Yeah, the rage seems to usually stem from two misunderstandings:

1. It forces you to use Bluetooth headphones.
2. A 3.5mm jack is cheap and trivial to build into a phone, so there’s little or no reason to not include it.

You already pointed out why neither of those are legitimate reasons. For 1 you just need a simple dongle, not new headphones. For 2, because the Fairphone is modular and repairable, it’s not just the 3.5mm jack but also a custom replaceable daughterboard they’d have to develop and keep in stock.

Not having a 3.5mm jack is a minor inconvenience at most, I don’t get the rage either.

Proton includes cloud storage and recently started supporting automatic backup of pictures on your phone.

Or, here’s a crazy idea, for the one week each year where you actually need the range you rent a Honda Civic and leave your EV at home.

This idea that nobody on the internet is willing to pay for anything is outdated. Most people know that if it’s not money, they’re paying in data, time and/or attention. I much prefer paying with money, as do most people that use Proton, Kagi and other paid alternatives to free Google products.

I simply turned off my watch history, no more algorithm.

The video responds much better than I could. But in short, Gary doesn’t believe the housing prices to fall until the rich are taxed more. So get in soon if you can, it’s only going to get worse.

Might be wrong, who knows. I’m not able to buy a house currently anyways so I’d have to wait either way.

Recently watched this interesting Gary Stevenson interview.

Not very optimistic but might give you some ideas.

Tl;dr: do everything you can to buy a house and get the rich taxed (much) more.

Depends on altitude really. If you’re higher up it’s freezing meltwater, which might have a non-zero chance of containing disease carriers but it’s probably extremely unlikely.

Yup, really wanted ANC ones for on the train and very happy with my €50 Edifiers. Sound fine and the ANC is good. Watched tons of reviews on XM5s and Bose QCs which only seem to offer meaningless improvements.

I do also own good cans and DAC for when I’m at home, but paying over €300 euros for something you’ll only use in noisy environments and fussing over audio quality you won’t be able to optimally enjoy anyways is silly.

Perfect Tides.

Didn’t that turn out to be a weather balloon launched by an amateur meteorology club?

"Now listen to my story, yes listen while I sing Of days of old in England, when Arthur was the king, Of Merlin the magician, and Guinevere the queen, And Lancelot, the bravest knight the world has ever seen.

In days of old, when knights were bold, this story’s told Of Lancelot.

He rode the wilds of England, adventures for to seek, To rescue maidens in distress and help the poor and weak. If anyone oppressed you, he’d be your champion. He fought a million battles, though he never lost a one.

In days of old, when knights were bold, This story’s told of Lancelot. In days of old, when knights were bold, this story’s told Of Lancelot."

From an old TV show, you can listen to it here.

No idea whether that’s the origin of the line, but it’s the oldest occurrence I managed to find.

5-min ravioli.

Children here in the Netherlands use : as a divisor symbol. I don’t know whether the ÷ sign is particularly American, but it’s not universal.

Your problem is using your personal machine for work.

It’s not a tumor! Not a tumor, at all.

They were rebuilt to be more permanent for the Hobbit movies.

They worked closely with Qualcomm on selecting a chip for this exact reason.