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On iOS yes, on MacOS (26) it won't let me. I've not tried 27 yet. There's no option to 'move to bin' or delete, and dragging to the recycling bin does nothing. Same with most of the other supplied Apple Apps on MacOS.

I don't have to defend the quality of my equipment (hardware or wetware) to you or anyone else. The science says they are to similar in contrast for differentiation. If only there were other colours that could have been used instead.

Objectively different hues is bunk: #fffeff is 120 degrees from #fffffe - I defy anyone to tell them apart. It's just not as simple as hue as the only factor.

Those two colours have a contrast ratio of 1.50:1 according to https://www.accessibilitycolor.com/#fg=5fd3ff&bg=b58cff - the baseline for WCAG is 4.5:1 for AA standard. Look at the text on the background as calculated and tell me that these are good colour choices... The colourblind examples this colour pair gives are even worse.

So yes, while I can tell the difference between these two colours doesn't make it good to play or an acceptably accessible choice even for those with good colour vision. They are objectively too similar.

If that was completely true I would have deleted the News app long ago. Maybe for weather apps but there's still some selective enablement by Apple on this front.

I don't have colour blindness, I have a colour calibrated display, and I find it hard to differentiate between them.

Also, Firefox blocking Canvas elements does something really funky to the hex tiles making it harder. Allowing access does make the tile background change to pink/yellow-green instead of them all being lilac/lavender/purple animations.

The colours make it too difficult for me on a good display, and the dancing 'thing' (wheat?) doesn't help.

Link? I can only see a 30-day free trial.

From my experience Debian uses much older versions of tools which has caused me many problems in the past (I need newer tools sometimes) but they do backport security patches fairly quickly. Supposedly 'testing' doesn't always get security updates, and 'unstable' is the wild-west of broken packages.

This is what I don't understand, I have 24.04 LTS and yet it still holds back gstreamer for example, and other security patches. I just don't get it, and it brings it up with a list every time I update. It's mid-cycle, shouldn't it have those updates included automatically without any intervention on my part?

I personally consider Ubuntu an irresponsible choice. They hold back security updates unless you subscribe to Ubuntu Pro with the 'esm-apps'. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't apply a ransom to security updates.

All very good points. How do you think this has impacted Nike specifically? I know my reluctance to purchase takes maybe tens of dollars of the table, but do you think state-level friction has impacted the sportwear sector?

Indeed European. I'm surprised to hear that Canada is no longer though, I thought the protests and avoidance were very much still ongoing. I only have international news to go by, and I've no way to be certain but I do know that nobody I know deliberately buys American now and will actively search out alternatives for brands that are based in the US. I could live in an anecdotal bubble though, but it sure does look like there is a bias against US-owned business. I'm sure your data is more accurate.

lol yes I do. Canada, Mexico, any countries adversely affected by tariffs, anyone who doesn't wish to support Trumps political views. I'm fairly sure that's more than half the globe

We swear by Adidas on the football pitch, the best boots available in my opinion. I've not tried their serious running shoes but their 'fashion' shoes are middling at best. Next pair will likely be Asics.

It could be because Nike aren't very good, and because half the world is boycotting US products after the tariffs shenanigans. I personally will choose other products whenever there is a viable alternative, and frankly there are plenty of non-US trainers / running shoes available.

This. Lost hours from the hours running the updates, lost hours from the occasional faulty upgrade, and every now and again it's fail spectacularly and need a restore from backup to return to productivity. No matter if it's Ubuntu LTS or non-LTS, every six months there's always something radically changed. OpenSUSE Leap has the same problem. I'm looking at Tumbleweed but a new version every week is going to break occasionally. Gentoo build-from-source is going to have weirdness every now and again, if not utter ruin. MacOS updates yearly, and brings horrors with every point zero release. Windows is Windows, and those problems are well known. I don't think there's a way around it with the current offerings.

It's a problem we have to live with for the sake of progress and for security updates. Every machine needs downtime for maintenance on a periodic, often-scheduled basis. It might cost time but avoiding updates is not a good plan.

