Sometimes you win by eating more fiber

Me too, I have also refused job offers to places that don’t allow Linux on the workstations.

I was joking too. 😅

If anyone hasn’t learned how tariffs work by now, they are choosing to be ignorant.

Tariffs are paid by the importer so it will just make your feeds more expensive to import to your device.

I generally consume on my phone and produce on my computer. Phones are still mostly horrible for producing anything with a slight complexity.

When they dropped sms support I was no longer able to convince people to migrate to signal.

Before I could make the argument that you need one sms app anyway so that app might just as well be Signal instead of the one that comes preloaded with your phone. That way people would gradually get more and more secure messaging as time went on. When sms support was dropped, Signal could not replace an existing app and adding another messing app is much less appealing than replacing one.

There was an EU rule about ten years ago that stipulated that rear lights are no longer mandatory in daylight. The reasoning being to save on fuel. Which is a ridiculous reason, even more so with today’s LED lights.

I don’t know about other EU countries but this was the reason that Sweden removed the requirement. All cars in Sweden used to have the rear lights turned on at all time, even if the light switch was in the off position, but that changed around the same time.

It used to be mandatory with always on rear lights in Sweden (you couldn’t even turn them off). But an adaptation to EU rules removed that requirement. 😓

Spark, it reminds me of Google inbox (although I’m still bitter over Google killing inbox).

I use the free tier of Spark, and have never felt a need to upgrade. The free version contains all the features I need.

That makes a lot of sense actually.

I never understood the benefit of this. You need to go backwards at some point regardless.

Tracking

Their eCommerce platforms are not changing from a technology perspective. They are raising their prices. There is no technology related news here.

It’s a pain to get other app stores to get uptake on Android since Google refuses to let other app stores be distributed via Google Play. So if Steam starts to distribute games for Android, the Steam app would be thrown out from Google Play.

It’s the same reason why the F-droids user base is so small and will never reach the main public. As soon as your app store needs to be installed via a third party web site, you have lost.

I hate articles that are just a tease for a YouTube video.

Since they specified “falsely” does that mean that there is legitimate witchcraft going on?

They disappeared for a reason. It was a crappy gimmick.

The situation may be worse than I’ve been exposed to, due to the phone brands we have in our house.

I still think it’s better for the environment to not ship a charger with every phone, even if you cannot assume that everything is USB PD nowadays.

You are absolutely right, the prices have gone up. Still better for the environment to not ship a redundant charger with each phone.

Aren’t everyone apart from OnePlus basing their fast charging on USB PD nowadays? At least Apple, Samsung and Google phones can fast charge with USB PD. There is usually no need for a proprietary charger anymore.