Samsung, like many other Android manufacturers, hasn’t been the best about keeping their devices up-to-date. However, there has been a concerted effort as of late to right the ship.
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This just in-- Blix Electric Bikes have been reported to be seen flying through towns around the United States! Blix riders are able to lift off the ground using their pedal assist or throttles when riding. Riders can now take their riding to another level by pedaling through the sky and enjoying the views from above! Beating traffic has never been easier with a flying electric bike! Check out our latest blog on the 5 steps to flying on your Blix Bike this April!
5 Steps to Fly on your Blix:
Turn on your battery and display: make sure your battery is charged!
Choose your level of pedal assist: depending on how fast you want to go and how much exercise you are wanting, the different levels will either provide more or less support (level 0 being no assist at all).
Start pedaling on your desired path.
Keep pedaling until your front, then back tires leave the ground.
Fly on your Blix to your next destination: We recommend keeping a steady speed to maintain maximum flying distance! Also, follow all flying regulations in your area and wear proper protective gear (helmet and goggles).
Follow these 5 simple steps and you will be flying on your Blix e-bike in no time! Flight speed of 20 mph is recommended for fastest arrival. Are you ready to beat the traffic, gain a new perspective, and be active? Be sure to fly your Blix this spring!
APRIL FOOLS!!!!!
While Blix Riders are unable to actually take flight on their bikes, the pedal assist and throttle can definitely make you feel like you are flying through traffic, exploring farther, and reaching max activity levels! Plus, the 5 steps listed above (besides number 4) are great for starting your ride or learning how to operate an electric bike.
For the first time in nearly a year, the Baratza Virtuoso Coffee Grinder is on sale. This is the upgrade pick from our guide to the best coffee grinder. It’s normally $240, but Crate and Barrel has it for $190. The lowest price we’ve ever posted for it is $184, so if you’ve been waiting for a sale to start grinding your own beans or to upgrade from a hand grinder, this is an excellent opportunity.
As we explain in our guide, your grinder has a massive impact on the quality of your coffee: “If you’re currently brewing pre-ground coffee (which is quickly going stale from the minute it’s ground), or using a subpar grinder (especially a budget, blade-style grinder), switching to a reliable burr grinder will significantly improve the flavor of your cup.”
Even at this sale price, the Virtuoso is still $50 more than our main pick, the Baratza Encore Coffee Grinder. According to our review, “the Baratza Virtuoso is a nearly identical grinder to the Encore, but it has a slightly speedier burr set, a timer-switch on the side, and a heavier base that helps the grinder stay in calibration.” We go on to note: “In a previous version of this guide, the Virtuoso was our top pick, but in more recent testing, we found the grind consistency comparable to that of the Encore. So, since you’re paying more for the features rather than the performance, we think it’s worth the investment only for serious coffee lovers.”
At $190, the Baratza Virtuoso Coffee Grinder qualifies for free shipping from Crate and Barrel, or you might be able to pick it up in-store, depending on your location. It’s an excellent choice for “a power-user—someone who intends to grind a lot of coffee every day and really puts their machinery to the test.” If that doesn’t sound like you, consider our main pick or our budget pick, or switch to decaf.
Wages in Germany will rise on average 3.1 percent this year, the most in four years, reflecting a strong labour market marked by record-low unemployment buff.ly/2LFGGZvpic.twitter.com/p2oElPc4fq
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ottocrat
on Monday, April 1st, 2019 5:04pm
To point out here too: Having them in parliament the way they are they are on display for all to see. They can’t just snipe from the sidelines claiming how things would be better if only they’d be elected.
Does that at times make things uncomfortable because you have to share a room with people you don’t want to? Yep. But nobody has ever said that democracy is comfortable (nor should it be).
@iainmartin1 Actually the AfD are a great example of how German democracy is functional and British democracy isn’t. The AfD have a voice, but are contained. The UK’s far right has effectively taken over the entire national political agenda.
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ottocrat
on Monday, April 1st, 2019 9:19pm
No, this isn't an article from 2009, though it could be. But yes, it's still true in 2019, though we're more likely to see that today than we were back then. So what happened to RSS? Google killed its reader, Microsoft tried its own format, Apple tried to own podcasting, and the social network services didn't cooperate with each other. And so we got following and retweeting and all the rest of the schoolyard shenanigans we see in online media today.
Nick Boles says "I've given everything in an attempt to find a compromise. I accept I have failed. I have failed chiefly because my party refuses to compromise. I regret therefore to announce I can no longer sit for this party."
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on Monday, April 1st, 2019 9:13pm
It was like the final scene of Reservoir Dogs. Each of the Brexit political tribes held a gun up to the other and shouted at them, preventing any one idea from securing a majority.
They killed everything: a customs union, the single market, a People's Vote and even the ability to keep no-deal off the table.
There were four motions put forward in the indicative vote debate tonight - the latest event at which MPs wrestle control of the parliamentary timetable from the government and try to find an alternative to Theresa May's stale plan. If any one of them could secure a majority, it could act as a battering ram forcing the prime minister to give ground.
Ken Clarke put forward a motion on customs union membership. Fellow Tory MP Nick Boles put down one on single market membership. Labour MP Peter Kyle authored one on a People's Vote. And SNP MP Joanna Cherry tried to replace no-deal with a revocation vote.
In a bizarre turn-around, only the Labour party acted with any pragmatism. It was still not ready to support the Cherry amendment, but it did swing behind Boles' motion. It was the first time the party had backed a specific single market proposal - a crucial moment in its evolution on the issue. They also whipped in favour of Clarke and Kyle, despite reservations in the party against a referendum.
Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer recognised that the indicative votes process, if it is to succeed, required pragmatism. He had pushed that on his party and then he pushed it on the Commons as a whole. "I recognise many members have a single preferred option and understandably want to push that option," he said. "No one wants to stand in the way of that. But I do urge colleagues to enter into the spirit of the exercise we're now engaged in and that means supporting options other than their own preferred option."
It wasn't to be. Everyone else, apart from arguably the SNP, acted like zealots, unable to even lend their support to other options. They were engaged in a mass act of self-harm. There was no excuse for it at all. They were not limited to one vote. They could select as many options as they liked. And still they could not support one another.
