My last three landscape sliders were the Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 4 and F(x)tec Pro1, so they survived longer than that, and all three were in the size range of normal phones.

It's best to assume that banking apps won't work with anything but a non-rooted commercial Android install with its full suite of Google trash. Either that, or the most meticulously rooted systems that can fool all forms of root checking. Banks only want their apps running on walled-garden systems.

The solution for me has been to use banking websites rather than banking apps. This also eliminates the potential issues of banking apps having access to more than what can be seen through the browser, and it will hopefully show the bank that there is still demand for web access.

Even though I'm not American I do some business in the USA and have an American bank account for that purpose.

I pay bills through the bank's website. They need the payee's name and mailing address.

They print and mail a cheque to whoever I tell them to pay.

When I first got that account it seemed odd since I make the payment through the bank's website, but that's really how they do it. They put a cheque in the mail.

Why don't they outsource? The answer is: Why pay $45 for a job that you can do yourself.

When I had employees I added up their timecards and calculated the payroll and the deductions, and wrote each person a cheque. I knew exactly how much everyone was getting, I immediately saw any irregularities and could investigate them. And it didn't cost me $45.

Some paywalls do indeed work this way, but nytimes is not none of them. It cuts the text off in the html so the article text is not there to be read unless you have a subscription.

That may not be fair ball.

If they were just scraping whatever they find on the web, more-or-less at random, then that's one thing.

If they're taking positive steps to buy subscriptions for the sole purpose of scraping that content, that's something else.

If the nytimes articles are truly hidden behind a paywall, how does perplexity get access to it?

This. It seems that the US has forgotten the '80s automotive malaise era. Trump has tried to start a fresh one before and it looks like this time he's succeeding.

If I drove through a school bus unloading zone like that 21 times my drivers license would be suspended, probably for a very long time.

Why isn't Waymo's license suspended for the same period mine would be?

Actually, after 21 infractions it would probably be permanently cancelled.

Don't worry, we're all Homo Economicus by default. Perfectly informed, perfectly rational, perfectly selfish. Otherwise the whole system would be a broken farce! So each buyer will independently source their own perfect climate risk data, obviously.

The keys were stolen last week but the developer doesn't bother to tell anyone about it until after the malware has been distributed.

Was he sleeping between last week and today?

I find that my phone is just too damn small to read on a long-term basis.

Receiving a text message, reading a single article on a website, looking at a picture, that's all fine and good. But reading all of this morning's news? I want something that's big enough that I can sit back in my chair and read comfortably, without squinting at the tiny print on my phone screen.

but you couldn't carry that in your pocket, which seems to be the objective here.

Much as I hate to defend Microsoft, if this is an update that's clearly marked as a "preview" or "testing", then it shouldn't be a shock if it breaks since that's the purpose of doing a test release.

"The city has issued an order" and "it's unclear whether Waymo will comply".

Since when does Waymo get to decide if they'll comply with local laws or not?

Now the next step is to take them to court, shut their operation down completely and ban them from setting up shop again until or unless they show that they have figured out how to comply with the law.