Then again, the true high end engineering stuff runs only properly on Linux (and UNIX), unless Cadence and co finally got stuff to run stably on Windows.

You beat me to it.

And it can likely be taken literally, even the developers probably don't like it, except for being able to tell everyone they're holding it wrong if they want other options....

Thank you for your insight.

Just a yes/no question to see if I got what's essential regarding privacy:

There's an authority that has the users' complete data, passed there through an ID scan. Let's disregard whether that is a copy of an image/scan, or a card briefly taken from dad.

A user wants to enter a restricted online section, gets some bits, which he can inspect not to contain any clearly identifiable information neither about the site nor the person, from that site, has the authority sign it with the addition that the requirement (age or whatever) is fulfilled, then passes it on to the site to enter the restricted section.

Upton entering another site's restricted area, they again get some non identifiable bits signed by the authority, so access is granted but totally unrelated to the other site.

Does that cover it more or less?

Today, the chips die somewhere around 200 to 300 ÂC after a few hours, if nothing else gives out first. Indeed, if all components and connectors could withstand much higher temperatures, one could reduce the size of heatsinks drastically.

Source: I've worked with and designed high temperature electronics, highest temps my colleagues had electronics for was 250 ÂC, obviously for a limited lifetime of 1000 hours. I've also done chip design for mobile phones, where I experienced the torture testing called HTOL, 1000 hours at 125 ÂC in operation. Most expensive PCBs I've come across in my career.

The reason to have good cooling is to avoid high temperatures. The other alternative is too be able to be withstand high temperatures, which is a niche discipline, so ultra costly and very limited in terms of components. So most of the world went to the first option.

For the Brits perhaps, most Europeans have no clue about stones. SI has kilos. Rounded it's probably 100 kg.

No, the Abrahamic god did. The Christian god got a partial reset (most likely because a full one wasn't doable) where Jesus pushed the angle of compassion, as told by Saul / Paul. You can push that aside but then you miss the point of the New Testament. Which a lot of people, many Christians included, then have in common with you.

More and more I see social media and mankind as the ultra slow version of Marvin the Paranoid Android talking to a space ship's computer that then commits suicide.

There's no serious problem thinkable to which social media is ever truly the optimum solution.

Luckily, nowadays, it's at least perfectly acceptable to state that one stays away on purpose. But we should kick the habit. Getting youngsters off it is just the start.

On American TV. A Dutch show had an interracial kiss about half a decade earlier. There may have been others too.

Wait what...? So any messenger app has to go through Apple, Google or perhaps even Samsung to get a message delivered to a phone? Or is this just Apple specific?

Your post got modded down to 0, luckily I did get to see it, and now I have this image of thegarbz and his wife's book collection and his sticky collection taking up less space, priceless! If only I had mod points!

Automotive stories are often fun, but I'll raise you one, from my previous employer where a medical customer wasn't too convinced with the presented automotive certification (IATF) and such, with the words: "you must understand, we're medical, we're not such a fast moving world as the automotive industry, 10 years retention doesn't cut it, we'd even need to discuss 15 years,... You see, the oldest product we still sell today came onto the market 35 years ago..." They need 15 years of development and production data retention after last sale, IIRC. But very funny to witness someone address the automotive sector as "fast moving"...

Reminds me of the Nokia N9 which had a menu option for developer mode, which when selected downloaded busybox. Immediate SSH availability, then sudo su needed the password, which was "rootme". IMNSHO the best smartphone of its own time ever.

I got stuck at "Flag as inappropriate". Why recommend that, whatever it truly means? The rest was sort of okay I guess...

Hindsight is 20 20. I was in the mobile industry, and Apple made a bold move and carried it out properly. Unlike Nokia they tapped new users, which is one reason it didn't fail, contrary to Nokia, had they produced phones that break when they fall, in the opinion of about anyone I spoke with about the topic. And I spoke with many, I've even manned an exhibition at MWC at some point.

Regarding precision, on my Nokia internet tablet I got near pixel precision, yes, not at the level of using a mouse on a pc but miles above what a finger on a display can do. But it just doesn't matter anymore, usage has changed. Power users were the least convinced, they held on to their Nokia communicators and N95 for a long time.

Exactly, Apple didn't want to use resistive touch which was very precise, so they developed multi touch capacitive glass screens. The first iterations were not all that, but somehow the world suddenly accepted a dropped phone to be broken. Nokia couldn't have made the iPhone a success, because their customers would never have accepted a phone that breaks when dropped. Not until way after the iPhone made that acceptable. Same for one day battery use before needing to recharge, another thing that the iPhone got people to accept.

As for keyboards, sliders, etcetera, sure, more screen real estate is better, but for instance a touch area on the back or the fixed mouse idea were interesting. Meanwhile, the world moves on and all mobile apps and sites take into account that a part of the screen is sometimes obscured by fingers which aren't too precise.