Yeah I'm not a fan of Apple for many reasons.

Shame because their SOCs are legitimately really good hardware wise. Shame about the poor practices, user hostile stuff and general apple obnoxious. Oh and the mediocre operating system.

So you have been up close to the towers on ridge lines and you still think they have generators? You're lying about literally everything. Typical coward shit.

Whatever, Russian bot.

Anonymous cowards don't get to get treated like humans.

Unless there is a zebra crossing: the car has priority.

Not in the UK. You ain't the centre of the world, bucko. Some countries don't absolutely prostrate themselves on the alter of the car.

The difficulty of the job is based pretty much entirely on two this, difficulty of removing electrical connectors and ease of adjustment or lack thereof. The door itself has to meet crash standards so it has to have stuff in it. Therefore most aftermarket doors are for off road use only.

There is no "merely paying" in capitalism. That's literally what it's all based on.

Yes, but the car has priority

Spoken like a true German. Not here it doesn't.

Obviously, the car is expected to brake ... Which is obviously law wise a little bit silly situation.

It really isn't. The person driving the piece of heavy machinery that can kill someone easily is expected to take reasonable care to ensure they don't kill someone. Yes even if the driver might be mildly inconvenienced and have to take 3 extra seconds at most to get to their Very Important destination.

Android is weird. Don't forget that google didn't create Android: Android was first created by some company then bought by google. The Android people were pretty weird, frankly and had some odd ideas.

For one they HATED C++, in a really irrational way. I remember a forum thread when them declaring outright that certain C++ features simply COULD NOT work on Android being then disproved by another poster who showed a hand compiled gcc doing those things only to have them double down. They were incredibly insular and basically reinvented a ton of stuff pretty badly. V4L2 basically worked, and at the time they went through several camera APIs which worked worse before finally beating their own one into shape. Basically the original API was entirely designed around the idea that the only use was making a camera app (unlike V4L2 which wasn't tied to an idea of an end use), which they reluctantly discovered wasn't all anyone wanted to do. Also copy/paste. They were definitely from the "lol X si teh sux0rz" crowd. But you know what? The ICCCM from 1989 describes how to copy/paste anything in X and that still is how it works today. And it does work[*]. Android still has trouble with anything other than text in some contexts because they were insular and decided they knew best.

Then they got bought by google. The company who's motto is basically "we know we're the best why would we do it differently", so one insular, arrogant company bought another insular, arrogant company and you have Android as a result which is like Linux but cursed because the people who made it originally and maintain it now are al insular and believe they know best.

Oh and also don't forget Zawinski's CATD. Also that Sturgeon's law applies to software "engineers" as much as anything else.

Yay. Anyhoo have a nice weekend.

[*] The old "problems" with copy/paste in X were down to a number of factors. In the late 80s and early 90s, anything other than text was hard because that stuff was big compared to the size of the machines. Pus there weren't interoperable formats like HTML to exchange data. So few people implemented it, and that meant few other people did because nothing else could do it etc etc. Also a lot of people can't read and implement a straightforward spec. It ain't that hard. But basically the modern, working copy/paste is just a straightforward implementation of a spec from 1989 built on primitives from 1987. And Android fucked it up.

Oh look, modded down by a clown, it must be a day that ends in y.

I know the tower near my home that I normally get signal from doesn't have a generator because it went out after the batteries ran out when we had our last quake, and Verizon promised to bring in a generator but didn't. They wouldn't need to bring one in if it were already there.

I know the tower near my work has a generator because I can see it. I could poke it with a stick through the cyclone fence.

There's a bunch of trolls on here who are mad that I know things. It's very fucking weird.

I've yet to break 1k on a computer system because it's just not that necessary.

I mean yeah as you say you're not doing anything especially intensive. I spent 2 and a half grand on my last desktop (excluding upgrades). RTX2080Ti, 64G RAM, Ryzen 9 3900X. Quite a beast in its day, though showing its age now compared to more modern machines. Mostly been used for deep learning (which is really a Linux first task) and a bit of 4k video editing and creation.

TBH I don't get it. Google was literally known (back when people cared) for being massively Linux-based. Then when they make their phone they ruin everything about Linux and then gradually un-ruin it

I'm an Apple fan; I'm typing this on a 2018 Mac Mini that I spent roughly $2K on -- but it's 2026 and that Mac is still running just great. That works out to an amortized cost of about 68 cents per day -- which is to say, negligible compared to my other expenses.

I'm a Linux fan, typing this on a 2010 Thinkpad W510 that I spent no idea how much on, probably 2k plus some upgrades along the way for not much. The amortized cost is very good. Definitely showing it's age, and I think the hardware will conk out or the CPU will just be too slow before it really passes out of reasonable distro support.

Even so, now it's got 32G of RAM and 1TB of flash so it's better specced in quite a few ways than many new laptops.

The fuck though? Android have a weird fetish for taking Linux tools and then disabling features which work perfectly well and it turns out also work fine on Android if you use ASOP and the upstream tools.