fire somewhere, please keep windows closed, or if they found a WW2 bomb (every couple months) on a construction site. I'd say it works rather well.

Why can't renters plug a battery into their socket, too? As long as the electric house grid is rated for the specified power (might not be the case on some countries, or in extremely old homes).

I think most electric car batteries are still at over 80% capacity after 10 years usage, so hopefully you can use them much longer than that.

If you only cycle then in the 20-80% range, they'll last much longer (at least for NMC cells, not sure how LFP works).