In the last five years I've moved from Australia to the USA and then to the UK, and now back to Australia. In all countries I have set up businesses, filed taxes for myself and the businesses, corresponded with the various government departments required to do all that stuff. I have had health care and gone to the doctors.
I had to send three faxes in this five year period - all to companies/organisations in the USA. Each time I had to do it (many months apart) I marvelled at what a weird anachronism it seemed to be, and asked various friends & family in other parts of the world if faxing was something they had to do very often (usually after me asking them if they had a way for me to send a fax, which they didn't), and they seemed equally surprised.
I can't remember the last time I sent a fax in Australia; easily more than 10 years ago.
I have a Canon 50D SLR and lenses and am about to upgrade to a 5D. But I don't carry it everywhere. The quality of the latest gen phone cameras is simply stunning for casual use.
If this has the camera features of the pixel 3 (even if it doesn't have as good a lens) this is almost certainly my next phone - if it has a Nexus price point. I've avoided the z Pixel line so far but am super impressed with my partner's Pixel 3, but hate the price tag and lack of headphone jack.
If they put an SD card and removable battery in this it'd be even better of course.
All hinges on the price point though for me! I'm on a Nexus 5X which is feeling a bit dated.
I bought mine brand new at retail just over two years ago. I knew buying it late would be a risk like this but was hoping they'd extend. Two extra months is better than a kick in the groin but it's still disappointing.
Very strongly considering jumping ship to Apple these days. I'd cheerfully keep buying cheap Nexus devices every 2-3 years but if I have to drop $1000 on the way only google phone I know will be up to date then I'd rather get a cheaper iPhone. (I know Android One is a thing too but they seem hard to find in Australia)
I had this problem with the Nexus 5X. Was driving me fucking nuts until I figured out what the cause was; I lost a few important photos.
In my case it was because I had HDR enabled. What would happen (I think) is I'd take an HDR photo and there'd be a small moment after the photo was taken where it would be "processing". There was a little notification in the taskbar as it was doing this.
What I realised was if I switched applications while this would happening, the final output file would get saved in a corrupted state - it would just show as an all grey picture.
I simply stopped using HDR at this point. I wonder if it's related.
They are also offering a short-term unlimited backup plan (which expires today). The close timing of that & the canary announcement is a little interesting. I was literally about to sign up to move away from Dropbox when I heard the warrant canary thing and it was confusing/disturbing enough to make me hold off.
Oh yeh, totally true. I find I get more benefit from no media though than the occasional annoyance of a few broken sites. Vimeo is another one that had a huge bug report from years ago they showed no sign of fixing.
I tend to just fire up Chrome if I need to play something like that.
If you're still on Windows 7 or 8.1 like I am on most of my PCs, check out Clink - an extension for the Windows command line that adds bash-style command line functionality to cmd.exe.
I was only just introduced to this by a colleague and can't believe I only just discovered it. Supports things like CTRL-V copy/paste which is pretty handy.
Yes, we have those in Brisbane and rarely see them used. Our climate is hot in summer, helmets are mandatory we have lots of hills and the bikes look like something your grandmother would only ride. It takes a lot of infrastructure to implement and limits you to specific geographic points cf. share bikes which have no 'home' and get dumped, stolen and busted.
Also in Brisbane - just moved back here after 4 years overseas. Signed up for CityCycle for the first time and am using it several times a week.
I am not worried by the mandatory helmets - I carry one with me when I expect to use them, but in 3 months or so I am yet to run into a situation where there aren't the freebie helmets available.
Agree with your other issues though. I am definitely not looking forward to doing it in summer. It's almost too hot to ride them now in the middle of winter! The only thing that makes it feasible is I live near the river & everywhere I go on it is flat. But the bikes are sooo heavy that even going up small hills means sweat.
The big difference between CityCycle and the other schemes I think though is the fixed bases. I don't really like the idea of bikes (and/or scooters) just laying around everywhere; I think it's actually a little more convenient to have fixed bases (though of course I can say that because there are two within 2mins walk of my place).
