CNN talks about WaPo getting a backlash for not endorsing, but says nothing about Bezos intervention, lol.

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/10/29/media/usa-today-gannett-newspapers-endorsement-president/index.html

1. is it on F-droid? 2) Material You sounds awfully trendy, should I worry? 3) Does Swift anything to do with Apple?

I’m pretty happy with the ordinary text editor except I wish it had a one-tap way to insert the current date and time.

Article is syndicated from The New Republic fwiw.

Peace, in Landru.

I think everyone likes to glue down batteries now because that helps the phone’s drop protection. The adhesive strips aren’t so bad since you can heat them a little / use a spudger to get the battery out. It’s worse when they make it very hard to get to the battery, or make you unglue delicate parts like the screen. You are probably right to be pessimistic though.

Check ifixit before you buy a phone, to make sure diy battery replacement is not too difficult. Then you don’t have to worry as much. Just figure on a swap or two during the phone’s lifetime.

Other than that, keep charge level between 20% and 80% as someone said. But I think in that range, it’s ok to fast charge within reason.

Supposedly starting in 2027, all phones sold in EU will have user replaceable batteries.

Yeah I kept a tmo plan for a stupid amount of time. Eventually MVNO plans were just cheaper, so i switched. Why does anyone want to stay on some legacy plan anyway? Were any of them any good? This is what I would get for very low usage on tmobile now:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133196831828

Harris is in serious danger of losing to Trump. It takes a special kind of terrible candidate to be able to do that. Only Hillary Clinton accomplished it in the past. If Trump gets re-elected though, maybe the Dems can try for a new world record by launching three failed impeachments next term instead of two.

I wonder if he wrote some of the CUDA code or anything like that.

They’ve been in office for 4 years and they finally think about the voters. What reaction do you expect?

“During a call monitored by law enforcement later that month, Kim allegedly again stated to the individual that they could “help each other out” and proposed giving the individual money in exchange for sex. In several subsequent text messages, Kim allegedly suggested that the individual travel to Massachusetts to meet him, offering to pay $100 to have sex in a car at a hotel parking lot. When Kim traveled to the hotel parking lot to execute his plan in October 2024, he was confronted by law enforcement.”

Gack.

An interesting cause to embrace two weeks before an election, then.

should I completely jumpship to linux when windows 10 ends support

Nah, there’s no need to wait.

Yes I do remember now about the Sacklers going unprosecuted. But I thought a lot was made in Asian labs and simply narco-trafficked. I wonder what the numbers were like.

This guy was one of the trafficking tycoons:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/06/asia/tse-chi-lop-sunblock-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

Edit: fixed some phone keyboard slips.

Gotta ask how many of those overdose pills were actually prescribed, rather than illicit from the start.

Hmm, 30 pills per day according to this:

https://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/ReportRush-Took-Many/2003/10/12/id/677136/

If porn was just created on demand instead of filling millions of hdd’s, would anyone notice or care? Finally a use for generative AI.

Idk. I remember hearing that Rush Limbaugh took 100s of oxycontin per day. Tolerance builds.

I think addicts use higher doses since they are used to it.

I don’t know how that math really works though. Lots of homeless also have serious physical and mental health problems, addictions, and other issues. Housing is a first step but after that a lot more costs remain. Are those included in the $42K? And remember, California is more expensive than many other states, especially in the cities with lots of homelessness.