UK/EU has had contactless payments via our bank cards for about 2 decades now. America caught up eventually some years later

When phones got the ability to act as our bank cards, it made sense for them to use something compatible with the same technology that was already deployed

Funnily enough, America (and I guess also Korea, given the companies) dragging their heels on standard contactless is one of the main reasons why Samsung/LG briefly put out a couple of generations of phones that had a magnetic stripe mimicking payment feature in addition to standard NFC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_secure_transmission)

Jazz FM for the morning coffee, BBC 6 music when making dinner

I’ve gotta be honest I somehow missed the entire context added to the body, but OP gave a good answer anyway

Neither is a problem, leftover cheese will just get eaten as a snack if it’s not enough to keep until I go to the shop next (I usually go every other day for something since it’s a 2 min walk)

Leftover bread just becomes a piece of toast with some butter (I basically always have it in, and get the replacement before I totally run out). Tbh with a coffee that’s just my normal breakfast some days anyway

You had me wondering so I looked it up

I dropped a zero, it’s 500MB (and may be a bit bigger now perhaps)

https://venturebeat.com/media/how-googles-pixel-2-now-playing-song-identification-works

Google pixel phones have automatic offline music recognition where the database is something like 50MB IIRC and it’s pretty good unless I’m listening to something particularly niche

I assume you could build a similar database if you had the source material to do so.

You’re potentially gonna have an issue with games that have dynamic soundtracks that aren’t exactly the same every time (think in an action game how the music changes based on if fighting or something)

Data centres notoriously don’t have heads, but I love the enthusiasm

We kinda have two choices:

Some flavour of socialism where people get what they need for free

Or

Turbo-rio-de-janiro style inequality where we all live in slums

Now the 2nd one is what the ultra rich want and they have a lot of power, so it’s kinda on the rest of us to make the first happen instead

I just grip the box closed after I’ve pulled what I need and yank it free

I think it’s usually the bottom side of the opening with the serration, so probably that side

People can (and do) still say what they like today, other people aren’t also obligated to smile and clap though. Very few people are gonna be particularly pleased about being insulted.

TBF, you’re probably more likely to get punched in the face for saying those things rather than following hearing them these days. I’d probably see that as the better situation of the two, kids should stand up for themselves.

If year on year we can get kids to be less shitty to each other, it’s hard to argue that isn’t good thing.

Lmao what a toxic piece of shit

Privacy is something everyone deserves, not something only criminals want

I don’t think soup brain is capable of considering this

Well I’ve got no idea who that is, but if so it kinda doesn’t really change the point even if the motivation is potentially a bit suspect

People should be free to wear clothing that doesn’t break any laws without getting even a modicum of grief from pearl clutchers, particularly when those people spend their energy on that rather than more real problems.

A broken clock can be right twice twice a day and all that

Why would it be good for people to moralise over someone’s choice of clothing?

It’s kinda an obviously shitty thing for someone to think their views on how to dress are so universally correct to the point of needing enforcement

Yes, that’s why it’s in Office

Hitler is a pretty obvious answer

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Say le way

Say le way

Say le way

Mullvad is based in Sweden and is the main interest of its seemingly decent, also Swedish, parent company

Money and sales charts

Being top of a sales chart was a big deal a couple of decades ago as it usually meant a product got better placement on the shop shelves

So then marketing budgets could be focused on different areas at different times, meaning greater chance of getting higher in the charts

That and localisations generally taking time and studios not wanting to cannibalise sales of a local version with imports

Also regional pricing, they could sell more in poorer countries for lower prices, but they didn’t want to give up the greater amount they can ask for from richer countries

Edit: clarity