Doesn’t seem very likely to me given that cheap feature phones likely use cheap older parts while flagship smartphones state of the art components.

That reminded me how a local wanna-be influencer did a smartphone detox for a week, immediately after the completion she posted an FB story: Part 1 - Reflection, how eyeopening the experience was, how much time she suddenly had for the things that truly matter etc. Subscribe to not miss the Part 2!

the flip phone lets me make phone calls from my basement and many other places that the smartphone cannot.

Why? The smartphone supports everything the flip phone does. Honest question.

QA of course contributes to the defects and features.

78 people contributed in the form of code commits, but more people likely contributed to the release in other ways (QA, triage, release management etc.)

But there were more contributors, you just don’t know how many. By this you’re kind of disregarding their work.

The obvious choice would’ve been to not use it and state the numbers plainly.

How would you write it?

The author of the blogpost is a developer, not a professional writer. Honestly I don’t understand why you’re so upset about it.

Maybe there were 78 committers. But other people contributed to the release in some other way (QA?), but that may be more difficult to count than just looking at the commit stats …

The only way I see around this is a really aggressive cap on rent. Like, once a rent is established, it can never be raised, for any reason, ever again

We have something like that in my city. The rents grow, but are bound to the inflation. The dynamic is similar - the old contracts are vastly cheaper than the new contracts. That has several downsides:

• young families can’t afford good apartments, since they will need to tap the new-contract market which is expensive
• old people have nice large apartments for very little money. Sounds good at first, but then you often have situations where a single 80-year-old has a 100 m^2 apartment in the downtown, while a young 4 member family is in a 60 m^2 while paying more money. Even more perversely, the 80-year-old can’t move out, because they wouldn’t be able to afford a smaller sized apartment with a new contract.
• old contracts become a form of property in itself and are sold on “black market”, inherited etc.
• old contracts are not let go even if the apartment is not needed at the moment. So apartments are often empty, waiting for the kids to grow up, or used only occasionally (the family has a house outside the city and only occasionally spends time in the city).
• you’re heavily disincentivized to move (to be closer to your work, family, get a bigger apartment for growing family etc.) because your old contract would get cancelled, and you will need to get a much more expensive new one

I think laws need to be changed to make owning (not building) real estate unattractive as an investment. Something like wealth tax (every year you pay X% of the property value) aimed at real sector specifically, with very progressive structure / exceptions for single homeowners.

That should help in a lot of cases. Then it also depends on the demographic development - many places will actually see drop in the population in the coming decades, that should make housing cheaper. Areas with growing population - there it may not be possible to stop the price increase completely.

Am Ende bezahlt man sowieso mehr wegen hohen Zinsen.

I have a small app on the play store. It’s finished, has a small user base and doesn’t really need updates.

But I’ll now let google delist it. The API level isn’t even the main reason, it’s the other X warnings which jumped at me when logging into developer console about new rules and guidelines I need to satisfy. I’ve had enough of the hamster wheel.

Eh, what? Anniversaries are not just to celebrate, but also to remind ourselves the evil deeds which happened and shouldn’t happen anymore.

Titles like this are cancer since they intentionally mislead. It’s “a billion rubles”, thus tens of millions $. Pretty insignificant.