Not really, if you’re doing your weekly shop all in one go (especially for a family), it can make sense that your weekly shop can be more than you can carry and thus you need something to help you carry it. I wouldn’t want to lug 4-5 bags of shopping onto a bus where I’m going to piss someone off because I placed them on the seat, nor do I want to try to balance all that on the handlebars of a bike where a single fuckup or pothole I can’t see will lose me lots of money in shopping.

I don’t personally do those sorts of large shops, but people are busy and literally schedule this in their week so it’s not insane.

Or hey, maybe more people could shop online? With well planned routes it could be more efficient than lots of people all travelling to one place.

Most mobile operators in the UK have stopped with SMS limits (unless you’re on the really really cheap plans or PAYG). Guess people just don’t use them enough to warrant caps on it.

I can see why Google doesn’t allow swapping out specific “core” apps such as settings. Giving a foreign app access to your system settings sounds ripe for abuse, which is why a lot of permissions are focused on changing them.

RCS does function over a data connection (and WiFi!), however unless you’re sending large files over the wire it’s probably not going to have any effect on your data bill. Text messages are a handful of kilobytes large at worst. SMS/MMS have lots of issues to do with security and capability, and most handsets support it in some form already.

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Plus, short of putting nuclear reactors on every ship, they can only really function on oil based fuels. Nothing compares in terms of energy density. If you somehow managed to put god knows how many battery packs on a ship without it sinking, it would probably take months to charge and suck tens of megawatts from the grid whilst doing it.

I live in the UK, and I can say it depends greatly on your circumstances.

In general, if you’re traveling between an outside town to a city it’s usually an alright experience.

However, if your commute is between two outside towns then you have to be lucky, otherwise a car ends up being the only real viable option. My work is about 15 miles away, and before I had a car I had the only option of a railway line that ran through my town. If that line ever had issues getting cancelled or on the train strikes were on that day I couldn’t get to work because to get my work was 2 buses and 2 hours to go 15 miles. The train ran once an hour and didn’t call at half the stops on a Sunday including the stop I needed for work so if it was a Sunday I literally could not get to work.

It’s not even cheaper than a car when I factor in leisure travel, many places I regularly go to take longer to get to by car and are usually a worse experience whether that be service infrequency, long layover times or services getting cancelled/being on strike.

And also it may save you down the road.

Sure, your dataset might not be big now but what about in a year’s time? It’s easier to start out using a database than to have to transition it later.

Not to mention that to host content on the scale that YouTube does is ruinously expensive both in terms of bandwidth and cost. It’s enough to choke out any smaller competitors almost immediately.

I don’t want to pay for YouTube premium because I don’t want YouTube music. I already have Spotify, why should I have a redundant service that I’m actively paying for.

I have no issues with paying for YouTube since at the end of the day video hosting on the scale that YouTube does cannot be profitable by ads alone.

I just wanna pay like £5 a month for just ad free viewing, none of the extra fluff crap like downloads or playing in the background or YouTube music.

Look I’m a patriotic Brit too but the side you drive on really doesn’t matter as long as everyone drives on it within that country.

See I used to think this was a feature where it auto translated titles for you because some of the titles are a bit nonsense. Guess not.

Well they want to prove who you are because a Google account is the central part of someone’s online life. I’d imagine that binning off all that info quickly looked really suspicious and flagged something on their systems. They can’t just let that slide because of the possible implications, someone might use that email as their bank account login or maybe it’s linked to something really personal.

Is it out of the goodness of their hearts? Hell no, it’s entirely to cover their asses from liability for damages.

Google also offers official parts through iFixit, which is better than most other manufacturers. I recently replaced the battery in my Pixel 6 Pro myself.