Because of secondary smoke. If you drink or gamble, that does not affect people around you.

Smoking always does.

Well, that’s just an added bonus. Killing two birds with one stone and all.

I’m not saying I’m against the ban - I actually am for it. I’m just saying that if it was good enough for older people to make an informed decision, why are we denying only the younger ones that right.

If we truly wanted to fix things, we should ban it for everybody. Not at some arbitrary age cut-off.

Last I checked, secondary smoke does not respect age limits.

Not only games. Goes for all electronics as well.

Sick of supporting your ‘old phones’? You’re required by law to disclose all binary blobs as source code to let somebody else pick it up the slack.

Feeling like bricking old Kindles? Fine, but users must be able to install alternative OS on your old device.

Not providing software updates for your TV anymore after you removed features? That’s your right, but so is the right of the effing device owner to install something else on it.

And it’s not just consumer electronics. (caugh John Deere caugh).

It’s the same reason that Age Gating is popping up all over the world.

It’s because fuck young people, that’s why. I got mine, I don’t care about you.

I don’t know what’s “short distance” for you, but a flight from Zagreb to Amsterdam takes about 2 hours.

Using public transportation on the same route is 20+ hours at best and you need to switch between bus and train four times. Driving is 10+ hours.

Maybe, just maybe, we should stop immediately providing kerosine to private jets first? And droping subsidies for jet fuel and financing public transport instead?

Can confirm. I can speak Slovenian and always wondered why others can’t understand sperm whales.

No, it’s an international thing to complain about the US nowadays. 🙂

If anything, they should limit fuel for private jets first. If we’re talking luxury - that’s were it is.

Not with some poor old chap squished like a sardine inside a Ryanair flight.

That would do a lot more for the environment and for fuel savings.

I would love to get on a train and arrive well rested into Amsterdam overnight. Unfortunately, we’re not there yet. Hopefully this crisis might speed up more efficient means of transport and reduce tax credits for airline fuel.

Shockingly, when I travel abroad I’m usually out and about for the most days. And that’s where power bank is needed.

If can’t have them in my checked luggage and and I can’t have them in my carry on, am I expected to buy a power bank every time I fly and then throw it away?

On the topic of in-seat charging ports: your luck may vary. Even if you do find a plane which has these and they actually work, the power is not usually enough to charge more power hungry devices - bigger phones, tablets, steam deck. Don’t get me started of you actually want to use your laptop during the flight.

Yes, if you fly business there are usually power sockets which you can use, but who has money for that?

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All devices are going through enshittification. Android and iOS alike.

Feature wise, you can pretty much get everything on both. One is maybe a bit more bouncy and the other a bit more squishy when you pull from the edge. But that’s about it.

Android provides a bit more customisation, iOS has better defaults and more embedded ecosystem.

Apple will now be forced to allow “side loading” (installing apps, actually) which Android had for ages. Google, on the other hand is making installations from non-Google Play sources more difficult.

Everybody will have their own preferences, but in the end on the Pro spectrum, differences are minimal.

Basically: pick your poison.

I’ve personally had Samsungs for a while and quite happy with them, even with some a annoyances. Still miss my S3. Others might have had different experiences.

There are Fairphones, PostmarketOS and other alternatives. Unfortunately though, if you’re looking for a premium phone, these are not there yet.

TL;DR Both suck about the same. Differences are in details. You’ll be about the same miserable with both.

What makes you think they care?

A track record of not breaking any laws so far?

I don’t subscribe to the notion that any particular race or (physical, not sociological) group can be evil.

People fight for resources. Sometimes with other people. History is littered with people doing the wrong things for the right causes.

Genghis Khan was from Mongolia and has killed so many people it actually affected climate at that time.

Even if you believe certain actions of certain people were evil, it’s difficult to generalize them to the whole population. Especially if they had no way to influence their decisions.

How could have a Dutch farmer change anything in the Kingdom of Netherlands? And how can a minimum wage brick-layer in England be responsible for what a UK king ordered 400 years ago?

Just as an example: look at the world today. America, Russia and Israel elected their presidents. Without getting to much into political discussion, at least some of their actions might be viewed (today) by majority of people as “evil”. Does that make all the residents of those countries evil? And their children? And grandchildren?

I really do believe that the reasoning is much simpler. And that, unfortunately, hasn’t changed even today: those who are in power and have wealth, will fight tooth and nail to keep it. By any means necessary.

Don’t all iPhones have the same sentence on them?

Yes?

Actually yes. They did vote for this.