People's Vote MPs in Labour, the Liberal Democrats and The Independent Group - an organisation literally based on the principle of working together across tribal divisions - refused to back the customs union or single market motions. It was an insane way to behave. They were failing to reduce the damage of Brexit in a desperate attempt to operate a 'last man standing' strategy which was arrogant before and now started to look downright irresponsible.
The Soft Brexit lot were no better. Clarke backed the single market proposal but wouldn't support a second referendum. Boles tried to get Labour and Tory MPs on side by saying that his plan could be delivered by a May exit date without realising that by doing so he alienated supporters of a second referendum, who knew they could not hold a campaign by then.
When the results came in, it was a shocking indictment of the political class as a whole. Clarke's motion failed by 273 votes to 276. Boles failed by 261 votes to 282. Kyle by 280 to 292. Each and every one of them could have passed if the critics of the government's Brexit plan worked together. They utterly failed.
After the results were read out, Boles finally lost his patience. In a stunning moment of parliamentary drama, the Tory moderniser gave up on his lifelong project. "I've given everything in an attempt to find a compromise," he told a packed House of Commons. "I accept I have failed. I have failed chiefly because my party refuses to compromise. I regret therefore to announce I can no longer sit for this party."
And with that, he stood up and walked away from the Tory benches, literally crossing the floor of the House. A voice beside him exclaimed: "Oh Nick. Nick don't go, come on".
Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay acted as if he was somehow triumphant. He made it clear the government would seek to put its deal before the Commons again this week.
But of course the government was even more pitiful and vapid than everyone else. First, it had tried to kill the indicative vote process by whipping against it. Then, when that failed, it ordered MPs on the government payroll to abstain. If you add that vote onto the numbers we saw tonight for any of the three leading options, they'd have succeeded.
Self-inflicted defeat. Puritanism over pragmatism. The cancer in the Brexit movement now fully on display among those who oppose it.
The germ of this failure was in Remain and Soft Brexit organisations from the very beginning, when Norway supporters would attack People's Vote campaigners for being naive and People's Vote campaigners would accuse Norway supporters of being traitors.
The vast majority of Remainers and Brexit critics do not think like this. They will take whatever looks most achievable at the time. People's Vote if possible, Norway if it isn't. Try and get your ideal outcome, but make sure you can always opt for a least-bad one if that fails.
And it's not as if Norway has nothing to recommend it. It would preserve Britain's economic life mostly as is. It would secure free movement, thereby protecting millions of Europeans in the UK and Brits in Europe. That is a big deal, but apparently not a big enough deal for the people who could not bring themselves to even lend it their support this evening.
The same was true of Soft Brexiters, who could not accept the obvious moral argument that their vision of Brexit was so plainly different to that sold to voters in 2016 that it would require a vote to ensure it had the support of the public
Neither side would budge, so they both ended up losing. It was a betrayal of the millions of people, far more pragmatic than those in parliament, who need protection from the insane assault the government is inflicting on the country.
The only flicker of hope now lies with events on Wednesday. Oliver Letwin, the author of this process, has secured the timetable for another day of indicative votes. It is the last chance saloon. He will need to find an alternate voting system - operating on a preference basis - to try and sift out MPs' least-bad selections from their ideal ones.
But it is up to parliamentarians too. They have seen tonight the damage they've done when they behave as puritanically as the ERG. There is one more chance for them to show a more sensible disposition.
If not, then it ends like Reservoir Dogs: with everyone bleeding out on the floor. They need to wise up - fast - and stop behaving in the manner they criticise their enemies for.
A pop-up restaurant where diners enjoy three-course meals inside heated glass domes has opened beneath Toronto's Gardiner Expressway less than a month after the city tore down a homeless encampment under the same highway.
Called Dinner With a View, people can pay $149 to rent a life-sized terrarium at the Bentway, a public space under the Gardiner in the city's west end. For an additional $99 per patron, guests get a dinner by Top Chef season 4 winner Rene Rodriguez.
The company bills it as "a luxurious dining experience in a highly unexpected setting." But anti-poverty activist Yogi Acharya calls it "an obscene spectacle."
The installation is two kilometres from where city crews demolished a homeless camp under the Gardiner at Lake Shore Boulevard West and Lower Simcoe Street on March 13. Eviction notices have also been delivered to six other camps at different locations under the expressway.
Dinner With a View did not respond to As It Happens' request for comment.
'The brazenness of the wealthy'
"The city cleared out homeless people who are living under the Gardiner with no heat. They were evicted. Meanwhile, pop-up restaurants serving ritzy dinners in heated domes under that same highway are granted permits," Acharya, an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), told As It Happens host Carol Off.
"Such brazenness, from my perspective, begs a challenge and we're happy to oblige."
Brad Ross, the city of Toronto's chief communications officer, said there was a lot of debris in the encampment under the Gardiner Expressway. (Paul Smith/CBC)
That's why OCAP is organizing its own three-course meal right next to the installation in full view of the domed diners.
The food will be prepared by volunteers and served for free. They're calling it "Dinner With a View — of the Rich."
"Our chefs haven't won any TV shows, but they do win at human decency," Acharya said.
"We're going to eat, we're going to be lively and we're going to take in the view of the brazenness of the wealthy and the brutality of our city."
A brutal winter
Acharya says Dinner With a View's timing is particularly offensive after what he descries as a brutal winter for the city's homeless, with a shortage of shelter spaces forcing folks to sleep on the streets in frigid weather.
"These are tragic circumstances under which people are dying and wholly preventable circumstances under which people are dying," Acharya said.
Yogi Acharya is an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. (Alan Pike/Submitted by Yogi Acharya)
He said it also adds insult to injury that the installation is a stone's throw from the Fort York Armoury — a space that homeless advocates have long begged the city to turn into a shelter.
"While the city refuses to open up the armouries, it is willing to put up spectacles such as this — and that is not something that we're willing to be desensitized to," Acharya said.
Acharya says he welcomes any of the people inside the terrariums on Friday night to come join OCAP's meal instead.
"Instead of partaking in these ostentatious displays of wealth, come join the fight for housing and shelter," he said.
"The food may not be as luxurious, but it will taste better being among people who are willing to fight for all of us to have housing."
Written by Sheena Goodyear. Interview with Yogi Acharya produced by Jeanne Armstrong.
