* excellent battery life - can't complain about it. I'm not streaming YouTube on 5G on the phone, and I've found out that it can last about two days per charge with light use - messenger apps, phone calls, emails. YMMV of course. * a great OLED screen - it's bright & crisp. I haven't seen a better screen in person yet. * a great camera - it's a very good camera IMO. Takes good shots of people and nature and shoots impressive videos of music shows in dark basements. * durable/rugged - not sure about 15, but my SE2 was abused and dropped. The metal sides were dinged, the screen had a few nasty scratches, but the phone held up together very well. * fast enough to feel snappy and not laggy - iOS is much nicer and snappier that any of the Android phones (HTC Desire S, Galaxy Note II, Xperia Z3, Xiaomi Mi6) I've had. * don't want to buy a brand-new $1000 phone every year or two - I think iPhones do last a few years, given the fact that my wife uses 13 and has zero desire (or reasons, really) to upgrade.

The only requirement the iPhone doesn't fit is the storage - Apple charges an absurd price for storage upgrades on all of their devices. I went with the cheapest option and pay for a large iCloud subscription, and it seems to work well - the photo and file sync between the phone, Macbook & even my Windows machine is seamless and quick.

It also feels nice to give my money to a company that doesn't shove ads down my throat. Apple are not saints, they collect a lot of data and telemetry that I'm not a fan of, but at least they are not a corporation that is built on advertising.

I remember reading the Domains announcement and thought to myself - “you have to be a fool to trust Google to host your domains long-term”. Feels good to be right, but I feel bad for everyone who jumped on the bandwagon. I cant imagine trusting Google products to last those days.

Those "other bricks" are quite useful when you want something that Lego won't produce. For example gimp figurine for your Pulp Fiction diorama.

I wonder how do people still use google to find what the want on the web?

The AVs do not work well in the edge cases - exactly in those situations where humans can apply common sense and behave accordingly. Exactly the cases that sceptics seemed to be worried about, and it turns out that the sceptics were right.

I hope AVs will not be allowed on public roads where I live in the next decades.

An ex-colleague “sold” us developers nomad once as an easier, better alternative to k8s. They used exact same arguments, and we ended up with Nomad for our test and staging environments. It was such a mess, while it covered basic “run this” scenarios fine, nothing like kustomize or helm for nomad existed back then (I doubt it exists now). The tooling was non-existent, neither were good practices or recommended setups - nobody seemed to know how to tie it into a ci/cd setup without a bunch of bash scripts to get basic stuff like templating working. Implementing any kind of edge case or a tricky requirement felt like we are doing breakthrough work since no documentation, guide or SO page covered anything but “simple setup of your nomad cluster in two steps” - nomad is simply not popular enough. That experience made me swear off any unpopular but “trust-me-bro-its-actually-good” software.

Sorry for the rant, your post made me remember how pissed I was at our tech stack back then.