In mountain locations, rain tends to run off the ground and into rivers as it rains. This depends on the region, but happens often in Spring/Fall.
Snowmelt, when the weather warms gradually, will slowly melt. It will seep into cracks and replenish underground water sources. It will also slowly replenish rivers often into (and sometimes throughout) the Summer.
So, a gradual snowmelt helps with the water cycle.[1] If warm weather comes fast, then the benefits over rain are diminished. Then less desirable effects like flooding can happen.
Milder winters mean huge swathes of the world where certain disease-ridden and economically disastrous pests like ticks and termites are currently walled out from due to the extreme cold in the winter are suddenly going to be much worse places to live.
Of course they will take your passport. First time I bought sim in store, it was illegal to use foreign phones, and shop owner had to fake his IMEI. Airports never had this restrictions or asked for IMEI.
AFAIK foreign IMEI was never illegal in Turkey. The registration requirement started in 2011, before that you could just pop a local SIM and use it.
Any IMEI can be registered within a specific timeframe(they change it from time to time but it's usually 3 weeks to 12 months) or the GSM operator will deny service to your device. It could be that you missed your deadline because to register an IMEI you need to do it within certain timeframe after you enter the country, there was even a business of paying tourist to use their passports for registering IMEI of black market imports.
Those who legally import phones for sale in Turkey also register the IMEI of every device but at different and much lower rates than the individual registrations(they pay other taxes).
That's probably it. Instead of you paying this ridiculous registration fee, the clerk probably offered you a cloned Turkish IMEI. That's another popular workaround!
》The primary argument against soldering the SSD, or really any other part, down like this tends to be that "Oh, now you can't just save money by upgrading it yourself|replacing it when it breaks
Are you trolling? The primary argument is data recovery. Anything on laptop can die: charging port, motherboard... With soldered ssd your data are gone! You need to resolder SSD into exact same machine type, it may take 5 weeks if you are lucky!
It takes 5 minutes to swap normal SSD into new machine and reboot! Maybe 1 hour if you have to go into shop!
I don't see how data recovery is an issue. You should be backing up off-site and locally anyway. Why would you optimize for the specific case of most of the laptop dying but not the SSD? It's more likely your laptop will get stolen or lost or dunked in water or burned in a fire. The soldering will make no difference in that case. Use backups.
there is ZERO benefit to users of soldering an SSD or any other part. Its done purely for profit.
Stop conflating the issue with backups, the 2 have nothing to do with each other. Even if you take regular backups you can and will lose critical data when any $5 part on your $3-4k machine goes bad.
JVM has many competing implementations[1]. Also it is not used by clueless end users, but by tech workers. They will protest is JVM gets "phone home" "features" and other bloatware privacy-killing crap.
End users of browsers do not have this insight into their tools.
Yes, Oracle's JVM is dominant (but not on Android, which is a huge installed base). So is Chrome in browser land. Still good that Java has many, and FF exists.
Mozilla may pivot to VPN and network privacy stuff. But that won't save Firefox. I would rather have independent party on Chromium source, to balance large corporations, than half baked alternative engine.
I think it is more about rhetoric, fear mongering and climate "fight". My government wants to ban cars. Transporting kids on bike in rain, wind and 40 degree F is somehow good thing.
> Transporting kids on bike in rain, wind and 40 degree F is somehow good thing
As a kid I did this every day for years and see absolutely no issue with it (-5 to +25c instead of 40F), all year long in any weather. My parents either brought me by bike or I went on my own when I was old enough.
I know one whose two children are younger than that who doesn't, so that is a provably useless generalisation. (And afaik it's not climate-motivated, could be, just no idea and wouldn't assume so.)
It's not difficult at all with the right equipment which is much cheaper than a car.
And that's even before you consider what a game-changer e-bikes are.
Weather is a non-issue. The main problem is fear of cars. It's a classic tragedy of the commons / race to the bottom for "safety" with giant SUVs. Maybe ADAS systems are one way out, but real safety ultimately requires safe bicycle infrastructure and scaling back the number of cars on the road.
Weather is a big issue. It is impossible to put kid into buggy/trolley in rain without it getting wet. 1 year old with pneumonia is a horrible thing. Add shopping in rain etc...
Bikes have horrible safety record on their own, even in "safe" bicycle infrastructure. Crashing into pole on bike and in car is a big difference. Common bike-buggies have zero protection for kids.
Are you speaking from experience? I am. Proper equipment solves for rain and snow.
Crashing into a pole with your kid on board? A) don't do that? B) you'll all be fine as the speeds you should be riding with children along.
Not sure what you mean by a "bike buggy", but bike-mounted seats do provide protection against falls, and bike-towed trailers are essentially immune to them. Longtail cargo bikes put the children in the rear and have a bar that also protects during a fall. Box bikes are very difficult to overturn completely and also provide protection.
If you want to talk safety records, cars are by far the worst. They're extremely dangerous for the occupants and everyone around them.
It is possible to have safe, effective biking infrastructure in any weather. Kids in Finland bike to school when the temperature is in the teens (Fahrenheit). This isn’t an impediment.
