Tipping in restaurants is normal in Germany; here's the German Wikipedia article on the subject. Staff asking for a tip doesn't seem normal though, and I'd find that rude.
Fucking with scroll in any way. My browser and OS scroll in a familiar, reliable way and the chances of any change to that a website could possibly make improving my experience are infinitesimal. https://dontfuckwithscroll.com/
The product is a vaginal dilator, which has evidence supporting its use in treatment of several medical conditions. The distinction from a dildo has more to do with intended use than form.
Fakespot and Firefox are different products. They should stay that way.
It's fine that Fakespot needs to collect some data from users to do the thing it does, and probably necessary for it to monetize that data to have a sustainable funding model. I don't want it to sell a profile about me to advertising partners, so I don't use it.
Firefox can function as a web browser without transferring any information about me off my local machine except that which I explicitly tell it to send to specific websites.
Laws should be written for the general case, not to target a specific person or entity. Franchise laws force customers to deal with a middleman that the market does not require and should be eliminated.
I'm not surprised that small phones aren't a big market segment, but I am surprised there's not a single maker trying to dominate that niche.
Sony used to, as the article mentions. I suspect their sales were low in large part because their prices weren't competitive. Some other niche player could easily have that market, especially if they did a little better on the value proposition. Alternately, Samsung launched 29 phones in 2024 or 2025; it's surprising that they don't include a single small model to address a market segment that, while not the largest, seems very devoted to that preference.
My best guess is that we're an unprofitable segment for other reasons. I, for one am not going to regularly buy new phones just because they're new. I'm also not going to use any bundled bloatware; I'll change defaults; I won't subscribe to many, if any services; I'll block ads aggressively. I'll even try to pay developers for apps outside of the built-in store, though that's rarely possible. Anybody who sells me a phone is probably not going to make any profit from me other than the margin on the purchase price, and while I'm willing to pay a little extra for the phone I want (5" screen, headphone jack, unlockable bootloader), I'll balk at an extreme premium.
FM receivers are capable of producing interference. Note their listing here.
The weird thing about this post is that both of the obvious scenarios that would lead to the kind of restrictions OP's workplace has don't quite add up.
If radios are banned due to interference, random electronic devices like digital music players are also capable of producing interference. It's surprising that any kind of personally owned electronic gadget is allowed.
If it's a high-security environment, it's surprising that any personally owned digital storage device is allowed.
I wish OP would elaborate, not because I doubt them, but because the explanation is probably interesting.
I have a friend who occasionally works in a SCIF. My impression is that a radio receiver would probably be allowed, but an SD card would not. That's what makes me suspect it has to do with sensitive equipment, though I'd be a little surprised any electronic equipment not explicitly vetted is allowed in that situation.
I don't think this is a troll. I think OP works in a high-security setting, or around extremely sensitive equipment. I'm leaning toward the latter because I wouldn't expect an SD card to be allowed in a high-security setting.
The multitouch-only UI was the big thing that made the iPhone stand out from Blackberry and Windows Mobile. Palm was already on the decline. Android was intended to lean heavily on physical controls at the time, but was well on the way to release.
Several companies were already working on multitouch UIs, including Microsoft, Samsung, Mitsubishi, and startups like JazzMutant and Fingerworks; Apple bought Fingerworks. If Apple hadn't, Microsoft probably would have been the first to add it to a phone OS, perhaps with Samsung as a hardware partner.
Other factors that contributed to the smartphone as we know it today include good enough cameras, 3G (enough bandwidth for the web), 4G (enough bandwidth for video), and falling prices on all of it.
A multitouch phone with native third-party apps, a decent browser, good camera, and fast networking was absolutely on the horizon by 2007. The iPhone certainly accelerated things, but there's a reason Apple rushed to demo barely functional prototypes and released it without 3G.
Windows Mobile was already commercially available in phones when the iPhone came out. Android was well on its way.
Both changed in response to the iPhone, but I think evolution would have led to a similar place without it. Trends like the loss of physical keyboards were driven by improvements to capacitive touchscreens.
His board repair videos were outstanding. I don't especially enjoy his rants. He's usually right, but I don't really care to listen to how mad he is about it. I can get mad on my own.
Facebook was a mostly-harmless multimedia blog site before smartphones. Both its addiction algorithm and being in everyone's pocket contribute to its current harms, but both would have happened even if Apple hadn't made a phone.
Smartphones resembling what we have now would have come out of a likely Windows/Android rivalry. They might even still have headphone jacks.
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Tipping in restaurants is normal in Germany; here's the German Wikipedia article on the subject. Staff asking for a tip doesn't seem normal though, and I'd find that rude.