Cycling through fresh snow is fine, it’s the snow that has been driven over and compacted that’s really slippery.

When you ride over the slippery icy stuff, don’t brake hard, don’t make any sudden turns. Better to just stop pedaling and let your bike roll. Watch out for hard frozen ridges of snow.

Usually the cycle paths are salted early, it’s the part from the busy cycle paths to your front door and the last bit to your destination where you have to watch out.

Snow dampens sound so be careful around cars, you might not hear them coming. If you wear a coat with a hood it might be more difficult and annoying turn your head, resist urge to not look when crossing roads.

Show him the original patent for the toilet roll holder, it shows the how the roll is supposed to go on.

Bacon. It’s super delicious.

Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.

Sounds like a case of X-Y problem

Anything multiplayer.

Front left keys, front right phone. No wallet, I pretty much exclusively use Apple Pay on my watch.

I blame Apple (and then Samsung for copying Apple) for stealing this form factor from us.

Neither prevents other companies from making a phone with this form factor. It probably disappeared due to lack of market demand.

I went from a 50” to a 65” to a 77”, I live in an apartment, maybe 3.5m viewing distance. You go from “damn that’s big” to “I wish I could afford something bigger” in about 2 days.

Fortunately prices keep coming down so if you upgrade every 5-10 years or so you can usually afford the next step up. I currently have what was LG’s top of the line OLED last year (77” G3) and it was about €3k5.

What is big changed over time. When I was in college I had a 28” CRT that was big for the time. But with higher pixel counts you can get a bigger screen without losing sharpness.

Ideally you replace a 28” CRT (576p) with about a 50” 1080p TV, which would then be replaced with a 100” 2160p TV.

Sure, his requirements aren’t realistic for his budget.

You can get a 77” for around 1k if you wait for a good deal.

OP stated he wanted a large TV though. I don’t think a 55” TV qualifies as large.

Why is it that keyboards have not evolved to have dedicated copy/paste keys left of the main board?

You mean like on a Sun type 4 keyboard, they had this since the early 90’s at least.

If you want this, you can try to find a Sun type 7 keyboard which has a USB connector. You should be able to get it to work on Windows with a bit of remapping of the extra keys.

3 mailboxes

• Work
• Personal (general use)
• Personal (Important personal stuff)

That last email is for things I don’t want to risk reading in public. It’s the one I give to my doctor, financial advisor, insurance, tax authority, etc.

When someone else’s happiness is requisite for your own.

Once you finish the books, make sure to catch the series on Apple TV+, it’s a damn good adaptation.

5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise

Identify:

• 5 things you can see
• 4 things you can feel
• 3 things you can hear
• 2 things you can smell
• 1 thing you can taste

You already have a cryptographically secure government id: your passport.

Apple and Google are working together as part of the GMSA committee on RCS to add encryption to the standard, instead of using Google’s proprietary incompatible extension for e2ee.

It’s probably going to take a while due to the whole process needed to add it to the standard, which is also why RCS in general is a terrible idea: you can’t really innovate if everything you want to improve has to go through this whole layer of bureaucracy.