Its true that the dead cant care, but living people like parents, friends and other siblings might. I can absolutely see someone being deeply hurt by this kind of fake technological necromancy.

Its not morbid, its disrespectful. Let dead people be dead.

Which brings us back to the issue of all the empty and unused housing which is used to artificially increase rent levels. There is actually more supply than demand, but the supply is being limited by the gatekeepers (corporate and individual landlords). With proper legislation this would improve quite a bit.

How is this different when every house for rent is owned by an individual?

Obviously there should be limits to individual land ownership too…

In Germany they are called “Heuschrecken” which translates to “Locusts” because thats how they operate.

Only in german: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuschreckendebatte

This is what librewolf translated the first section to:

A locust debate in Germany in April and May 2005 over a statement by the then SPD chairman Franz Müntefering is referred to as a locust debate. This compared the economic action of some “anonymous investors” with locust plagues.

The term “locust” has since been regarded in German political parlance as a derogatory animal metaphor for private equity companies and other forms of equity participation, such as in the public-private partnership model, with allegedly short-term or excessive return expectations, such as hedge funds or so-called vulture funds.

The term and debate have been criticized variously, including as in parts anti-Semitic and anti-American.

The last part is super funny to me, because it just speaks to the way that the defenders of these investment tactics think.

I went and looked at the referenced “vulture fund” phrase and was not disappointed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_fund

Yeah no. Last i checked there are 4 times as many empty apartments than homeless people in Germany. The housing market here is completely fucked and corporate housing ownership needs to be disincentivized or outright banned for this to be solved. Whenever people try to buy housing they will be outbid by companies that already have plenty of capital. This leads to an everlasting spiral where the rich people will always have more buying power and normal people are perpetually stuck paying absurd rents to those same rich people making them even richer.

Im currently rewatching all the LotR movies so this is good timing.

Some phones do still work without, but i think most dont.

some devices will bypass the battery when permanently plugged in. I have an old phone i use as a syncthing node and i log the battery current on it. It never actually gets used by the phone, it only suffers from some very slight internal discharge.

has me reconsidering my use of syncthing

This is about a third party piece of software that isnt directly related to syncthing. The devs of syncthing have however been recommending syncthing-fork as their choice for android, so it definitely needs clearing up.

I havent used this specific app but ones like it, but this should do what you want.

https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.pranav.applock

“If we already have enough resources to completely eradicate poverty from the planet, then why do we still fight over resources.”

Because war and conflict is good for making money.

To answer your question we DONT need to worry about winning the AI race, because there is no such thing. Its just a made up concept that allows companies to claim handouts from the US government under the guise of protecting national security/interests.

Google, microsoft and apple have been loyal dogs for china for many years. This has been public knowledge for at least a decade if not two.

It doesnt really feel “slow” to me but just buggy and like its trying to do too many things at once.

Going to college doesnt allow you to buy a house at 30 either lol

These are lab conditions, so in reality the degradation is probably quite a bit worse. In practice your battery will reach temperatures ranging from 10-50°C (or much more if you leave it in the sun) for example. High heat especially can cause battery aging to progress at 2-3 times the normal rate. Its also not evident from this graph if these cycles were going from 25-100 and then immediately back down to 25% or if the charge was stuck to 100% for 6h like it is on a real phone that gets charged over night.

5 years is IMHO good enough for a daily phone.

Its better than the current situation, but fundamentally phone hardware hasnt really changed in the last 10 years. There isnt really any reason to not use one phone even longer than that. The Fairphone 6 is promising 8 years of software updates for example.

Sure there are phones that have enough capacity overhead to still be usable despite a 20% reduction, but thats not most phones.
Also they just stated “No” in response to a question to which the answer is unequivocally “Yes” and that pissed me off.

Charging limit features exist for a reason and not just in phones. EVs have the same problem with charging over night. The best thing to do is not to drain it too low or charge it too high. The orange line (65-75) is probably not realistically doable, but the purple (45-75) should be doable for most people that arent constantly hanging on their phones.

As you can see going low is not as bad as going high because 25-75 is much better than 50-100 even tho the difference is 50% in both cases.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/90983/why-charging-your-gadgets-over-80-is-such-a-bad-idea
https://www.roulonselectrique.ca/en/toutes-les-actualites/recharger-son-vehicule-electrique-a-80-ou-a-100/
https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries

If you are wasteful idiot yes.

Thats just 14h tho, not too bad.