I have guys at work that whine about having to carry a laptop and tablet with them, and therefore leave the iPad at the office when in the field. If these can be made durable enough with a case, Iâ(TM)m imagining this being their phone/tablet combo device.

Mine is battery powered and talks over WiFi. With a few minutes of effort hooking it to my phoneâ(TM)s hotspot, I could bring it with me. I could be that weird guy with a doorbell on his hotel room or his car lol.

You raise a good point. Iâ(TM)m from the US and was at a meeting at my parent companyâ(TM)s location in Europe a few weeks ago. English is a second language for the people I had a meeting with, and although they are all pretty good at it, they had a Teams meeting running with transcription going and doing live translations. If they didnâ(TM)t catch or understand something that was said, they would look down for a second and read back the conversation to catch up. I was never asked for consent (and not being from the EU, it never occurred to me that this might be a legal grey area there). Exactly the same thing that the watch is proposing doing.

I used to have that belief, but it changed once I started thinking about working across timezones a little more. Let's imagine that the universal time is 16:00. You're in the US, so you're probably near the end of your work day. What is the person in Italy you're working on a project on doing right now? And the other person in India? Can you expect to arrange a meeting today to get a hold of them yet today? Or would you be calling them in the middle of the night?

Under the current system you know how many hours ahead or behind they are and can figure out that it is bedtime or the middle of the night for your colleagues. Universal time means you have to know what people in other parts of the world that you interact with might be doing at a given time. So you're memorizing "it's 12:00, US is eating lunch, Italy is leaving the office, India has already been out of work for a few hours." It's easier to Google the current time in a place and ascertain what your colleagues across the world might be doing at 12:00pm, 6:00pm, or 9pm their time.

I saw a McDonalds in Florence when I was there a few months ago. Google shows a few in the area. I didnâ(TM)t stop to try them though now Iâ(TM)m curious what the local flair would have been.

That works in some parts of the country, but in places that get actual winters, there is no amount of care that is going to keep a daily driven vehicle from rusting after 20 winters. And that's what kills vehicles here. Something minor like a broken brake line but to get to where it connects you have to drop the crossmember, of which the bolts are seized on place and you'll damage the subframe trying to get it out.

Iâ(TM)ve owned two Chevy Volts. The first one (a 2012) got its rated charge range from a battery charge the morning I totaled it at 178,000 miles. My current one (a 2014) is at 197,000 miles and gets its rated mileage out of a charge every day, though Iâ(TM)m starting to notice it doesnâ(TM)t exceed the rating on highway only runs as much as it did when I bought it a few years ago.

I suspect most vehicles suffer the same fate as my first one (an accident or major repair being due totals them before 200,000 miles) meaning that in 2012 we were building EVs where the battery outlasted the car.

How did he get it without a smartphone?

I have had a 17 Pro since launch and just turned it on maybe a week ago because I wanted to see what the big selling feature of my new phone was (they talked about it a lot during the last hardware event). I cannot say I feel like I am missing much, and the iOS 17 beta has done nothing to change my opinion. AI prioritized notifications which are just duplicates shown above the same notification and email summaries in the preview line are sort of underwhelming. My phone never does the thing where you can recognize items from pictures and search on them.

Full disclosure, I do not use Siri all that often. Maybe Iâ(TM)m just not the target audience.

You also get 1/3 the performance and 10 generation old components at 6x the cost of current consumer gear in the manufacturing/industrial IT space. Maybe that aligns with how you use your device, but Iâ(TM)d rather have better performance over a 10 year lifecycle on a cell phone.

Maybe not universal, but I seem to remember the mini-usb being extremely popular before the micro took over. If micro was the first mandated by EU, it would imply that there was somehow a pretty good consensus on what connector to use before micro was specified by legislation.

You must not use your phone very much overall. I manage the fleet of iPhones at my job and we are usually seeing high 70s or low 80sfor battery health at the end of our 3 year refresh cycle. Since we have been observing this for more than 6 years, I canâ(TM)t imagine itâ(TM)s a difference in chemistry between your phone and our phones.

Has the government acted against anyones freedom of speech here? Or did a company threaten to try to invoke the government to do so?

The first amendment is intended to protect citizens from the actions of the government. I am not sure it applies here where we are discussing the actions of a corporation not owned by the government.

Fairly recently too even. Iâ(TM)m just your average Windows admin and while doing other work I just happened to notice a machine being logged in sitting at a desktop when it should have been at a login screen. So I played around with it and got to where I could reliably reproduce what I had seen earlier. I wrote up step by step instructions on how I accessed a Windows system from another Windows system potentially without credentials and supplied a video showing the process from between two Windows Insider machines (one Windows server and one client OS, I showed the process in both directions). This was all per their directions in the MSRC portal. I got an email back from them that said that my findings, while providing good information, did not meet the requirements of a security vulnerability requiring servicing. I replied back from within the portal asking if this meant I had miscategorized my finding and should resubmit it with some changes, or if there was some sort of explanation for why my observation was not a security vulnerability.

I never heard back and eventually I got a request to fill out a survey so they presumably closed out my case. Itâ(TM)s been several months, I should try duplicating the issue again for my own curiosity to see if they patched it and just never credited me.