Might be Ayase Momo from Dandadan?

I, too, would be impressed by a pretty rock. Who needs absurdly expensive rings when you could have pretty rock 😌

(Plus, I’d always take a nice rock in my hand over the sensory nightmare of a ring on my finger)

I guess when you keep passing imaginary money in a circle with your tech buddies in order to make line go up with no regulation and an enabling government the actual business doesn’t have to make sense anymore…

At least in the EU they were forced to allow other browser engines a few years ago, but their “solution” sounds like some malicious compliance (because of course, it is Apple we’re talking about after all): https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines/ Apparently you have to request some special entitlement and fulfill a lot of requirements to be allowed to ship an app with anything other than WebKit.

If you feel like it, tell me the first random astronomy thing that comes to your mind 👀

Correct me if I’m wrong, but, regarding the first point, in what way are the calendar clients proprietary? Unless I am missing something, the clients for iOS and Android are open source and licensed under GPLv3 while the desktop client (part of the mail app) appears to be licensed under AGPL v3.

The email system not working with Thunderbird etc. out-of-the-box is true but that is kind of understandable, considering that the emails are only stored and transmitted to the first-party clients in an encrypted form that other clients couldn’t work with? And you could use the mail bridge (which is also open source, if I am not mistaken) to expose them as a local server to be used by Thunderbird etc., right? Maybe not ideal but I’d agrue it’s “fine”.

I do agree that there are things to dislike about Proton but those two don’t seem like problems in my opinion…

Well, that was a painful watch. Constant overly dramatic music and sound effects, surprisingly little actual engineering talk, the same handful of B-roll shots and transitions over and over again, Shell executives patting themselves on the back. And the same “they had to turn to the past” for every challenge they encountered…

The editing felt like I was watching an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, not an engineering documentary.

In case you missed it in the article, the transfer speeds are mentioned just two paragraphs prior to the one you cited:

Over the next three to four years, Kazansky said, SPhotonix aims to improve the data transfer speed of its technology from a write time of 4 megabytes per second (MBps) and read time of 30 MBps to a read/write speed of 500 MBps, which would be competitive with archival tape backup systems.