The US was downgraded to a developing nation.

The U.S. currently ranks 21st on the United Nations Development Program’s index, which measures fewer factors than the sustainable development index. Good results in average income per person – $64,765 – and an average 13.7 years of schooling situate the United States squarely in the developed world.

https://theconversation.com/us-is-becoming-a-developing-country-on-global-rankings-that-measure-democracy-inequality-190486

Thanks. I think I need a song for that and Burma/Myanmar. I never forget now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople.

Czech Republic. My bad. Old brain.

Well said. The US should learn from Czechoslovakia’s the Czech Republic’s emphasis on education.

The Czech education system is based on a long tradition beginning in 1774, when compulsory school attendance was instituted. The current literacy rate in the country is above 99%.

https://mzv.gov.cz/washington/en/culture_events/education/education_system_in_the_czech_republic

I have no mouth and I must scream.

That all depends on how much work they want to put into troubleshooting it for her. I got my mom a Mac Mini when her PC needed to be replaced. It’s way less responsibility on my part. I mostly just answer the occasional how-to.

That’s true. Data transmission is usually measured in bits, not bytes. Gigabit Ethernet can only transmit a maximum of ~128 MB/s.

I think you mean gigabytes, not gigabits.

8 Gb = 1 GB

I didn’t list that because it’s unconfirmed. It was just part of Pecker’s testimony regarding the doorman. If it’s true, then you’re right, that’s a fourth commandment.

He was convicted of criminal falsification of business records. He used campaign money to pay Cohen under the guise of employment as a personal attorney. In actuality, he was reimbursing Cohen for laying out the hush money for Daniels. The funds were not allocated for personal use.

An adulterer who lied about it, and stole money to pay someone else to lie about it.

It’s a threefer.

No problem! I’m a big fan.

It has a terrible privacy policy.

https://tosdr.org/en/service/536

This is Lemmy’s for comparison.

https://tosdr.org/en/service/9267

It works great on iPad, but it doesn’t store and organize.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/affinity-photo-2-for-ipad/id1616823773

I’m a big fan of Affinity Photo and Illustrator. I switched when Adobe went to the subscription model. It’s very similar, and they have full tutorials on Vimeo for anything that works differently. It’s definitely worth the $20.

Totally. I went to Affinity when Adobe went subscription.

Just wanted to share TOS;DR. It’s a really handy free site for translating TOS and EULA.

You don’t need to scrutinize it. Here it is in plain English.

https://tosdr.org/en/service/417

We decided the best way to inaugurate the Trump Ocean was to hold him in it until the bubbles stop.

It was probably an article about a store that had an internal theft problem. It’s not entirely uncommon, but it’s very far from the standard. I used to work for Apple. Employees get a substantial annual discount on iPhone. There’s really no incentive to steal, let alone older generation iPhones.

Apple sends the newer, resalable iPhones that are traded-in to a third-party company for resale. The ones that aren’t worth repairing are recycled.

The year they began the trade-in and recycling process, they recovered over one ton of gold, 23 million pounds of steel, 13 million pounds of plastic, 12 million pounds of glass, 4.5 million pounds of aluminum, 3 million pounds of copper, and 6,600 pounds of silver.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/04/15/technology/apple-gold-recycling/index.html

The grade is the most important quality in recycling metals. They’d much rather reclaim their own grades of metal than have to mine and manufacture. It’s better for the planet, ease of manufacture, as well as profits.

Sorry about that. I thought of it right after. I was hoping to get it in there before you read it.

That’s a good move for the planet. Apple is very good about recycling materials for reuse, but there’s still energy consumption and some material loss in the process. The longer you can use tech the better it is for everyone.