Pretty sure that depends entirely on the individual. Since being deaf (or blind for that matter) isn’t as binary as it appears there are various degrees of hearing impairment. Perhaps one person is completely deaf, while another is still able to perceive certain frequencies, and yet another just needs it to be really fucking loud but if it is they hear just fine.

From my personal experience with a nearly deaf acquaintance they are using a special kind of hearing aid they can tie into their devices via Bluetooth. So they have the sound sent directly to the device specifically configured to allow them to hear.

“always” in this case is when you have two or more gpus in your system, which limits the ability to “just” run a vm considerably.

I mean, I appreciate the idea of micromobility and electric alternatives to cars and such, but I also get why cities might hate them. People park like shit, the scooters are maintained poorly, the whole concept of scooters is dangerous as fuck in normal traffic. E-bikes are far superior and the mode of transportation that should be pushed. That, and people should stop ruining good things for everyone by being dicks.

I’d also say the very nature of physically overpowering a person, and/or subduing them to possibly move them to a more convenient location lends itself more to men. I dont think many women can physically overpower another person in a life and death struggle, my spitballed guess is that female serial killer personality types tend to use more indirect or subtle means.

Angels of death come to mind as a more commonly female killer variety.

Is that a recent change? I somewhat distinctly remember being offered Fdroid during the initial setup as well.

Is it really endorsement to offer the user upon initial setup to install it, along with fdroid?

I’d say that’s just general compatibility, most users have at least one play store app they can’t just stop using, in my case that would be the banking apps I need to be able to pay online.

Purged of unwanted and intrusive features, UBO pre installed, and is pre configured for increased privacy.

Depends a lot on what I am looking to buy.

I generally avoid anything with visible branding, aside from sneakers where it is largely a given and I found some nikes that work well with my feet.

I do look to buy quality/durability where possible, within budgetary reason, I try not to contribute to our mountains of garbage too much. Naturally i also avoid short fashion which will look bad next year, which is luckily pretty easy as a man.

For most other things aside from clothing I generally follow the military grade system: buy the cheapest thing meeting your needs. I generally have an initial idea what I am looking for (I basically never go on a sort of unprompted or unguided shopping spree just to buy something) and the needed properties, and I will opt for whatever does what I need the least expensive.

For food and groceries i generally buy organic store brand, though a few brand products just taste irreplaceable, so i go with those.

You just invented the arcology again, lol

It is a near future concept of a fully self sufficient megacity, a sort of intermediate stage towards an ecumenopolis (a planet entirely urbanized with an extreme population density). One popular example would be coruscant, the capital world of the galaxy in star wars.

I understand, but the type of teenager who makes so many your mom jokes at your expense you feel compelled to ask if they are homophobic for only targeting your mom and not your dad, would just say “yes 😎”.

People with enough self awareness to take the implication in jest wouldnt have been so obnoxious with the yo mama jokes in the first place.

I dont think the kind of person who torments you with constant motherly disrespect in school would be fazed by the suggestion that they are homophobic since they only target your mother. That’s not a good gotcha at all, at best they would laugh and agree with you.

Eh, at best you could create a shadow profile of me. I scrubbed the internet of my actual identity years ago, but you could probably piece together a semi accurate john doe of me from various bits of information I shared on here over the time.

Asking someone their country of residence is privacy intruding? Lol

In the strictest sense perhaps, but I dont think a criminal could make something of the knowledge that I am from Germany.

I haven’t kept up on this controversy, but is this really all there is to it? People think the service is untrustworthy because the CEO tried a bit too hard to convince a critical blogger, according to the comments possibly due to neurodivergence?

I am not using apple products myself any more, but 7 years of guaranteed support seems very reasonable, especially when our dumb ass economy runs on constant consumption and growth. They could just as easily make their devices break a week after the legally required warranty period is over, and you’d have to buy another

Interested myself. So far I had only good experiences as a customer, though i hear they are pretty rough towards vendors. It is also widely accepted where I live (EU), which makes it very convenient.

But i am always eager to stop using a corporate product or service.

That’s a factor I hadn’t even considered OP, yeah if it’s cold or muddy a lot you definitely will want to choose the bike. The scooters are very dangerous (to you and even others) in poor weather conditions

One of these things:

Having had both, the clear winner in my opinion is the e-bike.

A tried and trusted mode of transportation enhanced with a motor vs. a razor scooter on stimulants, seriously, I have no idea how these things are street legal. Even a small pothole has the potential to send you to the concrete because they are basically skateboards with a tiny little handlebar.

They are also a lot less comfortable for anything beyond a 5 minute trip to the bus stop because you can’t sit down, and on most models you also have to constantly hold down the acceleration controls, which gets very tiring for your hand. A scooter is also entirely useless if the battery is empty, whereas an e-bike can still be used as a normal bike in a pinch, albeit with more exhaustion due to the greater pedal resistance.

Since I got my e-bike I haven’t looked at the silly scooters once, literally like riding a bike downhill in all directions, even against wind. It also has room for some groceries which a scooter naturally doesnt. Definitely the more useful mode of transportation of the two.

The contradictory goals for privacy displayed here are caused by corporations and intelligence agencies lobbying behind closed doors to get that data. And with the think of the children / anti pedophilia rhetoric people blindly agree. Because who wants to be against something that helps to protect kids right?