I don’t think you’re being taken advantage of financially. I imagine you’ve spent less money than any option for three weeks of sleeping accommodations in Switzerland aside from living with your parents, for example.

I do think there’s a significant chance there’s a mismatch in expectations though. If you intend this to be short-term, it would be cruel to let her think something else. As others have mentioned, there’s a risk she’s trying to get pregnant to incentivize you to stay or financially support her; you don’t know her well enough to say she wouldn’t do that.

As long as you have both of those concerns addressed, it sounds like a good time for all involved.

You will get rid of that phone long before the battery dies.

Why? There was a time where smartphone tech was improving fast enough that there was a large benefit to a new phone every 2-3 years, but that time is in the past for most use cases.

School seems like a good use case for a powerbank since most people carry backpacks to school.

The advantage is that I can occasionally charge it to 80% or 100% if the situation demands it.

The amount of time the battery spends at higher voltage definitely affects its capacity over time. There’s plenty of research on Li-ion battery service life characteristics done with greater scientific rigor than is possible with batteries installed in phones.

It can take longer than the few months these tests required to see the effect. A phone that’s usually stored at 60% will eventually show a big capacity advantage over one that’s stored at 100%. That’s probably mostly true at 80% as well.

For some anecdata, my Pixel 4a has spent most of the past five years limited to 60%. It reports 1152 cycles and 91% capacity.

PCs have a BIOS/UEFI that provides hardware discovery and abstraction to the OS, while phones lack that and need the OS to know what hardware to expect.

20 years ago when the predecessors to modern smartphone hardware were being designed, there probably would have been meaningful costs to adding that kind of flexibility. There probably wouldn’t today, but there’s also no motivation for phone makers to do it.

This was charged as a misdemeanor. No grand jury this time.

I’m on the protestor’s side here, but in general, it probably ought to be illegal to throw sandwiches at people. Some jurisdictions have a separate offense of harassment for offensive or even merely nonconsensual intentional physical contact that presents no risk of injury.

I’d have voted not guilty if I was on that jury, but guilty for the same conduct under different circumstances, such as throwing food at a fast food worker over a customer service issue.

He probably can’t. Absurd as it may sound, he was actually guilty.

Here are model jury instructions for the charge, which include:

There is a forcible assault when one person intentionally strikes another

It doesn’t say that the victim must be struck with something very likely to injure them. Looking at the statute, it turns out that actual physical contact (rather than making a threat without contact) elevates it to a felony - the charge a grand jury previously rejected.

Of course, prosecutors normally apply common sense to charging decisions and don’t prosecute everything that technically qualifies under the strictest reading of a statute.

A quick search suggests all X1 Nano models can run Windows 11, so they won’t be ultra-cheap because of that.

The Wikipedia article about this case suggests the kid knew what the gun was. He threatened to shoot another student, and probably shot the teacher intentionally. This isn’t just a case of a kid randomly playing with a gun.

Of course he’s not criminally responsible for that because he’s six, but he probably needs an intensive intervention to make sure he doesn’t turn into a monster.

Did they manage to find 12 people that will consider a sandwich a weapon

They don’t have to. Here are model jury instructions for the charge, which include:

There is a forcible assault when one person intentionally strikes another

Notably, there’s no requirement that a weapon is used or physical injury is caused. Reading the statute, the fact that there was physical contact elevates it to a felony even without a weapon or injury, but it isn’t charged as a felony here because the grand jury refused to indict.

I hope that the jury finds him not guilty, but if they do it’s jury nullification, not that his actions didn’t technically violate the statute.

AA/14500 lights have made major technical strides from a few years ago. The new options from Skilhunt and Emisar are especially compelling even if they look like something that could have existed some time back. Zebralight, a former leader in that field has regressed by removing 14500 support.

I don’t think Zebralight has an efficiency advantage in medium and high modes over other brands using boost drivers and similar LEDs. They probably are still the best at running ultra-low modes efficiently.

Flashlight makers using bespoke LEDs is also a fairly recent development, with options from Emisar/Noctigon, Fireflies, Nitecore, and Skilhunt.

You might find a few of those in this post.

The EC4 doesn’t have a direct successor, but you might find the Loop Gear SK05 Pro interesting.

I like the ungrounded North American electrical outlet and plug design (NEMA 1-15). It has no safety features, but it’s very compact, and very easy for device manufacturers to create folding plugs for USB power supplies and the like.

I prefer the US spelling of these words. The U doesn’t do anything phonetically and was not present in the Latin from which many of the words derive.

That’s not criminal anywhere to my knowledge, but very creepy for an adult to say to a 13 year old.

I’m against disabling replies entirely, but for disabling notifications. Once a post is out there and other people are participating in the conversation, it’s not just yours anymore.

Not in most states, and some of those that do are unlikely to charge the owner in practice.

I’m going to guess a majority of people wouldn’t file an insurance claim. It would only make sense if

• They have insurance covering theft of property from inside a car, which is far from universal
• The deductible is substantially less than the value of the gun
• The insurance company isn’t likely to raise their premium as a result

In the USA, it’s not rare for people to have gun manufacturer stickers on their car.

Imagine you’re a thief and you see a Smith&Wesson sticker on a car parked outside a building where carrying guns is forbidden.

The National Crime Victimization Survey is conducted by the Census Bureau by interviewing randomly selected households. It gathers information on crimes not reported to the police, and the reporting rate.

It’s probable that people being afraid to talk to anyone who works for the government will affect its results, but it does have some hedges against that, such as enrolling households for a three year span.