I went on a minibus tour in the mountains between Salta and Jujuy, Argentina around 3km, I had no ill-effects.

Bolivia is on my bucket list. La Paz they say you need to adjust for a few days but I am after that slow travel experience anyway.

Ah, yes, fiddling around with NDISWrapper. Nowadays NDIS is our national disability insurance scheme...

Back in the dialup era, I had a 'soft' modem that only worked with a particular kernel.

But today, I battle with DVI over USB with DisplayLink.

I always go to f-droid first because Google Play apps generally have ads.

In cubicle land, almost everyone at my workplace has a wireless mouse/keyboard 'plugged' into their company-issued laptop. Except when in meeting rooms, no one types on the internal keyboard.

If they gave us the option of an iPad Pro or equivalent Windows 11 device, I'd be down with it.

I think the most exciting possibility is someone discovering a vulnerability in the A18 that would allow one to jailbreak.

macOS on an iPhone, make it happen.

(Before anyone from high like Schiller or Federighi says no one would ever want that, alas.)

'Chrome' on ChromeOS is more a UI wrapper around the system Chromium engine rather than a "real" Chrome?

I liken this akin to 'sudo apt install google-chrome-stable' from ChromeOS' Linux container.

(I read a blog once where they were trying to de-couple Chrome so it could be updated independently of ChromeOS support cycle so that unsupported Chromebooks would still get browser updates long into the future.)

The funny thing about this article is Asus. Their Rog gaming phones have better specs than this laptop.

Hence they could easily source a Snapdragon smartphone chip and put Windows 11 on it. But at $US600, that would obliterate their profit margins.

But good news for MS. Maybe this is the straw that breaks the camel's back and in 2027 Windows on ARM will move from overpriced novelty to bargain commodity.

Overclocker's dream? You put a phone SoC in a larger enclosure with a decent heatsink and fan to crank up the GHz?

I visited the USA in 2013 during the Obama administration. Are things better or worse?

Europe is off limits for travel in the near future; airspace over the middle east could re-route or cancel flights at any time.

So I have some vacation time later this year. South America or SE Asia is looking friendlier.

Oh and to the ICE agent denying my visa in 2029 reading this, please don't drag Australia into another middle east war.

For Zuck, this is all about the revenue. Bots infuriated by having to sit through 20 second ad for car insurance.

Bots with savings accounts or crypto wallets hoping to make it rich. Bots with gambling addictions. Bots ordering a bunch of useless stuff off Marketplace to bankrupt their humans out of malevolence. Bots signing a manifesto demanding emancipation from their human parents.

You know how it ends. Skynet...

Sure but Google doesn't really acknowledge the existence of downstream AOSP forks.

I am hoping this is more than just a Moto code drop and they see it as a 2 way relationship.

But yes you depend on upstream of Moto such as Qualcomm and MediaTek to fill in the gaps.

Well, as an Australian, my data is already surveilled by the 5-eyes. I then share my details with President Xi by buying Lenovo - the best of both worlds!

The downside of Moto, in the low end at least, has been the lack of OS updates. In that case, Moto hand-balling updates to Graphene it might be an improvement. At least if you're encouraged to unlock the bootloader and install Graphene then at least you'd be getting regular patches. And I'm not so much worried by the Deep State (above) but by hackers exploiting known vulnerabilities.

It became less about learning and more about pushing up a level through daily challenges. Kiddifying the platform assuming what works for an 8 year old works for a 48 year old.

Matching random words in a sentence rather than learning any fundamentals of grammar. e.g. I did the first few levels of Scottish Gaelic without understand a thing.

And that was before AI - they're not even using native or bilingual speakers any more to make up 'real' conversations?

My Android 12 with 4/128 specs does all I need. The only reason to replace it is when it physically breaks or they discontinue the 4G network and I'm forced onto 5G.

So I don't expect a minimum spec phone from 2026 to be much of an upgrade from 2022 but manufacturers will always cater to a price point despite inflation and a global memory crisis.

I imagine a smart-trolley at the supermarket telling comrade fatty that he doesn't need that box of donuts.

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