Heh. me too. it's one reason I'm hanging on to my Pixel 5 ... last one with that feature. (other reason is that all the newer ones are both bigger and heavier ... )

well, your view about bezels and thickness are in the minority. Phone reviewers have been pushing on screen size and bezels for ever. and same with glass backs, which afaict are an anti-feature since they are purely aesthetic and as weight and something else that can break and be expensive to fix.

personally I too think that design wise it's been downhill since Samsung Galaxy 5
(though it took me a long time to let go of physical qwerty too) ... but the physical design has been definitely driven by "oooh shiny" ... and that's what the market rewards. it doesn't help that most of the function over form types also tend to be the ones who'll keep phones for 4+ years because "it works fine".

Engadget says it also has
satellite SOS which is kinda neat.
also has Bluetooth v6 which may offer some neat edge improvements for Airtag type stuff. (better range and also distance)
(https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/google-pixel-10a-vs-pixel-9a-whats-changed-and-which-one-should-you-buy-150000786.html )

Also just by virtue of being a new model it'll get 1 year longer support than the old model

(apologies for posting an Engadget link... but as the web dies... well... at least it's not a FB post ...)

I always wondered why microsoft didn't do this or something like it over the decades.

Nowadays (and for a long while) the chances that you have a truly unique problem is low... (although it looks like we're heading for a new dark age where googling relevant error identifiers will yield nothing since nobody actually posted about it on a searchable forum or stack overflow etc. )

chatgpt detected

(probably. i already kinda argued like an LLM before they existed ... and prob. do so now more since i interact w/ them ...)

i suspect that many to most artists already do (the equivalent of) both .... and this grant might allow them to just do one so they can do some more "art" on the side.

it's not even sexed up, imo. for one thing it's explicitly not permanent
and you're tossed off of it after 3 years.

and it's not exactly a princely income either... so it'll buy food and a piece of the rent, but not much else

I thought it was "eating high on the hog" ...

my take is that the only way to do UBI is to give the same amount to every adult citizen (some letter amount for kids up to 2. much less for 3rd+). No other requirements. no regional adjustment for metro areas. maybe for rural areas ... maybe not.

some single digit percent of people will still need "services" instead of in addition because they can't "adult" (due to mental illness, congenital issues, hooked on drugs etc)

well, broadly a "real job" is one that produces output that people are willing to pay for. and I guess we can expand it to an activity that is reasonably likely to produce such output.

Although... some say custom kitchen delivereyeyey is the only real job. (or animating same)

Heh. The feds giving tax money BACK to people to spend as they wish?! i'm not holding my breath for that one, but it COULD be done like a refundable tax credit or something. unfortunately even if they did the track record is to try to stick it to the middle class like with other perks that tend to evaporate as income goes up.

Also the prices are going to be mostly just an increase in prices of fuel (including planes), food, and goods. if it's at a low level or gradual increase it doesn't need front loading really.
But yeah would need tariffs too as you mention.

But it would be more fair than the EV rebates and whatnot.

not sure if serious...
the "hated" diesel regulations that require particulate filters and DEF are still in place. And there's no indication currently that anything that's been announced yet will do anything against them.
Here's a rather pro diesel dude, Freedom Worx, explaining "The TRUTH About EPA Diesel Deregulation... Are EGR, DPF, DEF Done? " https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (and the answer is "no" ... none of that is affected ) (his channel is pretty decent overall. i look forward to seeing more about his bypass filter experiments)

Also CAFE is still around. It's being rolled back to circa 2016 levels (sort of) but still around. and TBD if it survives legal challenge. The attempts during the first administration didn't.

and hopefully what they codify is a reasonable middle path... neither "drill baby drill" nor "ban ICE sales by 2035"...

as much as I would hate more taxes (and the increased govt spending) and bueauricracy some kind of "carbon tax" or "global warming equivalent" tax that starts low so we can see what impacts it has would be the least distorting

Well, idk why you think it's dumb because that's exactly what the change does.

And it returns things to 2008 level, (i.e all the smog, particulates, and acid rain stuff is still in place and still being tightened. so like DEF for diesels isn't going anywhere, for good or fire bad).
and CAFE (gas mileage stuff) is still in place and authorized by a different law on energy independence grounds.

    CO2 and global warming are much more an economic issue than a "health" issue. Congress can pass a law on the subject with whatever heuristics and guard rails they want.

the repeal in question is just about CO2 not NOx , particulates or unburned hydrocarbons.

NBC grudgingly gets to it on TFA on a single line about 2/3rds down after several breathless paragraphs.

"""
The EPA will still regulate pollutants in tailpipe emissions that hamper air quality, such as carbon monoxide, lead and ozone.
"""

not in the way we'd normally think.
the non-paywall article is more informative than the main:

they also mention that the current governments' own data privacy department doesn't consider it a breach of any sort.

either the MoJ is confused or they really are trying to decrease transparency