Just did this myself. I had a collection of regular watches that I went back to and I’m loving it.

I also just bought a DAP for music and already have an XTEink X4 ereader. Slowly moving to get rid of a mart phone all together.

lol

artificial scarcity

That’s called “lack of demand”

Only a little over 10% of Americans have an e-reader and their popularity is declining.

E-ink screens will continue to be niche technology without the advantages of increased development by competing manufacturers.

Way back in the early 2000s cellphones varied greatly. All the designs and models that were available and all pretty distinctive. Today the market is almost exclusively touch screen smart phones; evolutions of the early designs by Apple, HTC, Samsung etc.

Three years later the first iPad was released and that same year Samsung released the Galaxy Tab.

Widespread adoption and competition drives development.

The market works the other way. You want a lot of adoption at the mobile level which will drive development faster and then those developments can be scaled up.

The iPad exists, in part, because of the iPhones specifically and the development of touch screen mobile technology in general.

I believe Motorola already manufactured ALPRs for one of the other companies and decided to get into the ALPR provider business too.

Yeah, my experience has been the same which is why I wanted to clarify.

Most of those electronics are new though, and we don’t have a way to compare apples to apples. It’d be nice if manufacturers still offered a truly base model like they did decades ago.

is one of the main reasons why new cars today aren’t as reliable as ones from the early 2000’s.

I’m curious about the data that supports this claim? I’ve often heard people lament how cars have “gotten worse” or aren’t “as reliable” as they used to be but I recently read an article from Worse on Purpose that highlights how cars are better manufactured than they used to be.

Or are you using reliability to refer to the accessories and features newer cars have that can fail or require more difficult repair without actually impacting a modern vehicles primary function of transport?

Why are they a rube?

Per the link in your screenshot OSM is following the standard of using the GNIS official name, while also keeping the displayed name as the common name until and if common usage on both sides of the border begins to reflect the official name in GNIS.

Precedent from the Gulf of Mexico/“Gulf of America” discussion as well as accepted OSM convention would suggest that once GNIS is updated (which it appears it is already), official_name:en-US=* should be added/changed to Lake America, but name=*left as is unless and until common usage on the ground on both sides of the border shifts to prefer the “Lake America” name (which seems very unlikely).

Note: emphasis is mine

GDPR is a law with real legal consequences that protects EU citizens (EU as in European Union).

Do European citizens frequently turn to an “affiliate for the Duluth-Superior broadcast area, which covers northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and the western portion of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula” for their news?

Do you spouse it’s easier for a local or regional organization to set policy to block warn GDPR covered connections or have someone spend time ensuring the site is GDPR compliant for the 1s? 10s? 100s? of hits they get?

they don’t need to retrofit their entire website.

Except they do, because even if they’re pretty certain their site is compliant with GDPR they’d still have to review the code to make certain it is or risk legal liability if anything isn’t.

Many small to medium organizations that aren’t operating outside of the USA chose to just block connections instead.

Is there a lot of people outside the US checking an “affiliate for the Duluth-Superior broadcast area, which covers northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and the western portion of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula” regularly for their news?

Fox 21 is a local affiliate of Fox based in Duluth, MN. It’s a regional news source for Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

I seriously doubt they get enough traffic from GDPR regulated countries to retrofit their entire site to be compliant when it is targeted for a very specific audience in the US.

I thought that triggered the actual emergency call itself.

Apple has something similar where you hold the power + volume up for ~3-5 seconds and you get the Power/Emergency call screen but it also disables biometrics until after a successful PIN.