If you have a recent phone, websites and PWAs are about as fast as native apps. I’m using a 2014 flagship Sony Xperia Z that came out with Android 4.4 and can barely run Android 13 — it will overheat and sytem UI (thankfully not apps) will restart if rendering stuff for too long. (The difference is staggering: basic old apps like Phyphox and static websites run indefinitely. Modern apps or JS-enabled pages like Voyager or 480p30 video for 10 minutes. Post-modern bloated crap or 720p30 video, 4 minutes. Imgur, new Reddit and 1080p video turn the phone into a hand warmer immediately and the framerate goes from 15 to <1 in 10 seconds, followed by a slew of ANRs and the battery percentage going down every 20^th frame rendered. Should I have applied more heatsink compound after replacing the battery? Yes but I’d argue no app with a simple purpose and basic GUI should require 5 W to the CPU while running at half rate.)

This does not affect people without Google Play Services so why complain? We need fewer reasons for people to buy Apple products so that devs are more inclined to build good native Android apps.

This is why I see it as a mild positive for us. For normal users, it’s another step away from privacy and security towards convenience that they will accept. Yes, some will see this on-by-default feature and think “no privacy is possible anymore” but that’s best solved by GrapheneOS etc. becoming more visible.

Yup

That’s what happens when people stumble across that website called GitHub, get hooked and now have unrealistic expectations for the real git.

“I just installed Git for Windows. Where is the drag-to-upload box?”

— A statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged

Real git involves a lot of sweat, requires you to clean up any mess you make, and communicate with any partners about their preferred techniques instead of rawdogging it and waiting for issues. The pushing and pulling will come naturally but you need to know how and when to release, and be clear about how you wish to commit. Nightly is an option but good luck getting everyone on board. People might judge you for using the word “master” but it should be alright in private.

Still avoids Scunthorpe. There is no good reason to visit Scunthorpe.

My CPU lasted longer than the sticker (it’s a laptop)

Congratulations, you triggered a filter search…

Antigua and Barbuda
Bangladesh
Barbados
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Canada
Chad
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Cote d’Ivoire
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
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This happens so often I instinctively press ⌫, C, Z when I see this specific list.

“What do you mean you can’t play games with it, son? When I had this in high school, I got invited to every LAN party and got free drinks.”

What year?

Scrolling through 200 items is easier on a phone than a desktop without PgUp/PgDn.

Or (A)llemagne, (N)iemcy, (T)yskland, (S)aksa, (V)asija (you won’t encounter the last two unless you use a website in Finnish or Estonian, however the first three are used in numerous countries including Germany’s neighbors).
The lists are occasionally auto-translated, sometimes I see “🇹🇷 Truthahn”.

I imagine the Australian embassy in Vienna already has forms to handle the situation, and so does the Austrian one in Canberra.

Who’s Jane? This is Fedora the Explainer.

It’s not about the money¹. He only cares about free speech² and preserving democracy³.

¹ It is but money is not the primary goal. It is ego, then freed- nope, money is second. Yes, he fucked up with the money but not his fault, right? It’s the bots, and once they get kicked¹⁻¹, the value skyrockets.
¹⁻¹ No promises!
² as long as it aligns with his political goals
³ rights to election interference, algorithm adjustmentss and selective moderation reserved

Amateurs.

The 1963 Černý Důl – Kunčice nad Labem aerial ropeway is over 8 km (5 mi) long, over 30 m high in places and carries 135 tons of limestone every hour from a quarry to the nearest train station. Its 120kW 3-phase synchronous motor requires power for a few minutes at the start and end of each day when most of the 800kg-capacity trolleys are empty, and spends most of the shift generating mains electricity and acting as a speed governor. Unlike the EV, it is fully autonomous most of the way, only 5 people are required to operate it. (Loading, unloading and timed dispatching is automatic, arriving/leaving carts just need to be checked; a safety latch has to be manually dis/engaged on trolleys passing the check.) The quarry will continue operation as long as it pays off, then the ropeway will be scrapped (projected 2033). A dude illegally rode the way up on it somewhat recently. He could have fallen to his death if he pulled the latch.

Thank you for keeping the community booming!