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Smartphone. Think of people in your life who aren't tech workers. When do they use a computer if they don't use one for work? Almost never and when they do it's for specific tasks like create this document, fill in this form, research this destination, book this trip.

There are a lot of people I can think of who would be happier just describing this task to a dot or some other agent rather than digging out a laptop, booting it up, fighting with Windows update etc etc

For those people this could absolutely replace the need for a computer.

Other platforms do this too like pocketcasts. I assume it's the backend distribution network identifying your IP address and inserting 'relevant' ads. I don't believe it's being added by the podcast app (though for Spotify it may be, don't know)

I didn't know this existed. I had claude put this together for me from scratch a week ago. Tmux and claude and telegram is a really powerful combo!

I rooted my phone for years but the lack of contactless and trying to stay one step ahead of Google trying to stop you using it (frequent messing with shamiko, lsposed and all the rest, delicately doing updates, only for it to eventually fail randomly).

Being able to pay with your phone is just too useful.

Unfortunately not every country in Europe. Zero banks in Ireland have implemented SEPA Instant and transfers still take at least a day. Thankfully though they have a deadline to implement this that's coming up soon and will be forced to comply.

How many of these variants or noteworthy viruses kill as many people? Genuine question, because covid has been on a different scale to SARS, MERS or any of the various animal flu pandemics, in terms of R number and how difficult it is to control.

What about their covid measures put you off? When for so much of the pandemic they were seen as absolute world leaders and were living as normal when the rest of us were in lockdowns?

I tried to do a college end of year project in Symbian, and couldn't get anything to work for months. This was likely a combination of lack of ability as much as the SDKs problem, but it definitely was not novice friendly.

I pivoted to J2ME with about a week to go in the project and managed to get an MVP working in time, after 3 months of wrestling with Symbian.

You can create your own DSM powered NAS using Xpenology to load the DSM software on normal hardware.

It's more fiddling but you can get a very powerful NAS very cheaply this way.

Definitely get a cheap sim card wherever he lands. The EU abolished all roaming charges for data and calls so he'll be able to use whatever data and calls he has in all EU countries.

Some countries have extremely good value pre paid sim cards with 20 gigs of data often coming in under €20 a month.

Given its an open source app, it should be reasonably easy for the censor to reverse engineer the algorithmically generated domains. Frequent tiny updates would be an interesting solution though. Now that most mobile apps can deliver just deltas to save bandwidth it'd be viable.

I've read that they won't be using them, because they generally have professional setups with proper lighting and DSLRs. They also then edit photos before posting them.

I got asked some of these questions literally yesterday by Google and you're right. The wording was how you've presented it, not how he did.

You're exactly right. I was asked some of these exact questions yesterday. The guy should have realised what he was dealing with, the recruiters don't claim to be technical, and the questions are flagged as being straight forward pre screen questions.