All that said, I'm loving CityCycle. $5/mo means I have saved a ton on buses and trains (both of which are also readily available for me). But I'll see how much I use it in the summer:)
... of a public company (SEC statement, but I guess that doesn't mean she can't wander around and raise money for anything else as a private company representative...?
More disturbing is how few people here seem to have a problem with this. Are we so disconnected from our world that an image on an LCD display is not only suitable but preferable to a window?
Something has gone seriously wrong.
I travel a lot and love the window seat. I love looking out the windows and seeing cities and the clouds and the planet from up high.
BUT if taking the windows off planes drops the price significantly I would like to have the option. More competition amongst airlines for pricing can only be a good thing. I can't imagine the vast fleet of windowed planes are going anywhere any time soon so we'll have the option for at least another few decades and hopefully by then we'll have jetpacks.. right?
If Samsung won't come to the party, make sure your next phone supports Project Treble (should be any phone that shipped with Oreo, plus the original Pixels). That finally decouples the OS from the SoC drivers, and means any Treble phone can (theoretically) be upgraded with Google's own OS releases.
Treble has always sounded great but I've always been concerned that there's no authoritative Google source to confirm whether a device is "Treble certified" or "Treble compatible".
Your post reminded me that Treble existed (my partner & I are in the market for new phones & I can't bring myself to buy a non-Google phone because of the operating system issue, and I can't bring myself to pay a fortune for a Pixel after being very happy with the cheap Nexus series for the last several years) so I had a quick search.
I can see no obvious Google-owned/managed resources, though there's this Android police article with an old list that they say is no longer updated, but it points to this github page - which seems to be the most comprehensive list.
So while I really like the idea of getting a Treble phone, there's still not enough info or clarity around the whole thing for me to feel comfortable trying to buy one yet. (e.g., will a Treble phone be Treble for ever? Or can vendors mess with it with subsequent updates of their own somehow? Will vendors & Google work closely enough on Treble standardisation to ensure that future updates won't cripple specific features on my phone?)
The additional "features" of easy upgrading and large fleet boon are unconvincing -- how often will one mess with the license plates?
They will probably be messed with all the time, once the vulnerabilities come rolling in. Hey, maybe it will be the first truly secure piece of technology ever!
I'd still like to be in control of my phone about which apps get which permissions. The current version I have lets me selectively deny permissions to my camera, contacts, location, microphone, etc, but I can't do it for any of the other zillion permissions, like "have full network access", "receive data from Internet", "view network connections", "connect and disconnect from wifi", "change your audio settings", and the latest one I just found, "com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE".
Conspiracy theory: that is what they want us to think because actually the crypto and implementation is terrible. The more people that install it as a result of this fake ban the more traffic they can snoop on.
I don't know much about Telegram other than it seems to be the 'encrypted' instant messaging platform that I see most regularly shitted on by people in the crypto community (e.g the Signal team and some of the academics I follow on the twitters). From my casual absorbtion of info about it there seems to be a fairly strong concensus that it's not a trusted platform.
I'm in the same boat. Every couple years I try Linux on the desktop and each time something frustrating happens within the first few hours - it's usual one or two fairly trivial things but together they have enough of an impact on my workflow or patience to make me decide it's too much effort.
I've got 20+ years now of Windows desktop knowledge, tools, muscle memory, workflows, etc. It's hard to break that habit; when I need Linux I just ssh to one of a few VPSs I maintain or load up one of a few local VMs I keep.
I'm too scared of Windows 10 to want it for WSL though, but I assume I'll inevitably be forced into it and I look forward to having WSL available as an alternative.
Wait, what on earth do you want the US government to increase taxes and reduce spending for, if NOT to spend on the very things you snarked at above like medical care/education/living wage for everyone?!
Medicare / College / Living Wage for all. And to use an old/. metaphor: I want a pony. That sounds great -- so free medicare, college, and all jobs pay a minimum of $1M/second. (What? I need a Porsche to drive to work. And you want me to go to work tomorrow too, right? What do you mean in yesterday's USED car? What kind of a heathen ARE you?)
This seems like a strawman though (and you're kind of making GP's point for him about people wilfully misinterpreting the goals of "the lefts"). Noone is proposing unlimited money, ponies and Porsches for everyone, so that concept is easy to beat down.
