TIL "stuff". Yet another interesting post by you, broadening my scientific horizon. Thank you and keep it up.

It's very mixed up, which as an analogue electronics designer I find very annoying, but in this faulty newspeak digital is often used to mean: intangible data inside a computer of sorts, and analog(ue) as a counterpart to that, as something tangible, physical, instead of the original meaning, where analog refers to a representation of some value in the real world.

Most cringey is when things like digital detox are worded like "being in the analog world" for a while. They just mean: real world. And abuse and twist a technical term to sound smarter, I guess.

The real world is real, not analogue. It's not actually an analogy for something else.

Wow , Fairphone is catching up! Compared to my Samsung Galaxy S22 (26 too), the only things that I have on my requirements list that the Galaxy has and Fairphone doesn't are: ip67, zoom camera and USBC DP mode.

That last one is negotiable, I used that mode quite a lot at my previous job, not so much at the current one.

Then, the Fairphone has some great features on top of the repeatability, such as the card slot. And degoogleability. And if that's not a word, you say, it is one now, and a perfectly cromulent one at that!

Next year, my phone will be up for replacement, so perhaps the Fairphone 7?

Agreed, on our family NYC / Florida trip, we decided to visit the Orlando Universal Studios park and stayed at a connected hotel for several hundred bucks, but then we got early access, which helped avoid the queues at the start, and at the very end, the park was emptying, and we took the best rides again. No skipping the queues in a paid way, just decent planning. Tickets were USD 180 I think, times 4, so it did cost an arm and a leg. However, we all found it worthwhile (the Bourne show was the best show, rides weren't unanimous), and we all decided on our California trip that we weren't going to visit any theme park.

It's actually not much of a compliment from an anonymous coward, so now from a named poster: well worded, thank you.

Thanks, useful links, as a bystander I can say that your energy is wasted on the denier, which is likely his goal, but serves a useful purpose in that bystanders get more educated. I've informed the denier of this too, since it implies his goal wasn't achieved and might trigger him to insight - nah, who am I kidding. Anyway, well done.

Simply the Forbes link was enough to confirm this point. You have merely done the equivalent of la la la I can't hear you. That makes you a denier of the worst kind: you pretend to engage in discussion, but you purposely ignore the arguments, thereby getting the other side to waste energy and wear out. Luckily, as a bystander, I found the links very useful. So it wasn't wasted energy after all.

Anthropic confessed they Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations

Let's stop giving out of jail free passes to corporations.

Exactly, they take out plenty of human factors.

Reminds me of an expensive training I once got, sent by my company, and the trainer complained about always picking the slow (wrong) lane at the supermarket checkout. The short one will invariably have some older lady searching for the correct amount of coins, etcetera, and so you're wasting your life...
Nodding faces, except me. Guy asks, "you always pick the short lane and always get lucky that it's really fast?"
"No, I pick the lane with the prettiest cashier so however long I spend in the queue doesn't feel wasted."

But otherwise, the 0.01 cent or percent more expensive won't sell anything... Right.

Yeah, I once was on the hardware side for mobile, got the info that my designs got produced and sold about 500 million times. Sure, I made just a tiny part with dozens of other developers, but still, it's cool. Not much of that went into Android phones, those were still doing baby steps...

The way I remember is that he was (usually? mostly?) pro Microsoft and anti Linux, anti FLOSS, which is morally and ethically wrong for any individual, even if they have no use for FLOSS and enjoy using Microsoft products...

Not sure what exactly they convinced you of, but it apparently means you ended up on the wrong side in gweihir's mind, so tread carefully. Or just ignore the guy. Either way, been there, done that,...

Thank you for you explanations and the good work to make Android secure.

No need to steel, just share, and I'm glad to have made sense. Happens all the time to myself, but to others, well ... ;-)

Yeah, thank you for answering. I was still a bit sleepy in morning public transport,...

I later realised it's like seeing a twirling baton moving forward in stroboscopic light, then figuring out what area it paints.

I've not finished wrapping my head around this, but is my intuitive assumption correct that for a 360 degree rotation, one should pass through the point of 180 degrees? Or does one stay in the same 2d plane?

In visualising this, the triangle is actually how you invert a parked car. Well, doing it twice might be just for exercise...