It sounds like you are disappointed by it's not "a lie": more ≠ all.
It's natural that entering markets takes time and that some markets may never be entered if the economics aren't good, even if a company would ideally like to.
They don't need to enter a market. All they need to do is partner with a retailler like Amazon/eBay - or even just allow other retailers to resell them.
Okay so even if they don't want to do that, all they need to do is not go out of their way to block parcel forwarders. They can just make us click on an agreement that voids warranty and absolves them of any risk, that way, it's not their problem. But no, they don't do that.
Meanwhile, smaller Linux notebook companies like StarLabs have been around for less than a decade, yet have no issues supping worldwide. In fact no other tech manufacturer has this issue, at least not to this extremes - how is that only Framework is in this situation?
I upgraded my phone a few days back and when search defaulted back to Google I realised how worthwhile my subscription is.
It's not all perfect, for instance I would love to figure out how to stop all map searches sticking with them: sorry Google is just lightyears ahead there so I'd always prefer that. But generally they're about the right amount of customisability.
The killer feature for me is being able to bury sites so you never ever get results from them ever again and to slightly bump up/down results for particular reasons (your own, not due to someone else paying an ad placement fee!)
Yeah I’ve just set any search starting with !m to redirect to google maps. It’s in the custom search settings somewhere.
I also find Kagi good in the UK - it wasn’t amazing when I first subscribed but got a lot better quite fast. I do occasionally add “uk” to a search when shopping but I did that on Google too.
This is the sort of idea that gets momentum just because people don't find it easy to recall counter examples on the basis the idea puts the problem: most people aren't mentally indexing tech on a weaponized or not basis. Therefore to validate the idea they need to do a scan of technologies in their memory, many give up and just accept it.
Fortunately as people here demonstrated there are a myriad of counter examples.
I look forward to someone challenging Brown regarding the weaponization of the dishwasher! And the zipper, velcro, food processors, air-conditioning, elevators, escalators, weighing scales, thermometers and wind turbines!
I’ll give it a shot. Zippers/velcro are critical for most modern military gear. Elevators are used to increase the storage capacity for warplanes on aircraft carriers. Thermometers (well, any temperature sensing device) are important for many weapons systems, guidance computers, etc. Wind turbines… hmm, the infamous Stuka siren was basically a wind turbine welded to the side of the plane!
Without power they could use backup sources but without telecoms isn't payment going to be difficult to impossible? (except those who had sufficient cash before the emergency)
When I was a kid, I remember the cashier at a department store checking a book for my mother’s credit card number.
I misunderstood the nature of the book, assuming it was a list of valid card numbers. It was, of course, the opposite, so when I said to my mom “I hope they find your number in there” she replied “I hope they don’t!”
Well I assume if they set it up in mind that they would be operating in an emergency they could have something like Starlink and connect to payment processors.
Yes, annoying. The article feels like it's building to a point and then they end with effectively: lots of people tried them, they're not so popular now. The End.
Assuming you have the requisite CPU and motherboard with this card, does the memory just appear as normal under Linux/Windows/whatever OS is installed? Or do you need to get special drivers or other particular software to make use of it?
Ah the Silver Jubilee Mugs, we had a grey one with that weird bumpy ceramic effect.
Anyway, on the cameras you're spot on. I do wonder how much UK cameras are used though - like a microcosm of our national potential, the cameras have potential but how often are they really used: half are likely faulty, most have the person monitoring them on a tea break when something happens and it seems to need an extreme act of violence before they get used in earnest.
We lived in Manc in 1977 (Dad was a soldier and did a year at UMIST to get to Lt Col, family in tow). Then we buggered off to Germany (again). For a kiddie, I had an amazing life! We were posted to Cyprus too.
Our Jub mugs were mostly transfer printed. We had coloured ones and ones with a sort of silvery monochrome effort.
I'm not too sure that the meme that the UK is the most monitored nation in the world is too true.
You probably remember 1984. I went to a jolly posh school in Devon (Wolborough Hill School, Newton Abbot) and we had to discuss 1984 in 1984.
Do you feel too monitored? I suspect that monitoring is under-reported elsewhere.
Prices vary around the world but this seems pricey: they say it's at cost but it feels like a premium/markup on London prices, not a city known for being cheap!
Surely most people dropping work to focus on blogging would be looking for minimal costs (whilst they have limited income as they hone a skill) rather than maximal costs?!
If you rent sharing for maybe $1,500 pcm and then spend $50 a day you'd finish with $500 left vs Inkhaven.
> they say it's at cost but it feels like a premium/markup on London prices, not a city known for being cheap!
If you've ever looked at housing (or anything else) in the SFBA, yes, it's more expensive than even London. (Salaries are higher too).
> Surely most people dropping work to focus on blogging would be looking for minimal costs (whilst they have limited income as they hone a skill) rather than maximal costs?!
Maybe. In my experience when you're trying to switch careers, getting to the point where you can earn income (or discover that you can't) as quickly as possible is more effective than trying to extend your runway by cutting expenses. Others may make a different judgement call.
It's natural that entering markets takes time and that some markets may never be entered if the economics aren't good, even if a company would ideally like to.