Children who are hell bent on bypassing controls will always find a way. It helps them not just stumble on it though when they're not ready. If they really want to access it, they already know about it and what it is
Personally, I really don't like the "swiping down in different areas does different things" that apple does, especially on a phone. The area is just too small for it to have multiple interactions. I much prefer how my android phone does it, with a single down-swipe area pulling down the "control panel", and swiping up to get to the apps menu/search area. I don't even know what top-left swipe down is on apple, is it just showing the time, but bigger?
On some previous version of Samsung's UI, they followed the Apple trend of splitting the swipe down interaction, one side for notifications and one side for setting. It was extremely confusing. Luckily Samsung included a toggle to revert that change.
Related?: Face ID is a wretched mess. Swiping up again and again (and faster! again!) until the phone decides to get a clue, at which point multiple swipes have registered - taking away the context you had when the screen locked.
They're also explicitly pro-DEI, given the next paragraph.
"It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome."
No, it's not. It's a statement opposing explicit exclusion, but that's not the same as inclusion.
EDIT to make this comment a bit more useful and productive: When people talk about "inclusion" in a DEI context, they typically mean making an active effort to include a diverse set of people. Outreach programs, looking at the community to identify things which drive away groups of people, that sort of thing. It can mean cracking down on "jokes" which make fun of some groups of people, or discussions of topics which make groups of people uncomfortable, etc.
It's a very different beast from just having a policy against explicitly disallowing contributions from people based on their group identity.
It isn't DEI. The problem with modern politics is that one side is DEI and other side is racist and they are both bad. Xlibre specifically says they are neither, and therefore it is better.
I think you're using the American right wing definition of DEI which describes a bit of a strawman. In reality, a leader establishing a rule that people aren't to be discriminated against based on e.g. race or gender, is an example of a DEI policy.
So when I said anti-DEI is a marker for a specific political ideology, it's really because it's a marker for the kind of media a person consumes, which informs the definition of DEI they're using.
Good, that's the one we want. Don't tell me whether you like gravy, don't tell me your favourite colour, don't tell me about anything not related to the project unless it happens to be in a discussion totally unrelated to it. It is not that I mind knowing whether you like gravy or prefer green over red, it is just that I'd rather not have to think about whether you're in the gravy-faction or the green camp and have to tailor my communication to those preferences just in case I insult someone by stating that just like K.D. Lang [1] I can't stand gravy.
> "a Windows laptop you can convert into a Linux machine, or a Linux machine that tries very hard not to act like one"
You can buy computers with nothing installed on them if you want, and computer is computer (for the most part), so you can run whatever you want on it. I think the linux space is generally too fragmented into all the different distros to offer a "linux laptop", because people will wonder why it's not shipping with their favourite flavour of penguin
> You can buy computers with nothing installed on them if you want
There's nothing wrong with that approach, but this is exactly the opposite of what I am saying.
To clarify, when you buy a computer with nothing on it, you are actually buying a windows computer that had windows removed or opted-out of. It was not built with Linux in mind.
As a leftie, I've never really used a keyboard and mouse "left handed". It's too much hassle to have to keep swapping things around when you live in a household of righties, so I just learned to use stuff the "normal" way around. In situations where there is an obvious physical disadvantage to using right handed items (eg scissors), I'll do my best to find a leftie equivalent, but it sounds like more hassle than it's worth to do the same with a mouse and keyboard. I can't draw for the life of me with a mouse, but that doesn't come up much. I don't really see the point of a left side numpad, though TBH I rarely use one anyways
As a lefty who is proficient with the numpad, I’d adapt quickly to it being on the left, but I wouldn’t ultimately be any faster with it, regardless of whether key order was reversed or kept the same.
I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a lefty who prefers (or at least regularly uses) a left mouse. I adjusted to right for the same reason as you, but I also think being able to type one handed with my left while mousing with my right is superior to its opposite for me.
I would generally type with both hands at the same time, but it is useful to be able to mouse with my right hand and do the common shortcuts (ctrl+z,x,c,v) with my left. I don't know how that would work if I was mousing with my left hand. I'd have to control with my index finger and do the shortcut with my little finger? sounds awful lol
But if a vehicle is required to have a number plate, and doesn't (potentially an ox-cart), then you won't be charged for the congestion charge, but you will get charged for something entirely different
We know where it is right now, because we know which way it's going, how fast and that it isn't currently thrusting anywhere. its just going in a (straight?) line, so it's pretty easy to keep track of.
You can measure the speed of something towards/away from you by measuring the doppler shift of the signal (how much the frequency is increased or decreased compared to the expected frequency), and since the radio receivers will have to be very precisely pointed to get a good signal, you can also probably fine tune any estimates of position by wiggling the receivers around a little bit until you get the best signal.
The signals are definitely getting degraded by noise etc, since it's so far away. That's why the communication speed is so slow, so they can make sure they got one bit before getting the next one. Some more mathsy details here https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/24338/how-to-calcu...
But by having a very big antenna, and knowing exactly what you're looking for and where, it can help to filter out all the noise and get out the proper data
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