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Apple adds a lot of value via the App Store for initial app purchase/download.

I agree they add very minimal value for recurring subscriptions, and their fee should be dialled back to be inline with what card processors charge (because they're essentially offering payment processing and not much else).

Maybe context should be taken into account?

I have no problems with people calling themselves doctors (whether fake or real) unless they are doing so in order to gain a certain advantage (trust, credibility, etc).

I only have a problem when someone pretends to be a doctor if they're trying to profit or harm people in some way, by for example making medication or similar.

1) London, United Kingdom

2) A lot (pretty much unlimited, considering anyone can resell DSL service from OpenReach, the company that manages phone lines nationwide).

In London we have Virgin Media which is an HFC/DOCSIS (cable, think Comcast) network, HyperOptic which is an actual fibre to the premises network (capable of 1Gbps and most likely more upon request), a few local fibre providers that can get you a leased line (higher price, but possible if HyperOptic/Virgin don't cover your area), and finally the dozens of DSL providers (which work anywhere you can get a phone line).

3-4) £64 for 1Gbps (symmetrical, so 1Gbps upload too) from HyperOptic. Failing that, 350Mbps (20Mbps upload) from Virgin Media for 50£.

5) 30Mbps Hyperoptic for 24£/month. DSL providers (which there are a ton) could probably go even lower at the expense of speed (especially upload speed).

6) Virgin Media is decent in terms of speed. Customer service is run by monkeys, akin to Comcast. No IPv6, etc. DSL providers are mostly trash so you get what you pay for.

7) No.

8) No (customer service is trash), but speeds are decent and since I'm not in a contract (I always choose the monthly commitment instead of yearly) I can switch if things get too crazy.

Job hopping every few months as a contractor doesn't seem to be an issue. At least it isn't for me - recruiters and clients reach out to me despite that and nobody ever questioned it.

> I am at a standstill on how to build up my reputation after wasting so much time not building it.

Not sure about reputation, but you can at least build a decent network on LinkedIn to guarantee a steady supply of contracts by engaging with recruiters.

TLDR: this site converts your 24 words into an URL encrypted with a questionable key derived from a pattern and a color (from a dozen choices or so).

This doesn't actually solve the problem of storing the resulting URL, and the added encryption can be brute forced trivially.

The author also makes the assumption that only entering the first few characters of a seed word (which is enough for the site to tell which word it is because the dictionary is limited) is effective at thwarting keyloggers. It isn't. If the site can infer which word you mean based on the first few characters, so can the attacker.

Doesn’t solve the issue of device fingerprinting. There are a lot of data points that can be used to create a near-unique fingerprint of a device.

iOS doesn’t provide a system-wide unique ID however there is still more than enough data (WiFi network names, device name, device type, IP address, etc) that Shitbook can uniquely fingerprint a device and identify a user.

I'm not sure they have playlists. They probably spend more time tweaking their system than actually listening to music on it, negating the need for a playlist.

I'm not sure what's worse.

From my limited observation of flat-earthers on YouTube, they at least seem to be willing to do measurements but then either misinterpret the results (due to lack of knowledge) or knowingly twist them to say what they want to say.

Audiophiles on the other hand seem to reject the whole idea of taking measurements.

> Groupon [...] pissed me off with retargeted ads, and earned a lifetime ban.

You too? Can't believe I'm not the only one. I used to see their crap every single time on Youtube a few years back (before I discovered adblockers).

Their brand was definitely imprinted in my mind so I guess it's a success... just a shame it's imprinted in the "go burn in hell" part of my mind.

Where are you seeing this? Here in London I still get way more as a contractor then I would be full-time, like 50% more.

> I have a little developer experience.

By "developer experience" I meant the equivalent of "user experience", ie whether the codebase is enjoyable to work with.

> I didn’t get the impression the original poster was just starting out

IMO it would still require them to get familiar with Wordpress before being able to get the good jobs, which means he's going to be stuck with crap gigs for some time while he builds references.

In most cases you can use the car port and just make a custom cable that bridges the two data pins together which tells the phone to use high current charging. The car’s port’s overcurrent protection will kick in if it’s an issue but I’ve got such a cable and so far I have yet to see any issues and I’ve used it for years with hundreds of different devices. No fire yet.

iOS devices will outright not charge if there’s just 5V on the port. Even the lowest charging current requires some sort of resistor arrangement.

Fortunately it seems like bridging the two data lines (essentially a 0 ohm resistor) is what’s needed to allow high-current charging (I think it’s 2 amps), so as long as your supply can withstand it (which pretty much every single device can, given that it’s tied to its own 5V rail which can supply many amps) you can just bridge the two pins together. Worst case scenario the overcurrent protection on the port will protect the source device.

Another problem with Bluetooth is that most devices cater to the lowest common denominator which means even though there are ways to make it better, most devices stick to older protocols to make sure it works with old, outdated garbage.