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1. Networking and keeping contacts. Not LinkedIn which I have found to be completely useless and full of lunatics and weirdos. Good old fashioned email and exchanging details when you work with other people. Check in with people occasionally to remind them you still exist. I have to turn work away.

2. Mostly bullshitting people then winging it.

If you start with a sieve and try and plug all the holes to make a bucket you're going to end up with a leaky bucket.

My initial point was a really that there are terrible privacy implications and poor track record of actually treating the customer well, as if that wasn't obvious.

As for the rest, I'm just pissed off with people throwing their words into my mouth. Oh there we go again.

That would assume that it was possible to rank them, which I made no statement about.

Anyway this discussion is starting to sound like Slashdot circa 1999...

I can't see that happening at all. The idea gives little utility over the top of the last big leap (smart phones) with a lot of additional costs and problems.

I'm not sure why you could infer that from my answer. Last thing is a figure of speech not an ordered set with my point being the tail item :)

Last thing I want is Google, Qualcomm and Samsung looking over my shoulder all day.

Yeah it’s super cheap if you use the pooled service. Back in the 90s it was $1000 for 3 eurocard sized boards if you wanted them in under 2 weeks. This was a big problem for us so they built a PCB lab in house and it’d still take 3 days.

Now I can get the same to my door in under 2 weeks for $60. And they actually test the boards!

Not sure where my DNS from my ISP (Zen in UK) but nothing is ever blocked or broken. I’ve stayed away from the big providers because of their target size.

I can go earlier: I was designing them in the 90s.

I've got a mathematics degree and I can't work it out either if that's any consolation.

Yes expensive landfill merchant.

Got a 9 year old iPhone 6s here. Actually still perfectly usable and annoyingly fast compared to my 15 Pro. Was getting patches until July 2024 as well.

When one phone falls off the bottom of the stack another one goes on the top of the family stack. In service we have a 15 Pro, 13 Pro, 12, XR, 8 and the 6s. I'll push Pro phones down every two years now. Occasionally something needs a new battery and that's about it.

As for usability, there are a couple of problems but once you get used to it and why, meh. Safari+AdGuard (free) is excellent and a lot less dicky than Firefox on Android.

I went from climbing into my car to climbing mountains so definitely better :)

50/50 on that. Had a near miss there. Borderline type 2. Blasted weight down from 115kg to 65kg and changed diet.

Now I still eat pizza, pasta, bread and chocolate all the time. Just reasonable amounts of it as part of a balanced diet. And not the crap shovelled out by fast food restaurants.