It's essential on narrow shared paths e.g. a canal towpath, when you're approaching a pedestrian from behind in order to avoid startling them when you pass.
Most people walking the canal towpath around here know this, runners in particular will sometimes be give a wave or visual acknowledgement they've heard you without turning around.
Force interoperability one way or another. WhatsApp is a closed system, if I want to use an alternative I'm stuck with adversarial interoperability, so stuff like Beeper (which is great, but...) which might get my account banned. Or waiting for some legislation to force WhatsApp to open it's API and let me interact with my contacts there without being locked into their apps
You can definitely buy the replacement screen for the FP4 as it's on their online shop. If you were going for repair under warranty it does seem odd not to just send you the part if you're happy installing it.
I also had an issue with the power button on my FP4, sadly it became stuck _on_ so the phone just bootlooped and was immediately unusable.
I ended up posting it for repair, over Christmas, which did take about 2 weeks but it was fully covered by the warranty.
I've successfully replaced the USB port after accidentally filling it with sand once, and that was trivial apart from UPS losing the package the first time. I really do appreciate the repairability, even if it could be better.
Learn how to work with the AI, give it the right prompts, phrase the requirements in a way that gets what you need, train it occasionally, review it's code, pick it up when it falls over, massage it's ego occasionally...
I'm not sure that Google is in a similar place to carmakers. There are maybe 3 or 4 major carmakers, and their primary business is cars (well, maybe vans trucks etc too). If they stop selling those, the business is dead. There is really just one Google, which has range of quite different products, and it seems they can afford to fail in a lot of markets, but they'll still survive as a company despite that.
> So if you're betting on a product / service, then relying on Internet sentiment is generally a bad idea.
Most people walking the canal towpath around here know this, runners in particular will sometimes be give a wave or visual acknowledgement they've heard you without turning around.