Why was it seen as a misstep?
I have memories of ramps, black z cars and a hotdog mission…

Needs sound

As an Australian, here’s the real war.

I went looking for the implied ‘A’ language but couldn’t find it. Did find this though:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

Surprising how many single letter names there are.

Near field communication - it’s an antenna that sits inside the back case and let’s your phone interact with payment terminals and the like that support it.

You can add your tap and pay card to your phone and tap your phone instead.

Grrr you reminded me that lollipop got rid of the notification ticker.

One of the nicest implementations of notifications and they scrapped it for intrusive heads up.

Back when material design actually felt like ‘material’

☹️ no nfc

Possibly OpenTTD?

Same developer but different games, from what I can tell he released Transport Tycoon first, then Locomotion which had ?better graphics and less complexity?

I’ll have to try openloco, I’ve only ever played OpenTTD and it’s pretty good

I don’t really understand how they consistently manage to screw things up. And they always say that the features are coming, but they never do.

I’m still bitter over Inbox.

I used to be excited about new things from Google. Tried to get into every beta, downloaded the newest released apps etc. But not anymore.

I just read about tasks being removed from Google Keep. Then the feature removal from nest hubs. Do they have a unified strategy at all? Or is it just the whims of a manager’s daily musings that drive what development does?

Second the hybrid. I had a nice one - bronze face and the gold hands would move to indicate notification type etc. had some complications for step count etc. It looked great, I reckon it’d be even better with a small eink screen to show who the message was from etc. Kind of like the withings

Galaxy watch 5 pro would be best of the Samsung ones for that - lasts two days and does all the stuff. It’s got nothing on a Garmin for battery life though.

But the point of the article is that the watch literally can’t be repaired - no first or third party can do it.

But I can get any apple watch repaired. Yes they are scummy about third party, but apple will gladly repair it for money.

I can understand the shift.

I think the difference is that Apple products can be repaired, as parts are plentiful for third party repairers and apple will also repair it (for a premium).

The article is saying how no-one, not even Google, can repair a pixel watch as there were no spare parts produced.

Edit: I understand their repair policies re MacBook repair shops etc, but for a consumer being told that even the manufacturer can’t do anything is a bit galling and cause for reflection on future purchases.

You should read this page: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup

It’s very detailed about what to do to get stuff working (on lots of distros), and what currently isn’t working (see camera support etc)

I took a look in the past but deemed it too much of a compromise at the time for what wasn’t working.

The only thing I’ve found that Firefox didn’t work right with is certain SharePoint features, which unfortunately is a show stopper for me.

I wonder if having a more exposed ‘open’ port without the tongue would lead to more damaging debris getting lodged inside.

I shave a toothpick down to be half the width at the tip and use it to clean out lint etc

Niche case- I’m a maths teacher and it’s been good for replying to emails from students with problems.

I always thought it was a bit harder in Australia, given that the language changes so much across such small distances.

Interesting that they point out closing the Insiders account - from my perspective it seemed like running away from viewers who were begging them to actually ask relevant questions of guests, such as the live royal Commission that didn’t get a mention for 4 weeks.