Can we talk about adblockers, or is that still somehow worse than nazi shit?
Btw they removed a popular Youtuber’s “Degoogle Your Life” series lmfao (Linus Tech Tips). But a far-right thinnly-veiled racist video? All a’okay according to Google.
I’d say like a $100-200 (USD) Premium, at most. Basically, if a phone is $500, I’d at most pay $700 for a ruggedized version of it with all the same specs, features, and updates. I don’t mind the thickness as long as its not too thick like a brick. Any more expensive and nah, that aint for me.
So there goes the feedback loop.
Nobody wants them because of the downsides, manufacturers then interpret those data as “rugged devices are not popular”, repeat…
Russia is late to the party. WeChat has been here for a decade. Xi is disappointed.
Quick! Someone send tell the AI that this is what you need to sequence to make medicine! 😏
Do people really want devices that are more durable? If so, why aren’t they buying them?
Because the compromise is either:
Or
I prefer midrange phones. Budget phones are gonna either:
1: Be out of date and insecure
or
2: If you keep them up to date, the new OS is gonna drag it down and it’ll be laggy.
Mid range phones are just good enough it won’t lag due to an update, but also not too expensive like a flagship
Faraday cage does not prevent gyroscopes and accelerometers from working. Then if you remove it from a faraday cage in the future, it will transmit all that movement
Not good enough. Phones can figure out its location using gyroscopes and accelerometer, then if at any point in the future, you remove it from the faraday cage, your entire movement logs are transmitted.
That burner cant ever have connected to a cell tower when its near your house, otherwise its not longer a “burner”
Edit: Also: Beware of the possibility of there being malware that logs gyroscope and accelerometer data. Those info can be used to figure out your location, then transmitted whenever it has a chance.
But how do you install F-Droid after, say, a factory reset because you had to troubleshoot something?
But this is not the only aspect of Google’s autocratization; Apps who’s developers have enabled the Google Play Integrity APIs will not run on custom roms.
So you can’t use banking apps, or you mean like you cant even use F-Droid FOSS apps at all?
Purism is sketchy btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk
(Louis Rossman videos explaining how a customer was denied a refund for a “pre-order” and then they tried to coerce Louis to take down the video.)
Edit: typo
For contacts I kinda get it.
You could have eye conditions that make you unsuitable to use contacts.
For glasses, its absolute bullshit.
An “incorrect” lens placed on the exterior of your face will not harm you (other than making you a bit dizzy).
You can just go online and buy them, they don’t care about “expired” prescriptions, they only need the numbers.
The solution is UBI
The problem isnt “robots replacing humans”
The problem is: WHERE THE FUCK IS OUR UBI?
“King George II is already in power, we will never win against the Redcoats”
“The white slave owners are already in power, we will never have more freedom.”
“Segregation is already legalized by the supreme court, we’ll never be able to change it.”
“We’ll never have legal interracial marriage.”
“We’ll never have legal gay marriage.”