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I must be weird, but I like the name. It's a palindrome and I dig their symmetrical logo. And of course, it is clever marketing. Even here we are talking about it.

Sure, it's possible to make the battery removable, but why would they do that? It was the manufacturers (e.g. Apple) who decided to make the battery non-removeable in the first pla…

It's their first iteration and I applaud their effort. It takes at least a year to develop something like this and the sales quantities will be lower compared to the big brands, so…

I have tried all but pdn is the best software for quick editing. In the time it takes for Krita or GIMP to launch, I'm already halfway in pdn. I really miss it when using Linux.

Ageeed, and the RFC4180 you are referring to also specifies how to escape newlines. CSV is a simple storage format for data. Its simplicity, readability and portability makes it po…

You can still use RAD Studio today. Although it's expensive and it's primarily used to maintain old software these days. Lazarus is the best IDE for Pascal, being completely free, …

Many European countries already banned it in the '90s. That was decades ago and the EU is currently discussing making it obligatory to replace old asbestos materials in existing co…

I don't see this as a perfect solution, but CSV is not great either. A comma is super common in both text and numbers. Here in Europe we often use commas as decimal separator and u…

It's slightly more convenient, but Vue3 is already great. I like to support an ecosystem and I want a framework to keep existing, making sure I can maintain my projects in the futu…

Bosch batteries are made in Europe (Poland) but they can contain Chinese cells. Bike batteries do not use LFP because bike consumers demand high mileage, small size and low weight.…

Avalonia is interesting because so many desktop apps have been made in WPF over the past decades. And now the technology is getting old and MS wants to replace it by unproven frame…

If you don't want to deal with cookie banners, there are browser extensions you can install to automatically accept them. However, although the cookie banners are sometimes a nuisa…

It is possible but traditional power grid lines have quite some losses over longer distances. An expensive HVDC connection would be more efficient. Furthermore Arizona could be too…

Same thing with the Samsung S5 from 2014. IP67 waterproof with headphone jack and removable battery.

I think Delphi was slightly better. The components in Delphi were more powerful at the time. But the general idea is the same. C# with WinForms is still usable today and provides a…

I use Firefox Beta daily on Android. Works without complaints. I have used add-ons with it for the past years. The ones you really need, like uBlock Origin, have always been there.…

What about the old and proven Apache? Is it affected?

Yes, and it has never been a bad experience. However, I don't see a use case for new projects. There are many language options nowadays and most have a larger developer pool. I don…

But the electric components are not standardized. You can buy e-systems from Bosch, Yamaha, Shimano, Fazua, Mahle, Stromer, Bafang et cetera and they all have different dimensions,…

As far as I know, the EU legislation is primarily aimed to protect privacy. Behavioral advertising is related because it requires tracking, and tracking requires the consent and un…

Here in The Netherlands, a large DuPont/Chemours factory has been dumping waste products for over 30 years. The maximum safe concentration of PFAS/PFOA has been reduced in the past…

It depends. Yes, the salaries are lower, but so are the expenses on average. The fringe benefits are usually good. There's a legal minimum amount of paid holiday days, in my countr…

Market share is a different measurement unit compared to top selling. From your article: Tesla hatte VW im zweiten Halbjahr 2022 die deutsche Elektroautokrone abgejagt. Nun verteid…

Even in Germany the top selling electric cars are not German. Combined with the uprising of cheaper Chinese brands in Europe in the coming years, I fear the worst for the German ca…

Actually I never found cooperative multitasking a real issue. You don't want faulty tasks in your embedded application anyway. With cooperative multitasking it at least is easy to …