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The worst I experience is sweat-related discomfort, the same manner of discomfort with any sweating body area.
I had a production server with two HDDs in some form of redundant raid configuration and both died at the same time. You somewhat lose the benefits of both drives mirroring the same data if both fail!
For my 84 year old neighbour, not so. He regularly pops round for help with sharing a picture on WhatsApp.
It's beyond my neighbour's ability to learn how to use WhatsApp correctly. Learning another messaging app for him is not an option.
It'll take a lot more than a few vendor-specific OS tweaks to put non-tech people off.
To be clear, I agree that the OS modifications implemented by Samsung feel like they result in a less performant experience.
Warning: anecdata below!
My girlfriend's family regularly use various tech devices (laptops, phones, tablets) and are technically literate in the use of such devices for consumptive purposes and I'd rate them as relatively technically illiterate in the use of tech for creating anything beyond simple MS Office-type documents.
As a generalisation, they pay zero attention to the tech media (I'd say they are largely unaware of tech media sources), obtain all tech news via mainstream media and are influenced by both mainstream and Facebook advertising which they don't see as advertising but as useful information.
They have strong brand loyalty or, more specifically, they have a definite preference towards brands they believe have served them well in the past.
They all generally opt for Samsung phones. This seems rooted in prior positive experience with earlier-generation Galaxy devices.
They appear not to differentiate between Samsung's Galaxy line and Samsung's other lines of lower-priced smartphone ranges, suggesting a bias for the brand over the hardware/software combo itself. Their choice of phone contract seems based on Samsung and price almost exclusively.
I have seen them switch from technically better to technically worse hardware and still be pleased with their new phone. A new phone is often perceived as better than an old phone purely due to it being newer.
My girlfriend's mother used Sony phones for years predominantly based on her positive experiences with the Sony brand in non-related lines such as TVs.
She switched recently to a Galaxy S8 when her contract was up for renewal. Her decision was based mostly on the preference for Samsung phones in her immediate family. Her only issue with it was the dedicated Bixby button and her issue was not with Bixby itself but with her unsteady hands pressing the button unwantedly. My girlfriend disabled the button and her mother now perceives the phone as the best thing to have ever existed. She bought a wireless charger, again due to her shaky hands being unable to cope with plugging in a charging cable. The positive association with the wireless charger further reinforces her positive opinion of the S8 regardless of the fact that wireless charging exists across many phone brands and ranges.
The bloat of vendor-specific OS modifications is a non-issue. If the bloat factor is consistent, a phone today is faster and better than a phone of two years ago.
They see smartphones grouped into three families: iPhones, Android phones and Samsung phones. That the OS on a Samsung phone is based on Android is not considered. That a phone may not get OS upgrades in a timely manner, or at all, is a complete non-issue for people that don't know that such updates exist, don't generally care about the OS and who replace their phone every two years.
Similar to how many get a Windows upgrade only by buying a new computer (although less-so now with Windows 10 but more so historically), many get an Android OS upgrade only when getting a new phone. That a phone should get, or needs to have, OS upgrades is also a complete non-issue.
In short, for those not close to the tech industry, there is nothing wrong with Samsung phones. The common gripes we in the tech field often mention (slow/lacking updates, under-performant UI tweaks aka lack of purity) are so much of a non-issue for the majority of Samsung phone users to make effectively zero difference to Samsung.
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The WiFi on my girlfriend's laptop would fail when an HDMI cable was plugged into the laptop. Changing the channel on the router "fixed" it but we never could figure out the ultimate cause.
I can pause my Roku box using the Kodi remote app on my phone. This occurred when I inadvertently used the wrong remote to pause the Roku. It appears only to work if the Raspberry Pi running Kodi has gone into some sort of standby mode, possibly making the Kodi remote app send a wake signal which is interpreted by Roku as the pause signal.
A test accompanying a bug fix holds value in many ways.
Firstly, it demonstrates to those reviewing the change that the fix is suitable.
