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Compared to Lebara or other cheap MVNOs their offering is not great. While they eventually give you 30% off (after 6 years) their starting price is 30% higher.

"it should be so frustrating for a dev to work on a full core banking that is mostly useless and userless except maybe 1h every 3 years."

When other banks go down and Monzo stays up, even for 1 hour, that is a massive PR win and will bring in new customers. It's also been used multiple times as of the article (2025), and they are always exposing some users to it for testing.

Why does it have to be an iPad mini? It's not even oled and there are hundreds of other small tablets available for less money.

It was an awesome deal because I love having a folding phone. If you don't then it won't be.

And it wasn't 4 years old when I bought it. It was a year old. My point is you can buy second hand of the previous model or so, a lot of people have FOMO and upgrade often even though newer Folds have only minor differences.

Second hand zfold 4 was 600 quid when I bought it a few years ago. Hardly "multiple months of rent".

Even the earliest folds have a brush in the hinge to kick out dust and sand. I can only imagine after 6 years they've worked out the kinks.

I have 32GB and an aging 5800X3D and I have not had any issues running games yet. Honestly would love to know what games need more powerful RAM/CPU outside of stuff like Flight Simulator, or running at 160fps without framegen.

I use Dropbox to sync my photos, I still have to tell google not to backup my photos probably 2-3 times a week.

Some older android phones like the Huawei P20 Pro had a combination of 40 MP main sensor and 8 MP monochrome sensor and combined them to produce a better image. But modern phones tend to have zoom, normal and wide-angle lenses which don't overlap in any meaningful sense.

Your idea about combining two lenses to make a better quality image could also be done with a single lens, just taking more photos in a row. Almost all phones (iOS/Android) do this for you already.

The real answer: making money on the App Store is extremely difficult. Developers have worked out subscriptions make more money than one-off purchases over time, even if a large % of people will refuse to engage with them.

Only applies to Android. Apple make it deliberately expensive to publish apps and deliberately annoying to run your own apps locally (have to refresh every 7 days).

The UK doesn't have 軍隊式教育 and that is a major factor in why Japanese society works as well as it does.

Two things can be true here

1. The UK "surveillance state" narrative pushed in the US is overblown and we do not think about it or care about it as much as Americans do

2. Living in the UK is not "fantastic" for a decent percentage of people. Cost of living is insane.

Most people aren't that fast or impatient. The world isn't going to change to suit your brain...

This stuff is user tested, many people prefer animations because they get confused if the UI changes instantly. For example if a button moves position when a sidebar is collapsed, the animation tells the user where the button has gone.

You are probably more observant and have good visual processing, so the animation is superfluous to you. Luckily it can be turned off on Android. On Linux I use XFCE which is almost instant - no animations by default.

Where's the utility? If it's a fun hobby to optimise old hardware that's fine. But there's nothing noble about using AI and expensive modern GPUs to get 5% more juice out of old hardware.

Reddit has the same phenomenon where the audience doing the upvotes is very different to the audience posting comments. As I'm in the second group I would love to say it's because people who read comments are smarter than those who just look at the main content. Smarter or not it's a different userbase and it creates some conflict.

"Linux users" is a pretty big spectrum. My XFCE install uses barely any ram.

Steam for some reason gets a pass even though it normalized the use of DRM for PC games over 20 years ago.

They specify that the BIOS needs to be patched.

Absolutely not. Folding phones just aren't for you!

"The final cost depends on the availability of high-capacity memory modules."

Historically even if you invest into index at the worst possible time (prior to a crash) and keep holding you still outperform inflation long term. Timing the market is impossible. Just keep an emergency fund in a money market or savings account and hold the rest.

The prose and art is obvious AI slop. If the author somehow thinks that can deceive an intelligent reader then they've lost me already.

You can still enjoy Reddit and it's still a useful source of information. Just avoid the popular subs (including those you mention) or anything with 100k users or more. It's not difficult.

It's just how he is. Prior to LLMs he was cramming a datasette link into every thread. Downvote and move on.

I think it's 2. I frequently get told there's no capacity for Pro and the query is answered by Flash with extended thinking. And tbh it's hard to tell the difference between the two, especially if you're not coding with it.

It's easier to split USB 3 into two stages:

1) USB 2.0 - 480 Mbps, 0.5A (2.5W / 5V)

2) USB 3.0 on Type-A - increases data to 5/10 Gbps (e.g. for SSDs) and power to 0.9A (4.5W / 5V).

3) USB 3.0 on Type-C - adds pins to enable most of the new stuff: base 3A (15W / 5V) and up to 240W with power delivery; extra data lanes for 20 Gbps, DisplayPort for external monitors.

4) USB 4.0 on Type-C - changes protocol completely (using packets instead of fixed lanes per pin) and requires minimum speeds and the use of type-C port.

A-to-C cables act like A-to-A as they don't have extra pins - they're just easier to use.

Pre-Power Delivery lots of phone chargers used A-to-C cables with a custom protocol to negotiate power draw beyond 0.9A. And some devices pull 3A anyway just assuming there's a power brick that supports 3A attached. But technically none of that is compliant.

Choice of tone can communicate the same thing as 3-4 paragraphs of calmer discourse. Should we ban the use of tone? Personally I appreciated it and the frustration was palpable.

I agree there is some technique involved. It's just so trivial compared to hand coding that I find the comparison meaningless.