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From Bill Chen of the National University of Singapore on the Huawei Mate 60 Pro:

"This phone is not subject to sanctions.
It has nothing to do with Google.
It has nothing to do with TSMC.
It has nothing to do with any western semiconductor tool manufacturer.
It has nothing to do with any Taiwan/South Korea/Japan/U.S. parts or material suppliers.
It has nothing to do with U.S. patents.
No other mobile phone manufacturer can achieve such an achievement.
It has nothing to do with the United States at all, and it is completely outside the scope of sanctions. This is a historic first."

[…]

"The comprehensive sanctions on Huawei have cut off its dependence on foreign suppliers who are vulnerable to U.S. sanctions, and forced Huawei to establish a supply chain that can only be carried out domestically, which allows it to withstand sanctions without losing his livelihood. The existence of this completely independent supply chain (including non-Swift financing) is a nightmare for Gina Raimondo and her Department of Commerce."

@sumudu It will arrive before her birthday?

// @matigo @peemee

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I wonder if I could live with a Light Phone II (perhaps combined with an iPod Touch or iPad Mini or paper notebook).

Perhaps I should have made my Castle Hill post a blog/article. I just feel like I'm short-changing if I do a short blog entry.

@jextxadore Oh. Interesting to see what price they put on their services….

// @matigo

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@matigo Will you reset the phone to try and get G.P.S. working? The drives I've done recently, although very short have been fun. When you drive somewhere new it always feels like an excursion, providing it's not through a non-descript, urban jungle.

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@sumudu If it was me, I'd just tell her I'd ordered two by mistake and say 'do you want one as a birthday present? It's the blue one'. You could still take her out for a meal on her birthday and give her a small surprise present (maybe some fairly inexpensive dress jewellery). But she's you wife, you know what pleases her and what displeases her.

// @matigo @peemee

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Today I decided to visit Castle Hill on the outskirts of Huddersfield. It's a natural hill on which earthworks were built in the late-Bronze Age or early Iron Age to create a hillfort. Later, the Victorians built a stone tower on top of it. The things in my little excursion that made an impression were:

The drive there. It was like the Alps at times (slight exaggeration). Small hills but some of them go up in a hurry. And some of the roads through the former mill towns are narrow, tricky and windy. Driving over the brow of a hill and suddenly seeing the tower perched on the 'castle' in front of me was quite impressive. The picture shown here was not the best view of it, the better view was a bit further back and higher up but this one is still a decent photo.

The last bit of road up the hill. Yes, you can drive right on to the plateau. There's a car park there. The final bit of road is horrible. It's steep with a nasty bend, a dangerous drop on one side and most of it is not wide enough for two cars. I drove up quickly and prayed no car would be coming down at the same time. If there had been, one of us would have had to do some very unpleasant reversing. The road was a bit of a shock because it looks like a piece of cake on the satellite view.

The views. There aren't any spectacular snow-capped peaks in this part of the World but it's nice to get up high and see the patchwork of towns, villages and pastures laid out below you. It's nice to take in a big sky as well. It made me take some panoramas, something I rarely do.

@matigo Ouch.

// @peemee

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