My N900 (Made in Finland, an early one) was great. I would have used it still if it wasn't for the fact that after 3G disappeared it was useless. The battery could be replaced (as others have mentioned), so it was perfectly fine still. Mechanically it was as good as new as well.
As it was basically like Debian Linux inside I could do what I usually do - write hobby projects and run it on the N900. I had my minicomputer emulator running. Nice to see my old favourite minicomputer editor on my N900.
When that's said, there are forces in the EU as well which try stunts like this, kind of, but in the EU there are at least lots of countries and lots of opposing voices. In the UK the situation is different.
The way he writes indicates that he has very little experience with reading in the first place. Weird wording, strange capitalization and punctiation, etc.
I speak several languages too, though definitely not as many as you do. I'm also in the process of learning a completely new one, at an advanced age relative to when I last learned a new one (I was in my thirties then).
To me, my brain most definitely doesn't process human language the way it handles computer language. It's about as different as it can get. The latter is "learning", the former is "burn patterns into the brain", and learning a language can take years, at least at this age. Computer languages? Those can be picked up in as little as a weekend, and getting proficient isn't a multi-year or decade long process. It feels totally different for me (I've been learning new computer languages at the same time as I've been trying to get up to speed with a new human language).
Computer languages are much simpler than human languages, and they also operate in similar kind of logical ways. I definitely remember how hard was to go from pascal to C to Cpp to Python to prolog to haskell to SQL... until at some point nothing was new.
To me, working with a computer language involves specific thinking, constructing stuff in my mind. But human language is nothing of the sort, though it's possible to kind of do the same if I sit down and try to polish a written sentence.
But talking in, and understanding a conversation is as far from this as I can imagine. And the learning process is so extremely different.
In the early days when the kernel was small (I used to build kernels and copy them to floppy disks, and boot Linux from there) the kernel was called 'vmlinux', and when compression was added after the kernel started to get bigger it became 'vmlinuz'. It was still possible to boot from 'vmlinux', and it may be possible today as well, for all I know.
The paradox isn't actually when the twin is returning, the paradox is seen during the trip away from earth. Both are observing each other through telescopes, and both can see the clock on the wall in each other's home (a house, or for the twin, his space ship. Which has got a big window). And both can observe that the other twin's clock is moving at a slower pace than their own clock. And that's the paradox.
(p.s. the spacefaring twin doesn't have to move at the speed of light, and indeed cannot, it's enough to move at a "relativistic" speed, i.e. fast enough that this is actually measurable. With today's clock that doesn't have to be very fast actually)
Sigh. "..that personal data processed must be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. "
How do they think a hosting provider can check if personal data is accurate? Maybe if privacy didn't exist and everybody could be scrutinized.. but the ruling refers to the GDPR to justify this, and the GDPR is about _protecting_ privacy. So, what is it?
And for everything else.. is the material sensitive or not? How can anyone know, in advance?
I suggest every web site host simply forward all and every input to an EU Court address, and let them handle it. They're the ones suggesting that hosts should make sure that personal data on someone is "accurate", they're the ones demanding that the data should not be "sensitive", so they can as well be responsible for vetting the data.
But they're all crazy anyway, as they demand that a website must block anyone from copying the content.. so how, at the same time, can you even have a website? A website which people can watch?
If the ruling was about collecting data which isn't for displaying, i.e. what a net shop does (address, credit card number), then this would be understandable. But provisions for that already exists, instead they use this (GDPR) as a tool to extend this to user-created content. It's not limited to ads, and ads do need something done. Something totally different from this.
Are you sure? We might have a different reading then, I felt it was obvious it was because it was an ad. And even more, an ad display through an algorithm, I.E it wouldn't apply to Craigslist or platform that display user-generated ads in chronological order.
There are projects, or repositories, with a very narrow target audience, sometimes you can count them on one hand. Important repositories for those few who need them, and there aren't any alternatives. Things like decoders for obscure and undocumented backup formats and the like.
It's not protectionism when all you require is that products which compete should be held to the same standards. Or do you mean that it's fine for US companies to undercut other companies by lowering standards and costs, and only enforcing the standards on said competing companies?
It isn't. Quite the opposite. It's about a level playing field. There are standards for allowing products to market, some of them are more costly to implement. US car makers want to sell at lower standards than competitors, that's not a level playing field.
The customer has no right to deside on issues that affect _others_. A customer can decide on what affects the customer. If car A is more dangerous for other people than car B, then it's for somebody else than the car customer to decide what should be allowed. A car owner can't decide that "it's fine to drive this car which will kill other people because of its design".
As it was basically like Debian Linux inside I could do what I usually do - write hobby projects and run it on the N900. I had my minicomputer emulator running. Nice to see my old favourite minicomputer editor on my N900.