Makes me feel positive about Crucial’s support, though

They can bring some nice benefits like remote starting in cold (or hot) climates, but there needs to be much better design to minimize the exploitability of these systems.

I have off-and-on searched for alternative software for personal blogs that can be self-hosted and it doesn’t seem like there are many options anymore. The only ones I’ve seen are WriteFreely and FlatPress. Are there any other options you’re aware of?

I don’t usually install major Apple OS updates on launch; there seem to be major bugs often enough that I try to wait until the first bugfix release.

What’s funny to me is Ireland wasn’t trying to collect these taxes, the European Commission decided that the Irish taxes were too low and amounted to an illegal subsidy.

You have 13 months left on Windows 10 before it becomes potentially unsafe to use:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support

TL;DR: Repairable, but no long-term OS support and not easy to load an alternative OS on.

The specifications pages for the HMD Fusion and HMD Skyline explain the phones are only guaranteed to receive two major Android operating system updates and three years of Android OS security patches. There’s no guarantee of a release schedule for security updates on the Skyline, while the Fusion will get two years of monthly updates and quarterly updates for the last year.

I think it’s a valid criticism. I was a longtime Android user (at least a decade) but my last Android was a Pixel 2 that I bought at launch. That was the first Android phone I’d had that I wasn’t dying to replace after 2 years. I made it to 3 years and then the phone stopped getting security updates, a Qualcomm problem as much as a Google problem at the time. Meanwhile I looked at my stepdaughter using my wife’s old iPhone, which was 6 years old at that point and still receiving updates and still easy enough to take to a local shop for repairs when she would break it. That was my largest reason to make the switch.

I’m glad to see Google is now promising much longer support on its phones, 6 to 8 years on more recent Pixels, and it seems fairly easy to put an alternate OS on. Other Android brands should really try to follow that lead.

I’ve been assuming that their user engagement is down. Fifteen years ago when I was fresh out of university I had several hundred friends and could spend hours every day going through posts from dozens of different people. Now it feels like I can spend ten or fifteen minutes to see everything and mostly it’s from the same half-dozen people, and I’ve realized most of them are people I don’t really know as well and frankly am not as interested in seeing. At first I thought it was because they were the most prolific posters and I’d inadvertently trained the algorithm to show me more from them by interacting with them the most.

But over the past year I’ve noticed if I actually click on someone else’s profile, maybe having seen their name on a memory or just randomly think of an old friend, most of them only make a few posts a year or haven’t posted anything at all in years. Their accounts still exist, but they’re not using them.

If your feed was only this, a few posts a day from a few people, you’d have no reason to be on Facebook much. So they fill it in with junk from other places that will hopefully engage you. If it doesn’t they’ll try other posts. Whatever it takes to keep you browsing longer.

Maybe they can use AI to finally get people the titles for the cars they bought

This whole thing is horrifying, but the last paragraph is especially disturbing:

Since Herrera himself has a young daughter, and since there are “six children living within his fourplex alone” on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the government has asked a judge not to release Herrera on bail before his trial.

Even more disturbing is it said he was also producing content.

It would be technically possible, but unlikely. You say you don’t have much experience flying, so that might make it less likely for you to succeed than a seasoned traveler. Personally I’ve been through CDG three times and found it one of the more confusing airports I’ve been to.

Are you planning to check luggage? Even if you make the connection your luggage might not.

The good thing is it’s okay to arrive at the gate after boarding has started, so you might have a slightly longer window to make it. The airline might stop allowing boarding at a certain point prior to departure, though, five or ten minutes, so you don’t have the full seventy minutes.

You also probably won’t have time to stop to use the toilet in Paris or buy any food/drinks for the flight. All of that is available on the plane but you’ll have more variety on the ground, and a normal restroom is generally nicer to use than the tiny one on the plane.

If I was traveling solo I might still chance it, but be prepared to not make it and have to wait an extra day in Paris, or not have any checked luggage make the transfer. But also I’ve flown internationally 7 or 8 times, so I’m a little more confident in my ability to run through an airport. I would prefer a minimum 90 minute window, though. Even longer if you’re changing airlines/separate itineraries.

From the Wikipedia entry:

Specific visions for Web3 differ, and the term has been described by Olga Kharif as “hazy”, but they revolve around the idea of decentralization and often incorporate blockchain technologies, such as various cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).[5] Kharif has described Web3 as an idea that “would build financial assets, in the form of tokens, into the inner workings of almost anything you do online”.

I don’t want financial assets to be created from almost everything I do online!

What kind of update does the Apple TV need?

I was wondering the same thing but the article explains these came from preseries/development vehicles. I had no idea that many preproduction vehicles would be made, but they might also make more for electric powertrains than they would ICE since they have less experience with those.

Google’s gonna Google

I know nothing about the stand, but it sounds like you should get the 9th gen and be prepared to replace both the stand and the iPad in 2 years. That is to say: go with the iPad that will be supported longest. You’re handling people’s financial data on there so you shouldn’t be using a device that’s not getting security updates. You’re risking their data and potentially opening yourself up to liability if your device is breached.

Interesting concept, a B&W e-ink screen with a color filter over it, and a refresh mode fast enough to display video

What kind?

I get the impression that you’re in Europe, so it sounds like that’ll be coming, with Apple kicking and screaming every step of the way, but coming nonetheless.

I was a longtime Android user, but had used Macs at work for a long time and eventually started doing so at home. I tried Windows and Android tablets but always found them lacking compared to my experience with others’ iPads. I always suspected if I got an iPad I would eventually switch to iPhone. Eventually I was gifted a basic one and about a year later when Google dropped support for my Pixel that was perfectly fine hardware-wise I made the switch. It was by no means the only reason or even the strongest reason, but the integration between Mac, iPhone, and iPad that generally works really well is a tough selling point to beat once you get on one of them. The much longer software support than Android (at the time) was probably the strongest selling point. Now that the Pixels are guaranteed much longer support I could conceivably see myself getting one and putting Graphene on it, perhaps as a second phone, but I have no need to. Apple has basically fixed all my annoyances from when I switched.