To be more specific, giving you a pony and a Porsche is great for you, but doesn't really boost the rest of the economy (except pony and Porsche manufacturers). But giving you healthcare means you can work with less concern about your life being crippled by financial obligations if you have health issues; it helps the economy by keeping you productive as possible. Education has other obvious benefits for society & economy.
That's why I call it a strawman: none of "the lefts" the GP is talking about are calling for free money for luxury items. They're trying to ensure a strong backbone of the economy by making sure there's a healthy and educated workforce.
Maybe unfettered capitalism is a better way to do this - I don't think so, but I don't know for sure. But from what I've seen of the world (I've just returned to Australia after two years in the US and two years in the UK), I tend to believe that better access to healthcare and education is a good thing.
So where IS the money going to come for this? (Don't just say "The Government". You have to add "and..." to the answer.) And how? Are you going to enforce an overall minimum wage? Change the W2 forms to add "hours worked", and throw the bosses in jail if the employee numbers don't work out right? If we pay (say) $20/hour for everyone for flipping burgers (or breathing) then any other job that's harder MUST pay more. How are you to find someone that wants (perhaps even go to school) to learn how to do the harder job just so they can earn the exact same amount. Why bother?
FWIW, this is pretty much what the minimum wage is here in Australia. I actually think it's a little too high - the difference between the number of employees in an Australian burger joint vs an American one is striking if you've spent a bit of time in each place. But we've managed it here without everything going to crazy. The money does come from somewhere - it comes from customers in the form of slightly higher prices for things. But I'm prepared to pay a few extra bucks on a burger.
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So if fax is so obsolete, why didn't you just send them in a digital way to those three companies instead and let the chips fall where they may?
Government departments do not negotiate when it comes to paperwork, as a general rule :D
In the last five years I've moved from Australia to the USA and then to the UK, and now back to Australia. In all countries I have set up businesses, filed taxes for myself and the businesses, corresponded with the various government departments required to do all that stuff. I have had health care and gone to the doctors.
I had to send three faxes in this five year period - all to companies/organisations in the USA. Each time I had to do it (many months apart) I marvelled at what a weird anachronism it seemed to be, and asked various friends & family in other parts of the world if faxing was something they had to do very often (usually after me asking them if they had a way for me to send a fax, which they didn't), and they seemed equally surprised.
I can't remember the last time I sent a fax in Australia; easily more than 10 years ago.
I have a Canon 50D SLR and lenses and am about to upgrade to a 5D. But I don't carry it everywhere. The quality of the latest gen phone cameras is simply stunning for casual use.
When they pair properly. And the batteries aren't flat. And there's no interference. And you can get through their interface to actually turn them on.
If this has the camera features of the pixel 3 (even if it doesn't have as good a lens) this is almost certainly my next phone - if it has a Nexus price point. I've avoided the z
Pixel line so far but am super impressed with my partner's Pixel 3, but hate the price tag and lack of headphone jack.
If they put an SD card and removable battery in this it'd be even better of course.
All hinges on the price point though for me! I'm on a Nexus 5X which is feeling a bit dated.
I bought mine brand new at retail just over two years ago. I knew buying it late would be a risk like this but was hoping they'd extend. Two extra months is better than a kick in the groin but it's still disappointing.
Very strongly considering jumping ship to Apple these days. I'd cheerfully keep buying cheap Nexus devices every 2-3 years but if I have to drop $1000 on the way only google phone I know will be up to date then I'd rather get a cheaper iPhone. (I know Android One is a thing too but they seem hard to find in Australia)
I had this problem with the Nexus 5X. Was driving me fucking nuts until I figured out what the cause was; I lost a few important photos.
In my case it was because I had HDR enabled. What would happen (I think) is I'd take an HDR photo and there'd be a small moment after the photo was taken where it would be "processing". There was a little notification in the taskbar as it was doing this.
What I realised was if I switched applications while this would happening, the final output file would get saved in a corrupted state - it would just show as an all grey picture.
I simply stopped using HDR at this point. I wonder if it's related.
