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Well, no. Correct behavior would be to state „your data will be deleted and may be recovered for X days“. Claiming full and permanent deletion and then not deleting it is malicious behavior and should be against the law (at least inside the EU).

So forwarding it to NYOB is a good choice.

+1 for zensical. If you used (mostly) vanilla „material for mkdocs“, then zensical is a great replacement. I’ve also made the switch on personal projects and zensical works great in its current state.

Yes it’s doable at home, even with fairly primitive tools. You need several chemicals and (if you wish) colored dye.

Anodizing works as follows:

1. Take the MacBook apart

2. Clean it

3. Chemical bath to remove old anodized layer

4. Clean it again

5. Chemical bath with power supply attached. applied voltage+current and duration will determine hardness and thickness of the anodized layer.

6. Clean it

7. Dye it.

8. Seal the dye in a hot water bath.

It’s fairly straight forward to do.

In theory yes, but the overselling does also keep the price low (at least a bit), but also boosts revenue. So when power users use the service too much, the seller will either raise prices, cut features or ban some usage patterns.

You can vote with your wallet though. So don’t throw money at them or just deal with it. Plain and simple.

We’re at 2.30€ in Germany (per liter!) right now. So $5.40 per gallon doesn’t sound too bad to me.

I’m aware that the diesel price in the us always has been quite low in contrast to Europe, but still I don’t see the issue.

What I hate the most about setting up new devices up is apple MDM on our company-managed devices combined with data transfer via iTunes backup. Here’s why:

1. The devices will offer to transfer data wirelessly, but won’t tell you that some data isn’t transferred. Instead using iTunes is a must as (in our case) more data is copied. This excludes data from managed apps - understandable.

2. When updating and recovering the backup on the new device is done, the regular setup experience starts. But, as your WiFi is also copied over, the device starts trying to update and install apps in the background, even before you logged into your Apple ID. So you’re constantly annoyed by popups asking for the ID. If you try to enter it, another pop up will interrupt amd stop you from entering the credentials. It even aborts touch/face ID setup and makes you start over again. I’ve had some colleagues starting over on Touch ID for like 5 times before they were faster than the popups. That mixes with popups for company accounts like mail credentials. And even a required change of the unlock password. Sometimes up to 10 different popups spawn in a few seconds…

Seriously, why? Is it that hard to stop these prompts till the setup is done and then prompt the user for everything needed once?

actually you can skip most of these, but get reduced functionality in return. You can skip faceID/touchID, unlock code, appleID. You can’t skip terms, some customization options and, data collection and privacy settings.

In theory you can use iPhone and iPad without apple account - basically as dumb phone. But of course you won’t get AppStore access.

No. Red and green were released in Japan first. Only afterwards it was red/blue worldwide (and iirc in 98, not 96).

> Ads are content too, you know?

Yes, and I’m not against ads in general.

It’s about the balance of actual content (the user wants to read and cares about) and ads/popups the site owner needs to run the site or generate some kind of income. If the user has to click away numerous things to be able to see any “real” content, then something’s clearly wrong. We’ve gone from showing ads to support the site to generating just enough content for the site to make the user visit and show them ads.

Sad times.

Also: Oh, you scrolled past that live video and even clicked it away. Let’s make it sticky on the top of the page and auto start again with audio on full volume. And hide the stop button.

Couldn’t agree more. Also FF user and Ublock Origin works great. On mobile (iOS in my case) it’s not that easy though. I’m using safari with AdGuard which works for some annoyances, but by far not all.

No sane person would ever come to the conclusion that it’s a great idea to make the user click away numerous popups, (cookie) banners and modals just to actually see the content. And yet here we are.

Today most commercial or news sites use those plus dark patterns to make it go away as hard as possible. I usually just close the tab and never come back. My choice is “no” not “ask again later”…

Same for those annoying chatbot buttons which just take away screen space.

You pay VAT on all products when they’re sold or imported. In Germany it’s 19% and called “Mehrwertsteuer” for the domestic products and “Einfuhrumsatzsteuer” for imported products. There’s an additional Import tax on some products.

The main issue isn’t software or the phone in this case. It’s the task itself. Photogrammetry is one of the worst options to scan a car. Let me answer why:

Photogrammetry relies on unique points on an object. Imagine that the software doesn’t have any information besides what’s visible on the photos. Basically it tries to match the same points on different photos and is then able to reconstruct the object by estimation.

This works great for objects which got a unique texture or many unique points. Like a newspaper, which has a lot of non-repeating text and thus a non-repeating texture. This doesn’t word great for single color objects, as the software can’t distinguish different points on the object.

This does also work on matte,opaque objects, as reflections will show the surroundings and may alter the color.

Now combine the above: cars are usually single color, shiny and have very little corners and edges. This is photogrammetries worst nightmare. Even if you coat the whole car in a single even layer of something, then it’s still single color…

What works (but it’s a painful task!) is to sprinkle colored matte dots onto the car, preferably in a random pattern. Then you take houndreds of photos of the car. It’ll take a long time and it must be done in an even lit place. So no direct sunlight but a cloudy day or inside a building with a lot of indirect lighting.

In short: Don’t try it and buy a scanner like Einstar instead. Renting a more expensive scanner is also an option. You’ll still need to coat the car, but it’s faster and less painful.