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Fair - I have an iPhone 13 mini, which works well, but I can imagine anything bigger getting quite annoying.

The number is too high, but dropping: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx4762znr6o

You may have tried this, but I run with my phone in an elasticated belt that's just tight enough to keep the phone stable without being uncomfortable. I really don't want to fork o…

The solution is clear - an "I am a tweaker" toggle.

But given the extremely low cost of switching, why wouldn't you use the cheaper one if they're comparable?

For those in London who want to see one of these in the flesh, as it were, there's one in Tottenham: https://www.mbeam.org/

This is good to know, but a bit of all-or-nothing. It's a shame that, for example, Google doesn't support the crawl-delay field so you can tailor their crawling to your setup: http…

My daughter's primary teacher last year was leading an English language lesson where the main task was to write a poem about a hot air balloon. Instead of finding existing poems ab…

Ooh, thanks! Will try that out. Edit: yes it does - perfect!

I think it's a function of the endless tussle between browser-as-an-OS and the OS they run on. For example, I absolutely hate that there's no option in Firefox to only use the OS p…

Yeah, I've taken both my iPhone and Airpods into an Apple Store a couple of times and they cleaned the lightning / internal charging ports for free when the charging started gettin…

They can't do that because it would make a mockery of the legal system. Parliament does outrank the Supreme Court, but they do that by passing legislation, not just having a vote a…

Fair point! I think it's a tic from being English and having lived in Scotland for quite a while so I autocorrect "English" to "British", but I've over-corrected here. (Also perhap…

Not too far off what happened, although thankfully I wasn't actually trying to do anything other than test it. Going to take the opportunity afforded by Scottish TV comedy here, an…

Reminds me of the time my neighbours must have wondered if I was having some kind of a breakdown when trying out really basic MacOS voice recognition back in the early 2000s. There…

> or they can say the court is wrong and the law stands Surely the way that parliament says the court is wrong is to re-legislate. They can't just have a vote and say "that interpr…

Yeah, my query was an open-and-shut case, I know there are grey areas too. The Arctic Systems case in the UK was an interesting one for IT contractors.

I'm co-owner of an agency that builds websites, and we have a phrase that "accessibility is for everyone". Like you say, there are so many accessibility settings that can make thin…

That made me laugh, thanks. I remember talking to my accountant in the UK a long time ago when I was newly self-employed, asking if I could pass something off as a business expense…

The issue is that currently it often gets those speed limits wrong - as one of the parent comments said, when using adaptive cruise control I would often find the car slowing down …

> Also, being constantly warned that I was speeding in rural areas where the car missed a speed limit sign caused me to start ignoring the speeding alarm within a few hours of driv…

I had an educational Adobe CC subscription that went from ~£25 per month to ~£67 recently. When I went to cancel after I realised I didn't really use it that much and could just us…