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It's not easy coming up with a name that sounds at least somewhat OK in >24 languages.

I'm still waiting on my current, 60 hours of use a week, mid-2019 MacBook Pro to die or have any sort of malfunction so I can justify buying a new one. Its battery life has seen better days but that's basically it.

Linotype machines are marvellous and I'd highly recommend seeing them in action should you ever get the chance. They are the perfect intersection between a rube goldberg machine and a mechanical marvel to excite a part of my brain that I can't even properly put into words.

I won't resort to naming and shaming here but if you ever get contacted by a UK agency that 'resources vividly', immediately request a removal of your contact info per GDPR or you will get phoned daily for months on end.

Node-RED is much more focused on IoT as far as I can tell, although the UIs look comparable.

Yes. The first one is more like a user complaint than an actual reproducible bug report.

I don't think many phone OEMs will actually take the effort to muck around in the lock screen mechanisms.

Not true at all. I've done work for insurance companies in the past as well. While it's true most of them will not diverge from their standard contracts, some are very open to clients suggesting 'custom' insurance no matter how obscure the clauses. The only caveat of course being that it will cost you substantial amounts.

> I also work in insurance industry as a software dev - nothing that I have seen would let insure someone who would go under-prepared. One could fill in form that he goes fully prepared but once lied insurance company won't pay anything.

If you break the terms of the contracts you won't get covered of course. Same as with car insurance where you won't get coverage if you were DUI.

It acts as a "pre-emptive" tax shift. If more people pay taxes there's going to be less pressure on the government to set an ever higher tax rate, because now they receive more money while levying the same amount.

Why do you want to kill them?

Many providers in the EU will also gladly block connections based on IMEI if you can prove you're the owner of said IMEI.

Finder.app and Preview.app are surprisingly decent format conversion tools

Belgium is very similar in that regard. Our politicians are very talented in turning what should be straightforward processes into complex bureaucratic puzzles that require at the least an advanced degree in accounting to solve. So frustrating as it's holding SMEs back.

Language can change and words can take up new meanings.