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It wasn't "because he was a conservative". It was because he was funding a campaign to limit peoples rights and and everyone / every website was running a campaign to tell users to get off Firefox if they want to stop funding this. It would have destroyed Mozilla if they did nothing.

Gemini throws out way way too much. Inline links and image support for one. It feels like someone wants to have everything exactly as it was in the 80s.

They claim to stop feature creep by not including any kind of optional data support like headers and the spec team will reject any feature additions.

While I would be happy to have HTML/CSS exactly as it is and replace JS with a minimal WASM implementation that lets the website bring whatever tools it wants rather than relying on 1 billion JS apis.

Apple is stuck in this crappy half way situation where the MacBook and iPad are USB-C while the iphone and accessories are lightning. Clearly the iPad and Macbook will not switch to lightning so the only way to standardize is to move the rest to usb-c.

USB-C ports have a tongue in the device end which can be damaged. Seen some nintento switch repairs and most of the time its the usb c port thats broken. The iphone in comparison seems to have less going on in the port. It does have the port gripper bits inside the port but I have 7 year old devices that still grip the cable just fine.

The prices in Australia are based on forecasted demand. Since there is almost a 100% chance that the population of tomorrow will be greater than today, that means you can buy on higher prices than current demand. Unfortunately that means houses can be considered worth almost infinite dollars since the population will keep going up.

Cryptographic keys embedded in hardware worked really well for the DRM industry. Eventually someone will work out how to extract the key, then create malware to spread around android devices to send back millions of valid keys. What do you do then? Blacklist millions of real peoples cameras and prevent them from using the internet?

Don't really agree with this. It like saying "why did you use a phone to do that math when a simple calculator or even pen and paper would work"

Sure it would work, but the phone also works and does way more. You might be able to use some trivial processing on duck hunt but it won't work on anything slightly more complex so why would you bother learning a method that only works on the most basic of games when you can develop something that can be applied everywhere.

You might be interested in this solar project in Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms

This farm grows a huge amount of tomatoes in the desert. It has its own water desalination plant powered by solar. Unlike most of the stuff you see, this isn't PV solar generating electricity, but just a bunch of mirrors pointed at a single point to collect a huge amount of heat to generate fresh water.

Just look at the land in the photo on wikipedia and imagine how much food could be produced in this space.

No the government actually is pro coal. Its their whole marketing image and they have been trying to warp the market to stop the death of coal. AGL wanted out because it wasn't profitable and the government wouldn't allow it. They also tried to ban investment companies from not investing in fossil fuels because coal mine projects where having a hard time getting funding.

Google literally has remote control over all pixel devices and can push arbitrary code via the play services at any time without user approval.

In this day and age, if you don't trust your phone vendor with your data, you shouldn't be using it. They can do anything at any time and you wouldn't know. Even if there is no tracking code on your phone at this moment, they can put it on at any time.

Can't find the news article anymore but there was an incident where Google accidentally turned on airplane mode for every pixel at once via their remote control tools.

It would be nice if the browser title text feature didn't flat out suck. Why is there no way to show tooltips immediately rather than having to wait a few seconds. Seems like every website reimplements them because the browser ones are useless.

I feel like the more practical version of this is the Apple Watch cellular version. You can do those things easily but stuff like wasting time on IMs or checking emails is cumbersome. Its the ideal device when you want to get away from distraction (you can turn off non essential notification) but still lets you make a phone call or receive one if its important. As well as streaming music.

I assume everyone using the OP phone also has a fully featured phone to go with it so the OP product does not seem very compelling.