What do you mean “no one would want stock android”?

That’s the whole selling point of the Pixel serie phones. No 3rd party bloat or unwanted features, quick updates, etc.

Interesting to hear news from the smaller countries too. Thanks for sharing!

They were a bigger deal. I started learning Japanese when the first Iphone came out and spent quite some time in Japan when the Android phones were a new thing. Internet on the phones was very limited.

Dictionaries existed on the phones, but the usability was non-existent. Even worse if you had to look for a word you didn’t know how to read.

The electronic dictionaries had great writing detection and cross-referencing between language and informational dictionaries etc. At the time they were awesome. One electronic dictionary could contain dozens of dictionaries of various topics, which probably was convenient for Japanese themselves (and not just language learners).

Of course nowadays you can do the same on a phone, but there was a period when you couldn’t.

“for a lot of models” is a bit of an exaggeration. Especially as Xiaomi/Dreame try to actively restrict Valetudo use.

But yes, Valetudo is a great project. I’d just wish there was a manufacturer who would openly endorse it.

I have now used Deezer for a bit over half a year after Spotify.

The song selection is pretty equal. The playlists can even automatically be imported/exported with TuneMyMusic.

I think Deezer’s best feature is the song radio which finds songs of similar genre, and it really does find songs and artists I have favorited after hearing them. I always found that feature in Spotify to work pretty poorly.

However, if you don’t have an exact song in mind, finding music by theme is terrible in Deezer. There are few set categories, but the amount of user-created playlists is very small, compared to Spotify.

I’d recommend giving it a try, but I wouldn’t say its better or worse than Spotify. Just different.

Doctors issue urgent warning to anyone who drinks energy drinks

“If you love an energy drink every now and again, it probably isn’t going to do any damage…”

Does not sound that urgent to me after reading the article.

One standout statistic was that projects with clear requirements documented before development started were 97 percent more likely to succeed.

I’d like to work in that company.

A law in which country? What would you do if someone in a different country doesn’t want to follow that?