I think workers would be better than drones. Drones can’t even sting.

Without water, just the syrup.

There’s also this thing:

Source: https://e926.net/posts/5602468

Only found this from Yahoo Answers: https://web.archive.org/web/20131214042431/http://answers.yahoo.com:80/question/index?qid=20080416190703AADWFlA

Got it.

I am prey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International

Then it would be US only. But it works for example with Switzerland (non-EU).

By the way, Markdown also takes escape \, which is why sometimes the shrugging emoticon is missing left arm.

- So this
- also works with space

So you don’t even necessarily have to leave out the space.

Why the hell does the link just redirect me to their YouTube channel?

Edit: Seems to do that only with EU countries, other countries’ IPs work. Probably don’t want to deal with privacy protection.

That’s real, by the way.

Sometimes the headphones are just a public statement of “Don’t talk to me please.”, and the music is just secondary. In that case, the looks may win.

Perhaps they do, just don’t have enough energy to care about it in private life anymore and just go for convenience like the majority.

I honestly just fear updates at this point. They always seem to break more stuff than fix, the only exception to that for me has been PixelExperience custom ROM (discontinued).

Edit: Android is simply missing proper backups. Bad update on my laptop? Timeshift. Bad update on stock Android? It is what it is.

First Moto G5s Plus which got high battery drain, sluggishness and crashes after Android 8.1 update. This was bad enough I had to fix it with custom ROM. Then Poco X3 Pro which reportedly had issues with performance after MIUI 13 update, so I stayed on older software. Now my Ulefone Armor 24, which only has one update primarily to fix Google pay, but also brings a newer security patch, reportedly causing many crashes that make the phone unreliable and a bad experience.
Also many Samsung phones had an update that removed access to manual band mode selection, and if I recall correctly, that update didn’t even revert them to default.

It’s not the best for security, but I basically now just fear any updates. If everything works, then it can only be broken.

Maybe I should at least somehow start checking known vulnerabilities. As of recently, I should probably stop using applock on my outdated Ulefone

Exposed ”com.pri.applock.LockUI“ activity allows any other malicious application, with no granted Android system permissions, to inject an arbitrary intent with system-level privileges to a protected application. One must know the protecting PIN number (it might be revealed by exploiting CVE-2024-13916)

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2025/05/CVE-2024-13915/

Though my device has AppLock v14, so I am not sure.

This makes me worried about the ultra cheap Chinese manufacturers. I mean the likes of Unihertz, Umidigi, Ulefone, Doogee, Oukitel, etc

Usually these don’t get updates at all.
Even weirder, for example I have Ulefone Armor 24. They used to ship with Android 13. They still advertised it with Android 13 when I bought it. Mine like a few others have said arrived with Android 14, but the earlier ones aren’t offered A14 update.
Someone on Reddit contacted support about this and they replied that they don’t provide cross-level upgrades because Google doesn’t allow them to release those to end users.

Anyway, point is, they save on everything possible, starting with software updates. And I have doubts about them changing this, unless EU is a large market for them.

YouTube is getting a new tool that generates Shorts

All I needed to know. I hoped for a button to report AI slop.

I should note it’s not all about speed, but also latency. Even 256kbps on 2G EDGE is sluggish while 256kbps throttled 4G is pretty usable for web browsing.
Although it also depends on how the limiting is done. Some may allow some higher burst rate, some may limit to the speed with queue, some may just drop all packets above the speed.
I like this diagram from Cisco to visualize it:

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/quality-of-service-qos/qos-policing/19645-policevsshape.html

Also about:

Genuinely surprised to hear someone using 2G data, given 3G was phased out as is.

At least in some countries around Europe, 3G was shutdown rather than 2G. It used up more bandwidth, and most devices can still fallback to 2G, plus at least in Slovakia 2G had superior coverage. Well, still has over 4G/5G.
Plus there’s a lot of 2G-only IoT devices like electric and gas meters, and those companies are less likely to upgrade than individual customers.

So far, only Orange plans to shutdown 2G, sometime around 2028. I’ve also seen an idea to keep one single 2G network that would be shared between all 4 carriers, which is an idea I quite like.
Remember, it’s also a fallback for modern devices when VoLTE/VoWiFi/VoNR doesn’t work.

I think you’re mixing it up with Kb/s. Bits vs bytes. 21KB/s is 168Kb/s, which is faster than the fastest dial-up.