I’d like to point out that this:

see, for instance, the deliberate slowing-down-with-updates scandal from a few years ago.

this never happened. What you may be referring to is Batterygate where they would intentionally throttle older devices based on their age and presumed battery degradation in order to give the devices a longer life span. The roll out of which did not go as smoothly. The articles also mention that since iOS 11 / iPhone 11 the phones have better battery management and monitoring.

My 11 Pro that I have bought in 2020 April is still working as well as on the day of purchase. This is after one battery swap in 2024 April, when battery degraded below 80% capacity and the system announced that performance would be throttled. It is expected that the 11 Pro lineup will retain new updates until at least 2026 September.

Now here’s the thing: these newer iPhone Pro models age so well, with just a battery swap every ~3-4 years, I wouldn’t be surprised if some movement in the EU will step up to force legislation on extending support for them. But still, six years of support is pretty good compared to most other vendors.

I read Cybercrab for some reason and was really confused.

Phone menu trees

I assume you mean IVR? It’s okay to be not familiar with the term. I wasn’t either until I worked in the industry. And people that are in charge of them are usually the dumbest people ever.

So they could just use a service offered by (checks notes) T-Systems, Siemens, Lufthansa Systems, SAP, TeamViewer AG,… what’s that? In all these years these companies were relying on US service providers as well, instead of innovating? Well that sucks.

They pretend to have nukes.

The recipient of your messages.

Xchat is an irc client though.

Oh ya? Provide some examples.

Let me guess. Something lewd is happening in this story?

It’s an allusion, not an analogy.

Trial what destinations exactly? Arrive at Island port. Hecklers everywhere. Arrive at next Island. More hecklers. Rinse and repeat.

“Damn, I had a blast!”

I’m telling you, a Euro-trip on rail will net you more adventure and better pacing with vastly more interesting destination. Possibly even comfort, if you take sleeper trains.

I’m hoping they’ll ban these cruise ships from the Mediterranean altogether.

Maybe they are so far behind because they jumped on the same train but then failed at achieving what they wanted based on the claims. And then they started digging around.

And then tar.bz2 on top so that no basic users of sidewalks can ever open it.

Because you are either seriously fucked up, or American, if you think any of the shit that Joss was claimed to have done warranted him getting murdered in cold blood over a neighbour’s dispute.

Biggest pedo.

Ah yes. Hamas, an entity created 37 years ago has created suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza for the past 78 years.

Click link at the end of the page.

But why? Again, the perception would be absence or presence of light on a standardized indicator.

FYI signal lights are much more strictly regulated in Europe, such as position, colour, shape and strength.

This study is from Austria.

It’s the reel.

It’s doesn’t matter, since the absence or presence of light would still be perceived by colour blind people. It doesn’t change how they would drive, as they are already driving with the knowledge of colour blindness in mind when looking at tail lights.