they do, but google play is the main distribution channel for android apps, and without that many people will not use it (and many will complain). from the actual announcement:
> without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance
American or old British recipes; ours are all metric now.
The exception is perhaps teaspoons/tablespoons, but those are trivial metric values (5ml and 15ml), so easy enough to scale and convert if you don't have the right measuring spoon handy.
Microwave with knobs: put food in and turn the knob to the time you want. maybe turn the power knob if necessary, and wait for the ding
Microwave with buttons: put food in, stare at the keypad for 30s looking for the "just f**ing microwave it" button, give up, start putting in a time, realise you need to put in a power first, work out the appropriate power in percent based on the excessive power of the microwave, put that in, figure out the expected format for the time (60 or 100 for one minute?), put that in, press start, wait for the interminable beeping, have to go and press a button to shut it up when you're busy with something else
An exaggeration, but most button microwaves have at least one wacky and annoying issue in their UI, and i've experienced all those problems separately. The panasonic inverter ones with a convection oven are worth tolerating just for the quick yet crispy baked potato option, though.
The actual standard (well, the previous version, BS 7666-1:2006) does contain that wording, but also says:
> Abbreviations and punctuation shall not be used unless they appear in the designated name, e.g. “Dr Newton’s Way”, and only single spaces shall be used.
Given that "alphanumeric" is vague, not defined, and prominently contradicted, I'd say it's quite clear that they can't really blame it on BS 7666.
The council probably have some horrible CSV-infested GIS workflow, and have decided to change reality to avoid the bugs.
Wasn't there some controversies around this before? I remember there was some talk of why Asahi Lina (anonymous vtuber working on Asahi Linux) can contribute code to Linux. From casual search: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg4888830.html
FWIW I like Asahi Lina, just trying to understand the discrepencies
Interesting. My understanding is that these projects don't allow anonymous contributions to make their copyright situation clear, so in theory if marcan42 sent a letter to the linux project saying that contributions from Asahi Lina are actually theirs, they might reasonably be fine with that.
It seems like this is how the ASF runs: you can be anonymous publicly, but you have to sign their CLA (or whatever they call it) properly.
To me, the people trying to unmask Asahi Lina are being simultaneously mean and silly. If it's so obvious that it's marcan42 doing a voice, do you really need to point it out? That's kind of the joke.
I'm not sure why the downvotes. That seems to be a statement of fact.
You can do a certain amount of identity obfuscation online but for anyone with a real professional profile you're generally not really anonymous if anyone really cares to find out your true name.
Me neither, i even provided a source, and it's easy to find other examples. There certainly are projects that allow anonymous contributions, but i doubt it's the majority of projects that one would consider important.
For these kinds of projects you could make up an identity relatively easily and nobody would know, but you're screwing over the project (as they may need to remove your contributions if they find out), so it's not something to be doing if you actually want to contribute (instead of inserting backdoors).
The original idea (not being able to contribute without a verified identity) is still wrong, but it's wrong because it's impractical to prove identity in a way that people find acceptable (and works), not because people will not give up anonymity, as many of the replies state.
There are people who downvote things that present facts that aren't in accordance with how they think the world should be.
I do think it's difficult to verify identity in any reasonably acceptable lightweight way. That said, for the larger projects I'm most familiar with, a lot of people work for companies, attend conferences, etc. They may go by nicknames day to day, but they have known real identities and their professional existence wouldn't be possible without one.
The flip-side of this is that there are so many activities that people do all the time that carry risk. Plenty of them are not really necessary, and create some risk for other people, and yet they are perfectly acceptable.
A good analogy is the use of candles. They are pointless and fundamentally dangerous, but some people like them. People who like them even think they are calming, which is a very bad reaction to an open flame from a risk-assessment point-of view.
If i knew my neighbour liked candles, i would hope that they are being safe and accept that they have a right to take socially-acceptable amounts of risk, not berate them on the internet.
I don't see how repairing battery-containing electronics is any different. Both are unnecessary, and both could turn a small mistake into a fire.
So, I'm quite happy replacing my own phone battery with reasonable precautions, but no, friend, you may not charge your sketchy e-bike in my hallway.
The level of risk that is acceptable is socially defined, and far from the black-and-white view that some people seem to have.
> So, I'm quite happy replacing my own phone battery with reasonable precautions, but no, friend, you may not charge your sketchy e-bike in my hallway.
Having myself witnessed a cell phone's battery go up when it was nicked during a removal, I'll take the candle a thousand times over one of those. But you know what you know.
Personally I just wouldn't fuck with re-manufactured batteries at all. Batteries should be new, from licensed factories, and they should be recycled in a way akin to car batteries so we don't lose all the lithium inside that's still perfectly good for another go-round in a new battery.
Yeah, i know the risk, that was my point. Given the difference in frequency (say, ~every day vs. ~once a year) and level of attention, the risk to others is at least comparable.
Given how popular DIY phone battery replacement is, you'd expect there to be at least a few incidents reported if it was a major risk, but I just don't see them. On the other hand london fire brigade reports 200 candle fires a year...
> stick with through-hole parts, if at all possible
These days it's more work to avoid SMD than it is to embrace it. Many many parts are not available in through-hole, and dealing with 0805 passives and 0.65mm pitch ICs is not that difficult (unless you assume that it is).
As a bonus, you get much easier re-work, access to assembly services, and cheaper components.
I think it is less of a problem than it used to be, but historically PTFE-lined hot ends have been prefered for budget machines because they are more forgiving if all you want to do is print PLA.
When everything is working right there should be no difference, but when things go wrong, not having plastic stuck to the heat break makes it more likely that a beginner can fix their own problem.
> without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance
https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...