Seriously? I'd call it "aligning the goal posts with reality". Nothing they said was wrong. I wonder what the stats are on numbers of cars serviced in a day for gas pumps and chargers and how they compare.

I would love to see EVs take over the world, but ICEs are entrenched for good reasons. Personally, I'd like to see standardized batteries of common sizes and shapes that can be swapped out for charged ones quickly.

> And if the fines and regulations are too much for Apple, they can always leave, right?

Just throwing this out there as another option: maybe if they don't like being fined so much they could always stop doing the things the EU is fining them for.

Radical idea, I know.

Whatever happened to "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment"? Tabs should show code indentation only, spaces should be used once you're at the correct indentation if you want to align things differently on the line to match what's above the line (like aligning function parameters vertically).

That way the tabstop size doesn't matter, and regardless of what it is the parts that are aligned will stay aligned.

We're at roughly 8" since 1880 according to various sources online.

Some of the less populated subreddits aren't so bad. Anything on the front page is garbage, though.

I just thought it was flowery language for "consider this".

I can't visualize and I can't hear anything in my head. I can think in words, I just can't hear them. When I'm thinking about what to say I think of the words as I contemplate the wording, but they go away fast and I never hear them. Sometimes I'll feel my mouth or lips preparing to move, as if I'm about to say the words, but I don't actually move them. If I'm thinking about an argument I just had or something, I'll think about what I could have said, but not actually hear anything. I don't normally think about what the other person would say word-by-word, but just as a concept.

I'm in my late 50's, and I never knew either visualizing or actually hearing things was actually a thing people could do, let alone that the vast majority of people could do them until hearing about aphantasia. The thing is, I know things are happening in other areas of my brain. I will start thinking about a problem that I need to solve, programming or otherwise, and at some point I'll go away for a while and come back to awareness knowing that the other part of my brain is still working on it. Sometime down the road, the answer will pop into my head. When I'm reading I will start thinking word by word, but after a while I'll realize I'd been reading for a while now without thinking of the words or hearing anything, but still knowing what was going on. When I'm thinking about code, I can usually figure out that the problem is partway down this particular file, after some initializations and before the blah blah blah function.

I still get earworms, though. I just can't hear them. It's like someone is playing the music loud down the hall through a closed door. I can tell what it is, but I can't really hear it.

Gaming on linux, thanks to Valve and Proton, is night and day better than it was in the past. Most games just work, some as well as or purportedly better than Windows for some games/setups. Some games need some small amount of tinkering, some are broken but they are few and far between. The only downside is anti-cheat, so online competitive games are still off the table for the most part.

The best way I've found to use YT is to keep a curated list of content creators and check in on them in their videos tab every so often to see what they have uploaded. If you come in through a vpn with a private window, the algorithm will actually be useful for a recommendation or two, which is the main way I find new creators.

I'm surprised there aren't apps that act as "the algorithm" by keeping an off-line database of videos and letting the users of the app tweak what content they want to see, links shown in the app. Combine it with yt-dlp and you wouldn't even need to go to YouTube.

That's something I'm willing to sacrifice to not ever have to touch Windows again: I don't have time for that shit.

I used the same reasoning I used when jumping to linux. Then Valve made gaming simple and easy and now I have the best of both worlds. Hopefully Macs will catch up someday soon.

Strangely enough I do remember this. Maybe it was naive, but the hope was that there wouldn't be commercials on a product we were paying a subscription for. I'm pretty sure most of the channels that weren't channels we used to get before over the air didn't have commercials when they started out.

I don't remember it lasting long, but I do remember people being upset because channels were now double-dipping by showing commercials even though we had a subscription to the service..

If it loses enough money and can't get profitable and no one wants to buy it at a good price for the owners then at some point wouldn't they turn the servers off, viable alternative existing or not?

That is completely correct. Unless the resulting biomass is sequestered, that carbon is returned to the atmosphere when the plant matter rots.

Eventually, yes, a planted tree dies and rots and decomposes, but not for a long time. Palm trees live around 50 years, some cedar trees can live up to 3,500 years. While the tree is alive, it's carbon is sequestered and as it grows it sequesters more and more carbon, albeit slowly. Even after it dies, it's carbon can be sequestered in rotting wood for a long time, and some of it's needles or leaves can wind up as part of the soil. My house, for example, is mostly made up of still-sequestered carbon from dead trees. Trees can also reproduce, helping to sequester more carbon even after they are gone.

As for "improve experience": It sounds like you are recommending that Firefox remove any way to let the user choose to report statistics on what features users use and what features users do not use. This means that once Mozilla eliminates a feature from Firefox on grounds that users do not use it, and this feature happens to be among the features that you use, you have no cause to complain about its removal

Maybe they could leave features that have been in the browser since forever alone and not remove them on a whim? Are the devs just trying to keep busy? Maybe they could work on the bug list.

Fennec (off of F-Droid) is a version of Firefox that has that restriction removed.