True. I guess good intent and delivery is generally assumed with a gift but not always there. It’s not implied in the post though.

There’s a lot of important context missing but on balance, with the bits we do have, I think OP probably could have handled it with more sensitivity.

That’s true, but I don’t think that negates what was good intent. Plus we have no idea about delivery of the message from OP.

That’s such a ridiculous thing to agree to, knowing that a country with a veto was the most likely aggressor. :(

Looks good and I love that it is offline without ads and trackers.

It’s something I would definitely consider installing for my mum with the caveat that I’d like to see the source published.

Spot on.

What an absolute load of nonsense. I have spent a decent amount of time in Qatar. I watched what were effectively slaves working away to build stadiums and hotels. It is a fair statement to point out the irony of a place with very strong censorship criticise censorship.

If the BBC lauded a foreign country for the equivalent of bloody Sunday I would point that out too so honestly just jog on.

Edit: just to reiterate, I agreed with the premise up front. It’s not a bad article. That doesn’t take away from a censorship heavy regime criticising censorship through their mouthpiece and I fully acknowledge that AJ is generally decent so no, it’s not racism.

Not at all. I agree with the premise as I said so there was no whataboutism in there. I merely pointed out that a news source from a nation that allows nothing even vaguely approaching what the UK has, to be ironic.

I agree with the premise, but it’s more than a bit of irony that this is coming from Al Jazeera.

Mmmm. You’re taking “company spokesperson” at face value there.

Let’s be real though, a meeting of highly paid, highly skilled people came up with that response then it was sanitised through three more filters before reaching our eyes.

€18 euro clown costume with €2 face paint for one. €3 cat in the hat costume from the school (which does costume recycling for money) for the other. They both looked great.

Update:

how many black lines are on the aux you’re plugging in?

There were only 2. I unplugged the aux cable but left the USB to aux in and the mic is still tied to it unfortunately.

Thanks for your help. Looks like I’m a little goosed.

I absolutely pissed myself laughing at the family guy Irish heritage museum skit. I am Irish so your mileage may vary.

The bit with the lady giving birth wrecked me. My stomach hurt.

Honestly this is magnificent. 🤡

Nice one. This sounds like a good option. I’ll check in a bit.

Oof. What in ignominious end for our old pal. :(

He did?!?

OnePlus claim it’s not and a quick search does back that up. For the one specific to my phone they move a chunk of the work off the device (reducing heat on the phone) and onto the charger. It’ll still charge normally with any USB charger but it gets much hotter and is much slower compared to the OnePlus “warp” charge.

Yeah, a friend of mine made a similar argument and I hear it. Personally I’m always right beside a fast charger so it’s not an issue for me.

My phone has an option to auto-stop charging at 80% so I use that. I will occasionally charge it to 100% but like maybe once a month. TBH if it had an option to stop at 90% I’d probably use that as a middle ground (my steam deck does and I use 90% with it). I got 5 years out of my last phone and I’m 3 years into the current one and hoping to get many more out of it.

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Personally I charge to about 95% and my phone batteries remain at 98-100% condition after 2 years of everyday use.

That’s a good reference point, cheers. Do you not find it a pain to monitor that though?

For anyone wondering what “10,000 lifetime cycles” means, it’s full charge / discharge to the point that the batteries are at 80% of original capacity so 10,000 is to me an absolutely incredible number.

A typical phone battery is rated for about 500 (you can massively improve this by not charging it beyond 80%).

Sounds like you’re crushing it! Well done and good luck with the Baccalaureate!