Phones seem to optimize for the fastest network instead of network quality. At least on Android it's possible to manually override and select a network through the hidden settings menu accessible through the phone dialler. Just hit ##4636## and you're in.
Can you explain more provide a provide a link. This is the bane of my existence. My phone has two towers in range, one with essentially no signal and another one with four bars and it prefers the low signal Tower. It also prefers my home Wi-Fi even if I am taking a walk around the block. It is infuriating that I have a 50/50 chance of resolving a website like Hacker News with a flagship smartphone in the Bay Area
Yeah I have this issue with WiFi as well, every time I'm leaving my house I pull out my phone as I'm walking down the street to play music but I have to wait for the one bar of WiFi to disconnect
>WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, whose main social media service has been blocked in China since 2009.[208] In September 2017, security researchers reported to The New York Times that the WhatsApp service had been completely blocked in China.[209][210]
>According to Time, Sarsenbek Akaruli, 45, a veterinarian and trader from Ili, Xinjiang, was arrested in Xinjiang on November 2, 2017. As of November 2019, he is still in a detention camp. According to his wife Gulnur Kosdaulet, Akaruli was put in the camp after police found the banned messaging app WhatsApp on his cell phone. Kosdaulet, a citizen of neighboring Kazakhstan, has traveled to Xinjiang on four occasions to search for her husband but could not get help from friends in the Communist Party of China. Kosdaulet said of her friends, "Nobody wanted to risk being recorded on security cameras talking to me in case they ended up in the camps themselves."[211]
Are they still putting people in concentration camps for having an app on their phone?
From the graph in the article it is pretty evident that the margins are very low compared to other countries. This is a case of the government doing something that makes sense for the growth of the country rather than letting privately run companies make large profits.
We are also benefiting here in Africa. I have begun to see Indian solar panels being sold here and they tend to be the cheapest at my preferred online retailer.
Have you seen Atersa panels over there? It's a Spanish brand, someone told me that they were selling a lot of them in África, but didn't mention exactly where.
No I have not seen any Atersa panels in my neck of the woods. I do know there is Spanish involvement in a few solar farms being implemented in SA. I build the initial web site for this particular one[0].
There many solar panel retailers my goto one is this one[1]
Hmm, you're right, the indian ones seem to be the cheapest, even more than Jinko. IDK about Enersol, it looks like a spanish-made name but I can't find any info about it.
I asked you this because the spanish solar industry suffered a lot because of the Chinese competition. AFAIK Atersa was the only brand that remained producing in Spain, everyone else moved production to china.
You can't deduce that from the data in the article, so if you have another source do share. Most of India's capacity was built in the last 2 years [0] and almost all in the last 3. They might simply still be in some sort of build-and-spend phase and yet to sit back and start realising profits.
They are. Most of the large solar plants are being used for selling power as a service (via open-access) to other businesses.
Source: I was working in analytics for a solar power firm in the past
OpenStreetMaps is getting there. Heavily depends on the quality of maps in your area. For Youtube, you could use something like invidio.us or newpipe, which shows you only the channels that you have subscribed to.
OpenStreetMap actually seems quite excellent from a quick check. I've only glanced at it every now and then during the last few years (I used to contribute a bit back in around 2012) but now it actually seems awfully attractive compared to Google's/Apple's offerings - with all the annotations/coloring it actually looks like a real map!
Are there any good YouTube alternative front ends for Apple TV? I found a Plex plugin that might do the trick. Haven't tried it yet.
https://github.com/kolsys/YouTubeTV.bundle
You don't need to. Just use apps that do not need Google Play Services. F-Droid helps out with that. I don't miss anything since almost all services I need to use have very good mobile websites. I'm glad I'm not unknowingly sharing a bunch of my data with them.
If I could survive with just apps that don't need Google Play Services I would have seriously considered staying on Windows Phone despite security support ending in November.
We've lost the App War. I need multiple Apps that "need" Location Services and Push Notifications just to get what used to be hole punches or stamps on business cards for buy 10 get 1 free sandwiches in 2019.
Options like LineageOS and going without Google Play Services might as well be a "dumb phone" in current culture. It's an hilarious joke. Google realized all the real control in Android was in controlling Google Play Services, and as soon as that got locked down people should have been worried. Google wouldn't have had as much power to "kill" Windows Phone that they had if apps didn't matter.
(Fwiw, I went back to Apple as that unfortunately seemed the only sane choice to have Apps and some semblance of maybe Privacy.)
Fair point - I was on a plane and on landing saw the wing flap act in an unusual way (didn't fully open compared to other flap and seemed like it was limited/stuck on one edge and one end raised more than the other and down end shaking and wasn't what I'd seen on that type of boing before). I pointed this out to the staff, who thanked me. Might of been nothing, and not something you follow up or indeed, how you would follow up. But equally, may of been sign of something amiss.
>However, aviation regulator the European Aviation Safety Agency said [in reference to windowless planes]: "We do not see any specific challenge that could not be overcome to ensure a level of safety equivalent to the one of an aircraft fitted with cabin windows."
Don't they just need windows at emergency exits? Passengers are already supposed to await cabin crew instructions before they evacuate, and passengers probably aren't really that great at evaluating danger aside from the obvious signs like fire or being under water, but the exit door window would also tell you that.
Maybe, though such footage would be useful in a black-box for post-incident/post-flight analysis as a visual comparison to the recorded control/instruments - could only help.
Unpopular opinion here: Instagram ads are unobtrusive and easy to skip quickly.
Being unwilling to pay for a platform and simultaneously being unwilling to be shown any advertisements is unsustainable.
In the US, Facebook's revenue is $25 per user per quarter. That's $100 a year. Are you willing to pay the same or more than that just for access to their products?
YouTube Premium actually is a great example of how much that pricing ends up being: $11.99 a month.
I'm really hoping that Chat over IMAP picks up. I use Delta Chat every now and then with some journalists who have it installed, and it just makes so much sense. We already have everyone's mail ID's anyway. Or at least I thought so. In countries like India, a large number of people have skipped email and gone to phone based services. So for Chat over IMAP to succeed over here it would need to have phone number based matching cos people do not use their mail ID's at all. Everything gets done over whatsapp.
