Oppo A54

I am also in the market, and replacing my small/compact Moto G4 after 7-8 years. Sansung A54 seems to be the most appropriate replacement, based on my criteria. I just looked up the battery replacement procedure, and it is not horrible for something you want to do once after 4 years.

"Thinking back on this, and feeling utterly persecuted, I put my deranged and paranoid theory to Hinge that I suspected it had programmed its AI to filter out certain categories of people in certain numbers at certain times, in order to keep its brand woke. Was a 54-year-old straight, binary woman not wanted in the mix this month? Its response was not to answer that question at all." That seems unhinged indeed.

[...] Plus how do I get my servers that are supposed to be internet facing to update their IPv6 prefix every time it changes? Does that mean that I have to put in additional code in every server to update their IPv6 addresses every single time the prefix is changed? [...]

I highly doubt 87% of the population will be buying a luxury brand with their own money. You're making it sound like they're Lamborghinis or Patek watches. [...] Yes they're expensive as in that's a lot of money compared to a 600 Euro Pixel 8 or a 350 Euro Samsung A54 which do more or less the same shit as an iPhone does, but they're not unaffordably expensive in order to be a luxury good. But their own money in their 20s I doubt it. [...]

[...] It's around that price (if unlocked), but has decent specs. [...] Need to ask online though, there may be better spec'd phones for the price point. No replaceable battery, sadly, but those don't really exist at this point.

[...] I don’t know from Curry-Howard (or Hurry-Coward), but this paper made me giggle with delight and glee. (Knuth invokes this delight in me as well, although I don’t understand most of his writings, yet.) If nothing else, it’s inspired me to implement half-ass easter-egg achievement systems in any future ‘serious’ software I write.

I think equating poor people to homeless people is non sequitur. What about the vast population of “barely making it” people? But have it your way. I’ve given up on American people (I exist as a 54 year old one amongst them). Decades of wealth have created a society so “me” centric it makes me nauseous sick. Never have I respected those older than me so little. It makes me so sad what we’ve done for those younger.

I don't think it's even VC brained, the average us NIMBY doesn't actually want anything to change with regards to zoning or public transit. They don't care that the closest place to buy anything is a 54 minute walk with 0 sidewalks, because it only takes 8 minutes to get there in their Tahoe.

[...] For a while he was crashing on a friend’s couch in Toronto. [...]

Fair point on the framing inconsistency - I should have been clearer. The 10-year trend does show decreases, but we're now moving in the opposite direction. Let's remove fraud entirely since you're right it doesn't affect street safety. Theft from the person - which absolutely does - increased 15% to 151,220 offences (highest since records began). Shoplifting hit 530,643 offences (also highest since records began). These are the crimes people encounter walking around London. Since you're a Londoner, the Met data is key: London saw a 54% shoplifting increase vs 20% nationally, and 41% increase in theft from person while the rest of England saw it decrease by 14%. London isn't following national patterns - it's bucking them badly. On cherry-picking: Homicides fell by 32 incidents across 9 million Londoners. Meanwhile, London alone saw over 30,000 additional shoplifting incidents. The volume difference matters. The ONS explicitly states there have been "increases across some crime types in the latest reporting period." The current trajectory on street-level property crime is objectively concerning, regardless of longer-term trends. Your personal experience is valid, but the data suggests it may not reflect what's happening across London more broadly. The statistics and your lived experience can both be true simultaneously. --- Just to reiterate: these aren't abstract statistics - fraud, shoplifting, and theft from the person are exactly the crimes that make London feel unsafe day-to-day. Your own data source proves crime is rising in the categories that matter most for everyday safety.

Not if they're under 55k lbs. A 54,000 truck will cause thousands of times more damage than a Hummer EV. Does the tax you refer to reflect four orders of magnitude of damage differential? Source: Here's the amount paid for being over 55k lbs: $100 plus $22 per 1,000 pounds over 55,000 lbs If that's the going rate for weight-based road damage, then scaled down to a residential vehicle, no one without a CDL would ever pay more than pennies. Since gas taxes and vehicle registration fees are needed to fund road construction, I have to conclude that residential vehicles are subsidizing road damage caused by trucks. Which, again, is fine. But let's be honest about it.

If starship exists I will be able to cash out, buy a 54-foot catamaran and spend the rest of my life sailing around the world scuba diving and spear fishing. Highly doubt this is true. Everyone's rich on their wild little minds.