2.5 GbE is cheap and common, you can find it on $100 motherboards. Switches are very cheap, even managed ones. There's simply no good reason not to use 2.5 GbE.

You're off by a lot. My setup shows two pages at once, which means it's a 26-inch Android tablet (IIRC).

• To get integrated storage on the main board (for reliability), you'd have to go with something a lot less supported, like Rock Pi, and you'd spend over a hundred bucks just for the board.
• You'd have to add a 26-inch touchscreen monitor for another $250.
• You'd have to spend at least $20 on a case.

So even before the cables, you're at about $370 plus shipping, which is really close to the $400-ish price of the prebuilt Android tablet. That's with Android pre-installed, zero extra setup needed, no flash card to get accidentally dislodged and crash everything, just plug in, connect to a network, set a passcode if desired, and you're done.

Nice to know. It's still $800, and 13-inch Android tablets still start at $190 if you don't mind Android 14. So the Air is only as expensive as 4 bare bones Android tablets instead of 7. It's still massively overpriced if your CPU requirements are minimal.

More than just developers. There's an entire in-app purchase industry that basically doesn't exist because of Apple's monopolization of that market. Their behavior doesn't just affect app developers. It also affects banks that make merchant accounts available. It affects small-company payment processors like Stripe. And so on.

I have experienced this myself, but I have also experienced the reverse many times. There are also many games that won't run on Linux at all. Most of these have Windows kernel DRM, so I wouldn't buy them anyway myself, but I'm not the whole market.

You don't need to have a monopoly for antitrust laws to apply. Only you brought up monopolies.

And as counter-argument I'm supposed to trust an AC? HahaHAHHahaHahAHhaHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAH

Indeed. I'm guessing it has some features like QR code reading and Bluetooth beacons for navigation around the airport.

Those aren't the worrying ones though, because you can refuse them. It's the mandatory ones that are the big problem.

In all your life, have you ever gotten an email from someone in the middle of a trip saying that your pre-arranged hotel stay is cancelled, and you need to leave the room ASAP? That's not something anybody would ever expect to get legitimately.

Moreover, something like this would be *massively* disruptive to the person's vacation, possibly literally forcing them to live out of their cars, depending on when it happened and how busy the hotels were at the time. Even if you didn't ignore it, if your only option was to leave — especially if you had already paid for the room — you'd be more than just furious. You'd be filing a lawsuit against everyone involved.

No, it absolutely is on Marriott. Either the booking is prepaid, in which case you have paid for the room, and it isn't your fault that Sonder screwed you, or the booking is not prepaid, in which case you're paying Marriott, and it doesn't matter that Sonder screwed Marriott.

I am therefore assuming it is the former, which means you've pre-paid for the room, and you are legitimately entitled to service. Them breaking their contract with Sonder might excuse them for preventing future bookings, or even cancelling bookings beyond a certain date if they are not prepaid, and providing a way for the customer to pay directly, but it does NOT relieve them of responsibility for honoring any existing prepaid bookings, nor any active bookings that are already in progress.

In all likelihood, a judge would conclude that the people staying in the room are a party to an implied contract the moment they entered into the agreement with Sonder, and that Marriott is REQUIRED to honor those bookings under the principle of promissory estoppel. The liability for failing to meet those obligations would absolutely *DWARF* any possible savings from being able to rent the room to someone else. Think "million dollar pain and suffering claim" here. And because Sonder is not the one who kicked those people out of their hotel rooms, that liability falls on either the individual hotels, who would then sue the hotel chain to recover those losses, or directly on the hotel chain, whose only option would be to try to sue the defunct Sonder to recover the cost of those payouts.

Moreover, anyone who experienced this would not care in the slightest whether Sonder and Marriott had a falling out. They would only care that their vacation was ruined because a hotel room that *THEY PAID FOR* was suddenly yanked out from under them, kicking them out into the street. So those people will never trust a Marriott hotel again as long as they live, and they will tell all of their friends not to trust Marriott. This level of breach of trust is how companies die.

What Marriott did is so far from okay, whether you mean ethically, morally, or legally, that IMO, heads should roll at the C-suite level within the next week over it.

Why? Those companies get a discount for bookings. They pass those savings on in different ways. Some use reward points. Others give a discount up front. Why would you deliberately pay more for a hotel booking than you have to?

Like I said, Marriott had an implied contract with you, the person staying in the room, and that became binding on them when you checked into the hotel at the absolute latest, if not the moment you paid for the stay or any portion thereof. What they did is not only unethical, but also blatantly illegal, and whatever executives authorized or were in any way aware of the termination of the contract in this way should be fired for it, if not outright jailed.

It's sad that people think that such flagrant abuse of individuals by giant corporations is okay. It isn't. It is illegal, it is immoral, it is unethical, and it cannot be tolerated in a decent society.

Google Play lists all the permissions:

Device & app history
        retrieve running apps

Location
        approximate location (network-based)
        precise location (GPS and network-based)

Phone
        read phone status and identity

Photos / Media / Files
        read the contents of your USB storage
        modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage
        read the contents of your USB storage
        modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Camera
        take pictures and videos

Wi-Fi connection information
        view Wi-Fi connections

Device ID & call information
        read phone status and identity

Other
        receive data from Internet
        view network connections
        pair with Bluetooth devices
        access Bluetooth settings
        connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
        full network access
        control Near-Field Communication
        run at startup
        reorder running apps
        control vibration
        prevent device from sleeping
        read Google service configuration

You can refuse some of those permissions, but it's still a hell of a lot.

That's the key point that people always forget, or simply don't know. Most Chinese people are happy with how things are going. Life is getting better every year. They feel like they are involved in local decisions, and that the government is looking out for them.

I asked a guy about all the CCTV cameras on roads. I noticed them because, unlike the ones in the UK that are hidden and quietly record number plates in a central police database all over the country, the ones in China have a flash so you can't miss them. As well as the licence plate, they get a photo of the driver, hence the need for the flash. I was a bit alarmed, but he said they keep everyone safe and help the police catch criminals. Exactly the same justification used in the UK, only with better PR.

I do 99% of my coding in C these days. I used to do some C# stuff, but it's been a while.

So for me a decent IDE is very very helpful.

That was my other thought, why don't they submit a patch fixing it? Or maybe they did and it just needed review.

Turn off AC comments again you cryptofucks, 99.9% of AC posts are fucking garbage

Unless you're an Uyghur Muslim you probably won't be enslaved there, you can put your money into foreign banks and then you will still have benefit unless the risk catches up to you.