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If that was completely true I would have deleted the News app long ago. Maybe for weather apps but there's still some selective enablement by Apple on this front.

I don't have colour blindness, I have a colour calibrated display, and I find it hard to differentiate between them.

Also, Firefox blocking Canvas elements does something really funky to the hex tiles making it harder. Allowing access does make the tile background change to pink/yellow-green instead of them all being lilac/lavender/purple animations.

The colours make it too difficult for me on a good display, and the dancing 'thing' (wheat?) doesn't help.

Link? I can only see a 30-day free trial.

From my experience Debian uses much older versions of tools which has caused me many problems in the past (I need newer tools sometimes) but they do backport security patches fairly quickly. Supposedly 'testing' doesn't always get security updates, and 'unstable' is the wild-west of broken packages.

This is what I don't understand, I have 24.04 LTS and yet it still holds back gstreamer for example, and other security patches. I just don't get it, and it brings it up with a list every time I update. It's mid-cycle, shouldn't it have those updates included automatically without any intervention on my part?

I personally consider Ubuntu an irresponsible choice. They hold back security updates unless you subscribe to Ubuntu Pro with the 'esm-apps'. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't apply a ransom to security updates.

All very good points. How do you think this has impacted Nike specifically? I know my reluctance to purchase takes maybe tens of dollars of the table, but do you think state-level friction has impacted the sportwear sector?

Indeed European. I'm surprised to hear that Canada is no longer though, I thought the protests and avoidance were very much still ongoing. I only have international news to go by, and I've no way to be certain but I do know that nobody I know deliberately buys American now and will actively search out alternatives for brands that are based in the US. I could live in an anecdotal bubble though, but it sure does look like there is a bias against US-owned business. I'm sure your data is more accurate.

lol yes I do. Canada, Mexico, any countries adversely affected by tariffs, anyone who doesn't wish to support Trumps political views. I'm fairly sure that's more than half the globe

We swear by Adidas on the football pitch, the best boots available in my opinion. I've not tried their serious running shoes but their 'fashion' shoes are middling at best. Next pair will likely be Asics.

It could be because Nike aren't very good, and because half the world is boycotting US products after the tariffs shenanigans. I personally will choose other products whenever there is a viable alternative, and frankly there are plenty of non-US trainers / running shoes available.

This. Lost hours from the hours running the updates, lost hours from the occasional faulty upgrade, and every now and again it's fail spectacularly and need a restore from backup to return to productivity. No matter if it's Ubuntu LTS or non-LTS, every six months there's always something radically changed. OpenSUSE Leap has the same problem. I'm looking at Tumbleweed but a new version every week is going to break occasionally. Gentoo build-from-source is going to have weirdness every now and again, if not utter ruin. MacOS updates yearly, and brings horrors with every point zero release. Windows is Windows, and those problems are well known. I don't think there's a way around it with the current offerings.

It's a problem we have to live with for the sake of progress and for security updates. Every machine needs downtime for maintenance on a periodic, often-scheduled basis. It might cost time but avoiding updates is not a good plan.

Aside from dodgy updates that have to run as root to install, if you have passwordless sudo it's more dangerous than any broken package or local-only privilege escalation exploit. I'll wager many have it set up that way, because typing passwords is tiresome.

That's entirely possible and quite likely. The only way to find out would be to renovate the battery and take it out to go shoot stuff. I'm not sure I'm that invested to make the effort especially as the rest of the handset is basically useless at this point.

"Don't update your systems for a while" is exactly what an attacker would say.

If you can't trust your update sources, you have bigger problems.