Belgium is a state, and not a nation. "Nation state" has a specific meaning, separate from "state". Belgium has two major cultural groups (Walloon and Flemish) who tend to be at odds with each other, hence is not a nation. Contrast Kurdistan, which is a nation but not a state.
This isn't about pedantry, it's about not using a phrase incorrectly and through doing so giving misinformation. Pedantry might be pointing out that "foot pedal" is redundant - all pedals are foot-operated by definition. That wouldn't matter because the meaning is unaltered by the redundancy. However saying that Belgium (or the USA) is a nation state is simply incorrect.
Most of those devices are interchangeable, so if you have one from NatWest, Barclays etc it will probably work with your card. It's also possible to replaec the battery on most of them.
Have you ever considered, oh maybe using a Mac rather than making up complete bollocks(*)? Or perhaps looking up the well-documented and fully supported procedure for installing unsigned software? Or maybe noticing that the procedure is usually only needed for applications like FreeTube where the developer has a reason to remain anonymous? Yes, you can disable SIP. But you will struggle to find a need to do so.
If that’s what you get reading that comment then maybe ask your lawyer to pump some grey grease into the upper few inches next time you two are at a petrol err gas station.
> usually only needed for applications like FreeTube
No, looks like that won’t be sufficient. Pumping grey won’t be sufficient. Ask the lawyer to also do a “recent top posts on hn” search for you, assuming their marbles don’t yet melt at first sight of fruit company criticism/rant.
> you will struggle to find a need to do so.
Right. A member of the “you are holding it wrong” + “this is how it’s supposed to be used” genus spotted. Not your fault then. Here you go: yeah, you are right. Consider yours truly enlightened and in your immense intellectual debt.
Something I am interested in is the most ephemeral of technology: maintenance customs. As an example, in my country we have a small number of chalk figures. These are large figures cut in to the landscape, then packed with white chalk to stand out against the grass. Probably the most famous is the White Horse of Uffington (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_White_Horse), but there are a small number of others such as the Cerne Abbas Giant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant). Dating them is difficult. The only technique I know of that can be used is optically stimulated luminescence, which was used to put the White Horse at 1380 BC and 550 BC, but by its nature this should be interpreted as "no later than", since it relies on finding material which was exposed to sunlight when the figure was cut and has not been exposed since then. (I worked on the early development of OSL dating, so this is a professional opinion).
The interesting part is that these figures are transitory. If they are not maintained, they disappear - which almost happened to the Long Man of Wilmington (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Man_of_Wilmington). Hence at least for the White Horse, we know that there has been at least an intermittent custom of scouring out the figure and replacing the chalk since prehistoric times up to the present. It's not as neat as a village gathering every seven years to do the job, but there is still a continuity of custom.
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