You understand that this series is fictitious and intended to initiate self reflection in subtle and indirect ways.

From the article:

The feature, which lets you leave your phone plugged in without having to worry about it being overcharged, is an extension of Pixel’s battery optimization features. As its name suggests, it limits your device from being charged over 80 percent, preventing premature battery degradation in the long run.

Every single mobile phone manufacturer, Google included, is continually attempting to improve battery life for many reasons.

Batteries are components that have varying attributes over their lifespan because they’re essentially chemical reactions hopefully contained inside a sealed pouch.

Chemical reactions that vary with temperature, manufacturing tolerances, electricity supply and usage patterns.

Attempting to write software to deal with this is non-trivial and changing.

What looks to you like the same bug might be, or it might not be. It could be a fix for something else that has an unexpected negative impact somewhere else.

The whole ecosystem is continuously in flux, each individual device, each manufacturing batch, and each product revision.

That the same software runs on so many devices is a miracle of modern proportions.

Source: I have been writing software for over 40 years.

If you run out of Tuna, you can use Salmon.

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Yes

Now that it’s free, are its users the product?

The Orange wants to turn it into a beach resort.

A hosting provider always has the ability to change what’s on their infrastructure. The Kindle store is no different.

As it happens, they’ve been doing this for years. For example, the price you set as an author is not fixed nor is how it turns up on the page or how and when it’s promoted.

The standard ebook format is essentially a zipped up series of text files.

Source: I sell my “Foundations of Amateur Radio” ebooks on the Kindle store

Sleep … I cannot remember the last time I had eight hours uninterrupted. Last night I managed 5.5 hours in three shifts. That was an improvement on the night before.

After a while you have seen it all and it takes extra energy to find the funny. Finding the funny is harder when you sleep poorly and your body ages.

That said, finding the funny is absolutely worth every effort, it’s just that sometimes it’s hard work.

Source: age

I was lead to believe that this bullshit was limited to the country where the Orange Fascist is in charge.

Not so.

This screenshot was just taken by me in Australia.

mRNA vaccines do it for me at the moment.

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Understanding-COVID-19-mRNA-Vaccines

Some Lemmy clients can show you an aggregate total vote, so you don’t see that one downvote.

It’s something that an instance owner has visibility of.

I don’t know if discovering who does this will help, since I don’t believe that blocking that account by you will stop their voting behaviour.

It’s something that appears to be pretty common.

I suspect that there are people who believe that every post should start at zero and have bots running to make it so.

You could start your own instance if you had the energy to go head to head with this, but I wouldn’t bother.

Voting is really just a way to indicate how far off the reservation a post has strayed.

I’m happy that my current default altitude is positive.

At one time I received an unexpected email from a shipping company that turned out to be legitimate, despite it having several red flags and being marked as spam by my email provider.

The point being, investigate and confirm before either condemning a message to the bitbucket or paying.

For example, if I received such a message, it would be ignored because I’ve not been near a toll road for well over a decade, but that might not be the case for every recipient, some of whom might not have paid their bill.

It’s that edge case that scammers are targeting.

The post provided little or no context and the replies were not conducive to meaningful dialogue.

Reporting the incident to police would be an alternative approach to addressing the root cause of the issue.

Writing posts on social media is likely to be misunderstood, ignored, trolled or actively attacked, none of which will address the incident or the fallout from it.

I also note that there are victim support groups that might be of assistance.

… from Hotmail … the known origin of all official government notifications …

Perhaps you should ask the moderator of the community from where that post was removed.

Given that it’s Monday the 17th of February right now, that ship has sailed … several days ago.

The radio station I worked in put the next item at the end of the shelf with a label containing the next sequential number and added the metadata to the music library database.

In essence the sort order was age.

Yes, this predates the prevalence of digital audio from an era of vinyl, CD and DAT.

That said, cool article, but it bears keeping in mind that one solution does not fit all cases.