My wife has an Apple watch and has to charge it every day. It would drive me absolutely nuts. There’s been times where it’s run out mid-workout or during a long walk. Meanwhile my Garmin Forerunner can go 2 weeks on a single charge.

I’m going to start looking for a new phone soon to replace my OnePlus 6T, and the 13 looks so good, except for the fact it’s absurdly huge. I wish the 13T was released globally!

I think the only other option is the pixel 9, but not sure about battery life and slower charging.

I’m not convinced. There’s probably a chunk of people who don’t drive because they kept showing that they weren’t safe enough to drive by failing their test. If the aim is to reduce the barrier to entry for driving because tests are expensive (they’re £62 in the UK, really not that expensive) then those costs will only be countered by way higher insurance premiums as there will be more drivers who can just jump in a car and drive on their own and crash. Also as a driver and pedestrian, I really don’t want to be on the same road as those people.

so the driving test proves nothing

The driving test proves you can competently drive to a safe standard. I agree that you learn more through experience, but first you need to be able to drive to a particular standard before being allowed to drive on your own.

What’s the alternative if there’s no test? You just allow anyone who reaches the driving age to get in a car and drive on their own?

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Why not? You don’t have to buy them every year.

I’m still on 11. How much different is 11 to 15?

I’m pretty sure the EU mandated this feature.

I’d kind of think it would be in their interest to, not because they give a shit about what their end users think, but what their customers (advertisers) think. I’d imagine that advertisers are paying x amount to reach real humans that can spend money, so if it turns out that businesses are paying to advertise to bots then I can’t see them being too happy about that. Not unless they’re upfront with businesses and they tell them that x% of their user base is bots and they’ll only charge them to advertise to real people.

I get it. They want to combat bots and potentially even detect if a person is old enough to use the platform. However Facebook has eroded absolutely any trust that there’s no way I’d give them this. Not that I use Facebook anyway.

This keeps catching me out and it’s so annoying. Even more so when the cashier has to do something manual on the terminal to attempt the payment again.

What happened to just needing to unlock the device?

Yup same, I’d love a “smaller” device to replace my current phone.

The form factor of the 13T is what’s appealing to me, plus the insane battery capacity. I feel like the 6T is already too large so I’d hate to get anything bigger.

What was it about those phones that weren’t as good at the 6T?

This is looking to be at the top of my list as a potential replacement for my OnePlus 6T. Just curious how much it’ll be in the UK.

Edit: the article mentions that the 13 and 13T have 5000mAh battery, but I think they’re 6000?

Interested by this. Need something to replace my OnePlus 6T that’s starting to show its age and would like something a bit smaller.

Are there banks that don’t do this or charge? I just assumed these things were the absolute basics of banking and are free for everyone.

I can totally see the difference. One is in colour and the other is in black & white. Ergo, not a Nazi salute. Got it.

Sky really pisses me off. They have exclusive rights to the F1 in the UK, but you need to pay a fortune for it, as you have to have the base sky package plus sky sports (I think) plus sky sports F1.

Probably comes to over £50/month for something that’s on every other weekend on average, and they still show ads! If there’s a subscription, there shouldn’t be any ads.

What posseses people to do this? It’s absolutely disgusting.

It’s not just an American thing by the way, I’ve heard shit like this happening here in the UK too. Especially in women’s toilets.