Agreed, to a point… There’s cold and cold. Anything under 5F becomes extremely chilly the second it winds a little, IMHO. The upside with cold is you can usually put more layers if you’re still cold. With heat, at some point, you’re half naked and still sweating balls…

If only there was another grocery store than Maxi that sold okay quality stuff at discount prices around here. I’ve got a farmers market and a local grocery store where veggies get down to an interesting price in season, but otherwise I basically have to choose between Maxi, Walmart, or pay considerably more at IGA or Metro - with the wife, dog and two kids, it approaches a hundred more for comparable groceries at the latter. Can’t say I find giving my money to Sobeys or Metro any more attractive either…

Most the people getting the term “open source” wrong tend to use it to refer to so-called “source available” software - damn to I hate that name. IMHO, “open” being overloaded to mean both libre/free and open to read is where most of the confusion stems from. I like the FOSS/FLOSS acronyms for this reason.

No specific answer to every bullet point, but here it is. For reference, the last iPhone I owned before my current iPhone 15 was a 4S, so you can say it had been a while. I still like Android very much, and believe in the importance of there being a thing like AOSP, and I have used Android way more than iOS in my life. I used to be big into rooting/ROMs. IMHO, both stock Android and iOS were incredibly lacking as OSes, but Android at least had rooting and ROMs, and it was much less of a hassle to do it with that than iOS. I still fondly remember my bright red Nexus 5 w/ ParanoidAndroid and a sexy grey/black/red theme. Oh, and Xposed tweaks were neat too.

Biggest reason for switching for me was Android Auto. It’s either complete garbage, or my car’s head unit sucks, but I kept getting random disconnects multiple times per drive. Android Auto just stopped, then reconnected, like if I unplugged and replugged the cable. I tried changing cables for a bunch of different low and high quality brands. I cleaned my USB ports, both on the phone and in the car. I tried a wireless AA adapter dongle. I even changed from a Pixel 5 to a 7 and saw no difference. My nephew had the same issue with his Galaxy Flip in my car. Garage tried to resettle all connectors, etc.

Meanwhile, Carplay worked seamlessly on my wife’s iPhone 11. The last straw was when AA dropped as I was semi-lost downtown in foggy rain. From there, the thought process was basically: is there anything I do on my phone or think I may eventually like to do in this phone’s lifetime, that I can’t easily do with an iPhone? Answer was no. I can sign with Signulous for the odd app I want to sideload like emulators, but like 99% of what I actually need and use is on the App Store. Both stock Android and iOS are, for me, usable enough nowadays. Neither are perfect, but they’re fine as is, and so much less hassle lol.

TL;DR, I don’t really care any less or more about either one of the OS, both their UX is compatible with the things I use a phone for, and CarPlay works better than Android Auto for me.

Keyword “many”. Not all, and if you do find some data that can point to that direction, I can’t find anything concrete that points towards only 5-15% realistically could work without physical presence, I’ll gladly take it. Hell, remember the height of the pandemic measures, when only “essential” stuff was still running? That was still a shitton of people.

Your food needs a kitchen and a delivery pickup point. That point has to be decently close to all addresses that could be delivered to, or nobody would want to deliver, so that’s a bunch of physical kitchens already. Some of the point of restaurants is also the social gathering aspect, so you’re completely alienating a whole swathe of consumers - not everyone wants to eat alone at home.

Some business, or hell, even personal needs are not solved by signing up for yet another SaaS. Some companies have regulatory requirements/compliance. Others’ currently very simple operating costs would go through the roof doing so. My programmer, software architecture, security oriented mind also is screaming a little bit at the idea of a mom and pop bakery ran by two sextuagenarians now having to worry about keeping their Wordpress/WooCommerce up to date and secure. Why would I want to give my data and personal information to a bunch of random internet companies when I can have the same service without the data breach risk at the store down the road?

Many things are easier to source locally. Not everything is easy to find on the internet. Ever tried to find some odd screw for some obscure appliance by browsing pictures lol? Much easier to walk into my department store and physically compare. Another example, I was trying to find a Guitar Hero controller online. It ended up being much, much easier to find one at a decent price by looking up secondhand stores and thrift shops’ electronics sections - found one in a matter of a couple of visits for like $30. Online, I can’t find one under $120 right now.

Slightly off subject (or is it?), but I would also strongly push you to try and consume locally when possible rather than throwing even more money towards Amazon, Uber et al. Amazon in particular is an insane multinational-sized loss leader.

Wait what

Ffs

They’re rather unpleasant, aren't they?

I'll need a source about that "most" loans having a penalty. I thought the vast majority of car loans were open loans. At least, the couple of times I looked around for car financing, most were.

Before: ~110-120wpm, but shit accuracy
Right after switching: <30wpm
A month after switching: ~60wpm
Now (5 years layer): ~90-100wpm

I also couldn't type for crap on a regular keyboard after acclimating to my compact and ergo boards, but that came back. Now I'm able to switch between all of my boards (and my laptop's built-in) more or less interchangeably. I don't really care about the lost speed, it's still plenty fast enough for what I do - I'm a programmer, I spend more time thinking about code than writing it.

FYI I switch between a regular 60%, my laptop, an Iris (so thumb clusters) and a Planck.

Flat feet tend to make knees hurt much earlier, believe me

Source: guess

Noto for desktop apps. Inter is nice too. Roboto was a long time favorite of mine too.

Iosevka for monospace. Hack and Fira Code/Mono are great as well.

Some will still want to quit, but the extra steps might have the opposite effect of just not being able to stick to those self-inflicted constraints. I know all too well how it won't happen until you actually want to quit, I've since quit as well, but I know it wouldn't have worked for me, I'd have abandoned this plan in a matter of days, not so compatible with my usual ADHD scatterbrain. Too much organization.

Vapes, going down from 8mg to 0mg over a while, then eventually just having the habit left to drop, was what worked for me. YMMV, of course.