This article mistakes "altruism" with "cooperation". With cooperation there are no free gifts, everything comes with strings attached. And defection and breaking rules is punished!
During lockdowns my country required phone, to get permit to leave house. If I followed rules, I would not be able to buy food, and would starve to death!
No I can't. Shop advertises something like Samsung Galaxy S10 4G Pink. Exact batch numbers are simply not advertised. Only way to check is to open box, start the phone and check About Screen.
I had similar problem with cheap Lenovo. Chinese models were sold in EU, but would not support all local 4G frequencies. But doing this bait&switch with flagship phone is unacceptable!!
I had Samsung phone with exynos, that thing barely lasts one day on battery. My low-end MotoG can take three days...
In EU Samsung has really bad reputation for putting exynos into high-end Galaxy phones in Europe. There is no way to check before buying, and your phone may last 30% less on battery. It was pretty well documented!
Google Maps has pretty good support for offline maps. Select rectangular area, download, it expires after year. I am in Europe, maybe you have different copyright on data?
> U.S. government as being a net cost to the U.S. economy rather than a net benefit.
How about you allow anyone who manages to get a job with decent salary? Let's say $250000 year?! Residential permit obviously includes family. Very fair, very transparent and easy to implement.
This "dynamic scoring" is unfair, untransparent, and will just lead to mistreatment of foreign workers by large companies!
This debuging and hacking kind of remind me of Windows, and dealing with various versions of drivers, service packs, and so on.
Normal sane Linux user would just force resolution into bootloader, and create global xorg.conf. There are like 10 far easier ways to solve this problem.