I don't see the value in going out for lunch, and I try to avoid this as much as possible. And no, I don't order door dash either. I happen to know how to prepare a meal. This was one of the problems when being in the office. Our branch office was so small we didn't have a cantina, so we had to go out for lunch, which I think is expensive and a waste of time.

Yes and yes.

This looks like it might be a useful feature for some users. If it is clearly advertised and using it is optional, I'm not sure I see a problem here.

Is there any (non-tinfoil) expectation that any related behaviour in Firefox is not being added transparently and optionally? The description seems ambiguous about what triggers these previews. If merely hovering over a link would be enough to cause a visit to another page then personally that's probably something I'd want to turn off. Others might have a different attitude to risk there. In any case, if there's some kind of active choice where you need to click or press in a specific way to trigger it, that seems reasonable.

Don't worry, Microsoft has you covered. In a couple of months, Windows 10 will also be EOL. And there are millions of computers that could run Windows 7 or Windows 10 but can't run Windows 11.

It doesn't, actually. The official description from the IEC says:

Emphasis mine. The standard test for IPX7 is submersion in still water to a depth of 1 meter for 30 minutes. IPX8 is "better than that". Apple, Google, Samsung, etc. all define how much better on their own. CNBC has an excellent video explainer on what exactly all this means.

These companies are designing to protect against people dropping their phone in the toilet, or maybe a kiddie pool. And yeah, as called out in the CNBC video, the advertising is very deceptive and unfair.

In my native language, they are. Same word: Klapphandy. Everything else is debate about words, not about meaning.

By that standard, both are portable. Laptops have the additional feature that you can place them on your lap and use them, which warrants a subcategory "laptop" within the category "portable computer". This is a difference which does not exist for flip phones vs. foldable phones. Both are the flip version of the respective type of mobile phones of the time (and there is still the case of the Nokia Communicator - flip phone or foldable?).

In my native language, both flip phone and foldable phone translates to the same word, and the idea that somehow they are different is completely lost in translation. That means that the necessity to have different words for them is not as urgent as marketing wants to tell us.

It is "in toto" (Latin).

Sorry, not a valid argument for me.

Flip phones and folding phones are the same. Everything else is rabulistics, marketing or features one expects to be different in a phone anyway.

Flip phones and folding phones are the same. They are phones you fold if not in use, and you can flip open if you need them.

To me, "folding phones" are just flip phones. I don't see any reason to find a new term for something that's essentially the same.

I am using it in the way the article use it.

Just because you grew up with the StarTAC does not mean it is the one and all of flip phones. And I never liked flip phones, and I don't like the new crop of them either.

Precisely. This is going to be used against the owners of the hardware, not for them. I suspect that these containers are very secure. It's just too bad that my phone is the one device that I own where I do not have root access. This security is not going to be used to protect my data from Google, but to protect Google's data from me.

Hooray!

One central point of your argument is wrong.

And that throws your whole posting off.

You probably don't read about China offshoring much, but that does not mean China does not do it. But China is already moving low paying jobs to other countries, like Vietnam or Bangladesh for clothes manufacturing.