As side note, Syncthing is an amazing piece of software. I sync everything for my other devices into a central PC and from there I do the backups.

- [0]: https://syncthing.net/

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First you need to choose a central device where you're going to send all of the important stuff from other devices like smartphones, laptops, etc. Then you need to setup Syncthing, which works on linux, macos, windows and others. For android there's Syncthing-fork[^2] but for iOS idk.

Setup the folders you want to backup on each device, for android, the folders I recommend to backup are DCIM, documents, downloads. For the most part, everything you care about will be there. But I setup a few others like Android/media/WhatsApp/Media to save all photos shared on chats.

Then on this central device that's receiving everything from others, that's where you do the "real" backups. I my case, I'm doing backups to a external HDD, and also to a cloud provider with restic[^3].

I highly recommend restic, genuinely great software for backups. It is incremental (like BTRFS snapshots), has backends for a bunch of providers, including any S3 compatible storage and if combined with rclone, you have access to virtually any provider. It is encrypted, and because of how it was built, can you still search/navigate your remote snapshots without having to download the entire snapshot (borg[^4] also does this), the most important aspect of this is that you can restore individual folders/files. And this crucial because most providers for cloud storage will charge you more depending on how much bandwidth you have used. I have already needed to restore files and folders from my remote backups in multiple occasions and it works beautifully.

[^1]: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing [^2]: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android [^3]: https://github.com/restic/restic [^4]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

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If you're talking gaming content for Vision, I think they would go with Sony. They have what seems to be a good partnership. There's official support for the dualsense on apple devices and apple brought AppleMusic to the playstation store. Steve Jobs himself was a fan of Sony[1]

[1]: https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/anton-shilov/...

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That's not what 0!=1 means in math, the ! means factorial, which is to multiply by decreasing positive integers. Here's the definition:

n! = n x (n -1) x (n - 2) x . . . x 2 x 1

So, for people starting to learn calculus/math, being told that 0!=1 makes no sense

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You can start experimenting with Lua and the new plugins whenever you're able to.

[1]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1716

Is it possible that they pushed that updated only to certain regions ?

Also, look at vim/neovim. They are still one of the most popular text editors (much more popular than emacs for example), look at the stackoverflow developer survey, in the last one neovim was ranked the most loved text editor and vim is ALWAYS ranked between on of the most used editors. You need a dozen plugins if you want anything close to a modern IDE, yet they are still very popular and used.

who knows when that is coming and when are we going to be able to buy regular laptops from e.g. Lenovo, HP, Acer, etc with that.

By the time that happens, Apple may already be on their third, fourth? generation on M1. Which is going to much much much faster than M1.

Outside of the countries where iOS is on par with Android (I think US, Canada and UK are the only ones, maybe also Australia) in terms of popularity, I don't know or have seen a single person using iMessage, of course there's a lot people using iphone outside of the mentioned countries, but absolutely nobody uses iMessage.

The whole discrimination of the color bubble seems to only happen in those countries were iOS is the same or more popular than android and people is actually using iMessage.

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