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Am completely expecting this to be due to falling office sales or fear that people will realize they don’t need expensive Office every few years when WordPad has 90% of functionality for daily use.

I expect this will make a lot of people very angry since I know many users of WordPad.

Exactly that. But no one asks a question “why at 2.0 speeds or why now and not 5 years ago”. Naaah, that requires mental gymnastics of a sparrow.

This is just PR. Apple fights something silently then when it’s apparent they will lose they go “We endorse this”… and braindead fans will go “see Apple invented right to repair”. Then the rest gets numb trying to explain to them how Apple just says thing and rarely does anything to benefit users but naah…

Ah, “good” old non-funny “can’t exit Vim” “jokes” that never go out of style. Let’s just all agree you should go back to using browser to write your code up to limited size due to JS limitations and leave the rest of us to “suffer” with out archaic tool that does what it’s told without trying to be a smartass.

ISA cards? That’s not even comparable. That’s 90s era, 30 years ago, 20 at best. Things have changed.

Am sorry, but what? Who searches for drivers on Linux? I’ve been a user for decades now and searching is either don’t buy shit hardware or just do apt search.

Windows on the other hand is literally looking on support sites to find latest version.

Interestingly enough NASA still sends data this way. Huge HDD delivered by hand. Not all data, but I remember reading about some satellite images and similar data where latency doesn’t matter. Can’t beat good old box full of HDD.

I meant the argument of removing 3.5mm to make it everything waterproof is not holding because there are phones out there which are perfectly waterproof with 3.5mm jack.

Yes. I keep telling this to my business partners. They love to call to tell me what needs doing and I keep telling them, I can’t work while I talk to you. Send a message and it gets done in parallel.

It’s not as well shot as it could have been and acting could be better. So great in some aspect, yes. Not so much in others. But it’s well worth the watch definitely.

It’s kind of complex to follow through and they left out a lot of explaining so you have to use your brain. It’s a fun but not great movie. However it’s the only one with properly done time traveling logic and after watching it, you will see all other time traveling movies as a joke.

Ever since version 3 of their phone I’ve been considering one of these but my needs are slightly different. But I love the idea of having such a flexible device.

Manufacturers claim the removal of the jack was to improve the water resistance. I have never dropped my phone in water and would be willing to risk it.

Let us not forget that S7 and S7 Edge had headphone jack and were waterproof.

In some cases it’s more practical as you can keep multitasking. Especially for work I like when people send me emails or chat messages instead of holding meetings or barging into office, even worse video calls.

Had this been emacs it would have been funny. But with Vim you don’t remember key bindings. Vim has operations and motions. Few od each and they are combined.

Consumption of everything is the problem. More people means more pollution. Plastic is a side product of oil. Cement is one of the big players and it’s used everywhere.

Eating meat on the other hand is not as bad of a reason as you’d think. People often think that cattle feed comes from same fields as out food, but that’s simply not true. For the most part it’s leftovers from food we consume, plant matter from corn and wheat for example, and from fields that would otherwise be unused due to low fertility. If you remove meat from the diet only thing you are left with is excess plant matter.

Okay, let’s play a different game then. What has changed with catholic church since he was elected. Mind you, not what he said will change, but actually changed?

They changed nothing. It was all sweet-talk and no changes. There is still no prosecution for child molesters, still no action for all atrocities. He’s just PR man they put in place to stop the dumpster fire previous one was.

I agree, we are all part of this problem. Lets fix it. What each of us can do to affect the change. Average consumer, recycle and keep their phones few years longer. Perhaps not eat bananas. Travel by train. Things like that. Many already do, but more don’t.

Could an average consumer decide that frequently used products come in glass bottles. Say you go and buy Coca-Cola in big 1l glass bottles. Return the old bottle, get a new one. Or for example liquid soap or washing detergent to come in a metal box or glass bottle. Or anything else for that matter. No, everything comes in plastic and if you don’t recycle you are to blame. Can you make the change? No. Because every single manufacturer is doing it. Your only choice is not to buy it, which good luck doing in a modern world. You as a consumer have an option of not buying, buying more expensive alternative which claims to be better but often isn’t and is just charging you premium or just buying whatever is available.

We all know consumption creates demand and demands need to be filled. That’s all great and logical. Then could you buy a TV whose materials have been ethically sourced? Made locally so there’s no pollution for shipping and delivery? No you can not. Your option is not have a TV or have a TV. But you are to blame for wanting a TV.

My point here is, corporations don’t give a fuck about climate. They will happily sacrifice current and future generation’s entire heritage if they can earn 0.1$ on their next sale. That’s all they care about, that next quarter they have more numbers on their account. Want proof of that? Just look at what CocaCola did. Their drinks use to come in glass bottles, switched to plastic. It’s cheaper and if you don’t recycle it’s your fault. What’s that there’s no where to recycle and majority of plastics can’t be recycled. Well that’s governments problem. In fact CocaCola has spend a significant amount of money advertising exactly this. Source. And even when they get pushed for a change, they claim it’s what people wants. It’s never their fault, always yours.

In reality it’s not only CocaCola, but all of them. You could go now, live in wild like an animal wearing nothing but skirt woven from grass and you could not offset for your entire life what they pollute in an hour. If you were born in the 90s, your expected lifetime CO₂ footprint is 150t. That’s it. Flying round-trip London to New York… 986 kg CO₂. More than 2 years of your existence, including breathing, is negated by Elon flying to Paris for a lunch and then got back the same day. You think he recycles 100x more than you?

Want to save the planet, force corporations to use glass instead of plastic. To use paper instead of plastic. To pay for recycling themselves. Prevent the rich for polluting and hold them accountable. Kill coal based everything.

But that’s not happening. Ever. You want clean air, someone is lobbying for “clean coal” even though there’s no such a thing. You want climate change to be stopped but super rich shitheads takes 10 minute flights because traffic was annoying that day.

You can do nothing. It is what it is and it will all go to hell pretty soon. Worrying about it pointless. You claim people are to blame, but people have given up. People need to worry what they will do tomorrow to survive because majority now lives from salary to salary. From an armchair it’s all doable and plans can be made for a better future. But reality is cruel.

For closure. Here’s Doug Stanhope

There’s a massive tourism industry based on this myth. I wouldn’t be surprised this was just an attempt to give it one more heart beat.