Outside the Apple world, a dock connector has been the norm way before USB C was invented.

The incident strains ties between Iran and Russia

No, it doesn’t. The Ayatollah cares as little about his people as Putin does.

The Swiss had a great relationship with the Nazis, so this isn’t out of character.

It has a soft paywall.

I think the common practice is to link to the original in the URL bar and then use the body text to do paywall/loginwall removals.

do you really feel it in DE?

No. It affects some data traffic between Finnland and Germany, not some random home network. There are enough fallback routes.

I’ve been trying to locate what I messed up in my home network earlier today

Your HOME network? I don’t think you know what the difference between LAN and WAN is.

Why don’t you just cancel it now and use ad blockers?

Joel explains this in the second sentence: “I’m OK with it, especially considering that it supports creators more than ad viewers”