Most days you could say the same (though to a slightly lesser degree) about the Japanese.
Depending on the situation, I could consider that a feature. Considering we’re all gathered to hate on American and chinese cloud-dependent crapware, there’s something to be said for a decent product that’s lagging behind on the high-tech side.
Ask someone who’s into race biking what they think of Italian bikes.
To be clear I’m a mountain biker, and Italians have been out of that game for a long time. But it’s my understanding that e.g. Bianchi and Campagnolo are very well respected.
Overall though, people obey them and roads are safer as a result.
Ooh boy, you clearly have never driven in Italy.
Oh, sweet summer child…
Of course you can introduce all kinds of serialization and parts pairing just like you do on any other device. Below is a fairly mild example, but just look at all the bullshit John Deere is pulling on their tractor repair or the BMW where the car will intentionally malfunction if you don’t replace your battery at a dealership.
And Google Wallet is also not a bank…
Yes there are. Some can be made to mostly work without Google Services, and the majority do work perfectly well with microG.
I have apps from three different banks (I know, ridiculous, but there are reasons) on my /e/OS Fairphone 4 and as far as I can tell they all work 100%.
Also, they very intentionally decided to block use of their app on custom ROMs, cutting out all Graphene/Calyx/e/OS users.
So… not great.
China has not been taking our trash for quire a while now.
Magic Earth has traffic data.
HereWeGo has traffic data and even has public transport and restaurant reviews (from TripAdvisor). It does collect some data but (1) at least it’s not Google and (2) it’s Dutch so they have to go by the GDPR.
Fira Code is seriously awesome. I love how it is delightfully quirky. Not too much, just enough to give it plenty of character without becoming weird, annoying, or hard to read.
I also really like how it is more wide than most. If I’m supposed to finish all my lines at 80 characters there’s no point in using something that condensed.
Actually, I would really like to find a similarly non-bland proportional character to use beside it.
Most alternative video platforms except peertube are crawling with Nazis and antivaxxer. Odyssey, Rumble, Bitchute…
Basically that’s what happens when you make a point of absolute freedom of speech… You get all the people noone else wants to touch.
If they plan to avoid products from any and all countries that don’t stand up to Israel, they’re going to have to learn to be very frugal.
Not really. I lived in the Netherlands for a decade. I can promise you the Dutch don’t mind.
Actually, I think the expression “doing Dutch” fits them pretty well to this day.
Yeah, but in many kinds of applications you simply can’t easily build a file that seamlessly combines documentation and content.
When it’s possible, it’s truly the most awesome way to implement a tutorial.
The Inkscape tutorials are included in Inkscape’s standard help menu and particularly cool… Because they’re actually all Inkscape documents.
So when the tutorial can just tell you to click and rotate the rectangle just below and you can just do that.
That’s pretty neat, and it’s a pity that it just isn’t possible or as easy in other kinds of programs.
I have heard many times the claim that they couldn’t break even based on ticket price alone.
It is also possible that this was true once, but not anymore, especially given how consolidated, anticompetitive, and therefore overpriced, that industry has become.
I have lots of complaints about DOP/PDO, but on the other hand it has its features.
While it’s true that, to paraphrase Vesper Lynd, there is parmigiano, and there is parmigiano, and I prefer the latter kind… The worst parmigiano I can buy in EU is still damn good cheese.
Parasites for sure but…
Delta has 60 billions revenue.
Unless the C suite earns a couple billion per person, that’s not what’s preventing it from flying planes profitably.
Every 30 minutes? Nope. More like every 6 minutes.