Some don’t. But most people are not gatherers

You’re wrong

xD no? Why would everyone claim one? I for example would be fucking glad not to receive e-junk with all my purchases

Simple solution: if a device you sell comes without charging cable, it has to be written in large letters on the box that you have the right to claim one for free (like cigarette health warning) and the seller has to inform the customer before checkout

Why is that?

I don’t care if they keep the extra couple cents they saved on not giving the cable. I fucking hate getting extra e-junk with my electronics. I hate getting new cables just like I fucking hated getting shitty headsets with pre-smart phones. Nobody used them regardless. For all I care all battery-powered electronics, including laptops, could very well come without chargers and standardised cables, just with large warning on the box (like the one on cigarette packs). That was the fucking point of this EU regulation, to reduce e-junk

No? I use the same usb cable and QC3 charger I got with my 2016 Xiaomi

I’m all for it IF the cable is provided for free on demand to 0,001% of customers who happen to not have one. I have a separate drawer for all my extra usb C and micro usb cables which come with random electronics which I feel bad just throwing in the trash but I know I’ll never need.

What’s the difference between smart tube and smatttubenext?

we promise we’ll use the inferior, proprietary connector

Fuck, let’s hope they at least allow screws. Click-in latches are prone to breaking and wearing out

the stupidest thing is iPad had USB-C since 2018! and yet on iPhones they latched on to lightning for another 6 years before EU forced them to standardize

You might like Unihertz Titan Pocket then

I use Google account calendar and tasks. On my phone I use Google Calendar and Tasks.org app, syncing both with Google account. On my computer I use Gnome Evolution for everything including email — in me experience it’s far more compatible with Google than Thunderbird.

I have several subcalendars: a personal one for events I add manually, one for holidays, one for birthdays and anniversaries (which is generated automatically basing on contacts data), one subscribed from Facebook events, one for film releases and one for garbage truck schedule. Only the personal one and garbage one are manual, all other are synchronised from someplace else

For tasks I use 3 lists: a personal one, one for university stuff (though I graduated so it’s sitting idle) and one for work tasks. The last one is only for stuff important enough to not keep it only on my work phone and Outlook, like sending in timesheet.

Yes I do differentiate between events and tasks because they have entirely different purposes.

Yes it makes sense very much to have a separate holiday calendar because you can easily sync it and not fill in holidays manually and also colour ccode it inside your calendar app

If I were to only use legal sources of media, then I would stick with either Apple TV or HBO Max (yeah it’s still called that where I live). Otherwise I recommend Cloudstream for Android TV

Hmm, why need dark mode in VLC? You launch a video file and watch it full screen anyway. Also, VLC has themes and last I checked there were couple of them which were sufficiently dark

noone ever does – Microsoft, Google and Facebook must be faking their reports on how effective their advertisement platforms are in order to boost their sales. the sales of ads, not the advertised products

Better than DDG or Bing, but worse than Google

But now they are photo realistic

It’s different in Poland, because we don’t normally use credit or debit cards for online purchases — we use Blik, which is a proprietary inter-bank payment system based on one-time tokens which are only valid for 2 minutes. You don’t give your card information to Amazon or wherever you make a purchase (also compatible with regular contactless card terminals in physical locations) to charge you themselves however much they feel like, but rather provide a one-time code, confirm the transaction on your phone and you’re charged immediately.

EDIT: oh and also it supports contactless payments via NFC on rooted phones so we got a workaround to Google messing with Gpay 8)