Secondly, the presence of a test encourages reviewers to consider what a test does and doesn't cover, sometimes resulting in comments regarding improvements that had not otherwise been considered.
Thirdly, and of most importance in the long term, a test for a bug fix serves to document oddities previously discovered that were for a time not known about.
I always pass a cyclist in the same manner in which I would pass a car but it is easy for me to remember to do so as I also cycle on roads a fair amount.
When cycling I intentionally keep far from the curb in situations where I can see that it is not safe for a driver to pass correctly/safely. I try to find places to stop to allow traffic to pass as I also try to keep in mind the needs of all road users.
A bit of education in both sides would certainly help.
On a positive note, I often notice that when passing a cyclist correctly, the cars immediately behind me also do so. If you are concerned as a driver about the behaviour of other drivers, consider what you can do to reinforce a more safe experience on the roads for all.
My comments from the perspective of a landlord weren't intended to generalise pet owners.
I own two cats (although I suspect they actually own me) and have previously rented houses and have offered a per-cat additional deposit in cases where landlords were adamant.
One of my cats is easily stressed out which can lead to uninary tract infections and which may have contributed to her chronic irritable bowel syndrome.
Both conditions (the former intermittent, the latter constant) can result in unexpected indoor urination and surprise vomiting.
Cleaning up either is perfectly achievable given the correct care and attention.
Despite being exposed over many years to a variety of cat by-products, I still haven't grown accustomed to the smell of cat urine such that I could ignore it. Sometimes I wish I could!
One of the cats was old and infirm and peed repeatedly indoors on carpeted floor. The smell was horrendous. I can't see how the tenant lived with it.
We replaced a large proportion of the carpet throughout the house.
The deposit covered the costs only because we carried out the work ourselves as part of a larger renovation project in advance of selling.
If we had gone down a more hands-off approach followed by investment-focused landlords, the costs would easily have exceeded the rental deposit which would have resulted in the need to sue the previous tenant.
That's a whole lot of effort to go to for a landlord and I can see how a landlord would choose to avoid pet owners given the option.
A tip for getting rid of sentimental items if you need the space: take a photo before getting rid of it. The photo can bring back the memories as well as the original item.
I have a photo of a well-used no-longer-non-stick saucepan. The pan was the only physical item I inherited from an uncle and my only physical connection to a lost family member and for years I couldn't get rid of the pan despite it's uselessness. The photo helps.
The reasoning given by my driving instructor was that this secures the vehicle and makes things just a little more safe for everyone.
If I am stopped in traffic with my parking brake on and sometime lightly rear-ends me, my vehicle may not move at all. If my parking brake were not applied, the probability of my vehicle not moving at all drops significantly.
If I am rear-ended without the parking brake applied such that my vehicle rear-ends someone in-front of me, I am partially responsible for the damage caused ahead due to my failure to secure my vehicle.
This is only tangentially related to taking my foot of the clutch. I depress the clutch in order to apply the parking brake correctly. Once the parking brake is applied, I simply have no need to continue to depress the clutch.
It takes me very little time to apply the parking brake and then release it and so I tend to do so when stopping for more than a second or two.
As a pedestrian I learned to claim the right of way and cross when it seemed safe.
As a driver I was unable to resolve my confusion regarding turning on red light. If there were no vehicles queued behind me I would wait for a green light. I would otherwise typically wait for a sufficient amount of beeping from other vehicles to then assume that turning on a red was what I should be doing.
Technical debt tickets were created in the issue tracker. The ticket offers plenty of space to detail the technical reasons for implementing potentially suboptimal code in the first place (a justification for the introduction of technical debt), a general outline of the approach to resolving the debt and to list out business justifications for resolving the debt.
A TODO comment referencing the ticket was added to the code. This reduced comment bloat and allowed a developer to easily find the relevant source from a ticket and vice versa.
Technical debt issues were added to each sprint/development cycle by product managers with developer input during planning sessions.