SpiderOak are discontinuing their warrant canary, which some are speculating that it means their canary is dead & they have been compromised.
They are also offering a short-term unlimited backup plan (which expires today). The close timing of that & the canary announcement is a little interesting. I was literally about to sign up to move away from Dropbox when I heard the warrant canary thing and it was confusing/disturbing enough to make me hold off.
Oh yeh, totally true. I find I get more benefit from no media though than the occasional annoyance of a few broken sites. Vimeo is another one that had a huge bug report from years ago they showed no sign of fixing.
I tend to just fire up Chrome if I need to play something like that.
I've had the following two settings set in Firefox ever since I discovered them and I never get autoplaying media:
media.autoplay.enabled = false
media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground = true
... that this is just a spreadsheet?
replace "on the Internet" with "on the blockchain" for what it looks like today :D
If you're still on Windows 7 or 8.1 like I am on most of my PCs, check out Clink - an extension for the Windows command line that adds bash-style command line functionality to cmd.exe.
I was only just introduced to this by a colleague and can't believe I only just discovered it. Supports things like CTRL-V copy/paste which is pretty handy.
Yes, we have those in Brisbane and rarely see them used. Our climate is hot in summer, helmets are mandatory we have lots of hills and the bikes look like something your grandmother would only ride.
It takes a lot of infrastructure to implement and limits you to specific geographic points cf. share bikes which have no 'home' and get dumped, stolen and busted.
Also in Brisbane - just moved back here after 4 years overseas. Signed up for CityCycle for the first time and am using it several times a week.
I am not worried by the mandatory helmets - I carry one with me when I expect to use them, but in 3 months or so I am yet to run into a situation where there aren't the freebie helmets available.
Agree with your other issues though. I am definitely not looking forward to doing it in summer. It's almost too hot to ride them now in the middle of winter! The only thing that makes it feasible is I live near the river & everywhere I go on it is flat. But the bikes are sooo heavy that even going up small hills means sweat.
The big difference between CityCycle and the other schemes I think though is the fixed bases. I don't really like the idea of bikes (and/or scooters) just laying around everywhere; I think it's actually a little more convenient to have fixed bases (though of course I can say that because there are two within 2mins walk of my place).
All that said, I'm loving CityCycle. $5/mo means I have saved a ton on buses and trains (both of which are also readily available for me). But I'll see how much I use it in the summer :)
If I recall correctly, both Doom and Quake were written in ANSI C (maybe even up to Quake 3?). I don't think they moved to C++ until they did Doom 3.
... of a public company (SEC statement, but I guess that doesn't mean she can't wander around and raise money for anything else as a private company representative...?
More disturbing is how few people here seem to have a problem with this. Are we so disconnected from our world that an image on an LCD display is not only suitable but preferable to a window?
Something has gone seriously wrong.
I travel a lot and love the window seat. I love looking out the windows and seeing cities and the clouds and the planet from up high.
BUT if taking the windows off planes drops the price significantly I would like to have the option. More competition amongst airlines for pricing can only be a good thing. I can't imagine the vast fleet of windowed planes are going anywhere any time soon so we'll have the option for at least another few decades and hopefully by then we'll have jetpacks.. right?
If Samsung won't come to the party, make sure your next phone supports Project Treble (should be any phone that shipped with Oreo, plus the original Pixels). That finally decouples the OS from the SoC drivers, and means any Treble phone can (theoretically) be upgraded with Google's own OS releases.
Treble has always sounded great but I've always been concerned that there's no authoritative Google source to confirm whether a device is "Treble certified" or "Treble compatible".
Your post reminded me that Treble existed (my partner & I are in the market for new phones & I can't bring myself to buy a non-Google phone because of the operating system issue, and I can't bring myself to pay a fortune for a Pixel after being very happy with the cheap Nexus series for the last several years) so I had a quick search.
I can see no obvious Google-owned/managed resources, though there's this Android police article with an old list that they say is no longer updated, but it points to this github page - which seems to be the most comprehensive list.
So while I really like the idea of getting a Treble phone, there's still not enough info or clarity around the whole thing for me to feel comfortable trying to buy one yet. (e.g., will a Treble phone be Treble for ever? Or can vendors mess with it with subsequent updates of their own somehow? Will vendors & Google work closely enough on Treble standardisation to ensure that future updates won't cripple specific features on my phone?)
