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Except that doesn't happen, no matter how much you want it to.

I don't see the strawman? And it's more than just the 'oh it's only once every 3 years'. It's the environment. Why are we making phones to be replaced needlessly every 2 or 3 years and all the waste that comes with it when you should just be able to replace the one common failure point?

You've got to be on a very old phone before you stop getting updates pushed through though? I know Apple are actually pretty good at legacy updates, but Android has got to be 5 or 6 years? Although the challenge is probably more to the variety of Anroid options out there in both the OS configurations and the hardware, where iOS is just iOS and the hardware is known.

I feel that when you get to that age then your battery is pretty much cooked anyway unless it's had very light use or the owner has been absolutely meticulous in it's care.

I think the biggest reaction will be that it will likely also impact the US and other markets. Just like with the previous EU regulation that mandated that everyone standardises on the same cables (USBC) it benifited the rest of the world as it was just cheaper to design and manufature one phone rather than multiple for the different markets. Probably the same here to.

I am curious to see how they will design around this requirement though. Curretly we've been 'spoiled' with some very sleek and clean designs, but if designers have to find a way for them to be easily openable either tooless or with non-propreietry tools and all the rest of it then it may change this.

Although, to be fair, I have noticed that phones have recently started getting bigger, heavier and clunkier. For example the difference between my recently retired Pixel 5 and new Pixel 7a is night and day. I actually regret upgrading - if it wasn't for my son being 'due' for a new phone and being a little skint at the moment (easy 'free' birthday present), I wouldn't have switched.

Just to move away from the article, I want to make a comment about the car itself.

Over the 2010s, the SUVs were really at the point where they all looked like totally generic boring blobs. Just an shape. Souless and dull. All the same. You'd really struggle to pick a stand out one out of a line up of Vauxhall, Citroen, Ford, Kia, Hyundai, VW etc. There of course was some brands like Porsche, BMW and Audi which were different, but they were genuine evolutions of an already pretty timeless and classic look.

Then Ford and Hyundai came to the table with some absolutely great striking and honestly futuristic designs to kick off their EV range a couple of years ago with the 2020 F-series and Tucsons respectively and by extension the IONIQ ranges. Not to mention the absolute beauty of the Rivian.

And now everyone is doing the same. Rather than look to find an individual and unique design language, everyone copies the pioneer (most times). With the rare exception of the marques who have the confidence to go their own way (a-la BMW, Porsche, Volvo).

Anyway, there's my totally off topic 2p on the matter.

It amazes me that the Soviet concept of a truck with some pipes on the back has remained in service and firmly part of their doctrine for all these years.

Of course the technology of the rockets have advanced, but only in terms of accuracy, range and payload.

this is the summary of 60% of reddit now

Likely because that's who is left on the platfrom. 60% who actively don't care, and the other 40% who either haven't realised what's happening or have no idea what's going on.

Is there a picture of the actual junction?

Yes. I am a user of Strava. But many aren't, so rather than get bogged down in an explanation of the semantics, I wrote what I wrote.

Since functionally it is identical and any difference irrelevant.

Wait until you hear that Budanov liked his Strava post.

I've had (have) iPhones supplied by work and I just can't get away with them. To the point it just sits there on my desk and never get touched unless I need to 2FA or something through it.

And even that takes me an unreasonable amount of time to figure out every time. A lot of that is down to lack of experience, but I'm sure most is down to it just being unintuitive vs an android. And I'm a Pixel user, and before that a HTC user so always been a very pure Android experience.

Yes, because that's socially forced on us. I don't want to have multiple different messaging apps (2 of which from the same fucking megacorp) to have to navigate around.

Person A like to message via app A, but person B likes to message via app B, and person C messages via both app A and B so it's impossible to keep a fucking unbroken line of conversation going etc etc.

Not to mention that means that I HAVE to have these apps on my phone as a result. No matter how strict you set up your privacy controls to restrict their access, there's inevitably shit that they still scrape from you, even stuff you've specifically rejected access to.

And then on top of all that, you're giving them all of your conversaions with people. They may tell you it's all encrypted and all that shit, but I don't entirely believe it.

It drives me up the wall. Let me have one messaging app. Let it be the default app on the phone.

To be fair, as a work machine, I far prefer macs. And there's a reason why Windows has been implementing steadily more and more MacOS features into their OS over time.

For a personal machine I'd rather Windows.

Sure, I was being hyperbolic in my language.

That's a good point, actually. His sector 2 pace was what kept him ahead of Ham.

We'll have to see.

Hungary is a totally different track, so if they're also quick there then we may be in for some fun!

This may be the case for desktop, but the mobile experience is different.

When I was figuring out the solution yesterday it seemed that mobile apps were not showing NSFW stuff on .World. Even with the applicable settings selected in options.

Well that would be the logical thing to do.

Kick of the heavier passengers and they don't have to remove as many total people. Which is overall better as you're creating travel problems for fewer people.

Although unless you're like 20st then it's unlikely that it would matter a great deal whether you pick the weightier people since they'll be making the calculation based on a formula that attributes a set value to passenger weight.

I think this is a pretty shit post.