I'd suggest to have the occasional look at the "most popular repos" ranking. It's about 50% Chinese.
Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.
My current phone doesn't have a headphone jack, but if it did I would every day. Still use wired every day on laptop and pc.
Buurland, wat doet u nu?! Vond ik een rete goede serie.
I'm a backend dev. I needed basically a single js function for my personal website that called out to some NPM package. I thought: I'll do this the proper modern way, typescript and everything. Result: under 10 lines of code, but 12 config files (and 1.5h of fiddling with ES Modules vs CommonJS).
Snap is still alive? I haven't heard name in quite a while.
In hindsight, Pao wasn't so bad after all.
Speaking from a European perspective, with an existing rail network that mostly works: above about 300-400km (200-250 mi), the train starts hemorrhaging passengers to flight. Flight is still massively cheaper. Unless that equation changes, trains will always be an also-available regional/long distance travel mode.
The appeal is: 100% of your family and friends use it. A good fraction of businesses use it for customer service too. Not using it will have you left out of a pretty big chunk of social life.
In the Netherlands: whatsapp. You can't avoid whatsapp here. Telegram is used by a smaller fraction, but it got a bit of a bad rep during the pandemic due to primarily attracting anti-vax rioters.
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No one uses iMessage in Europe anyway. I don't know anyone who uses this in any significant capacity.
For decades I pronounced albeit like "al-bayt", instead of "all-be-it". I only ever saw it in writing, and never hears anyone say it. Meaning made also so much more sense when I finally heard it being said out loud. Eye opener.