I know lots of people are very anxious to see Mozilla’s new code-review tool. It’s been a harrowing journey, but we are finally knocking out our last few blockers for initial deployment (see tracking bug 1021929). While we sort those out, here’s something to whet your palate: a walk through the new review work flow.
People will die if Doug Ford's government doesn't reverse its decision to stop funding some safe injection sites, said Toronto's Medical Officer of Health on Monday, but the premier said he also has to listen to residents who don't want the sites in their "backyard."
"These are life-saving services," said Dr. Eileen de Villa on CBC's Metro Morning. "So when you take them away, I fully anticipate that more people will die."
Meanwhile, Premier Doug Ford pointed to "upset" Cabbagetown residents when asked why his government is limiting the number of overdose prevention sites in Ontario.
The government shocked service providers on Friday, announcing that some sites in Toronto would no longer get funding and had to close a couple days later.
"It's all right for people to say, 'Yes help 'em, help 'em," Ford said in Etobicoke Monday morning, referring to people who use drugs and the supervised sites set up to prevent them from overdosing.
"But with all due respect ... if I put one beside your house, you'd be going ballistic," the premier said at a news conference about his government's move to scrap the province's Drive Clean program.
'Funded through bake sales'
The two defunded Toronto sites were given a last-minute federal exemption to stay open another month, but will no longer receive provincial money, said Coun. Joe Cressy.
The Works, a large city-run site site by Yonge-Dundas Square, is on hold because it's still under review.
This means "we have life-saving healthcare programs that will be funded through bake sales," said Cressy, chair of Toronto's board of health, at a news conference Monday.
Toronto's mayor, councillors and the city's medical officer of health have condemned the decision, but Ford suggested to reporters on Monday that some downtown residents support the changes.
Dr. Eileen de Villa says the opioid crisis is the 'defining' health crisis of our time. (CBC)
When asked why he was eliminating sites, Ford talked about a "great conversation with the Cabbagetown association" on Sunday where people expressed concern about several sites in the same neighbourhood.
"They told me last night on the phone ... there's four safe injection sites within a kilometre," Ford said, who did not clarify whether he was talking about the Cabbagetown Residents Association or the local BIA.
"They don't want 'em down there."
Ford said he believes in listening to neighbourhoods, and "they're upset."
Sites have saved hundreds of lives
More than 1,200 people died from opioid-related overdoses in Ontario in 2017, according to Public Health Ontario. More than 600 people died from overdoses in the first half of 2018, the most recent data available shows.
Overdose prevention sites have already saved hundreds of lives. The Works had more than 40,000 visits since August 2017, de Villa said. During that time, they've reversed around 750 overdoses.
The opioid crisis is the "defining health crisis of our time," Dr. de Villa repeated. "Now is not the time to be withdrawing services."
Supervised injection sites have already saved hundreds of lives, says Toronto's medical officer of health. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)
'Not in my backyard'
Ford said he's "passionate" about helping people with addictions and wants to prevent opioid-related deaths. He called the number of deaths "unacceptable" and said his priority was getting people into treatment.
But, he said, "there's really no reason to have four sites within a kilometre of one neighbourhood."
'It's ok, help em, but 'not in my backyard,'" Ford said. "That's the reality of things."
A spokeswoman for Health Minister Christine Elliott said proximity to other treatment sites was just one of the criteria used in reviewing the sites.
The province also looked at commitment to community outreach, compliance with accessibility laws and whether they offered "integrated, wrap-around health and social services," said Hayley Chazan.
The province said it had approved 15 sites across Ontario and "will continue to accept applications from interested organizations."
The aim of the newly approved facilities, to be called "consumption and treatment services" sites, is to ensure those struggling with drug addiction can get supports that include rehabilitation as well as a safe place to use their drugs, it said.
Closing one site with 60% women
St. Stephen's Community House in Kensington Market and Street Health's Overdose Prevention Site by Dundas and Sherbourne both lost provincial funding.
Kapri Rubin, executive director of Street Health, said the site is in a high-need community that has the second-most paramedic calls in the city.
In addition, Rubin said, 60 per cent of their clients are women.
Kapri Rubin, executive director of Street Health, says their defunded overdose prevention site at Dundas and Sherbourne is in a high-need neighbourhood with a large proportion of clients who are women. (CBC)
Operators of Ontario's overdose prevention sites issued an open letter to Elliott on Monday, condemning the decision not to fund all of the previously approved sites and calling on the government to reverse its position or at least support a "three-month transition phase."
"Without any transition plan in place, the 15 sites that were approved to continue operating do not have the immediate capacity and/or geographic proximity to the closed sites to take on the influx of clients that will no longer be able to access harm reduction services," the letter reads.
As the automotive market turns to a future full of self-driving and connected cars, it begs the questions: what do we do while we wait?
There’s currently no definitive timeline when this future will arrive, so for now, people in the market for a new car have a few options. These range from standard vehicles with traditional features, to more advanced cars that include modern semi-autonomous driving functions and advanced safety features.
Acura has added its AcuraWatch driver assistance safety features to the RDX. This includes ‘Adaptive Cruise Control,’ ‘Forward Collision Warning’ and lane-assisted driving. These features mean that the vehicle has an SAE-Level two autonomous driving system.
The trim I tested also has a 360-degree camera system that’s perfect for maneuvering the vehicle in tight spots.
As I mentioned, the RDX has AcuraWatch safety features like Lane Keeping Assist System and Adaptive Cruise Control, which means that the car is an SAE-Level two autonomous-vehicle.
SAE is the Society of Automotive Engineers. It has devised a six-unit scale for ranking various levels of autonomous vehicles.
Adaptive Cruise Control and lane assist alone make the car feel like it can drive itself in certain situations.
Adaptive Cruise Control is a feature that’s been around since the late 90s, and it works incredibly well here. Once activated, you can set your desired top speed and how far you want to stay behind the car ahead of you.
If the car ahead of you stops due to heavy traffic, the RDX stops as well and then cautiously moves along with the traffic until it has an opportunity to reach your pre-set top speed again.
Combining this function with the Lane Keeping Assist System allows the vehicle to control itself on the highway at speeds between 75km/h and 145km/h.
The system uses a camera on the front of the vehicle near the rearview mirror to pick up the lines on the road and then apply torque to keep the car within them if it starts to drift.
