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Still too complicated for just about anyone except the kind of people who frequent this forum.

>All you need to install graphene is a web browser and USB cable. Outside a section of the Western middle class, ordinary people in 2026 only own one computer and it's in their poc…

This is surely the closest to a solution we have, IMO. An alternative to the Android-iOS duopoly that involves futzing with cables and command lines is never going to go mainstream…

And above all too quickly . Per kilometer, flying is roughly as polluting as driving, but nobody would think to drive across a continent to go to the beach.

Per person, it is reliably the single most polluting thing you will do. The reason it accounts for a "small proportion" of emissions is that most people in the world do not fly at …

It is almost entirely mortgage debt backed by the collateral of housing.

But NFC unchecks the box "Open" since NFC access is usually a prerogative of the native wallet app of the OS, i.e. our favorite US duopoly. By contrast, any device can read or disp…

It is very clear than you cannot. Yet.

It's a dark pattern, my bank does it too. Reminiscent of online stores that put the price-sorting option "High > Low" before "Low > High", as if literally anybody would ever want t…

The horse's mouth seems to contradict this. The subject is Wero , not Ideal.

This applies more to the USA than to Europe, where "credit cards" are in fact mostly debit cards (cursory research says 71% vs 26% in America), and ordinary people tend not to be u…

These factual corrections are warranted. But IMO the accusations of dog-whistling and wrongthink are unnecessary and counterproductive. Again: I agree with you on the substance! An…

As I understand it, they've finally been getting noticed in the last year or two. This is a super professional nonprofit media outlet that's producing an almost incredible volume o…

Seems like a good use case for Unicode weather symbols.

>iPhones are some of the most secure devices available How do you know? We're not allowed to see the source code.

Taking this attitude, it's guaranteed.

The first thing that struck me too. Author seems oblivious that the whole subject is US-specific.

The comment is flippant but IMO it's also a pithy summary of an important argument in this debate. To which some of the responses are thoughtful and substantive. Tangential: I quit…

The irony surely being that the "economic value" here supposedly worth $10T is, ultimately, the very cause of their undoing (human economic activity is somewhat directly correlated…

But the unDRYness of RSS is pretty stark. It's literally a dupe of the list page of any website. I've often been frustrated at having to maintain two versions of the exact same con…

In most places (certainly here in Europe) the alternatives to flat-pack furniture are not cheaper, quite the opposite. Unless we're talking second-hand, which is obviously the most…

There's something to this but it's still a slightly dodgy generalization. A random counter-example from France. If you have a one-person small business (i.e. with a registered busi…

Interesting. Since we're talking about PWAs, which are essentially apps running in the sandbox of a web client (i.e. browser), the issue you raise could presumably be fixed in an i…

As you hint, the rule of thumb is that driving is (mile for mile) roughly as polluting as flying. But that's surely the point: nobody is going to drive across a continent to go the…

>China requires showing identification to buy a long-distance train ticket. In China, ID and ticket are the same thing. You know that already. Europe and Japan (what I meant by "ra…