The additional "features" of easy upgrading and large fleet boon are unconvincing -- how often will one mess with the license plates?
They will probably be messed with all the time, once the vulnerabilities come rolling in. Hey, maybe it will be the first truly secure piece of technology ever!
I'd still like to be in control of my phone about which apps get which permissions. The current version I have lets me selectively deny permissions to my camera, contacts, location, microphone, etc, but I can't do it for any of the other zillion permissions, like "have full network access", "receive data from Internet", "view network connections", "connect and disconnect from wifi", "change your audio settings", and the latest one I just found, "com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE".
Conspiracy theory: that is what they want us to think because actually the crypto and implementation is terrible. The more people that install it as a result of this fake ban the more traffic they can snoop on.
I don't know much about Telegram other than it seems to be the 'encrypted' instant messaging platform that I see most regularly shitted on by people in the crypto community (e.g the Signal team and some of the academics I follow on the twitters). From my casual absorbtion of info about it there seems to be a fairly strong concensus that it's not a trusted platform.
I'm in the same boat. Every couple years I try Linux on the desktop and each time something frustrating happens within the first few hours - it's usual one or two fairly trivial things but together they have enough of an impact on my workflow or patience to make me decide it's too much effort.
I've got 20+ years now of Windows desktop knowledge, tools, muscle memory, workflows, etc. It's hard to break that habit; when I need Linux I just ssh to one of a few VPSs I maintain or load up one of a few local VMs I keep.
I'm too scared of Windows 10 to want it for WSL though, but I assume I'll inevitably be forced into it and I look forward to having WSL available as an alternative.
Wait, what on earth do you want the US government to increase taxes and reduce spending for, if NOT to spend on the very things you snarked at above like medical care/education/living wage for everyone?!
Medicare / College / Living Wage for all. And to use an old /. metaphor: I want a pony. That sounds great -- so free medicare, college, and all jobs pay a minimum of $1M/second. (What? I need a Porsche to drive to work. And you want me to go to work tomorrow too, right? What do you mean in yesterday's USED car? What kind of a heathen ARE you?)
This seems like a strawman though (and you're kind of making GP's point for him about people wilfully misinterpreting the goals of "the lefts"). Noone is proposing unlimited money, ponies and Porsches for everyone, so that concept is easy to beat down.
To be more specific, giving you a pony and a Porsche is great for you, but doesn't really boost the rest of the economy (except pony and Porsche manufacturers). But giving you healthcare means you can work with less concern about your life being crippled by financial obligations if you have health issues; it helps the economy by keeping you productive as possible. Education has other obvious benefits for society & economy.
That's why I call it a strawman: none of "the lefts" the GP is talking about are calling for free money for luxury items. They're trying to ensure a strong backbone of the economy by making sure there's a healthy and educated workforce.
Maybe unfettered capitalism is a better way to do this - I don't think so, but I don't know for sure. But from what I've seen of the world (I've just returned to Australia after two years in the US and two years in the UK), I tend to believe that better access to healthcare and education is a good thing.
So where IS the money going to come for this? (Don't just say "The Government". You have to add "and ..." to the answer.) And how? Are you going to enforce an overall minimum wage? Change the W2 forms to add "hours worked", and throw the bosses in jail if the employee numbers don't work out right? If we pay (say) $20/hour for everyone for flipping burgers (or breathing) then any other job that's harder MUST pay more. How are you to find someone that wants (perhaps even go to school) to learn how to do the harder job just so they can earn the exact same amount. Why bother?
FWIW, this is pretty much what the minimum wage is here in Australia. I actually think it's a little too high - the difference between the number of employees in an Australian burger joint vs an American one is striking if you've spent a bit of time in each place. But we've managed it here without everything going to crazy. The money does come from somewhere - it comes from customers in the form of slightly higher prices for things. But I'm prepared to pay a few extra bucks on a burger.
Are you sure they're not ads in the RSS content you're reading? I've seen nothing like the behaviour you're describing.