Regardless of how you may feel, the statistics are not in your favour. Just compare gun deaths per capita in the US vs a country like the UK and it’s clear that the US approach to gun control (or lack thereof) is insane.

Carrying a knife, other than a folding pocket knife, without ‘good reason’ is already illegal in the UK.

What they’re talking about is removing the exception for the kirpan.

There are no hacks available for Switch 2 so far.

The technology isn’t the problem, the companies are. All the things you listed are issues, but they are all also solved if you look slightly harder.

There are free video services that you can watch from anywhere, not to mention self-hosted VOD for all your definitely-legitimately-acquired media.

You can get video doorbells that aren’t from Ring or Google and link them to fully private systems like Home Assistant.

… okay there’s no solution for McDonald’s prices if you want McD’s, but - at least here in the UK - delivery bags are sealed so you can in fact tell if someone has eaten your fries.

Anyway, my point is you shouldn’t feel bad for imagining a cool future. We do get to live in that future, but we also have to be judicious about who we trust to deliver it.

You take that back - this bland monstrosity posing as a Ferrari doesn’t have a tenth of the personality of a Jensen Interceptor.

Yes, EVs come with a lot less maintenance and running costs. You’ll have to excuse the Facebook-quality image, but this does neatly sum up the main differences:

I realise it’s not really the point here, but calling Jeffrey Epstein a celebrity seems comically reductive.

Like, yeah, technically I guess it’s true? But it’s not the word that springs to mind when most people think of him. Made me chuckle.

I did not! I actually had one back in the day and never had battery issues, but pretty funny to hear it was a common complaint.

(Still, I think the broader point stands.)

Given the pace of technological progress, I doubt a phone bought today will be all that useful (except as a retro novelty) in 20 years time, let alone 100.

How many people do you think are still daily-driving a Motorola KRZR? It’s not because of the battery life.

But the internet taught me that being cynical is cool! It’s all I know!

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak an international emergency, with the DR Congo’s health ministry reporting around 350 suspected cases and 91 deaths.

And yet half a dozen Americans are apparently important enough to warrant the entire headline?

Yes to all except Outer Wilds.

I love OW but it is not a game to recommend to someone who explicitly says they want a game with no time pressure. Time pressure is literally a core mechanic.

Split in Croatia sounds like it’d fulfill basically all of your criteria.

I would actually assume the opposite. Transferring apps is relatively easy: get a list of installed apps, check the Play Store for the equivalent Android version, and download it.

Transferring app settings is potentially much harder because it depends on how each app handles settings. Could be a minefield of incompatibilities.

I can’t say I’ve found maximising unintuitive, but there’s definitely an adjustment period to learning that the ‘close’ button only closes the window, not the app. Except sometimes it closes the app.

It boggles my mind that the natural scrolling thing hasn’t been properly fixed yet. It’s such a simple feature and so incomprehensibly wonky without a third party app to fix it.

Wasn’t there a viral Reddit post for a similar issue where someone recommended sucking on the left earbud and it worked?

FYI you can access and download iCloud photos on a computer, which might help your wife transfer them without using her phone.

Which? argues that a customer who would have theoretically paid £1.99 for the service but was not able to do so because the actual £2.99 price was unaffordable suffered a £1 loss, even though the customer paid nothing.

Maybe you have to be a lawyer to understand this, because to me it sounds like complete nonsense.

*15 Pro and up (the base 15 doesn’t support Apple Intelligence).