iOS 26 is really bad. The only update I can remember disliking was iOS 7, but 26 is certainly worse.

In Sweden kids get their own desk where their books are stores, as can be seen in the picture of the article.

The only lugging around is for homework.

I totally agree. It's nice to have something that doesn't require magic vendor tools to fix. You don't have to go all the way back to the 80's though. The 90's are fine too and you still own your vehicle in the 00's. Late 90's make the vehicle harder to steal.

At some point governments will increase emissions regulations and you don't have another choice.

Do other countries apply emissions standards retroactively? In the US emissions regulations apply mostly if not entirely to new vehicles.

I remember back when Macbooks had issues with their temperature sensor. They would die due to the sensor cable being too short and everything expanding when the laptop got hot. Apple later resolved this with a firmware update.

Anyway, I got asked if I could fix a Macbook that was turning itself off. Sure, that's probably just performing the firmware update. But when I got the Macbook, it turned off just moments after starting OSX.

I put it in the freezer for 20 minutes and tried booting it again, yup, this time it took longer before it would turn itself off. I put it back in the freezer for a few hours. Booted it, started the firmware update, praying that it wouldn't turn itself off. Everything went successful and after that the laptop worked perfectly!

For other possibly dangerous things in society there are things like taking a license and renewing that license. Perhaps that should be a requirement for buying hard drugs where it's legal.

Exactly. You can buy pseudoephedrine or codeine at the pharmacy, but not too much or too frequently. Party sized amounts of safe drugs could be made available. People who go to far get directed to treatment.

>only supported 3G - a networking standard that has been turned off by the major carriers.

Remember, the US is not the world. What major carriers do in the US is not necessarily a global fact. Where I live 2G and 3G is still a fallback if 4G or 5G doesn't work. It will continue to be that way until 2025.

>If your motorcycle only supported leaded gas could you use it?

Google lead replacement additive or think about whether the engine could be rebuilt/replaced on a motorcycle. I certainly would prefer an engine rebuild/replace over replacing a modem in an iPhone 3GS.

>the iPhone from 2009 was an iPhone 3GS, it had a 320x480 screen, 256MB of RAM

The iPhone from 2009 wasn't that impressive in specs compared to other phones at the time. My even older 2.5G dumbphone had higher PPI on the screen and could run useful j2me apps. In 2010, the iPhone 4 came, had a 640x960 screen and 512MB of RAM. The fact that the specs could be doubled within a year shows that the earlier 3GS wasn't pushing anything spec wise.

> Remember, the US is not the world. What major carriers do in the US is not necessarily a global fact. Where I live 2G and 3G is still a fallback if 4G or 5G doesn't work. It will continue to be that way until 2025.

And it’s two largest markets - the US and China don’t support 3G GSM. What’s the market share of iPhones in your country?

> even older 2.5G dumbphone had higher PPI on the screen and could run useful j2me apps

J2ME games weren’t nearly as advanced as App Store games. The App Store was introduced a year before the iPhone 3GS came out.

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I have a drone (DJI FPV) with a microphone. It can pick up some sounds, but the loudness from the rotors makes it really hard to hear in playback.

The rotor noise varies in frequency and has several harmonics as well, so it can't be band passed.

I understand that you can't get a clean or great signal from it, but something would be nice.

What tool would be good to use to filter out that noise?

If you want to filter out the rotor noise alone, switching to a directional microphone would be the best option IMO.

Aside from the buzzing rotors, wouldn't wind noise be a big issue too? When recording your flights, what noises do you want it to pick up?

Black Box / Skate series, a number of NFS Games. DICE / Battlefield series Westwood / Command & Conquer series

Wouldn't "acquire acceptable safety distance" be a reason good enough?

>It makes sense

If you think like a good citizen, yes.

In a country north of UK the law was once the same. People with worn down cars would find the perfect opportunity to slam their brakes, intentionally get hit from behind and claim insurance.