It's not e-ink, but the screen is tiny and a low resolution. In addition, it only comes on when you plug something in or push a button and turns off automatically after about 5 seconds.
I haven't noticed any meaningful impact on the battery, although I don't continually mash the button to keep the display on.
I have an Anker charger with a tiny screen that tells me how much charge I have, how much charging time I have left, the time it'll take to recharge to full and whether low power 5W charging is enabled.
Whilst I don't disagree that some companies appear to be going completely overboard with features, I don't think a small screen showing useful charging related information should be automatically seen as a bad thing.
Actually, this is also why I stopped using Waze. Coming back from Heathrow once, I could have just taken the M4 and South Circular, but Waze claimed it would save me more than seven minutes on 25-35 minute journey, so I thought I'd give it a go. It took me through Hounslow and the back streets of Isleworth before crossing the A316 bridge in to Richmond. It ended up taking at least 15 minutes longer than the easy route and a vast amount more effort, in the dark. Much of that extra time was either reversing in to a gap between parked cars to let somebody by, or waiting for an oncoming car to do the same for me.
This has been one of my biggest frustrations with Waze for years - it has no understanding of how difficult a road is to drive. It'll happily send you off an easy, fast, well-lit motorway onto a difficult, narrow, unlit B road if it thinks it can save two minutes on a two-hour trip.
The stupid thing is that in the UK, road types already hint at how easy or hard they are to drive. Motorways (M roads) are the easiest, then A roads, then B roads. You could even go further by looking at the number of digits - single-digit routes tend to be simpler than three-digit ones. Sure, there would be exceptions (like the M25 compared to the M6), but overall it would make routing far more sensible than what Waze does now.
Whilst the headline is amusing, it's worth noting that the tribunal found in her favour because the company didn't follow the correct process in sacking her.
In other words, if you call your boss a dickhead and they dismiss you properly, you won't have a case to argue..
If they win any sizeable market share, their prices will go right up.
I don't think that is an issue. If the prices become uncompetitive then someone else (even Apple) is free to step in and offer a cheaper alternative.
The whole reason Apple got away with charging so much was because they set the App Store rules so no-one could offer an alternative.
This reminds me of the story about American Airlines in the 1980s concluding that three-quarters of their passengers were not eating the olive that came with their dinner salad. They cut it, saved $40,000 in a year, and concluded that it lost not a single passenger.
I suspect the lack of Apple sticker in the box of your shiny new iDevice is pretty much the same thing.
Yep, this exactly is the point. Helping people for free. Not helping megacorporations for free which will later help people for a fee and eventually eliminate your job, using the free help you gave them.
If someone working for a megacorp finds your help on stackoverflow and uses it to solve a work related problem, then you've essentially helped the megacorp for free anyway.
Saying that this code was poor would be an understatement.
The report (page 17) has this code as an example - describing it as "Whoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics or the most basic rules of programming."
Public Function ReverseSign(d)
If d < 0 Then
d = Abs(d)
Else
d = d - (d * 2)
End If
ReverseSign = d
End Function
The code could potentially be worse because the font that the report uses makes it hard to tell if they are testing "if d is less than zero" or "if d is less than the global variable o".
You'll feel a lot better when it isn't controlling your life.
I'm no doctor, but I don't think that the mere appreciation of the option to (say) listen to an interesting podcast to while away a couple of hours waiting for an aeroplane to land is much of an indicator that my phone is controlling my life.
Once you get over the DTs, you'll find that you never needed a pacifier to get through the day.
It's been 26 odd years now and I've never ever felt my phone to be a pacifier but, if it gets to that stage, then I'll be sure to heed your advice. Hopefully you're in a better place now.
What is you use case for "a load of cards"?
I used to also carry around a number of loyalty cards, membership cards and a library card - which would invariably bulk out my wallet.
Now I digitise them and carry them on my phone. I still carry a debit and credit card as backup, but the size of my wallet is significantly reduced.
If carrying around a flip phone works for people, then I'm happy for them.
That said, I remember the bad old days of carrying around a separate calendar, address book, pocket map, notepad, book and music player. Not to mention the inability to look up something instantly, entertain myself during a wait, and the need to lug around a load of cards in my wallet.
As someone who lived through that, I have absolutely zero desire to go back to anything remotely close to it.
You are using a different definition of phonics from the parent post. Phonics as used in educational circles means _only_ teachning what sounds the letters (or clusters of letters) make and not reading whole words by sight. Method currently popular in England according to my sources there.
Yep, I'm in England and my kids were taught using phonics as you describe.
The other interesting thing about phonics is that they have the concept of "alien words". These are words that are nonsense, but the idea is for the kids to apply the phonic rules they've learnt to work out how they should be pronounced, rather than using their memory.
Some examples are: Steck, Hild, Quemp, Geck, Chom and Tord.
Last time I considered Apple's Password Manager for my parents (who use iPhones, iPads and a Windows laptop), I found that, without an Apple computer, it was impossible to bulk import credentials from
Even more concerning, it was impossible (without buying an Apple computer) to bulk export the credentials in case you decided that Apple's offering wasn't working for you.
At that point it seemed to be far more hassle than it was worth, so I gave up and switched them to Bitwarden instead.
Here in the UK the newest (2023) 55" TV from LG will cost you 600 GBP for the LCD version and 1700 GBP for the OLED version.
I think OLED is great, but persuading the other half to spend 2.8x more money on OLED (when she thinks that the LCD screen is good enough) is an extremely tough sell.
Since no-one else has pointed it out, you can disable WDDA quite simply by SSHing to the Synology NAS and entering the following:
sudo synosetkeyvalue
You shouldn't have to do this, but at least you can.
Have you reconsidered a computer career?
