I have only ever had phones go bad on me due to broken screen, broken battery or lack of software updates. They aldo clearly know this.

On sync at least if you open tall images from the post it will be readable.

Amazing. I’m not OP and have no use for this info, but it was fun to learn it still.

I think there might be two options to the right (yellow stickers) indicating eg 95E15 and 98E10

They would already know to a very high degree, because the device associates with a specific cell tower, and the cell size is quite small for 5g networks, especially in cities. I don’t see why they would need a more accurate info.

I feel like there are some missed opportunities

• Sensors that don’t work because a proprietary driver is missing
• Having to add repositories to get wifi working
• Voice assistant that only works if you know terminal command parameters by heart
• More tool windows
• More xorg.conf to get displays working
• A flame war about the relative benefits of obscure infrastructure componemts
• 7 package managers, 3 if which are needed to install 90% of needed software. The remaining 10% somehow still needs to be installed via shell scripts
• Completely new UI in each version, still looks like it was designed by german ocelots in the 90s

Somehow prevent multiple posts with the same content from showing up in my feed consecutively. Some people post to multiple communities (which is fine, if the content is relevant), but sometimes I see 3-4 identical posts by the same person in various communities, one after the other on my feed.

I’ve blocked some accounts who have done this excessively, but in many cases it’s valid.

The cost of the scroll wheel cannot possibly be more than 10€ and the pcb cannot be more than 1€ battery is about 4e and display can be 7-8, chip is 2-3e and passives, connectors etc brlow 5. The manufacturing costs of the thing are likely below 40€, even in small volumes. Assy costs are probably about 20% of the total.

Part of the high cost may be investments in moulds for the casing and r&d cost.

I loke Orangina, which is like sprite and orange juice with some pulp.

Sadly, it’s not sold where I live.

Or perhaps it’s a good thing, I’d probably gain a lot of weight if they did.

What does not work
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capitalism (IRL; I wouldn't want to try implementing it here)

I actually lol’d

And I gotta ask, what insanity drives someone to implement a minecraft server in bash…?

Is there a license requires for driving a snowmobile in your country? Is it a government issued licence or an insurance thing? I have driven them, but I think here a normal driver’s license is enough and even that is only needed when driving on streets (which is often not permitted and even more often impractical).

I use gimp daily, but it is still far, far behind photoshop from when I was studying and that was pre 2010.

The biggest problem is the UI. The only major improvement was the transition from multi window to single window with tabs, around 2012 or so.

It feels like using a hammer with a purple dildo for a handle. I can do it after 10 years of getting the hang of swinging around the wobbly thing. Meanwile the rest of the world transitioned to battery driven nailguns and I’m still swinging my dilmer with a slightly more rigid handle.

It used to be the case yea, but my experience last 5 years or so has been that especially for old hardware everything works out of the box.

Might be extremely hardware or distro dependent though.

I am a product manager.

It’s a great job for someone who cannot focus, since it’s not really one job.

• Communication skills: You need to both gather information from customers, and sell your ideas inside the organization (as well as to customers)
• Technical skills: You need to be able to explain your ideas to engineering teams and understand the limitations / opportunities afforded by the technology you work with
• Business skills: You need to understand the business your product exists in, and ensure that your product serves the needs of your own employers needs (like, supports processes, works well with other products and services). In a B2B context, you also need to understand your customers business.
• Management skills: You most likely need to set goals for other people and design how other people work around your product. This will include areas like HR management, process design, legal etc.

Each of these areas is a discipline onto itself. In my case for example, technical skills involves working with mechanical, electrical and software engineers.

Needless to say, you don’t get to be very good at any of this. And you shouldn’t either. A great product manager is enough of an expert in all of the areas to recognize problems, and set the framework for solving it, but will allow the experts to do their jobs. Focusing too much on technical expertise will make the PM too much of an engineer.