The car can use this system on minimally curved roads, but you need to steer for moderately sharp corners. Lane assist doesn’t work when you have the windshield running continuously or if the vehicle is in Snow Mode.
You can tell when lane assist is on or off with a simple icon on the dashboard that represents the lines on the road. When it’s enabled, the two lines are solid white. When it’s turned off, the lines appear as outlines, as shown below.
The system disables itself slowly if it detects that the driver isn’t keeping their hands on the wheel.
During my tests, after 30 seconds of hands-free driving, the vehicle chimed and flashed a warning on the screen. After a minute, it chimed repeatedly and flashed the alert for an extended period. At the next 30-second mark, the car does it again and then slowly turns off the lane assist, forcing the driver to put their hands on the wheel.
Two proprietary buttons activate adaptive Cruise Control and the Lane Keeping Assist System on the right side of the steering wheel.
The longest drive I did with the car was to St. Catherines, Ontario from Toronto and then back. On the way there, the weather was so bad that I kept the car in Snow Mode most of the time. This is one of the RDX’s five driving modes.
In this mode, the vehicle uses a gentler driving profile aimed at maintaining traction.
During the storm and the morning after I noticed high snowbanks and heavy snow seemed to trigger the object detection sensors. Which eventually resulted in me having to turn them off when navigating through tight streets and parking lots.
If you own a car like this, it’s worthwhile to learn where the sensors are on the vehicle so you can clean them off in the winter.
The next day on the way home the weather was clear, but there were a few small snow drifts on the edges of the highway. The RDX was able to run both Adaptive Cruise and lane assist during a vast majority of the drive.
Acura added in a Forward Collision Mitigation Braking System that works in three stages. During the first stage, a warning appears on the screen and the car plays a warning chime.
If the driver doesn’t react, the vehicle keeps sending visual and audio warnings, and it begins to apply pressure to the brakes.
If the driver still doesn’t engage with the vehicle, it applies the full power of the breaks and continues with visual and audio warnings. This is standard on all trim levels except for the base model. The vehicle has a millimetre wave sensor inside of the front logo and the forward-facing camera to monitor for obstructions.
All trims except the base model also have Blind Spot Assist and Rear Cross Traffic Monitoring, which means it uses the Blind Spot Detection sensors to look for objects as you’re reversing.
There are four cameras on the vehicle; a rearview camera, two side cameras under the mirror and a backup cam. All four of these angles together provide a 360-degree view around the car when you’re reversing.
Combining that bird’s eye view with the parking sensors, it makes parking the RDX easier than my much smaller Jetta which only has a single backup camera.
Not all trims of the RDX have this function though. Only the Tech, A-SPEC, Elite and Platinum Elite trims come with a parking sensor feature that employs eight sensors on the vehicle. Four in the front, and four in the rear.
The future isn’t quite here yet, but what we do have is a nice step forward
I enjoyed the driver assistance features on the Acura RDX. While they may not be as advanced as Tesla’s Autopilot, they still offer a very comfortable and relaxing driving experience on long drives that include stretches of highway.
The best part about these features is the simple matter of not having to be laser-focused on keeping the car between the lines. It’s hard to explain, but that fatigue that hits after a long drive doesn’t seem as bad when the car kind of drives itself.
Also, the fact that the vehicle slows down and can crawl along with stop and go traffic is something I miss every time I’m in traffic. It’s the one feature that I can’t recommend enough.
So while I asked at the beginning of the article, “what do we do while we wait for futuristic cars?” I’d now say that buying a car with SAE Level two self-driving features is very worth it because it made my cruise from St. Catherines back home more comfortable and easier than any driving experience I’ve had before.
Grand Dawdlers —
Last week I announced an upcoming walk across a big chunk of Japan. Towards the end I asked for your help: What do you want to see from the walk? How should I best capture it?
Oodles of you wrote in with excellent advice. Yes, even you, guy who made me laugh uncomfortably by writing, “just fucking walk.” Adding, “Thoreau woundn’t have given. A rat’s ass about what type of watch to wear.
One of the problems we face with running distance education courses is how to post corrections to online course materials… You might think this is just a case of issuing a fix, right? But it’s often not that easy.
In the days of print, books would be printed and as errata were identified they were added to a list of errata that students could print off and were encouraged to use to manually update their own copy of the materials.
In the web world, we can either fix the materials and not tell anyone, fix the materials and post a list of fixes we’ve made, or just post a list of fixes and then expect students to somehow realise that the weirdly worded, doesn’t make sense sentence on a particular URL is actually a typo and that they should look to the errata list to see if a correction has been posted.
You might think that just fixing the materials is the best route, but with students reading materials at different rates, as well as forward and backward referencing materials as they study, if we change materials whilst a course is in presentation, we run the risk of confusing students who remember reading something that has since disappeared from the materials.
Personally, I think we should feel free to change materials whilst the course is in presentation, but also put a faint coloured background on material that has changed since the course material went live and that will pop up a history of changes, as well as the original copy, associated with that update. We should highlight diffs, in other words, and make it easy to compare the current version with any previous version. And allow searching into the original, changed text, highlighting that it has been updated.
(Yes, I know…. this gets difficult if changes are over multiple pages. But for simple changes within a page, IT’S NOT HARD.)
Something else we have to cope with are broken links. I’ve argued before that we should be creating archived copies of links to materials that we refer to from course content (see Name (Date) Title, Available at: URL (Accessed: DATE): So What? and Fragment – Virtues of a Programmer, With a Note On Web References and Broken URLs , for example) but each year we address issues in the forums relating to the same URL as last year being broken in the same way it was the year before because an update never made it into master or the target page has moved again. Automating link checking and putting in place archived link replacements is a simple thing to fix and something we keep not doing. Year on year.
We use forums as one channel for students to post issues they’ve found with particular content. If we fix an issue inline in our content, and don’t highlight the fix/diff, then the student’s post is just confusing if someone clicks through on it, looking for one thing and finding another.
So how can we keep forum posted links in synch with content. Checking the Jupyter discoure site just now, where I’d posted a link as part of a response to another post, I noted the bots had quickly got to work:
The link I posted — to a particular file referenced on the current master branch of a particular Git repository — was automatically updated to a fully referenced, persistent link to the file. If the master branch is changed and the file I’m referencing is deleted from it, the link still works. There is a downside though, in that if the file is updated, my link will still be to the original version (whereas my intent might be to be to link to the most current version).