This process also had the benefit of letting developers fill in small amounts of possible development downtime. If you know you have to leave the office in 30 mins (a dentist appointment for example that you can't miss), you may be uninclined to start work on a large feature. Picking up almost any small tech debt ticket turns that time into something more productive than nothing.
I lived the first 25 years of my life in the UK and drank pasteurised milk almost exclusively and found the taste of UHT to be lesser.
I then lived in Poland for two years and drank UHT only.
At first I disliked the taste of UHT but over time I grew accustomed to it.
I am still able to tell the difference between pasteurised and UHT, I just no longer mind.
I find that for many things in life where there are similar but not exact variants, one tends to prefer the variant one first tried despite both variants being potentially equivalent.
Pasteurised milk vs UHT is one example. Margerine vs butter is another (I was raised on margerine and disliked butter for years). Windows vs Linux desktops (again, I was raised on the former and initially disliked the latter despite both being generally logically equivalent).
I have since learned to be more accepting of the differences in variants of food and tech. This seems to make life easier for me.
I've been using a password manager for some time now.
I'm was very recently in a similar situation having a Facebook account that was deactivated about 5 years ago (I thought I had deleted it).
I received the exact same account reactivation notification email as in the article and I also started receiving photo post notification emails.
Upon attempting to sign in to my Facebook account to investigate, I was presented with a screen informing me that my account had been locked due to recent suspicious activity. In my case I did recall my password and as such didn't encounter the ID verification process.
I was presented with the details of the most recent login which was shown to be from a Samsung phone and from a Russian IP address. I have never owned a Samsung phone nor have I ever visited Russia.
My girlfriend's Facebook account was also recently accessed in similar suspicious circumstances.
I suspect that account credentials acquired from breaches of non-Facebook services are being used to attempt to access Facebook accounts.
Your skull is vulnerable to impacts at speeds that are relatively low compared to full-speed cycling.
On a few occasions I've witnessed a cyclist panic and wobble after being passed far too closely by a car traveling far too fast for such a manoeuvre. This has caused such cyclists to wobble, inadvertently clip the curb and mount the pavement, fall off sideways and subsequently strike their head on a nearby wall whilst falling.
The resulting injury can be very harmful.
Another example of slow-speed head injury: off-road biking down a very steep incline with a loose surface. I've seen people fall and tumble at almost stationary speeds.
My understanding from such conversations is that eggs in the EU are definitely not washed.
Supermarket caged-hen eggs are generally clean in appearance due to the lack of items that might otherwise stick to the them.
I have found free range supermarket eggs, on the other hand, to sometimes have small features stuck to them.
I'm not sure what accounts for the generally clean appearance of supermarket eggs. Maybe eggs are brushed in some manner to remove obvious dirt. But the washing of eggs is certainly not a legal practice in the EU.
No graphics card, just the internal GPU of a 4th gen i7 (purchased 2013).
A fair amount of that is then paid out by the contractor's company in annual corporation tax and a little more in PAYE/NI.
As a contractor, you'd be looking to keep about 70% to 80% of what you invoice depending on how much you take in salary vs dividends.
Regarding computers, I've so far only considered my desktop. You can get ready made DC to DC ATX power supplies quite easily [1].
I currently use 12v circuits in my camper van and haven't experienced any significant drop over cables about 3m in length. LED-based lighting and a 12v fridge operate as expected and the voltage at the point the power reaches these devices is very close to the voltage over the battery supplying the current.
I previously used 12v circuits in a narrowboat I used to own and didn't experience any drop over cables about 20m in length. This used halogen-based lighting and again the voltage at a lamp was very close to the voltage over the battery.
I'll soon be moving to a park home (a relatively-permanent mobile home) that is in need of a fair amount of renovation.
I'll be running all lighting, computers and the TV off 12v DV circuits powered by bank of vehicle batteries and where the batteries are charged from 12v solar panels.
For non-linear books such as this I often prefer a physical copy as I can very easily flick back and forth between sections.
I could buy the hardcover copy from amazon.com for an additional £7.55 shipping cost but would prefer to purchase from amazon.co.uk and pay less (or nothing) for shipping.