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These cars don’t even go onto highways or areas where accidents are more likely.

Accidents are less likely on highways. Most accidents occur in urban settings. Most deadly accidents occur outside of cities, off-highway.

Clearly the driver is at fault here, but a case can be made (and apparently, was) that this would not have been possible had you not provided access to the car to the perp in question.

This is the equivalent of holding gun manufacturers culpable if someone buys a gun from them and then uses it to commit murder - right?

For the exact same reason, I’ve only been using Pixel devices for years now. Before that, Nexus devices.

Every now and then, I get interested in what Samsung has to offer, and their top end devices are without a don’t often among the very best out there.

But it’s shit like pre-installed apps, Samsung’s tooth-and-nail fight against unlocking the bootloader, bloatware that re-enables or installs itself with system updates, and generally Samsung’s attempts to pull users into it’s ecosystem and sell them more Samsung stuff that makes me keep it at arms length.

Pocket Casts is available as Android and Windows app; Apple Podcasts isn’t.

Pocket Casts syncs between MacOS, iOS, Android, Windows and Abby device that asked you to open the wenn player; Apple Podcasts doesn’t.

It’s not garbage per se, it just doesn’t fit the same use case.

Many “tech journalists” are about as old as Facebook.

When they started using devices, the iPhone had been around for years, and the only discussion platforms they ever knew where centralized platforms with millions and millions of users run by mega corporations. In their personal life experience, Reddit has always just existed, they’ve never known a world without YouTube, Snapchat is what they used when they were little kids, TikTok had been around long enough that’s it’s considered an established media outlet.

They’ve never seen a Usenet group, they’ve never had accounts on phpbb forums. Choosing a smaller platform with a more selective userbase just doesn’t exist in their reality.

Refuse to pay bills for your clouds infrastructure.

Refuse to pay rent for your offices.

Big brain time.

Seems crazy to pay $42,000 per month for the API, have the API randomly break on you, have no tech support available, and just generally witness all the insanity going on at Musk’s Twitter, and yet still hold out hope that it’s all going to be fine.

Strong echoes of Microsoft’s “embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy…

Yeah, I get that, and hypothetically you could just use a mobile device for text creation, using your preferred method of inputting text (e.g. a swipe keyboard, or a stylus with text recognition, etc.) on the mobile device and then send it all to the desktop.

I asked about that, and I didn’t get a definitive answer. The conversation was more like:

“You don’t get it, we grew up with touchscreen devices, physical keyboards are outdated.”

“So do you use voice to text or something?”

“No! You don’t get it. We grew up with mobile devices!”

“But… How do you enter text!?”

“Nobody cares about your typewriting skills!!”

They stared at me.

I stared back.

The generational gap felt like the Grand Canyon.

I’ve had conversations with young people who started work in an office environment that required a lot of text editing/text creation, and they didn’t know how to type on a keyboard.

Their opinion was that typing on a physical keyboard was an outdated skill that just wasn’t required any more.

I asked them if they used voice-to-text or some other input method instead, and they said no.

Are that point, I just talked away, because I didn’t have any polite follow-up questions, and we simply didn’t seem to speak the same language.

Barely.

It doesn’t even have to be easily replaceable as in: on the go, so that I can switch out batteries during the day. That’s really not important to me.

It just has to be user replaceable, so that I can switch it out at home, with normal tools, when the battery has degraded so much that the phone becomes unusable.

As things are, i have to throw a disproportionate amount of money at some shop to switch out a $10 part, or risk breaking the screen and digitizer when I disassemble the phone with a suction cup and hot gun, just so I can get at the glued down battery.

That’s just ridiculous to me.

The fact that you’d want a dive computer to be waterproof beyond 3 feet might have something to do with that, though.

Sealed devices have way better water resistance

My dive computer has a user replaceable battery, and it’s waterproof to more than 250ft.

This is just a non-argument to me.

Not all countries have the same school hours. In some places, the expectation is that kids get out of school by lunch time.

Also, school meals are not the first line of defense when it comes to food insecurity, like it’s unfortunately often the case in the United States.