Whatever.
The point I’m trying to flag is that outside of education, folk are thinking about how bots can help keep web sites running and putting them to work to that effect. They see websites as their business and make it their business to ensure those websites are, and keep, performing as best they can.
As I’ve posted before (Fragmentary Thoughts on Data (and “Analytics”) in Online Distance Education), I think we tend to avoid the fact that as a distance education organisation, we are in large part JUST a web publisher and should focus on doing that bit right rather than telling our students they’re wrong…
This is a review of JISC's learning analytics service which went live last summer. What have they learned? For one thing, "worries about staff and student reactions to learning analytics often melt away when consultation and communication are done openly and well." Also, "far from being overly cautious, students may well prove to be an ally in this new space as they see the benefits that analytics can help us to provide."
HubSpot products failed for much of last Thursday. (Since today is April Fools’ Day, I want to emphasize — this is over, but it really did happen.) The company’s apology email was sufficiently straightforward, clear, and contrite that two different people sent it me with complimentary notes. So let’s take a look at what HubSpot … Continued
Apple's TV app is getting a makeover, and just in time for its expansion to smart TVs and third-party streaming devices. The new app is coming first, of course, to Apple's own hardware: the Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad will be updated in May with the new TV experience; the Mac will follow this fall.
I've used Apple's TV app as my primary video hub since it launched in late 2016, so I was eager to get my hands on the updated app. Fortunately, I didn't have to wait long – an early version of the new TV app is available now as part of the iOS 12.3 and tvOS 12.3 beta releases. Here are full details on all the ways it's new and improved.
Channels
Originally, the TV app was built as a hub that integrated with external video apps to launch and track their content from a single location. While it did add value as a dedicated launcher and universal queue, there was lots of unnecessary friction innate to TV's approach. You would have to download and configure each video app separately; many video apps would use their own custom players, which was never a good thing; finally, when you finished watching something, you would land not in the TV app, but in the browsing interface of the app you were just using. The first version of the TV app was still useful, but it was hamstrung by giving too much control to third-party services. That changes entirely with channels in the new TV app.
Channels give Apple and the TV app full control of the user experience. While the existing app-based integrations will continue to live on inside TV, for services that are on board with channels, such as HBO, Showtime, and CBS All-Access, there's a much better TV experience to be found.
Currently the beta version of the new TV app includes just a few of the channels services that will ultimately be available upon launch, but these handful of options provided a sufficient testing ground to try out channels.
Watching content via channels takes just a couple taps. On my iPhone I hit the 'Try It Free' button for Tastemade, authenticated via Face ID to confirm my subscription with free trial, then a new section was immediately added to my Watch Now tab: 'Featured on Tastemade.' From here I could find any show that looked interesting and play it directly in the TV app.
I signed up for Tastemade from the main Watch Now screen, but presumably in the future it will be easy to sign up for channels by first finding a show that looks interesting. For example, right now Showtime is available as a featured channel in TV, but when I select Billions and hit 'Play,' I'm prompted to download the Showtime app. I'm guessing before the beta cycle is up, that behavior will be changed to prompt a Showtime subscription directly inside of TV.
Even in this early version of channels, the new TV feature delivers not only in providing an easier setup flow, but also in granting a better watching experience. Videos play directly in TV, which means they load faster than before, and they support the default tvOS and iOS video players, offering a consistent experience no matter what you're watching. One of the perks of the default player is that, on the iPad, you're going to get Picture in Picture support for all channels content – a feature that's hit and miss with third-party apps.
Another key channels feature is the ability to download any content offline on your iPhone and iPad. When I viewed show pages for Tastemade content, each episode included a cloud icon to download offline. The feature didn't work in this early beta, but when it's ready for prime time it will serve as a valuable differentiator for channels. Unfortunately, but perhaps unsurprisingly, the ability to download videos offline is nowhere to be found on tvOS; it appears to be iOS-exclusive.
Personalized Recommendations
For the first time, the TV app is adding personalized recommendations. One place you'll find these is in the new For You section of Watch Now, which includes show and movie recommendations based on your viewing history. Unlike in Apple Music and News, there's no way to like or dislike suggestions to train Apple's recommendation system, but perhaps that will come in time.
In addition to For You, the Watch Now screen contains other sections dedicated to recommending content similar to specific shows or movies you've watched. These are just like Netflix's 'Because you watched' sections, collecting an assortment of recommendations that relate in some way to an individual show or movie.
New Design
If you used the previous TV app, the new one will feel entirely familiar. The basic layout is largely the same, with some tweaks to content cards, a reorganized tab structure, and finally a new browsing feature on Apple TV.
New (left) vs. old (right).
Apple has changed up the way content is displayed when browsing the TV app. Previously, movies were featured as vertical rectangles that resembled the shape of a film poster, while TV shows were displayed as squares. Now, that distinction between content types no longer exists in visual form. Aside from certain featured content that may be displayed differently, most every movie and TV show you'll find is displayed as a rounded horizontal rectangle. Despite this removing the ability to easily distinguish between shows and movies, I think it's a positive change on all devices because of the way it optimizes screen real estate to fit the most content on-screen at once.
Movies and Search comparison (new on left, old on right).
On Apple TV, navigation of the app is done via a menu at the top of the screen that includes Watch Now, Movies, TV Shows, Sports, Kids, Library, and Search. On iOS, where a tabbed interface is employed, the only three tabs are now Watch Now, Library, and Search, while the Movies, TV Shows, Sports, and Kids screens can all be accessed from the top of Watch Now via a new navigation header. None of these screens are entirely new to the app, they've simply been reorganized in the navigation structure.
The tvOS version of the app features an exclusive new browsing feature, where you can swipe through videos in a collection with horizontal swipes on the Siri Remote. This feature was demoed on-stage at last week's event, where it was presented as the modern equivalent of channel surfing. The main thing about the feature that stood out to me during that demo, however, was the auto-playing Aquaman trailer. Yes, Apple is introducing auto-playing trailers to the new TV app, but no, it's not as bad as you may fear.
