This law is more than a decade in the making, the only reason it was on Apples roadmap is because of this law.

The EU doesn’t have to mandate a new connector when something new comes up, it just has to be an open standard, ANY open standard. This is miles better for everyone. And the EU doesn’t force the whole world to adapt their standard, it’s just not economical to produce different versions for different markets, but they are very much allowed to sell whatever to their non EU customers.

If you really want the lightning adapter back, you can ask one of the many people who soldered a usb-c connector in an iphone 12/13/14. If one person can do it, I’m pretty sure Apple can, too.

He WANTS to help Russia… Don’t feed the troll.

Der Trick ist, nicht eine sehr dicke Jacke zu haben, sondern mehrere (nicht so dicke) Klamotten übereinander zu tragen. Der Vorteil ist, dass du die dünneren Klamotten auch im Herbst oder Frühling tragen kannst, und du kannst dich besser an das Wetter anpassen: eine dicke Jacke ist nicht so flexibel wie ein Unterhemd, ein (langaermeliges) T-Shirt, ein Pullover, ein Schal, und eine etwas dünnere Jacke. Handschuhe brauche ich selten, aber die kannst du dir bei Bedarf auch schnell für ein paar Euro kaufen, wenn dir kalt ist

I agree you need much less capacity because you’d usually just want to even out fluctuations, but I think the general gist of the comment is still true: you need just 2,5x the amount of water to produce the same amount of energy. The article says very little about the liquid, and very little about why this would enable them to build this capacity much quicker. A little more data would be nice.

Ok this is off topic but… What are y’all printing so much? I print a form once or twice a year and just print at the store across the road or the library for 10ct a page. The printer I had probably cost me 3$ a page because I used it so rarely.

I can’t get over how hard the author deep throats Tim Apple. When reading I stopped to check if it was marked as advertisement. This is 100% pure advertisement, not journalism. If you like apple maps, fine, this article just feels way overboard.

Once you pay you just get an email “stop falling for ridiculous scams you dumb fuck, you’ve hereby increased your IQ to 81, pleasure doing business with you.”

Not at all my experience, the miniscule amount of data needed for a text message goes over the shittiest of internet lines. Yes, SMS sometimes goes over a highly saturated network where data doesn’t because sms just yeets your data instead of establishing a proper connection with a handshake. Though that’s usually very unreliable as well. SMS is also terrible from a privacy perspective, as it is unencrypted and can be spoofed and read by anyone in between, and even read by third parties who just listen in on the wireless transmission. Look where you’re posting. “Cake” pfft

Yeah one is a propaganda picture from an authoritarian regime not allowing pictures that don’t show it in the best light, the other one is in a society that allows allowed bad news to be discussed in public. I bet I can find pictures of North Korea where people have it better than the poorest let’s say Norwegians.

“Never hesitate to state the obvious”, for socially awkward teenager-me this was a game changer how to participate in conversation. I still live by it and it’s really useful in meetings, as it also brings real value to the conversation, as whatever is obvious to you isn’t necessarily obvious to others. And even if everyone knew, it may still spark a discussion.