Aside from dodgy updates that have to run as root to install, if you have passwordless sudo it's more dangerous than any broken package or local-only privilege escalation exploit. I'll wager many have it set up that way, because typing passwords is tiresome.

That's entirely possible and quite likely. The only way to find out would be to renovate the battery and take it out to go shoot stuff. I'm not sure I'm that invested to make the effort especially as the rest of the handset is basically useless at this point.

"Don't update your systems for a while" is exactly what an attacker would say.

If you can't trust your update sources, you have bigger problems.

Whilst anecdotal, this supports the idea that I should de-index my personal site when I relaunch it. There's no value for me to get indexed by Google or Bing. The only index I care about is Wayback Machine.

In my experience, iPhone 4 was better than iPhone 8 which is better than iPhone 17. Either I got lucky, went to more interesting places and composed better, or the technology is getting worse from an aesthetic point-of-view. I definitely had more keepers, more memorable photos of a higher subjective quality. I pretty much don't bother with iPhotography now.

Similar story on Android but I won't bore with the model names and numbers. Older handsets gave better results. Pre-smartphone, king of the hill was the Sony K800, I loved the photos from that phone. No fancy software, just quality hardware and straightforward processing gave consistent results.

That said, I should try Halide app. Bringing it back to basics with less computation might be the way forward for me.

And yet I can buy a Premier League soccer shirt with a casino brand sprayed across the front. I wish it would stop, advertising gambling via sports sponsorships should be banned. It literally prevents me from buying the shirt.

As a European, yes I'd prefer an EU LLM.

What I don't want to do is give it to services with an agenda to abuse the data, particularly those profiling individuals for profit. Frankly, I'd trust a Chinese service more than I would an Adtech based one, but that's still not much.

For my use case, I use a webclipper to drop a copy of the text as Markdown into Joplin as a personal knowledge base. I can't do this with a PDF. My browser downloads the document by default as a preference for user manuals etc that I would want to keep, but for this kind of content a simple web page would be a better choice.

For other users, PDF is well known for lack of accessibility and I hear that it's a poor choice for screen readers but I have little direct knowledge on that.

I'd rather HTML with named anchors so I can link from documents/pages directly to subsections with hyperlinks. This would make it more useful professionally given it's a document that should be referenced by other works.

I do wish these types of document were published as HTML and not just as PDF.

This is the current choice developers face - build for the app-store or build for the web. Or both.

For me, I honestly don't care if Mobile Safari seems 'crippled' when everything I use works exactly the same on devices as on Firefox/Desktop. If anything I'd be more annoyed if it worked better on my fringe devices, but maybe I'm the outlier here - I only use mobile for comms/banking, tablet for light browsing, and it's more often I'll be on Desktop.

Do I think it should have less functionality in Mobile Safari - yes if I get more battery life. Conversely no, if those features could give me more battery life back through intelligent apps.

The executed filename could be a symlink to a single common binary/script.

This is true, but 8TB is big data if it's text.

That's where I am too. Not sure why I've been downvoted when I've past the point of doing high-stakes risks and have people who rely on me to avoid injury so they get to have fun.

It would have been a better fit for me than the M4 Air, I literally use it only for typing and browsing, plus a could of Mac-only tools. Brilliant machine but complete overkill for me. It's almost tempting to switch just to get rid of the display notch.

I think the definition of big is smaller than that. Mine was "too big to fit on a maxed-out laptop", effectively >8TB. Our photo collection is bigger than that, it's not 'big data'.

Or one could define it as too big to fit on a single SSD/HDD, maybe >30TB. Still within the reach of a hobbyist, but too large to process in memory and needs special tools to work with. It doesn't have to be petabyte scale to need 'big data' tooling.

The only status it brings is "smart enough to not use Windows 11" or "cares enough to get the work done rather than fighting with Linux on laptops".

(I use Linux on desktop as a first choice, but it's always been an uphill struggle with laptop wifi/power manglement/audio for me. I blame the esoteric chipsets used in the machines I've bought in the UK)