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I found these two:

https://www.womenarehuman.com/man-arrested-for-sharing-meme-...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-teens-who-mocked-ge...

Look at the actual measurements. The Zenfone was roughly the same size as the standard Galaxy S series and iPhones at the time. Definitely not tiny, not even compact.

https://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_10-12380.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s23-12082.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_15-12559.php

The Asus Zenfones were not compact phones. They were almost exactly the same size as the regular iPhones and Galaxy S phones at the time (slightly narrower but thicker). And expecting them to sell well against those two is unreasonable.

https://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_9-11656.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s22_5g-11253.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_14-11861.php

They're off by default, but there are regular prompts to enable them and I guess most people eventually do it.

>Siri does this, but the processing happens on-device

It happens on-device where possible.

"Although Apple attempts to do as much as possible on device, certain features require real-time input from Apple servers." Source: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/01/our-longstanding-priv...

Here are two examples:

https://www.womenarehuman.com/man-arrested-for-sharing-meme-...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-teens-who-mocked-ge...

>Steam DRM is optional.

Having to install Steam and sign in with a Steam account to install a game is a form of DRM.

I don't really agree with this framing. The fundamental issue is user ignorance, full stop. The fact is that our collective tech education is in a terrible state. Apple exploiting this to sell iPhones is just natural behavior for a profit-driven enterprise.

Instead of shaming Apple (which won't be very effective IMO), we should aim to improve education. Teach users how SMS/MMS/iMessage work. Tell them that they can install universal messaging apps and so on.

>often act as if that is some sort of mark of superiority

Well, you could argue that it's morally superior to be reachable by everyone, regardless of what brand of phone they use.

The ability to install a 3rd party messaging app also shows some technical skill.

>I don't know of a single person who has switched to a smaller phone

It's difficult to do that when the available phones are just getting bigger. Ten years ago you could still find sub 6" phones easily. These days, not so much.

>The most popular operating system hides it from the user, so clarity would not improve in that case.

If you mean Windows, that's not entirely correct. It defaults to hiding only "known" file extensions, like txt, jpg and such. (Which IMO is even worse than hiding all of them; that would at least be consistent.)

EDIT: Actually, I just checked and apparently an extension, even an exotic one, becomes "known" when it's associated with a program, so your point still stands.

Well, another advantage that 7-zip has is in the update mode (CLI); unlike WinRAR, it can handle deleted files as well. So it lets you make proper differential backups (snapshots of a folder, for instance), recreating the original state when restoring.

That's not Edge the browser, but a separate app called Edge WebView2.

Both behaviors are intentional and (for now) configurable.[1][2]

[1] https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/167068-how-enable-disabl...

[2] https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/160140-disable-continue-...

>Not that this isn’t terrible, but those numbers look really low. Surely malnutrition and violence must be a hundred times more likely to kill them?

They don't seem low at all to me. And a quick search suggests that malnutrition probably causes fewer deaths [1] (note that it's counted for all people here, not just under 5).

And in places like India and SEA, where malnutrition and violence are less of a problem, air pollution stands out even more.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malnutrition-death-rates

Encryption at rest is still worth something.

>It's not as if someone could easily break into gmail either. Unless they know your password...

Google employees, the NSA, hackers, ... they can all break into your Gmail without knowing your password.

see also: https://predictors.fail

A performance comparison between WordPress and ClassicPress: https://www.tukutoi.com/whats-better-classicpress-or-wordpre...

>especially blog-only ones

I disagree. I think a blog should have comments. And I've yet to see a commenting system for static sites that is free and that works as well as WordPress.

A blog without integrated commenting is not a proper blog, IMHO. And sure, you can add 3rd party commenting to a static page, but from what I've seen none of them are as good (or as free).

>It was much simpler earlier. You logged into your blogging site (WordPress, Blogger, etc.), typed up some thoughts, and hit publish (or saved a draft). Now, with more options, there is more friction...

I was hoping the author would explain what's wrong with using WordPress, Blogger, etc.

>Are people genuinely building new things with Wordpress these days?

Yes, because it's still the best tool for certain tasks. A blog with well integrated commenting, for example.

You need to pay if you want to use it commercially, however (and it's not cheap).

For comparison, Android phones with 120Hz displays seem to keep it at 120 during movements and only drop below when still. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbb0SoH765s

Is the difference visible? Probably yes, although it's not huge. The big scandal is how Apple still sells an expensive phone with a 60Hz display...

>In particular, BitLocker means that it's harder to share disk space between Windows and an alternative operating system

BitLocker is completely optional, even on Windows 11 (although in some cases encryption does kick in automatically - but you can revert it).

And if you want to both use BitLocker and share files with another OS, you can easily do it with a separate unencrypted drive or partition.

The video shows the iPhone mostly running at 80Hz when scrolling. Pixel phones (and most Android phones) stay at a constant 120Hz until the movement stops. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbb0SoH765s

The 60 Hz display is much worse, IMO. High refresh rates are not a particularly new or expensive feature, so I would definitely expect that on a $1000 phone.

1. It's not a false dilemma, it's more of a question of how to handle the "average Joe" user that doesn't know how to store encryption keys. I don't like how this automatic encryption is implemented, by the way, but sending the keys to MS servers is not the worst idea ever.

2. Bitlocker can totally be used without a MS account and without sending keys anywhere and without TPM... But seeing how most people fail to RTFM we're back to point 1.

The ability to freely run software has its risks, no doubt. But switching to what are effectively terminals centrally managed by big corporations sounds quite dystopian to me.

>I am actually scared of getting fat

Not getting fat is easy, avoiding microplastics is not. One problem affects people with a certain lifestyle, the other affects everyone (it's an environmental issue).

Also, as the article points out, the amount of microplastics accumulated in living organisms is still rising. It's something that needs more attention.