Unlike Netflix, where trailers start playing almost instantly as you browse them in the main app interface, in the TV app auto-playing trailers are limited to this full-screen browsing experience where you cycle through films one at a time; browsing titles from inside the main interface of the TV app won't cause trailers to play, you have to first open the detail view of a video, and even then there's a ~5-second delay before a trailer kicks off, which in practice feels much better to me than Netflix's timing. While personally I'd prefer no auto-playing trailers at all, especially since trailers in a film's detail view are already prominent and easily accessible, by limiting auto-play to the detail view and implementing the 5-second delay, Apple has mitigated the annoyances of auto-play almost entirely. One nice detail worth noting: after a trailer starts playing, you can swipe up on the Siri Remote to view the trailer in fullscreen.
A few other miscellaneous redesign details:
While some thought Apple's on-stage demo of the TV app featured a new color scheme, Apple was simply using the Dark appearance already available in tvOS; a Light appearance remains available as before. There's no dark mode on iOS, but that may change later this year with iOS 13.
News options like ABC News, CNN, and Cheddar have been removed from Watch Now and added to the TV Shows screen.
Watch Now on iOS now features your Apple user profile in the top-right corner, similar to the App Store and Apple Music. This houses a quick way to view your current subscriptions, plus a list of all video apps currently integrated with TV, which you can toggle on or off; this list was previously available inside Settings.
Apple has made meaningful improvements to the TV app, particularly with the addition of channels and the consistent experience they provide. If you haven't tried the app before, or you quickly gave up on its first version, Apple is hoping you'll give TV another try. The new app will be the exclusive home of Apple's forthcoming TV+ service, so if you plan to check out the company's original content, now's a good time to get familiar with Apple's app. Despite its defects – namely, no Netflix integration and limited channels options – I think it delivers the most compelling unified TV experience available today.
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Apple keep insisting that only a 'small number of customers have problems' with the MacBook keyboards. That's bollocks. This is a huge issue, it's getting worse not better, and Apple is missing the forest for the trees.
Today this was so real as an aggressive driver knocked me over while I was biking to work. I’m in the hospital right now. getting X-rays. I still am in shock that a driver did something like this. Thx to all who cared for me after the car knocked me over.https://t.co/HOTrtffG4N
It is a bit of a 21st century thing~when a city hall staffer looks like they had been in a bar fight it usually is the result of a bike crash.. But it was extremely troubling news when the City of Vancouver’s transportation manager Dale Bracewell who was cycling to work from the north shore took the full brunt of road rage from a driver who sped off after knocking Dale off his bike.
Dale Bracewell is simply a nice guy and his kids’ dad as well as doing a lot of work advocating for safer streets for cyclists in Vancouver. Dale took to Twitter on Thursday morning stating
“Today this was so real as an aggressive driver knocked me over while I was biking to work,I’m in the hospital right now getting x-rays. I still am in shock that a driver did something like this. Thanks to all who cared for me after the car knocked me over.”
Dale also did the right thing by not describing what happened but contacting the Vancouver Police Department and ICBC ( Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) to immediately follow-up. And that driver who left the scene after knocking Dale off his bicycle is responsible for Dale’s fractured elbow.
Dale is an enthusiastic cyclist and bikes the talk about Vancouver’s transportation policies. There has been an outpouring of support for Dale’s quick recovery and quite frankly that motorist who deliberately crashed into Dale is hauling around a lot of negative karma. While this incident is indeed unfortunate it does advance the conversation about the importance of correctly barricaded and separated cycling lanes, advancing good driver education and encouraging heavy penalties for drivers who crash into cyclists.
On behalf of the editors in Price Tags, we wish Dale a speedy recovery and many correctly separated bike lanes in his cycling future.
If you’ve ever wondered why the most overconfident embarrassments in the headlines and in your life are so frequently young, posh and male, wonder no more. It’s a thing. Bullshit can be packaged in so many ways, but it frequently comes in a certain form. According to a new study from University College London, young men who come from advantaged backgrounds are more likely to be bullshitters. That is, they believe they’re smarter, stronger and all-round better than they actually are.He could sniff out insecurity like a truffle-hunting pig, and play with it until hard-working colleagues cried
If you’re balking at the results from Prof John Jerrim and Nikki Shure’s survey of 40,000 15-year-olds, just chew on the details. “We found that male participants were much more likely to bullshit about their knowledge,” says Jerrim. Shure adds: “Unsurprisingly, they are also more likely to believe they are popular at school.” Look back through your life and recall how many people you’ve known like this who have actually been called on their bullshit and forced to reflect and grow from it, how rare that it is.
Because when bullshitting doesn’t result in, say, Billy McFarland’s Fyre festival, it can pay off big time. Self-belief, no matter how misapplied and misjudged, is a major part of success. It’s what gets you to the dance, they say, even when you’ve got a shitty moonwalk. Low self-worth can get you stuck outside in the cold.
Imposter syndrome, the warped mirror-image of bullshitting, affects two-thirds of working women in the UK. This negative self-sabotage also affects men, but there are reasons why women still make up such a small percentage of politicians, business leaders and world influencers. It’s not all to do with low confidence, of course, considering for example the socioeconomic imbalance and patriarchal structures we’re up against. But believing you don’t have what it takes to change that doesn’t help.
If you’re one of those with a continuous nagging doubt in your abilities and every win comes with “you were lucky” self-admonishment, seeing bullshitters succeed is a torment. I once knew someone from the young-posh-male mould – who I’ll call Hal, because he had the sociopathic drone of the computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and I was trapped working with him for way … too … long. He sold himself as someone who could turn companies around with his knowledge of the market and business acumen. What he actually had was a mediocre work history mitigated by the arrogance that comes from a safety net of rich parents and an Eton education. Basically, he would be considered a real catch for the majority of modern workplaces, because this is how the world works.
If someone presents themselves convincingly as A Big Deal, many will automatically believe them. Hal’s directions often made no sense, his attitude was condescending and cruel, and the breath that wafted from his on-trend hipster beard smelt like eggs Benedict gone bad. But the conviction he spoke with – that was irresistible. He could sniff out insecurity like a truffle-hunting pig, and play with it until hard-working and worthwhile colleagues cried in meetings or started to disassociate at their desk. He’d smirk, while we doubted ourselves. Hal truly believed he was impressive – he was so full of delusion that he didn’t even think he needed a regular oral hygiene routine.
