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Having to charge for 40 minutes during a 6 hour trip is a non-issue in my opinion. During a 6 hour trip one has to eat at least one lunch/dinner which should account for 40 minutes. And likely an additional stop at a rest room or leg stretcher for 10 minutes somewhere else.

Electrical charging stations will be everywhere, very soon ,very fast. All restaurants, gas stations and kiosks will have plenty. To attract customers and to earn an extra buck. It's very cheap to install compared to tanks and pumps for flammable and hazardous liquid fuels.

He means that you need Apple hardware to start a Facetime call.

Regarding the cost. I still think it's a good option to use a cloud storage service or similar. But I just tried to say that it's way better to select something like pCloud's forever option, one time cost upfront, instead of paying every month or year for 50 years or more. After about 3.5 years, it's "free" storage after that.

No, it's nothing electrical. It's all mechanical. It's the surface which is slightly striped or bubbly or whatever and when sliding the hand or finger lightly over it, it generates a vibrating feeling. It might be less now after some months of use. Maybe the small cracks are filled with finger fat or something :).

The sharp edges are still there though.

For the very thinnest of laptops it's probably difficult without soldering the chips on board, but many users would prefer a slightly thicker laptop where you can replace the RAM, SSD etc. I have never had a laptop where the thickness has been an issue and I have done a fair share of traveling while working in sales.

It's like a thoughtless race to make the thinnest laptop as if that is something that is useful. I bit like the megapixel race a few years ago. "We do it because it's difficult, but we can" kind of thing.

And then we have the aluminum body used on higher end laptops. Is that really better than high-end well designed plastic? When using my wife's Macbook Air M1 I suffer from the razor sharp edges while typing. (Maybe not related to it's thinness or aluminum body, but a big design issue). Has anyone noticed on the Macbook Air M1 the small vibrations it causes in the hands/palms when you slide them over the palmrest ever so slightly? Extremely annoying.

But for people who do fly, flying represents 50% or more of their footprint.

What many people forget with these x$/month is that you will have to pay this for the rest of your life. That's why I have chosen an option where you pay a higher fee once (about 3 years cost) and then it does not cost anything going forward.

Another issue with storing all these photos for your whole life is of course that once you die, what happens? Who will take charge of all these photos? Who will continue to pay? Who will clean up and take ownership of it? Or will they just be lost once you are dead and all this money for what?

The third issue is of course that the more random unsorted pictures we have the less we want to look at it because 90% are bad and only 10% are good. It's important to clean up just after taking the photos.

"And thus not flood people who dislike a thing with ads promoting the thing."

But isn't that what these ads are about. They want to show the people who dislike a thing with ads promoting the thing so that hopefully one day they will like it.

Sure it could make you hate it more, but unconsciously or whatever, you will be affected.

I see ads for shoe brands I don't like or care about, but for sure, the next time I need to buy a pair of shoes, that brand name is on top of my mind.

Not sure what a cold basement has to do with it? You suck in air from outside, extract the energy, and blow out colder air. The warm water is stored in an isolated tank (sure if the basement is cold it might cool off slightly quicker, but you warm up the cold basement which is a good thing). It is then used for heating the house via radiators as well as for warm tap/shower water.

We use it to warm a 240m2 house with four inhabitants. It works well down to -10 to -15C.

During the night we pay only have the price per kWh to the utility company (as they have excess capacity during that period).

It works great and it pays itself back quite fast.

It's not controlled by any cloud. You can regulate on the control panel how and when you want it to run and it adapts with the weather too if you want.

For me it's lack of sleep triggering migraines. If I go a few of days without enough sleep (going to bed late, being kept awake by kids, jetlag etc) then I often get a migraine.

Maybe there might some extra factor doing the real triggering such as the weather, etc, but I have noticed a clear correlation between lack of sleep and migraine.

Traveling to different continents for business trips often triggered a migraine at the end of the week.

If I'm working too much too late inot the nights for several days then I often get a migraine.

If I sleep poorly and wake up often due to my kids having a period of bad sleep, sickness etc, then I often have a migraine after a few days of this.

Drinking alcohol can also contribute as it makes the sleep less good and efficient.

Yes, because it's based on a PC. A quite standard and open specification where you can buy motherboards, CPU, RAM, disk, IO peripherals etc from many different manufacturers and build and install what software you want. However, on a Mac, you cannot install or change the hardware as you like, you cannot install what software you want.

If Linus Torvalds was a teen today and there was no open PC standard, only a Mac, then it would not have been possible to create Linux the way it is today.

Imagine if also Microsoft starts to make their own processors and then sell their own computers with Windows and all locked down, and don't allow anyone else to make computers with Windows or their processors.

Sure Dell, HP and others could still make PC's, based on Intel or AMD CPU's or some ARM processor and then run Linux (or develop their own OS), but it's a hard sell.

