The focus mode ui is another bugbear - how scattered the ui is for this.

I can alter it from the bottom middle of the notification shade once set, but I can’t enable it from there - why?

At least put a line with date and time at the bottom of the notification shade so I don’t have to roll it all the way down.

Also, I’ve set triple back tap to turn on the flash… well, it only works (inconsistently) when the phone is unlocked. Why?

I don’t mind Ubuntu server, though you’re right you need to clean it up a bit by uninstalling snap and killing the login ad of managed k8s, the LTS versions have been quite consistently easy to deal with and stable, but then again so has Debian.

In iOS how hard it is to glance the time and date while watching a full screen video.

I’m also the signal guy amongst my friends and family. There are dozens of us!

Can find great deals for 2yo second hand high tier phones

The problem with every terminator after 2 is that they went from “no fate but what we make” to determinism.

Black Panther.

It had so much hype in the media, i was so excited to watch it. It turned out to be rather boring and forgettable.

More than that, most peanut butter has a lot of hydrogenated vegetable fats which are likely much worse than a bit of sugar.

If the package doesn’t have a tablespoon of peanut oil or so pooling at the top when you first open it, that you then need to mix it in, it’s hydrogenated.

You just summoned a demon

How about: I’m sorry to hear that, are you holding up ok?

I found it hardly scary, the protagonist being nearly indestructible, but a super weird trip, like diving head first in a 70s cosmic cult poster, full of hallucinogenics and rivers of blood, and yes, pretty funny at times… “you ruined my favourite shirt”!

“my fellow scholars”

I liked Rogue One too. It had some weight. That Darth Vader close up fight scene at the end was the first time I recognised him as a terrifying force and not a cartoonish bad guy.

Sounds more like a problem with their intended usage pipeline, like an image viewer or word processing app problem.

Not if you indicate you are sure in advance

I was scanning it for the “we’ve been played for ABSOLUTE FOOLS” part.

…the itch wasn’t scratched. :(

For most commercial products they offer what they call Copilot with data protection.

I hate that they are shoving it down everyone’s throat but data leakage is a primary company concern that they have addressed.

Now, how much that is true on the backend is anyone’s guess, but they’re selling something that they could be held legally accountable for.

It’s more like a whole series of legal covers for everyone involved up and down the chain if things go sideways.

The problem is that most of us have swallowed the ‘competence uber alles’ ideal that school fed us through exams and scoring, when the game really is mostly politics (as in interpersonal relationships). So we are understandably disappointed when the incompetent get promoted through brown nosing or luck, when we should be reevaluating the rules of the game.

No probably about it.

Mechanical watches lose 10-15 secs per day which declines as they get older or aren’t serviced, a $40 Casio might miss 30 secs per month, never needs servicing other than a battery change.

Mechanical watches are no longer utility items, they are fashion items that happen to tell time.