Women who can block out those little “you can’t do that” thoughts can get far in a global workplace that too often values confidence over proven skill and results. Elizabeth Holmes did it for a while with the Theranos scam. Miley Cyrus is still out there doing … whatever she’s doing now. But this society is still quicker to reward the young, rich and male. And if you live in a world so quick to forgive, support, and trust you, is it so surprising that you grow up with a head so full of bullshit?
As I have previously written “Environment and Climate Change Canada’s statement to the Canadian Environment Assessment Agency clearly outlined the catastrophic impact of a new terminal eradicating this sandpiper feeding area… finally, Environment Canada has come out with a definitive statement that should stop this project in its tracks.”
That 2 to 3 billion dollar Terminal 2 would also mean creating a reclaimed paved over industrial island of 108 hectares (266 acres) west of the existing Deltaport, supposedly in water deep enough not to impact the sensitive migratory bird and intertidal habitat.
So the good news was that Global Container Terminal who leases the docks from Deltaport had stated that the Terminal 2 complex proposed at Roberts Bank was “outmoded and no longer viable.” But of course GCT has now dropped their new manifesto, and you can kind of see where they are going in the following words:
“It is GCT’s view that the long-term sustainability of our gateway is only achievable through careful terminal design that reflects a modern, innovative, and a more sustainable approach to planning and constructing such an expansion.”
What that means is they want to EXPAND their existing facility and add a fourth container berth, arguing that “the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority rejected the company’s request to process its preliminary project inquiry to add a fourth container berth at GCT Deltaport (DP4) because the port authority is biased in favour of Terminal 2″. This was actually previously rejected by the port because the required creation of 55 hectares (138 acres) of “fake island” industrial land needed would annihilate the sensitive migratory habitat in the intertidal zone.
There are some deep pockets involved to take on the port authority. Reporter Timothy Renshaw also observes that the second shoe drops with the GTC wanting to stop a May 14 public hearing on the port’s Terminal 2 project, ostensibly because the “Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has failed to provide the information required to justify Terminal 2 and is pursuing the project based on flawed data and a biased rationale.”
You can take a look at Timothy Renshaw’s article talking about the economics of container traffic and the logistics. Of course GCT was also displeased when the Port nixed their fourth berth earlier because of the significant monopoly this one company would have for all container traffic.
Is GCT legally tying up the decision-making process of Terminal 2 while at the same time pushing back for a new “Big Berth” on their existing facility? How long will all this take, and to what outcome?
An upcoming Motorola handset seems to have taken a few cues from Samsung and Huawei.
A recent leak from Steve Hemmerstoffer reveals an image of an upcoming Moto handset with a vertical three rear-facing camera setup à la Huawei P20 Pro and a hole punch selfie shooter similar to Samsung’s Galaxy S10 — though on the left side and not the right. With Pricebaba,Hemmerstoffer has put together 360-degree renderings of the handset.
Hemmerstoffer seems unclear on which exact phone this might be, however. At first, the leaker said the device was the successor to the Moto G7, the Moto G8. In a follow-up tweet, Hemmerstoffer writes that the render might be a successor to either the Motorola One Power, Motorola P30 or P30 Note.
According to OnLeaks, the device will sport a flat 6.2-inch display. Pricebaba believes the display will offer an HD+ resolution.
Additionally, the phone will reportedly sport a USB Type-C port and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Furthermore, the handset sports a fingerprint scanner embedded into the Motorola logo.
If this smartphone is the Motorola One successor, rumours suggests that the company will brand it as the Motorola One Vision. If that’s the case, Alibaba believes that this handset will sport a Snapdragon 675 chipset, 6GB of RAM and either 64 or 128GB of storage.
Google released Gmail 15 years ago today. Several people thought Google’s email service was a joke at the time, as it offered 1GB of free storage, a size that was unheard of back then.
However, Gmail clearly wasn’t a joke, and now, 15 years on, the free email service has over 1.5 billion active users and is still growing.
To celebrate its 15th birthday, Google announced some new features and upgrades in a blog post. Plus, Android users will notice a small, celebratory animation in the search bar of the Gmail app today.
First up, the company is rolling out the ability to schedule emails. A recent teardown of the Gmail APK revealed this feature was coming, but it’s not on mobile yet.
To schedule an email you’re sending from Gmail on the web, click the little arrow beside the blue ‘Send’ button, then click ‘Schedule send.’ Gmail will prompt you to enter details on when to send the message and will send it at the time you registered.
Along with that, Google says it’s making its Smart Compose feature available in more languages. Further, Google says Smart Compose will better adapt to your writing style.
For the unfamiliar, Smart Compose started rolling out in May 2018 on the web. It learns from how you write and offers predictions to save you from typing common phrases.
Smart Compose came to mobile as a Pixel 3 exclusive, but recently started rolling out to all Android devices. iOS is set to get the feature soon. Google says Smart Compose already saves users from typing over 1 billion characters each week.
Now, Smart Compose will work in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. Additionally, it can recognize the way you write and stay true to your voice. For example, if you often start an email to your team with “Hey team,” Smart Compose will help keep that style.
Finally, Google capped off its blog post noting it recently launched AMP for email, which allows emails to be more dynamic and interactive. For example, Pinterest will allow users to interact with items in the Gmail inbox, saving things to boards and more.
Microsoft quietly updated its 13-inch Surface Book 2 over the weekend, adding an option to purchase the computer with Intel’s 8th Gen i5 processor.
The refresh comes after rumours surfaced last month that Microsoft was planning an update to the Surface Book 2. Further, it comes ahead of the Redmond-based software giant’s April 17th Surface event in New York City.
If you head over to the Microsoft Store, you can equip the 13-inch Surface Book 2 with the i5-8350U processor, bumping the maximum boost clock to 3.6GHz. Additionally, you can pair that with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for a minimum price of $1,979 before tax.
However, Microsoft also kept the older dual-core 7th Gen i5 processor as a lower-cost option. Paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, the lowest cost for this model is $1,599.
While the processor is the only significant change, it should improve performance significantly.
The downside to this refresh is we likely won’t see a Surface Book 3 at the company’s upcoming event. Instead, Microsoft is expected to detail pricing and availability for its Surface Hub 2 hardware along with related accessories and office hardware from Steelcase.
Google Canada no longer offers the Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL on its online store.
