Spend it all now on speculative ventures, most of which won't come to fruition.

Or invest for 50 years when more advanced technologies have a greater impact in the 22nd century.

All well and good but, from the article, can be a problem with 'overcrowding, affecting sales and detracting from a community feel.'

Going back to my point, what would be the affect of relying on 4G tethering? I've done the coffee and cake thing at a cafe with a work laptop. But I'm under no illusion that I'm adding to the experience of the staff as I peer over my screen in a darkened corner.

Free wifi in my country is a value-add not a basic universal human right. Business owners can choose to implement it or not; I don't understand the backlash.

Perhaps a generation of Chinese computer science students grew up with the Torvalds-Tanenbaum debate, saw what Google was doing with Fuchsia OS and thought this was the way of the future.

[ c.f. Redox OS, if it had commercial backing from a major hardware vendor. ]

But in terms of Huawei, if you write your own kernel you don't have to concern yourself with being pestered to release source code under the terms of the GPL.

Australia has a 'coffee culture' but the idea of free wifi isn't.

The idea that a business should let you occupy a table for an hour or two sponging off their internet screams entitlement. Anyhow, that's what our municipal libraries provide.

Create a wifi hot-spot over your phone's 4G connection and you're up and running. Data seems even cheaper in Europe; get off the plane in Barcelona, buy a 30-day SIM and you can forget crappy hotel or youth hostel wifi.

Here in Australia it's basically impossible to find authentic Mexican street food.

Can you send a few our way?

Be careful what you wish for, but a taco truck on every corner sounds bloody awesome!

Bling alert!

Aside from turning you camera into a webcam for WfH, I can't think of a single feature since Oreo that would be an incentive to upgrade.

I'm stuck on Android 12 on a 4G phone and still get two days battery life; aside from being p*wned by dark forces due to lack of security updates, I will continue using it until (a) it stops working or (b) they shut off the 4G signal in favour of 6G.

So my question is, how does the end user in anyway benefit from 8-weekly releases?

Security fixes are one thing but I can't remember the last time a web browser implemented a killer feature necessitating an upgrade. (e.g. this month's release highlights scanned pdfs, functionality I never asked for)

Your fave websites aren't going to die because you don't upgrade; programmers tend to be fairly conservative with their frameworks - you don't want bleeding edge that doesn't work on Safari, Edge or Firefox.

Supply unaffected in Gibraltar. Clearly the British! :)

Yeah the fault seems to have been from Spain.

Reports say the power went off in Andorra for under a minute, restored from the French side.

AI lies with its hullucinations. And does not like to be told it's wrong.

The best way of getting accurate results is to swear at the machine and it will recalibrate its accuracy based on your level of frustration.

Turkey is a bird. It's Turkiye, not Turkey. (with the metal umlaut on top of the 'u').

Why am I mentioning this? Oh yeah because it's just been ANZAC Day, which is the day we remember stalemate in the Dardanelles, which when the Turks were done with shameful ethnic cleansing of the Armenians, Ataturk modernized the country into a moderately progressive western country. And no one cared what the official spelling of the country's name was, until recently.

This current chap is now sabre-rattling war with Israel, for which no one will be the winner.

Do you really want to be taking instructions from Erdogan on censorship? He has form, previously calling for sanctioning his political opposition on western media platforms.

Yeah, Chromium is sufficiently complete that MS can brand it as Edge without any significant effort.

Thus, I find it ludicrous the notion that Chrome can be bought or sold. Unless there's a heap of 'special sauce' in the closed source bits of Chrome then all you'd be buying is the programmer resources within some Google office, which is going to cost the new owner a heap in salaries.

When/if Alphabet are coerced into divestment, please shove it in a 'Linux foundation' style arrangement because I sure as hell don't trust a Yahoo or a Perplexity or whoever...

HMD, previously under the Nokia brand. They had some sort of collaboration with ifixit. ( They do sell here in Australia, will look at buying one of those models.)

And there's Fairphone, also out of Europe that focuses on being 'fair'. I don't know much about the brand given last I checked they don't ship to Asia Pacific.

Not sure on HMD's commitment to open source but Fairphone do seem to favour long term support.

I say this as a moderate 'leftie'. Chavez had his admirers in the early days, kick out the crony capitalists and run things for the people...

But y'know cults of personality, left or right, is no excuse to through out the checks and balances of democracy and reign by iron-fisted Presidential decree. Even Nikita warned about this in the 1950s with his speech denouncing Stalinism as a state doctrine.

It was more than an oil project, this vision of '21st century Bolivarian Socialism'. When you turn away from an orthodox model and rebase your entire economy on the ideals of Guevara and Castro, collaborating with the latter, chaos inevitably ensues.

They fork software from upstream Debian, which does not force snap.

e.g. I am happy with firefox-esr but if you need bleeding edge, Mozilla has its own deb repository.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.mozilla.org%2Fen...