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The more expensive the car the higher the percentage lost by driving off the lot, I think

My Geordie friend uses it a lot, I think you're right on the money.

(Geordies are from the region around Newcastle upon Tyne from what he told me, so part of northern England)

Lots of people here forget that you can control the actions of the person before they die.

I did almost forget, thanks for the reminder. I just looked it up again, specifically you can control 23 days.

The last two guys in my team that got retired were 65, but excellent people, and taught me lots, so my first instinct was Wallace. But reading your report, it occurs to me that maybe the description "Is like 100" actually implies a certain oldness of mind that I didn't consider.

Heh I know that feeling, I bought CS:GO before it became free to play.

First you will have to find out about your specific phone model. It seems that different chipset vendors implement different things for tethering.

Someone in the raspberry pi forums checked what his Pi Zero was doing with lsusb -t and someone in an old reddit thread checked his dmesg while connecting the phone and turning on tethering, maybe you can try those things while tethering to see whether currently the RNDIS or the USB CDC driver gets loaded for your phone.

Then we will have to see in which kernel version Greg's change finally lands. At the earliest it will land in Kernel 6.14 because 6.13 is already on the fifth release candidate so new changes shouldn't be added anymore. Then you have to find out when your Mint install will move to that kernel. If you are currently on Mint 22 Wilma (supported until 2029), then that's based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which is based on the Ubuntu LTS Kernel 6.8.

I'm guessing now, based on past regularities, that Mint 23 will be based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and that Ubuntu will choose a fresh kernel for their LTS in the beginning of 2026, so probably one that will contain this change by Greg. So it seems to me, that if 1) your phone still needs RNDIS for tethering and 2) you still have that phone in the middle of 2026 and 3) you still have that Mint install you should probably not upgrade to Mint 23, but stay on Mint 22 until its support ends in 2029.

But projecting that far into the future is kind of difficult, maybe distro maintainers will reenable RNDIS if they see it's still needed, or maybe a future Android Update will force OEMs to use USB CDC.

Ah man, that's a shame. The P41 was one I remembered for being a surprisingly good value despite being a drive with good performance. I never had the chance of buying one, since I don't have a free slot, and it wasn't worth replacing my existing drive.

Laws don’t magically stop working just because you’re out of jurisdiction.

Actually I would say that most do. Extraterritorial jurisdiction is the exception, not the rule. Many countries apply it for cases of Genocide and War Crimes for example.

You are right though that many countries apply their laws to vessels under their flags in international waters

Yes, with the exception of some that switched to USB CDC NCM already. I seem to be lucky, the Pixel 6 is one of the first to have made the switch.

I tried going straight, but after a while I noticed there's actually an invisible pinky over there.

Also is the sound too high, or is it just me not rememberering right?

RNG in doom, that's illegal :D

First of all thanks for the picture, it looks so good! Much better!

Secondly, aren't the flames and smoke in slightly different positions? Perhaps there exist multiple pictures, or a video, from this angle?

Edit: The video is contained in this Supercut from the Guardian: https://youtu.be/pq9_zvpamUk?t=15

It was a big fat hassle already. With a waiting period of 7 days (168 h) enforced by their internet connected tools. Unlocking my Redmi Note 8 Pro was super annoying. I wouldn't do it anymore. Last time I bought a used Pixel instead. Similarly good value thanks to being used, and no proprietary bullshit.

I’m not talking about giving up copyright to content.

Hm, once again I don't understand your meaning, sorry. The public domain in my understanding is the totality of all content that is not under copyright protection. So "putting on public domain" sounds to me like you're talking about giving up copyright. Please explain what you mean with that phrase, since I seem to be misunderstanding.

CC-0 means waiving any as much rights as possible legally, which depends on jurisdiction.

Yes I'm a little familiar, I looked through the CC licenses before and decided CC0 wasn't the best fit for Switzerland. CC0 is meant to dedicate a work to the public domain, i.e. waive all copyright from it. But I now see that it also specifically has a public license fallback for jurisdictions where the public domain dedication doesn't work, in Section 3.

I couldn’t find anything about default license of publicly available material in your country

There isn't such a thing as a default license here, nor have I heard of such a thing in general before. In my understanding a license is an agreement for partial or total transfer of copyrights. But the default state, in my understanding, is that the copyright lies with the creator and no agreement for transfer exists. Authors have the copyright over a work from the moment creation of a work in Switzerland. They can make agreements with others to confer some of these rights. In Switzerland, in contrast to other places, the authors additionally have moral rights that cannot be broken or sold at all. For a more digestible intro I would suggest this site.

nor about the impossibility you mentioned

The absence of the possibility of making works public domain before the copyright term runs out automatically is harder to show, it's not like it's forbidden by statute, but simply that there isn't a recognized mechanism for it. The best thing I can link is the Factsheet about Public Domain from the following page on the site of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, check number 9 on page 4 in the PDF, it says:

9. Can I relinquish the copyright to one of my own works by assigning it to the public domain?

Copyright arises automatically and, in contrast to property law, there is no procedure for simply giving up this right. An author, therefore, does not have any direct possibility of giving a work to the public domain. However, he is at liberty to simply tolerate copyright infringement and to waive legal prosecution. In addition, an author can actively decide to make his work available under an appropriate Creative Commons licence, which is very similar to the public domain, or an equivalent type of public licence.

Whatever you put on public domain without explicit license, it becomes CC-0 equivalent.

What does "putting on public domain" mean to you? The way you say that sounds a little weird to me, like there is a misunderstanding here.

Dedicating copyrighted material to the public domain is a deliberate action in some jurisdictions, and impossible in others (like mine, Switzerland). Just publishing a text you wrote for public consumption is something different. That doesn't affect your copyright at all. Unless you have an agreement with the publisher that you grant them a license to use your text by posting it to their website.

Speaking of illegal weird cables: I actually have a Y shaped cable, USB Type-A male to USB Type-A female with an extra red USB Type-A male to inject more power if the host can't power the device otherwise.

I've used it once to attach an external HDD to an Android Phone with an OTG male micro-B to female A adapter. It worked but it was kind of stupid :-D

USB-B has several different ends, some more well known than others.

micro-B SuperSpeed is always a good one to surprise people with.

I’m 99% wireless these days so I wouldn’t be surprised if chorded chargers are largely on their way out, but I’m still curious.

How fast is the wireless charging these days? I'd be surprised if it's anywhere near the higher USB PD 3.1 modes.

cables and chargers are “active” in the sense they negotiate charge rates and other functionality

Just so you know "active cable" already has a separate meaning: They repeat the USB signals somewhere in the middle for a longer transmission distance.

I think the better idea is to pick up the terminology from the USB-IF, they speak of electronical marking, or e-markers in the cables. It's usually a small chip integrated in one of the plug assemblies.

e.g. the device might charge with USB C but they’ll gimp the data transfer rates on non-pro phones.

Just so you know, there are others who have slow speed on USB Type-C already. My mother's Galaxy A52 has a USB Type-C port that has only USB 2.0 support for data transfer, but with USB PD 3.0 PPS charging up to 25 W.

To me it's legitimate to use USB Type-C for better power delivery even if the chipset runs only at USB 2.0 speeds for data transfer. But hobbling a fast chipset just for product segmentation would be shitty. It is something I could see Apple doing though.