$20 a year for a subdomain I can't control (dns records), sounds like a great deal.

the linked page says you can control DNS records

can confirm: you can

Just go to https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ and put anyones IP in, depending on how static it is, it will provide at least accurate recent data on public trackers.

Dark mode allows you to use a high brightness and contrast setup in more lighting scenarios, you can't use high brightness in the darkness if 99% of the screen is white.

Something could be said for appropriate lighting, but in the reality is your don't got to choose that all the time, and sometimes you just want to maintain the lighting situation because of another activity (maybe a baby is asleep in the same room, or you or someone else is watching a movie).

There's nothing more jarring than lighting up a dark room with your phone because you opened up something that decides to predominately use white for some reason, besides the fact it definitely uses more power on an amoled display, which most displays are hopefully moving towards.

I'm sure light mode appreciators are always on top of changing their display brightness, but I'm still curious how they deal with amoled displays.

Android has a feature that lets you limit time in specific apps to X minutes, you can set these and the app will go black and white when you approach the limit and just close when the time is up.

I found that's a good compromise to outright blocking things, because in reality you do need stimulation, but setting limits to the sources you usually get it from can be very helpful.

Instead of spending 3 hours on a clicker app (so evil) I've allowed myself 5 minutes a day, which means whenever I open it I'm going to do the most important things then close the app as soon as possible, whilst still getting the stimulation I was seeking in the first place.

Typically a vulnerability is found on an older version of the software that can be used to attain kernel level access, and a very simple hack is needed in later versions to force an upgrade to an older version of the software.

To prevent the use of older versions of the software, later versions of the software will burn fuses as they surpass versions, preventing them from ever being used again on that device.

Correct, but if the lock is trivial to defeat, you can assume people will be carrying screwdrivers / shims and whatever else is necessary to break locks.

If you need to spend 5 minutes carefully setting pins then yeah it's probably going to be safe in public.

Saws don't care about the pins in the lock.

If the frame is sawn, that kinda defeats the rationale for theft.

To note, there's many levels of bike theft, some will steal for parts.

You'll hear from people getting their seat post or rear wheel stolen for instance. Yes, seriously.

The bike in the article doesn’t do much to prevent component theft. The frame is the difference maker.

Another commenter suggested sawing the seat post.

I am curious about that too. Will the bike take a standard replacement seatpost?

The joke’s on you: there is no standard seat post size!

Haha, I don't mean that there is a single universal size. I was trying to figure out if it's using a propriety seatpost as that's becoming more common.

As another Australian, I highly doubt they have much of a say in terms of how expensive shipping to us internationally is, right now.

Unfortunately prices have gone up a lot. USPS won't even ship packages to Australia any more due to some dispute so it has to use some 3rd party service to get there. The only thing I can suggest is if you can get together with your friends, the shipping rate is flat fee you can split it that way.

I miss how it was prior to the pandemic, and would happily office 5 days a week if I could get that back.

However knowing that it's never likely to be the same, as people get used to WFH and companies realise they can save a load of money without creating incentives to get people in an office, the office is going to be far less desirable.

I'm down for a mix or even WFH, but I miss the socialising greatly.

It's not the keyboard itself but the software implemented that allows users to type this fast by predicting the order that you intended to hit keys allowing you to press all the buttons in "hello" at the same time, the fact it translates the ambiguous keypress into a dictionary word is the assistance.

It's clearly "cheating" in the context of a typing competition.

Expectation: Apps offer account deletion, finally empowering the user.

Reality: Apps no longer support seamless account creation and instead redirect the user to a website to register, user can no longer manage any aspect of their account from the app.

What are your assumptions?

Not the GP, but seems to me the assumption there is "companies will do everything in their power to make it hard for you to stop making their numbers go up", whether those numbers are actual money, user data, or just total user counts.

Alongside, of course, the assumption that "companies don't respect their users in any way, shape, or form."

These seem like assumptions which, while they certainly have exceptions, are well borne out by the available data.