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I wonder why they decided to go with the specific language order that the messages appear in on the new page. First English is shown, which makes sense as it’s the most widely spoken language in the world. But then Arabic appears, which has far fewer speakers than e.g. Spanish or Mandarin. French and Russian are also shown before the Spanish message finally shows up. Perhaps I’m reading into the details too much, but this seems somewhat biased to me.

It reminds me of the “Hello” message that appears after (re-)installing iOS, which also cycles through different languages, but there the order is at least randomized iirc.

I’ve found Callcentric to be pretty great for making (international) landline calls. Their Pay Per Call rate is reasonable, though I’m not sure how it compares to Skype’s prior offering. Only downside is that there’s no official client I believe. But there’s plenty of VoiP clients out there. I’m personally using the Groundwire app on my iPhone to place international calls to distant extended family every once in a while.

I’m really digging the background visuals. It reminds me of the old Playstation home screen background animation.

I do not see how the final keyword would make a difference in performance at all in this case. The compiler should be able to build an inheritance tree and determine by itself which classes are to be treated as final.

Now for libraries, this is a different story. There I can imagine final keyword could have an impact.

We're talking about a laptop here, which most definitely doesn't contain an overclockable i9 K processor.

The 80 character line limit is making it's return (for me it never left though).

Exactly, as long as pretty much everyone I know uses Gmail, there's really no way to keep your emails away from Google. Encrypted mail would be an option, but it is such a hassle to set up for most people.

> CPU scheduling is integrated with messaging.

So QNX messaging is implemented in kernel space?

I never really understood why kdbus was rejected from Linux, it seems to only have advantages compared to a user space message bus. The only disadvantage I can come up with is security.