Google made the change within the past couple of weeks. Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine indicates that as of March 14th the Pixel 2 series was still available in the store; on March 18th, Google removed the Pixel 2 specific webpages. Google’s phone category page no longer shows the Pixel 2 handsets.
Recently the Pixel 2 XL was available on the store for $300 off, suggesting that the company was attempting to clear stock.
Google released the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL back in October 2017. While the device isn’t even two years old yet, the company seems to like to streamline its current flagship before the two-year mark. On April 10th, 2018 MobilleSyrup reported that the Pixel series was no longer available on the company’s website. It seems like the company is creating a pattern, and might stop selling the Pixel 3 series in early April or late March in 2020, if the pattern holds true.
For those still interested in the Pixel 2 series, there are still some carriers who still have the smartphones. Telus and Koodo both have limited stock of the Pixel 2 XL, Fido has both the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL and Videotron also has both smartphones but in-store only. The Pixel 2 and 2 XL are also both available at Amazon Canada.
The mobile industry is known for the fall of giants and the surge of new companies.
It can be hard to visualize how sales reflected the state of these phone manufacturers.
To solve this issue, The Next Web, a technology publication based in the Netherlands, created a timeline video of sales figures from 1992 to 2017 in just 15 seconds.
This chart provides really interesting data, which details just how big Nokia and Motorola were before Samsung and Apple replaced them in the smartphone era.
Here is a breakdown of key events from the video.
When the ‘Big Two’ were Nokia and Motorola
The chart starts in 1992 with Motorola and Nokia as the two biggest manufacturers in the mobile market, with four and three million in device sales, respectively.
These figures continue to grow, with new players such as Ericsson, Panasonic and Alcatel entering the fray.
In 1999, Nokia overtook Motorola in sales, which started the company’s decade long reign in the mobile industry. We also see Samsung enter the market and eventually overtake Alcatel.
In the early 2000s, Nokia dominates the marketplace with more than 169 million phones sold. In the same year, Siemens enters the market.
As the chart moves toward 2003, Samsung becomes the third biggest phone manufacturer, overtaking Sony Ericsson.
Entering the smartphone era
As the chart progresses to 2007, LG enters the market and competes with Sony Ericsson. Siemens also drops out of the business and both Blackberry and Apple make an appearance.
Motorola’s sales continue to dwindle, with Samsung overtaking the company in 2009 with a huge margin of sales (199 million compared to 105 million).
In 2011, Huawei, HTC, and ZTE develop phones with strong sales numbers. We also see LG becoming the third-best manufacturer.
In 2013, Samsung finally ends Nokia’s domination in the market, having 387 million in sales compared to the Finnish company’s 329 million.
Nokia sales take a sharp decline in 2014, which coincides with Microsoft acquiring the company in September 2013. Samsung continues its domination with 399 million in sales and Apple trailing behind with 186 million. In that year, we also see the emergence of Xiaomi.
In 2016, Huawei overtakes Lenovo/Motorola with 105 million compared to 67 million and becomes the third best selling phone manufacturer.
The video’s timeline ends in 2017, with Samsung having 321 million in sales and Apple with 214 million. BBK drops out of the list, but it’s important to note that the Chinese company owns Vivo, Oppo and OnePlus.
Sony has updated its PlayStation Store refund policy to allow customers to get their money back on most game-related content.
Now, customers can request a refund on games, add-on content and pre-orders within 14 days of purchase, provided they have not downloaded or streamed them.
Note that beginning a pre-load of a pre-ordered game (which allows the title to played at midnight on release day) also constitutes as downloading and will void the possibility of a refund.
Users can also get a refund on games that have been downloaded and/or started, provided they are deemed “faulty.” However, the return policy page doesn’t specify what exactly constitutes “faulty.”
Note that funds will be returned to your PlayStation Store wallet, so if you paid for content with a credit card, you won’t get the money back to that particular account.
Additionally, Sony states that in-game purchases such as Ultimate Team packs in FIFA or in-game cash in Grand Theft Auto Online cannot be cancelled or refunded since they are immediately added to a game. In other words, there isn’t a grace period in which players can simply choose to not download or play their purchase and request a refund accordingly.
It’s worth noting that rival console maker Nintendo does not offer digital game refunds, instead advising people to ensure they know about products before buying them.
While Sony’s revised PlayStation Store policies are now more lenient than those offered by its console competitors, they are still not on par with what it is offered by Steam and the Epic Games Store.
Currently, both PC digital games marketplaces let users get a refund on games that they’ve played for less than two hours within 14 days of purchase. This gives players a chance to try out a game while leaving the option to get their money back.
If you’re an iPhone owner and have been longingly looking at the Galaxy S10 and its ability to two-way wireless charge Samsung’s Galaxy Buds, as well as other Qi-compatible devices, this rumour will likely pique your interest.
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that reverse wireless charging is coming to Apple’s 2019 iPhones, allowing the smartphones to charge the tech giant’s recently released second-generation AirPods as well as any other Qi-compatible devices, including handsets from other manufacturers.
Below is an excerpt from Kuo’s recent investor note, according to MacRumors:
“We expect the new 2H19 iPhone models will support two-way wireless charging. Though the iPhone is not the first high-end smartphone to be equipped with two-way wireless charging, this new function could make it more convenient for users to charge the new AirPods and create a better integrated user experience of the iPhone and AirPods.”
Samsung’s take on reverse wireless charging is called ‘Wireless PowerShare.’ Similar to Kuo’s description of the 2019 iPhone’s reverse-charging feature, the S10 is capable of charging any Qi-compatible device (see this story’s header image).
As a result of two-way charging coming to the iPhone, Kuo also says that the 2019 iPhone line will increase in both size and battery capacity, with the successor to the 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max battery getting larger by 10 to 15 percent. The smaller 5.8-inch iPhone XS successor, on the other hand, will see its battery grow by between 20 and 25 percent. Finally, Kuo predicts that the next iPhone XR battery will only increase somewhere between zero and five percent.
I’m looking forward to a future where I’m able to two-way charge Apple’s 2019 iPhone on the back of a Samsung Galaxy S10 for no other reason than because I can.
Samsung, like many other Android manufacturers, hasn’t been the best about keeping their devices up-to-date. However, there has been a concerted effort as of late to right the ship.
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