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The vanishing of the small high-end smartphone (www.smh.com.au)

Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement....

dawa,

You just brought back fond memories of mine

I loved sliding that keyboard

dawa,

Really depends on your age and interests

I started learning programming concepts as a teen by using RPG Maker. It introduced me to concepts such as variables, conditions, loops in a “low code” environment.

Thing is, I had a reachable goal which made it easier for me to learn and feel good as I had a tangible result. Things such as “I want to add a point everytime I touch X item” where very good for this.

IMO, I wouldn’t worry too much about the language at first and focus on small reachable goals you want to achieve. But to each his own way of learning.

Like games? You should probably check out GDevelop.

Want to automate some of your online tasks? Maybe n8n.io.

Also, it’s better if the tool you use starts with a high level of abstraction (it’s very esay to use) and allows you to add in some scripts.

If you want to go further, pick a language and go through the basics. And if you’re feeling even more adventurous, head to roadmap.sh to find a learning path towards your goal.

Edit: Also, ChatGPT is really good to teach you IF you always ask it to explain whatever you don’t fully understand in the code it writes

Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)

The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...

dawa,

And he’s not alone.

I’m on tech Twitter and trying to switch to Mastodon. Unfortunately, the latest news and top content are still on Twitter and I don’t want to be missing out on either of those.

dawa,

Cool, so now it’s a “work laptop” and I can justify expensing it !!

Only reason why they’d put Word on it IMO

dawa,

My mind just did the same association even though I knew the meaning.

If you remember JRPG has a J for Japan, it’s easy for your brain to go with C stands for Chinese, even if that doesn’t make sense when you really think about it.

Also, side note, just chill out with the conspiracy theories. And actually give the guy the proper explanation of what the term stands for like the comment next to yours.

dawa,

PCloud, once in a lifetime payment. Quite happy with it and works well with RSync

Just buy it on black friday as it’s usually their lowest “on sale” price (they are always on sale it seems)

dawa,

I know and I researched quite a bit before making the jump.

Basically there are couple of things which make me think they won’t just shut down:

  • They’ve been around for quite a while (10 years as of now)
  • They’re betting on the ever decreasing costs of storage to manage their margin
  • They still try to sell you complementary products
  • They don’t ever have to increase your max storage unless you pay again
  • They still have monthly subscription available

All in all, I’ve felt pretty safe using them and I’ve done the cloud provider switch once so I can do it again

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