I'm guessing here, but the only thing that makes sense in context is Fixed Wireless Access, FWA.
Maybe some error with the initialism snuck in because Shimitar is from Italy. I could see myself doing something similar, since in German we read W as "vee".
Well, maybe now with a republican FCC
lol, no
All these shady things started happening after he left.
Not really, they have a history of this kind of thing. They just calmed down a little between roughly 2005 and 2015.
The big antitrust case when they killed Netscape was in 1998. Bill Gate's deposition from that case is kind of interesting to watch as a historical document. It's on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL90W55zhFBOuZuhgxBsjpgDy0o3ll1PSz
In that lawsuit their "Embrace Extend Extinguish" strategy in which they tried to smother open standards became public too.
They tried with Java and their J++ language too, but failed luckily. And lost a lawsuit against Sun on the way.
No, I don't, but thanks for asking
I think there were like two couples and another person entering the building just ahead of me, so I had to wait 10 seconds until it was my turn to drop my envelope in the urn. This was in Switzerland, in a suburb of Zürich.
But more often I just walk in up to the box, say hello to the people organising and drop it in directly. I've never encountered a queue yet.
Wow they really went into their stupid useless plan in the most ham-fisted way
On a general note I would say for the individual consumer it doesn't matter so much if they keep releasing yearly, we just don't have to buy yearly.
It's kind of a waste of resources for the manufacturers supporting more models than necessary. If that leads to shorter support schedules that's when it impacts us. But as you observed they seem to be lengthening at the moment.
I'm currently on a Pixel 6 from 2021, that I bought used from someone who was chasing the latest and greatest. I have no reason for changing yet. After October 2026 when support ends I'll see if I have to migrate to Graphene OS or something. If no secure path forward exists I may have to get newer hardware then.
From what I can tell, the only OEM that does this currently might be Fairphone.
Does what? I don't see anything in the sentences before that "this" could refer to.
I got three, they all seem to work on me, but sometimes I prefer one over the other for no clear reason.
Counting my breath duration. Breath in at normal speed, count how long it is, then breath out slower than that by two or three counts.
Force my thoughts to become disorganised. I do something like free association between concepts and pictures of the inner eye. Common starting point for me is a free flight over a hilly landscape, then random things, woods, trees, rocks, water whatever, I don't try to control anything about the theme. If I start thinking coherently or about something concrete from my life, I just start again, with another nature scene.
Imagine a calm scene. The suggested starting point I was told was floating on an air matteress in an alpine lake (helps that we know those around here, but I'm sure non-alpine lakes work too) and imagine the things you can see uphill as you drift around your axis.
I wouldn't say it's in trouble. It's about to be retired by ICANN. But there isn't any trouble, just standard policy processes.
Damn that's a spectre that I hadn't even thought of yet.