You know the whole world will use kW for power, while the US will stay with "horses" because ... they've always done like this.

I don't think anyone would move its family to the USA nowadays.

I don't want to rain in your parade but this sentence is famous for being French (said by Voltaire).

Frankly the weight problem is part of the global health problem. At least in civilized countries the health authorities tackle adjacent issues like weight, smoking habits, drugs use, etc.

Oh wow. This is basic parenting. Don't let your kids play with a tablet or smartphone. Don't let them braindrain in front of a TV. Let them read books. Let you read books to them, tell them stories, play games with them, talk and discuss various subjects. Let them play outside.

I think it's just the result of decades of education. Individualism, "me first", children raised as kings and queens. You get the fruits or what you sowed now.

In case you didn't notice, EU is quite aggressive wrt its citizen privacy contrary to, say, the US. So this kind of thing wouldn't pass past the parliament.

Sounds nice, but I fail to see what's the use for it. KVM for servers with thunderbolt ?

Looks like a powerpoint bullet feature.

Unlike Apple here we have two giants (Samsung & Microsoft) fighting to control the user's data - and you can add Google into the mix. Of course all of them are using proprietary protocols to erect walls around their data silos. That's why you'll always have an unstable mess with end-users lost between those "solutions".

I would upvote if I could.

Hey, "The Day After Tomorrow" is coming fast !

That's exactly the huge problem with "modern" voting technology: nearly nobody understands it all, from software downto hardware, so nobody will verify that the vote happened correctly. The transparent ballot box system can and will be verified by anybody who wants to do it, from the ballot insertion to the votes counting. That verifiability is a marvellous property that shouldn't be lost. Electronic vote can't keep it.

Same thing happened to Internet. At first it was some sort of free-for-all space, then money and corporations came in, and now it's being regulated at full speed. Mars (or anywhere else there's a colony) won't be different. If some powerful government decides it has authority over a tiny place, it will have authority.

Came here to say that.

Random people suggest that it's sufficient to use an (often dubious) alternative source of apps (e.g. APKmirror) to make the phone work as intended. That's wrong. Having the Play Store isn't sufficient to install these apps, you also have to have all the Google libraries and services installed, otherwise your apps won't even run.

Yes, there exists unofficial sort-of-distributions of Google Apps (OpenGApps) or incomplete opensource reimplementations (MicroG) but they're difficult to install even for experienced geeks, so forget about it for your average phone user.