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Anyone run into a laptop reporting significant charge / shows status as "charging" but loses power the moment it's unplugged from the mains? "upower -d" output doesn't show any time

Time Capsule #PreDigitalIndia Two more airlines that don't exist anymore. A simpler time before apps and bans.One World One Dream. Identify what's wrong with this photo. Pre 9/11 world when

So many apps think they get to dictate what their customers can and cannot do with phones their customers have purchased with their own money.So many apps still complain about

What a load of crap!What scale are they bragging about? Lines of code?Number of users/devices running the code?Aarogya Setu is nowhere near the top on both counts.https://twitter.com/NITIAayog/status/1265281583344496641 Who else thinks

Most people don't have phones with all day battery.Keeping this battery hogging app on 24x7 which does constant GPS lookups and WiFi scans and being constantly probed by and probing

Thread on "theoretical" privacy concerns around Aarogya Setu which will soonbecome reality.aka the real motivation behind "tech industry volunteers" who built the app. The key feature of Aarogya Setu is

Horrible idea. The only historical data location data govt. can access is cell tower based triangulation.(Assuming operators have it.)Accuracy of cell tower location is anywhere from a few hundred metres