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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • I‘m also on the lookout for a cheap used one. The phase till planned obsolescence is surprisingly long with Apple as long as you have the tools to swap out the battery yourself. My wifes XS is still running great and thats a 7 year old phone by now. As soon as the batteries hit that 80% or lower degredation, they run like shit.

    I‘m sure you could get at least another four years with updates out of it at the moment.














  • There was a German social network a few years ago that did exactly that (before Facebook was available in German)

    They had SchülerVZ for kids/teens, then they had StudiVZ for university students and finally they had MeinVZ for adults. The problem was, that they weren’t interconnected at all apart from the option to move your account to the next platform. So if you were just starting to study but you still had friends that were in school, you could’t keep in touch with them.



  • It’s literally a 1:1 translation of Flamethrower.

    There are much better examples for long German words beeing short in English like

    Toy = Spielzeug (Play Stuff)

    Mall = Einkaufszentrum (Shopping Centre)

    Sale = Schlussverkauf (End sale)

    Matchbox = Streichholzschachtel (Swipe wood box)

    Lighter = Feuerzeug (Fire Creator)


  • As much as I’m opposed to Mozilla CEOs paying out absurd amounts, we still have to acknowledge that Mozilla has way more revenue streams nowadays than they had a few years ago.

    So a sinking market share of one of their (free and open source) products doesn’t mean that the company is making less money overall.

    Especially because a sinking market share doesn’t mean there are less users. This graph doesn’t reflect the exponential adoption of smartphones and tablets on which most users just use the preinstalled browser (eg Chrome and Safari).

    So the user base is probably still similiar in size or even bigger, but the number of devices just exploded due to smartphones beeing adopted by a broad audience in markets like Asia and Africa.