If a penalty is "worth it", it's a business decision, not a penalty. Add a zero or two if you want it to work as intended.

The "effective due" is probably even negative because the extra money they'll fight for will be more than the due.

No trash, happy people, everyone minding their own business. That must really piss of the conservatives.

That's because the opposition of the drug legalization is having world's biggest drug festival in Munich right now.

Usually a "call to arms" is where freedom of speech ends.

You're not safe from Google though. And that's quite a big backdoor if you're a target of interest.

IR transmitter, removable batteries (but they will come back), the notification LED.

Once you slightly climb the career ladder, vocabulary turns into marketing bs. Suddenly you most not say "problem" anymore. They're "opportunities" or "challenges". So at that level you don't get "fired" because that would sound bad for the next company you're going with. You're looking for new challenges elsewhere. Leaving behind a dumpster fire like in this very case.

AirAsia. This airline is basically scam. If anything goes wrong, there are no humans to talk to anymore. Only chatbots. No hotline and not even email support. They just keep your money, even if it's 100% their fault. The chatbot is as unhelpful as it gets.

In many countries, schools only care about grades. I was pretty good at getting good grades by understanding what will be tested and minimizing the effort to get there. I would've totally used ChatGPT to do my homework.

piss off their customers

At least for Reddit and Twitter, the users are not the actual customers. The ad companies are the customers.

I think you could add most Latin American countries to that list.

Just use the piped.video frontend.

It's not just the CO2. It's also the water consumption. Wait another 10 years and the water might be the bigger problem.

I'm really not sure if I would name any stock Android in that list. There's not much "libre" about it. Compared to Apple, sure, but that's a ridiculously low bar. We're still missing good alternatives for mobile phones.

We must live in two different Germanies than. I travel a lot and other countries are moving forward a lot faster than we are. Thanks to the CDU we weren't doing much until recently. There are many topics that need attention, especially infrastructure, buerocracy, public health and retirement insurances, corruption aka "lobbyism", and the list goes on. That's all things you could fix one by one, but looking at how/what people vote, there won't be any progress in the next decade imho.

An offline version of Wikipedia would be handy though.

I second this. People usually recommend Ubuntu for beginners which I can somewhat understand because it's super easy to get started. But the downside is that you'll most likely stay a beginner and don't understand the absolute basics of a Linux based OS because, well, most of the time you don't have to. Then you make a beginner's mistake once and there you go.

They usually end like this: "it was an accident, the guy tripped over something and fell onto/into the vagina". Sounds like a bad joke but unfortunately it's not.

I don't know what they actually do but one possibly is to look for (absence of) the TLS handshake. Or maybe they simply infect all devices on the Chinese market with MITM certificates to be able to decrypt all TLS encrypted traffic. Should be easy to force companies to do that in such a country.

I agree. If I want to see "VIPs", influencers, ads or other crap like that I can still register an account over there. Also Meta's track record is horrible..

I really want to enjoy games like Fallout or GTA on the Deck but compared to mouse/keyboard it's just really bad. I cannot understand how so many people like to play games like CoD or Battlefield on consoles.

Random pick from a rather long list: The fact that the president can (and does; a lot..) "pardon" random criminals.

I use it a lot, mostly through OsmAnd on Android. Occasionally I also contribute missing trails and remove obsolete places.

I think many people use their data without even knowing it which is a shame. Maps.me is a very common app but everyone I talk to that's using this app never heard of OSM.

The problem with only panels and wind is the fluctuation. We need at least a small "baseline" power supply that works when there is no wind at night. Storing large amounts of energy is the missing piece here to get rid of conventional power plants altogether. We'll get there eventually.

The good thing about this is that people maybe start questioning if a product for some reason gets "better" because their favorite actor says so - because he got money for doing so.

Imho, he doesn't need to warn his fans, they are not affected by this at all. Maybe the toothpaste is even a bit cheaper compared to the one that actually paid a (probably very pricey) Hollywood star for their ad. He's the victim, not his fans.

GPS location please.

Obviously I don't want to know it but be sure there's hundreds of Google employees that can freely access it.

It always depends on which existing tools you have access to. Go back some more years and there is no GPS. Detecting the bird will be the easier problem then.

Stonks only go up!

But isn't the church the reason why he feels that way in the first place?

The GPU manufacturers are having the time of their lives.

Either you make products that people want or you don't, it seems pretty simple to me.

Imo even big companies fail to realize that they don't know (or care) anymore what the customers want. Marketing used to be: analyze the market and find out what's a good product to sell. Nowadays marketing is: make personalized ads and try to push whatever crap is cheap to produce to people who don't realize they don't even want this. Also make it look a lot better than it actually is.

Samsung, stop trying to imitate Apple, it's no use. You don't have the vendor lock-in and cult-like status to pull that off. Just make good products at affordable prices. Ask the customers what they want, it's that easy.

I have to disagree with your "when use what" list. Python has production ready web backend frameworks, Rust is perfectly fine for complex and high-level software, and PHP is mostly obsolete. That's my humble opinion though. I looked into Nim and like many of the concepts. It's quite complex and I prefer Rust most of the time when Nim would be an option. I'd argue it's some kind of "jack of all trades". A bit like python but compiled, ref-counted, and probably a lot faster. It's lacking the huge community python has though.

The "exclusive content war" already started with podcasts. Wait a few years and let's say Miley Cyrus will sign an exclusive contract with Apple Music and there you have it.

you could find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I like that one. It's funny because it's so generic.

There's tons of good indie games. And you don't even need a 2000€ PC to play them.

I think that's for LGPL. For GLP any form of linking requires the code to be licensed under GPL, too. The dynamic linking except isn't that bad of you think about it. It gives you the freedom to update or replace the library at any time. For security critical libs (TLS, GPG, ..) that's a big plus.

Which of the two parties you have to choose from in the US would actually change that?

Wikipedia sais WhatsApp was released 2009, two years before iMessage. So the idea wasn't new and they most likely didn't lock out Android users by accident.

Diablo 3. Not the one Blizzard released.