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You have empathy for strangers, that's all. I also wouldn't do that, because then some poor innocent person would buy something "new" for full price, and will receive used returned product, either overpaying from their pocket or facing a hassle and waste of time to punt that can down the line, until some innocent buyer #734 in the chain will accept used product for a price of new and won't return it. I consider such consumerism behavior very sociopathic.

> I don't think you've used one in the last 10 years based on your comment.

The oldest phones with underdisplay scanners are from 2018, so 8 years ago max, just saying :) .

My current Oneplus is 3 years old and my current Samsung is also 3 years old. That's not that old by my standards. Maybe something magically improved specifically in the last two years, but I will believe it when I see it. I remember EXACTLY the same phrases in 2020 with new Samsung flagship and newest scanner tech. Then there were EXACTLY the same claims next year in 2021, with yet another Samsung flagship. And fast forward to 2023 and the scanners were still subpar. I don't know, we'll see if they will every improve to the level of standalone scanners.

Most underdisplay fingerprint scanners are between mediocre to garbage. Optical scanners are slightly better but considered less secure, ultrasonic ones are a flaming PoS. Both on Samsung S-line, A-line and several Chinese Oneplus phones I've used personally, for years at a time.

Usually they require a very specific state of the fingers, not too clean (don't work after washing and drying hands usually) and not too dirty, not too damaged, not too oily etc. Winter zero degree weather causing invisible condensation or wetness on a screen? Nope. Rain or drizzle? Nada. Also Samsung specifically on their S-line has some obvious software glitches I've confirmed on my phone. For example - in normal conditions, inside apartment, with reasonably clean hands, try to unlock and fail 5 times in a row, input password, then immediately lock the phone and try scanner once again and it will work realiably. It seems that having phone initially in "sleep/hibernation" causes its scaner brains to freeze and glitch, and only fully operational OS causes it to start working properly.

I can totally see why Apple would opt for a better user experience, even if it's not as hyped or flashy on a shop display.

Hey, you forgot #3:

Selling sanctioned oil to India and buying unguided cruise missiles from Iran, through the Gulf state laundromats.

And not only CC BY-SA 2.5 requires attribution which wasn't provided by any of the AI corpos stealing that data, it also requires that derivative product MUST be licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 too. So literally all AI models are in violation.

It is not weird when the standard is either outdated or meaningless. Why exactly a sun high point "must" match precisely 12:00 mark? Literally no one needs that precise match for any valid reason (if it were the case then DST would be impossible, and it is obviously just fine).

Imo the obsession with "solar/astronomic" time is weird. I kinda get the reason - a) we humans hate any change, b) we humans reaaaally like pretty and symmetric concepts. By why exactly it is "a must" that high point of the sun matched with 12:00 precisely? Who cares about that for a valid reason instead of tradition and fear? Why not match it with 11:00 or 13:00 or literally any time point?

Countries have long singe transitioned from the rural lifestyle and should adjust life and healthcare conditions for a majority, not for minority. A majority of population should get as much daylight as possible, for the best long-term health outcomes.

It should be a pretty simple and easy task for professional statisticians. Compile average outside time for every age and every job cohort, overlay them and we will get a nice graph with two nice normal deviation peaks - morning and evening. Then shift a daylight graph (which would be a single very wide "peak" of sorts) overlaid over that outside time graph by adjusting timezone point/center. Play with it until the area matching on both graphs is maximized and bingo - that's the optimal timezone for a majority of population.

I suspect with AI help it can be done in a week by a tiny team, instead of years and decades of baseless shouting and finger pointing and name calling in press, parliament and random social networks.

Lol, are there any adults left in White House? :)

At a guess - corpos like Big 4 consulting agencies and some extreme fintech ones, also corpos like Oracle and the like. And at another guess, outside of a legal agreement with a fixed time period, probably nothing hold them from quickly switching to a better model provider, if any comes ahead.

He has fun. It looks like that over past years war is the only thing which genuinely interests him. And his end goal by my guess, is producing a photo of him sitting next to Xi and Trump, titled "Yalta 2". That is literally all he cares about. This war will never end until he is alive. And given that he has a private hospital built-in in his residence and he had even dismantled street wires along his route to Kremlin to make helicopter evac possible at all points, he will live pretty darn long.

I vaguely remember reading an article at the height of the Nintengo cartridges valuation craze a few years back, that the guys behind the "grading" corporation which produced these insane valuations, were previously convicted scammers who went bust in dotcom and decided to try again.

This whole story about assigning millions of dollars of value based on a state of ten cents worth of cardboard and shrink wrap is craziness. Same with obsessing about the imperfections on the playing cards.

The same happened to me some time before Covid. I booked a nice villa half a year in advance when it was reasonably priced, for summer vacation. Booking was accepted by host. Everything was silent for months and then they cancelled with only weeks remaining until the trip. So of course I had to pay 50-100% more for the similar rental and have only 1/10 of the offers because everything was booked by then. No refunds, no excuses, no explanations.

Never opened AirBNB site again after that. Zero customer protection plus shitty fees and hidden traps (no linen/towels rental was a nasty surprise one time).

Why is anyone surprised in the least? I've been boycotting EA totally since 2012 or 2013, I don't even remember now, and they had a whole ass graveyard of dead studios even back then, on top of other immoral shit and lies they produced. People rightfully blame corpos like Actiblizzard or Ubisoft, but EA was always in a league of their own.

Oh, sorry, I got carried away and missed that part, my mistake.