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[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

Software updates can be deployed regionally either based on carrier or by product SKU. If there are different SKUs for North American vs EU phones, which is almost universally the case because of differing regional requirements such as radio technology, target price points and so on. That means that phone model 'X (NA)' could have a different update schedule than 'X (EU)'.

Why? money, of course. There is a small cost to supporting a SKU for updates, even if it's the same software that's already being deployed to another SKU. That increases if the two SKUs have different processors (Samsung does this). On top of that, longer update schedules means people aren't replacing their phones as often, which means theoretically less sales - though I find that claim dubious as many people replace their phones long before they lose software support.

So yes, while it's possible that a company might honour a 7 year update schedule outside of EU, it would be by their choice to do so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

and aren't disqualified by one of their dozens of contingencies

one of which is having HIV

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

.... I don't think there's any combination of those that are good. Best option still has you shitting blue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From someone who does this for a living... vary your names and addresses. Less chance of collisions if your suite teardown fails to clean up properly. Depending on your needs, having a hard-coded unique name/address per test can be fine, or if you're using Python, there's a library called Faker that will generate ISO-valid test data. It's also a bit easier to see where a teardown failed if maybe an exception got swallowed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Both, really. Shitty social support in that he likely had an F-tier education, leading to being obsessed with power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PS/Xbox controllers have more internal space, so their joystick modules are much, much larger than what goes in the joycon. That means they can have more material in the potentiometers, meaning less susceptible to wear and dust/dirt intrusions.

PS Dualsense joystick

Switch Joycon joystick

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

That can be such an annoying one to get to depending on where the nearest oil patch is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

switching out that 32oz soda for a zero-calorie option and going for a lettuce wrap instead of a bread bun will save you close to 400 calories, most of which are sugar. Asking for an unsalted patty and unsalted fries will save a few hundred mg of sodium as well.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

They've also been known to trespass onto people's property, steal their pets and almost immediately kill them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're in the woods, you have access to a virtually unlimited amount of fuel. If you're in a desert, the fuel source is nuclear. This is a technique taught in survival courses/manuals and military field guides all over the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

A pot, a sheet of plastic, a cup, a rock, some sticks and rope and you can distill water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

possibly an attrition tactic? If they completely destroy the bridge, then Russia might just abandon it and transport stuff there via plane/boat instead. Damaging it just enough that it's cheaper to fix than to set up a new supply chain, over and over, could be more costly in the long run, and regularly divert construction resources. Not to mention the impact that constantly disabling the bridge could have on Russian civilians in the area - i.e. "how is Ukraine always damaging this bridge?"

Could also be psychological - having the bridge there and hitting it over and over and over sends a pretty clear message.

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