I have to admit I wasn't aware tiktok was that popular. But then again, tiktok is a video app where most users skip videos often. What counts as "one traffic"? Why is Microsoft in #4 of top traffic (who is visiting Microsoft.com and why?).
They are viable, but growth is significantly hindered by GOOGLE. When you install a search engine extension, that is explicitly labeled as such, Google will still "warn" users that an extention has "hijacked" their default search provider, and recommend to revert back. This is obviously anti-conpetitive but governments are too slow to react. Furthermore, extensions are at the mercy of extension stores' obscure policies, and are often dropped on a whim by "reviewers".
With that said, tens of millions of users is hardly "unviable". There are several profitable search engines.
I suppose its impossible to make a 5 year plan when the game is changing month after month. With countries having 50% vaccination rate, there's always place to brew new variants that might or not be resistant to vaccines and medicine.
The main reason to make a search engine Browser is because browsers, and specially Chrome are very aggressive against search engine extentions (chrome insists in warning users their search engine changed). Also, search engines pay a fat share of revenue to browser vendors in "default search engine" partnerships.
That sort of maintenance can easily be done without the need for specialised engineers. A gardener can mow the lawn, a janitor can clean the panels, and most solar plants are not on tracks but static.
The lack of transparency since day one of the pandemic is, in my opinion, the main reason for so many people to be against all measures, including vaccination mandates. From making assertions about the virus before the science was out (science rarely ever speaks in certainty), to straight out lies. From science, to pharma, to state medical officers, to government, to media, we're stuck in a terrible game of phone.
It's funny you place games in the "bad" side of things, this hich need to be reduced. I group gaming with reading because the kind of games I play require a level of focus and engagement, and my brain rather spend hours scroll HN and Reddit. It really is an uphill battle.
And at least for now, there's a multitude of third party parties with all the features one could care about, minus all the bloat. But who knows how long the api will last?
My old and only eReader, a Kindle 3, had ghosting issues, but it self-fixed them by refreshing often. But there's a cost to that, because a full refresh takes significant time. In complex UIs that are more than just text you often can get away with updating only a portion of the screen, at the goat of bits of ghosting. My understanding is that this is still a limitation of this tech.
Vaccines don't make you immune to the virus. The reduce transmission and symptoms, and practically eliminate death risk. But you can still get the virus, and can still get sick.
Source: currently qpositive, mildly sick, doubly vaccinated.
No need to apply taxes on meat. Just stop subsidising animal husbandry, as well as subsidising crops dedicated to animal feed, and the true cost of meat will emerge.
And the saddest part is that this precarious situation is basically what is saving us from an effective Blink monoculture. Firefox Market share keeps slowly going down on desktop and is almost negligible on android.
There was a picture going around o reddit of 50 totally different varieties of potatoes grown in Peru. How many varieties do we grow that are significantly distinct? This is probably caused by the optimization of industrial farming selecting for best yield (kg) with very little regard for looks, taste, or even nutricion. It's also harder to stock supermarkets with 50 different types of potatoes, carrots, lettuces, and dozens of other vegetables. Maybe a solution could be that not all supermarkets sell everything, instead of all of them selling exactly the same selection of products. But this would be too inconvenient and would never be tolerated.
I'm not sure if you're just being naive, but there are lots of people deemed "unbankable", e.g. Imigrants and refugees. And in the coming years, the number of people with that position will only raise. It's 2021, most people in the world have access to a cheap phone and celular, but might not have the same right to certain services that you enjoy...
This phone has IP54. The previous had nothing. I like to think they are working on it. Watch makers have been making serviceable waterproof devices for decades. Only reason we don't have serviceable waterproof phones is because manufacturers prefer to cut corners and shave an extra milimiter of phone height than care about users.
I don't think their volume justifies the expansion yet. They are an incredibly small company (around 90 people) that is doing a lot more than build a phone.
I'm writing this from a FP3 and I'm a bit thorn because I want a FP4 but this phone still works perfectly. I might get a new battery in the next months as this on e doesn't last a day outdoors anymore. It's also a seriously sturdy phone, already fell so many times on the floor.
Even in a European Capital trash is routinely found on the floor, on the streets. People throw it on purpose or by mistake, or the wind blows it away. Eventually it is forgotten, blown to forests to break down, or carried to waterways until it reaches rivers. Let's not pretend that plastic isn't everywhere in the west too. We need to stop single use plastics and unnecessary packaging yesterday.
Fashion is so diverse that you can hardly ever create something that looks distinctively new. Me with these shoes. They either look weird or regular, and the regular probably exist in a very similar style.
I think we're in a troubled phase of the transition to a truly universal port. I believe soon enough most cables and charging, bricks, and devices, will start to be more versatile and also better labeled. At this point companies are still transitioning and people still don't understand the concept so we'll either. Maybe we need something like color coding in cables, similar to the color strips in resistors. We definitely need some way to know what a cable supports after the label is long gone. With that said, I still prefer the current situation where I can charge my laptop and my phone with the same cable and charger, and the same port can be used to video out.
That's such an incredibly short-sighted and single-tracked view on what is "the environment". Planting trees will not magically fix the climate, and carbon sequestration is not the solution to all our problems. Destroying ecosystems for the sake of capturing more carbon makes no sense, if for no other reason that it reduces the chance of survival of the new trees. You also can't lose focus from the end goal of why we're trying to capture CO2. The goal is to save the environment.