For me, OSMAnd~ epitomizes FOSS: Can do literally everything, privacy friendly, completely offline, but incredibly ugly, and with a UX so horrible it keeps everyone but the idealists away.

I’ve been using the app for hiking for years and I still constantly find myself looking for the right menus or the back button behaving in unexpected ways. The search function is also basically unusable.

Not to be confused with “airway bacon”, a cause of asphyxiation.

Because the PRC has set this as a red line. The Taiwanese would do it in a heartbeat.

You still have a contract. But I get that it may not be worth the trouble.

This of course depends on your jurisdiction and how much time you’re willing to put into this, but I’d refuse to pay for shipping either way.

You have a contract with the company, and they didn’t fulfil it, that’s on them. They can’t just send you a defective product and make you pay for (part of) it.

I use bxactions to control play/pause (single tap), flashlight (hold when screen is locked) and auto rotation (hold when screen is on). No custom ROMs or root needed, just a quick abd command that comes with the app and disables bixby.

He isn’t suing because of the amenities, but because he is being socially isolated. It’s not about the quality of his cell at all.

I don’t see it either.

I don’t think they researched this decision.

Who?

The new owners? They’re interested in the high rankings on the playstore. The vast majority of people don’t care about bloat/privacy and install whatever is at the top of search results.

The original developers? I’m sure it worked out for them.

I know phones cost money but when they lock you in a shitty contract for 2 or even 4 years, is it even worth it.

In the EU, mobile phone contracts have been limited to 24 months since 2011.

That’s the whole point of going to a restaurant. >So you can convince yourself that the food is somewhat healthy, without seeing all the salt, sugar and fat they put in it.

I thought the point of going to a reastaurant was eating tasty food. No one’s lying to themselves about reastaurant food being healthy.

According to Wiktionary, they all come from Latin “exitus”, which is a participle of “exire”, which literally means “to go out/outside, to exit, to leave”.

I think that’s pretty similar to the origins of success:

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”). Partly displaced native Old English spēd, whence Modern English speed.

Both seem to (!) relate to finishing a task, and might’ve gained the positive connotation later on.

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Nice.

A25

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

• Bill Gates (probably apocryphal)

Maybe having super high details pn a phone screen doesn’t make sense, but the computing power can still be used in other ways. Maybe standalone consoles stop being a thing and we’ll use our phones like a Nintendo Switch, just plugging it into the TV when we want to. Maybe VR headsets actually are the future.

Who knows.

Dude the blockchain will literally fix it all. Sprinkle some federated protocol on there and it’ll cure cancer by tomorrow.

I don’t know anything about linguistics and can’t add anything of value, but Northern Cities Vowel Shift is a great band name.

Paradise Papers? Kremlin talking points!

The Guardian? Basically Putin’s town crier!

Any kind of nuance that maybe Ukraine and/or Zelensky might not be literally perfect? Muscovite propaganda!

How can speed limits be real if our eyes aren’t real?