From my perspective, life is more than fair 😜

One of my partners (the other was filming) and yeah, she was a great sport about it!

I like it pretty good! I don’t use the folding screen half as much as I thought I would, though. It spends a good 80% of its time closed and I just use it as a normal (albeit chonky) phone.

As a phone in and of itself, it isn’t a huge upgrade from my Pixel 6 Pro, but when I do need the extra screen it’s so nice having it to hand.

Thank you!

Unfortunately that is not a workable solution to me, but I appreciate that it’s the best idea for most.

I actually have a HP printer with instant ink. When it first launched it was great, there was a “free” tier that was like up to 10 pages free per month.

I don’t print a lot but like having a printer for the odd job so that was ideal for me. Now and again a new ink cartridge would arrive and I just didn’t think about it.

But they took away the free tier, so I’ve been on that £0.99 plan which is like 15 pages a month. I put up with it because it was convenient enough to not have to worry about ink, but I was still pissed off at the rug pull.

If they do raise the price in the UK, I’ll just sell the printer and buy a new one that does super cheap ink.

Any recommendations out there?

This needs to be higher for visibility. The story of Google killing XMPP is a good one but it’s utterly bullshit. XMPP was a mess, Google didn’t kill it, it killed itself by having fucked ecosystem that didn’t do anything better than numerous proprietary standards at the time.

It’s not like XMPP was EVER dominant, nor was Google talk - even man messenger was more popular at the time and that’s also dead.

Hashing is “one way” and produces a fixed length output. It’s useful for things like knowing if data has been modified or in the case of passwords, it’s a way to store a value that lets you check a password is correct without storing the password itself.

You cannot “reverse” a hash by design.

Encryption is reversible, you need to be able to get the original data back.

We do use both together in various ways, wtf encrypt data to protect it and then hash the data to make sure it hasn’t been modified. They go hand in hand.

You said that modern games were terrible cash grabs

I said:

Yes, good games exist today,

You seem intent on putting words in my mouth.

Lol okay buddy, have yourself a nice day.

You care enough to reply.

Please highlight where I said all video games were good at a period of time.

I am doing. What you’re saying is a non statement given the context of the discussion.

Yes, good games exist today, that doesn’t mean lots of games aren’t also terrible live service cash grabs.

Maybe I’m a bit of a luddite but many of those “outdated” games have far better gameplay and stories than games today.

This is absolutely Sony’s fault. Sony owns the platform, Sony took the money, Sony signed the terms and agreements with Discovery that let them pull the content users paid for.

Google makes money from ads that they’re going to serve you no matter where they process your data.

Google is going to pull all that metadata from your device regardless of where it was processed.

Servers cost Google money to run. It costs them nothing to run something on your device. They clearly have a vested interest in running it on your device if they can.

I don’t think they’re opposing goals. Google does not make more money from a task running in its cloud than on its devices, if anything that costs them more money.

They were doomed the second yahoo touched them.

A thread on a different article about the same thing had someone demanding a change in law to make robots safer and stop this happening again because 48 people were killed by robots in the USA…since 1992.

Yes, there’s a lot to take in with that. Yes, some people are idiots.