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Should be mentioned that this was in the 90s with one of the first computer-animated feature films. We're missing the source code for a ton of games from that era as well. I would assume people had learned to have proper backups 30 years later - especially so with the advantage of high speed internet.

Modern version of "the dog ate my homework"? I can't even imagine a scenario where an AI agent manages to unrecoverably delete all working material and backups. I'm cynical and can't help thinking it's all marketing to postpone a reality show no one cared about.

Associated Press wrote this:

> Belgrade’s emergency hospital has denied reports that many people sought help after the incident and urged legal action against those who “spread untrue information”.

Are there any reputable sources confirming this? So far I've only seen random accounts on social media making the claim. The police, defence ministry and emergency hospital all deny the claim.

Jeez. Getting your comment flagged for asking for a source. I'm out.

> if the main complaint that you have about your politicians is that they sometimes look at their phones

It's just a cheap shot to rile up people that don't know better. Actively listening and arguing with opposition in the Parliament have very little to do with actual politics.

Swedish newspapers do a similar thing every year when they name and shame the politicians that submitted the fewest bills, making no mention of the fact that they are all useless and will be rejected in the current system. Somewhat related, The Social Democrats abuse the system and use AI to generate hundreds of questions each month that the government have to research and give written responses to. It's all a ton of pointless work that have negative impact on actually getting things done.

I'm confident most people can agree that Belgium have worse problems. Without knowing the details, I believe them going two years without a government had more impact than politicians using their phones while waiting for their time to speak or vote.

Maybe an off-topic rant but I ran into a similar feeling when wanting to do a personal PHP project with Laravel.

Even with the backend set, the front still felt like it had to make a choice among Blade, Livewire, Vue and React glued together with Inertia (?). Then you had to pick between several different authentication systems. Unfortunately I wanted app support as well which would require React Native, Flutter or something else which the Laravel documentation doesn't seem to make any mention about.

Naturally one could make it all from scratch with vanilla PHP and JS but that's often not a suitable comparison to a full-fledge framework.

I'm not very knowledgeable about current models but isn't that the whole USP for Nothing Phone? There are multiple lights so you can customize unique patterns for both contacts and apps.

> Why do no android phones have IR blasters anymore?

Both Xiaomi and OnePlus have it on their phones. Personally I never used mine and didn't see the point. It was quicker and more effortless to just click the button on the physical remote next to me than having to navigate through the apps on my phone.

> Or FM Radio support?

You can listen to almost any radio station online nowadays and plenty of countries (EU) have roaming agreements so the benefit of having FM radio must be extremely niche. I know you mentioned it being niche, but I'm talking niche niche.

I assume you have some kind of use case that goes beyond regular consumers.

I use a Fenix 6X Pro and it's a great exercise tracker with notifications. I don't see it as a smartwatch though. You can't reply to messages beyond stock replies or visit an url. I'm yet to find an interesting app and I find the UI cumbersome whenever you want to do something.

I still think it's a great watch and I love the battery life. I just believe it's possible to make something so much better. I don't know if Pebble is the answer but I welcome them trying.

Not a dig at you but I laughed a bit when reading it.

"it's not hard, just pay someone to do it for you"

I get the sentiment though. I've spent countless of hours trying to read up on digitizing our VHS collection while the proper thing would've been to just have a company do it for me. The main concern for me though is that they might just run the most basic settings and I'm telling myself that doing it myself will allow me to future proof the format a bit better.

I read the headlines and was surprised to see the replay of the red card afterwards. There's no intention to harm but he went studs first on the calf and then all the way down to the foot. Red card is harsh but imho not a blatant error. You can't go studs first.

You could write your own OS software that polls your browser for installed extensions and then nukes your internet connection through the host file if you disable the extension. Cold Turkey kinda does this by automatically closing your browser during a blocked session if you disable their extension.

The challenge is that there's always a workaround. The added friction might be enough to fulfil your need though.

I do this as well but find it a bit of a pain to add/remove sources since YouTube doesn't offer any easily accessible RSS feed. Wish there was a way to sync subscriptions with the YouTube account but at the same time I would never allow third party access. I refuse Google login on third party sites.

I assume such a change would heavily impact you as well? 40% of all seriously injured in the traffic are single-bike accidents. Here in Sweden that is.

I had a quick look and apparently it started when he made a video on how to dump Switch games to ROMs and he showed 30 seconds of footage from Super Mario 3D World. Beyond that, almost all of his most recent video thumbnails contain emulators with Nintendo games on them.

The legal question aside, he's obviously trying to drive engagement by using Nintendo IP and it's no surprise that they eventually noticed him with his half a million subscribers. The risk taking surprises me considering what we know about Nintendo and that YouTube is awful do deal with. They even gave LTT a strike despite almost 16 million followers.