Google Tasks. Does not have all the features of other apps but does everything I need and was preinstalled

Telegram has a builtin support for proxies and the authorities probably won’t be able to block all of them

Yes, very much this. I find it kinda funny that once the press discovered this huge disagreement (not really) between them it was talked about in every singe debate even though absolutely nobody is wanting to give us nukes

It’s still unclear if he’s allowed to use the logo and such. The national broadcaster Yle (which itself has a strict policy against advertising) allowed it in the national show and argued that (quote) “Windows 95 is no longer a protected trademark today. The product is hardly used by anyone anymore. Thus the name and the costume are allowed”

But EBU might have a different stance ofc

I don’t remember the exact article I was reading but doing a quick google search yields this one for example. And here’s the actual research paper: https://www.miyashita.com/researches/1hFnR7TlUO4OXNpQFeuN30

I remember reading an article about how we’re already able to simulate basic tastes, like sweetness and sourness, digitally. So just you wait, we might have lickable HTML elements in the future

So nice to be able to play more Portal after all these years

Nokia E71 with the full QWERTY keyboard. Loved it, even though the keys were too small to comfortable use. I guess technically speaking that’s still a smartphone so before that I had some Samsung flip phone, can’t remember the exact model

Good luck, because last time they tried to replace the Start menu with a new UI went so well…

A robot vacuum. Just a cheap no-brand one and it’s by no means perfect but does actually help with day-to-day cleaning. Meaning I can get away manually vacuuming way less often.

They recently added it as a experimental feature and it has been working fairly well, at least for Java. As far as I recall, each user needs to activate it themselves via settings. Far from optimal but better than nothing.

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber

This was the book that got me to stop hating books.

I didn’t like reading as a child or teenager until I was forced to read this one for a mandatory book report in high school and really, really liked it. I don’t know why, I don’t even remember that much about the book, but it got me interested in science fiction and reading in general.

That’s the part I don’t get at all. How come is not having any credit history a bad indicator? If anything, it should tell that the person is financially stable to afford things without needing credit.

Where I live (and I think in other European countries too, with exceptions) it works other way around. Having a clean credit record is a good thing and only if you neglect your payments you get negative marks on your record. Having any negative marks generally prevents you from taking any new loans or financing (a good thing!) but negative marks will be cleared after debts have been paid off and some time has passed.

The expectation of everyone having a credit card as soon as they can get one and paying everything with credit to somehow “build” credit. Sounds such a great way to get people into financial trouble at a young age.