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In my opinion, there's nothing grammatically wrong with a double-negative - it's just stylistically sloppy.

It's a perfectly valid word. It just means the opposite of what people use it to mean.

Officially, though, it's still required. MS are gradually removing all the workarounds for this - this one will almost certainly go as well, in due course.

Yes. It was changed to Comic Sans for an April Fools joke. I imagine it will be back to normal tomorrow.

Is this April Fools?

You wait for it to no longer be April Fools day.

Summary The Apple iPhone 14 is planned to re-introduce the 3.5mm headphone jack, sources say. Quote from My thoughts Hopefully we see other major smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung, Nokia and Blackberry following suit with this. It looks like a good move for the industry overall. Sources https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ This awesome website I found Note Check the date!

I'd personally buy a used/refurbished flagship from a couple of years ago. Myself and several of my friends have gone this route (choosing Samsung Galaxy S9s) and have been satisfied with it. Just make sure you are buying one in decent condition.

A lot of phones are ditched because the battery no longer holds enough charge. (Admittedly not in the first year, but I wasn't talking specifically about that). And what about if you break the screen? That could happen at any point during the lifetime of the device. It's generally assumed, at least in the western developed world, that people should be free to do anything that is not expressly forbidden. Can you think of a compelling reason why replacing the battery in one's own phone should be forbidden?

Closer to reality than you may think unfortunately, with Monsanto using patents to stop people from distributing seeds. There's quite a good (albeit old) article about this in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto-sues-farmers-seed-patents if anyone wants a starting point for further reading, but I won't go into loads of detail here as it's quite far off-topic

Why should there be a time limit? It's not for security: 7 days is more than long enough for a malicious application to cause all kinds of chaos. The only reason it's there is to annoy people into paying for the dev account and putting their app through the app store verification procedure. Fair enough. But game consoles are not mobile phones, neither are they multi purpose to the extent that phones and computers are. It's not next to nothing when it's for something Android gives you for free. Plus you act like people don't think twice about buying AAA games, but they really do - they're incredibly expensive too.

"Stop bringing the environment into something that affects the environment" .... uh, no. Even if you sell the device on, because almost everyone in the developed world has a smartphone nowadays, there is still going to be one somewhere in the chain which ends up in the trash. Please see my previous post responding to where someone made exactly the same point. I chose the wrong word there: I meant things like routine maintenance (e.g. replacing the battery, or opening it to clean the dust out), not actually modifying the hardware. I know these aren't modifications, I just typed the wrong thing.

What do you mean the "pricing of similar dev accesses"? Every platform I use other than iOS doesn't put part of the ability of the operating system to facilitate the running of software on the hardware behind a paywall, because that is literally the core function of the operating system. If it didn't do that, there would be no reason for it to exist. Also, it's perhaps a bit entitled for you to claim that $100 a year is "next to nothing" for someone who maybe has no interest in becoming a software developer; they simply have rudimentary programming knowledge and want their device to do something that nobody else has thought to publish software for yet. We aren't even talking about private individuals developing an app as a side hustle in the hope of making a bit of money from it - we're talking about people just cobbling something together in an afternoon for a bit of fun.

How? I thought if you didn't want to have to plug it into a Mac every week to renew the signature on it, you had to go through the app store (or jailbreak the device, which obviously a leasing programme wouldn't allow) Good point. The manufacture of unnecessary new devices is still bad though, even if the old ones are resold or re-leased at a lower cost.

Perhaps "modify" was the wrong term. Being able to carry out routine tasks such as replacing the battery without having to go through Apple is what I meant. I wasn't talking about the operating system, I was talking about apps. iPhones won't let you install apps - even code you write yourself - unless they are published in Apple's store and have been through Apple's screening process (apart from temporarily for testing purposes). I appreciate it's a niche use-case, but I wouldn't want to lose the ability to run my own software on my own hardware.

Getting a new phone every year should not be financially encouraged because it's environmentally an awful decision, and almost nobody has a good reason to do it beyond "I want the newest one". Also, if I own the device, there is a pretty clear argument that I should be able to modify it how I like, perform hardware repairs myself or through my choice of provider, and have it run any software I like, including my own. Those arguments disappear if Apple owns the device.

I never said it was poor value- it's just not cheap in raw terms, so it doesn't really fit in the "budget" segment. (Which isn't necessarily a problem- no issues with having a company that caters to a specific price range). FWIW you absolutely can use a cheaper phone for 3-5 years. Though it'll feel dated more quickly than an iPhone, it should still be adequate for everyday tasks.

The cheapest new Apple phone is the iPhone SE, for about $400-500 depending on how much storage you want. Hardly an inexpensive purchase.

(*ads) They were a one-time thing at some point but not any more. On new installations it they appear every 3 days and you have to find an obscure checkbox buried somewhere in the settings if you want to turn it off. Where you draw the line is entirely up to you, but it's far from been sprung upon us suddenly: it's been creeping towards this gradually for years now.

There have been ads in the system even with Win10, such as that massive "Finish setting up your device" popup which is an ad for Cortana, Onedrive and Office 365.

I'm starting to get this now. When Microsoft said Windows 10 was the last version of Windows, they didn't mean it was the last version they were going to produce. They meant it was the last version that anyone in their right mind would want to use. It just gets worse and worse.

That's a terrible argument but nevermind

As far as I can tell, yes - but I won't give a 100% guarantee, because it can be hard to tell - manufacturers don't tend to advertise Linux compatibility. My point was simply that in the Linux world, the AMD GPU driver is generally more stable and works better than the Nvidia one. Of course you might not be able to given the shortage of graphics cards at the moment, and it's not like Nvidia won't work or that you will be restricting the capability of the card massively, but it is worth considering. Any driver issues you do have will generally be to do with the motherboard - but in my experience, by far the most common issues are with WiFi or Bluetooth chips, and that board has no wireless functionality. (The problem, really, is one little company by the name of Realtek, who seem to make the vast majority of chips for both networking and audio these days, but who rarely bother providing Linux drivers for any of their consumer-level hardware, and when they do, it will be for ancient and unsupported versions or they'll just be broken. Luckily, most of their hardware has open-source community-written drivers, but unfortunately it's not perfect.)

Should do. But you should really consider using AMD parts if you are building with Linux in mind, at least for the GPU, as AMD GPU drivers are generally significantly superior to nvidia for Linux (kinda the opposite of Windows I know). But please do check that all of your software is Linux-compatible first, or that you are comfortable with the alternatives.

Another thought: sometimes there are things it's actually harder to do with a controller. In that case, is using a keyboard cheating?