The PC's sold to the mainstream thanks to Windows/Word/Excel maybe, but then people who wanted could tinker as much as they wanted and where free so make and sell their software (windows based or whatever) or their HW peripherals.

Now you are at best stuck within an app store if you create something.

Wrestling?

That's maybe fine, but right now there are only two options, Apple with iOS or Google with Android. They can control pricing, the can control what is there and not, they get all the user stats, they decide what the apps can do and not do etc.

Is this it? We are stuck with these two forever?

Many have tried and huge firms at that, to create an operating system and app store for phones, like Microsoft with Windows and Samsung with Bada (and I think they had another OS too). And you can't say they have no resources, money, marketing channels etc.

Who will manage to break this duopoly and when?

I think the only real chance is that web apps/PWAs get up to par with native apps. It's getting there, but Apple is also blocking this with limitations in their Safari browser (and the iOS version of Chrome (which apparently on iOS is just a wrapper around Safari) so also there they are hindering development).

"S3 costs include battle tested, multi-DC replication."

Sometimes we pay a bit too much for this multi-replication, battle tested stuff. It's not like the probability of loosing data is THAT huge. For the 4x extra cost you could easily take a backup every 24h.

"It means that we can host 100 different indices on S3, and use the same pool of search server to deal with the CPU-bound stuff"

You can do that with NFS.

It's amazing how much we are willing to pay for a bunch of computers in the cloud. Leasing a new car costs around $350/month. You could have three new cars at your disposal for the same price as this search implementation.

That might be true to some extent, but each of those new projects consist of one or more people at the top controlling the functionality for the rest of the users.

The articles says so.

To continue as a company they have to invest just like any other company. As Apple is so big, of course the investments they make are big. But not necessarily bigger than what any other company invests in percent of revenue or profit.

This announcement makes it sound like it's something amazingly special they do. But in fact, any company throughout history has invested a certain percentage of their revenue, just like Apple is now doing.

In Switzerland the cost of living is also >50% higher than other western European countries. Housing is even 100% higher. Service employees in Switzerland come mainly from Germany, France, Portugal, Brazil etc.

You are probably right about the cut the publisher took, but the margins are still higher for Apple as they have very low costs of marketing, distribution etc. In fact I think Apple charges way more if you consider the margins.

The other problem is of course that no one else can really enter this space. It's now only Apple and Google. It will be very hard for anyone else to enter. There were many more publishers and the competition and differentiation was higher.

A semiconductor factory is very expensive to build and run in terms of the actual building (vibration resistant, advanced ventilation with purified air etc) and the equipment inside (some of the most expensive machines you can buy). It's all extremely expensive. It is also fairly automated and requires few people to run compared to the value it outputs. So the cost of labor is low in comparison and thus it's not a big deal to put it in a high cost country.

All energy generation is bad for the environment, just more or less bad. Solar cells and wind power might be "renewable", but it requires a lot of metals and material to build (and also energy), they disturb natural habitat etc. They are much better than coal, oil and gas, but they are not harmless. It's better to avoid using energy if possible than using renewable energy.

But it spies on you. And transmits data about you to Google. And has pre-installed apps you cannot fully uninstall. And it changes your privacy settings without you knowing when new features are added.

The problem with cookie popups is that it trains people to just click Yes and OK without thinking and reading. At the end we get blind to them and we click and accept things which are much more important, download viruses, click bad links or whatever.

What's needed is better default protection by the law to stop companies collecting and using data.

A lot of people use Google so it would of course make a huge difference if Google would stop collecting profiles.

In addition, solar panels can be put on top of existing infrastructure like houses so it takes no additional land.

What is the problem? This is great for Saudi Arabia and great for the world.

Saudi Arabia has a lot of sun and they have a lot of cash. If they invest it in producing electricity using solar they can still be an exporter of energy.

Secondly, most wars in the Arabic regions and all the meddling from the USA and other countries in this region is due to the oil. Without the rest of the world's need for oil we would get peace in this region.

kDrive from Infomaniak is pretty good. It also has iOS and Android apps for automatic upload from your phone. It's a privacy focused company and have been around a long time.

They also offer file sharing with passwords and backup solutions.

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/kdrive

That's exactly why I built EasyOrg. It has a simple to use editor and an Agenda viewer. You can add, edit and delete org mode todos via a GUI or using the editor. For note taking you use the editor. No difficult Eamcs keybindings and buffers.

The agenda has several different views to help you prioritize what to work on next based on priorities and scheduled timestamps. You can also sort and filter.

It does not support all the Emacs org mode features, but supports the most common ones. The main focus of EasyOrg is on Todos and I tend to use one org file per project (mainly bigger projects, not the shopping list or to do around the house type of stuff). I used to use a regular text file to keep track of what to do for my projects, but with Org mode and EasyOrg's agenda it's easier to see what needs to be done and prioritize.

It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux desktop. Feedback welcome!

https://www.easyorgmode.com