Wait, how are CARS intercepting mobile activities?

a phone that looks like any other phone out there.

Phone reviewers:

Huh I wonder how is that different from Samsung Health or Google Fit.

With just how slow e-ink screens are, would you even notice the jank?

The real cost of enshittification is that they make it impossible for others to run honest business.

Who will pay a subscription for privacy respecting services when there are a dozen free alternatives. True cost of running online business has been completely hidden from users and for so long that they will never accept those that want to cover the costs upfront.

e.g. how many of you remain on Lemmy if instance owners asked for a monthly fee to cover their server costs?

That’s a recipe for data wipeout.

Let me reframe it as something evil.

I use eth, and random disconnects still happen. Switched to an SSD from an SD card, and it’s a bit more reliable now.

Is there something special about an audio jack that USB-C can’t do? And my past experience with SD cards has been consistently poor; prone to corruption and slow-ass writes.

Spoofing userdebug build is not enough. Likely that the code for USB display gets stripped from user builds.

There is no material loss. It’s not that X.org was swimming in cash before.

An electrone app for REST testing? Like running a freight train to move around a couch.

Paraphrasing MKBHD: Buy the phone for what it has today, not what it might have tomorrow.

I’d believe the promise of 7 years of updates from any other company but definitely not Google. In the words of Logan Roy

Actions above words. Apple has demonstrated long term support for their devices and still doesn’t promise anything. So I have a hard time believing in Google’s commitment.

I too love the made up lore of Linux nerds.

You can disable auto update of chrome. And you can switch your default browser. And you can install a system wide adblocker. And you can get a chill pill.

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Downvotes mean literally nothing here, even more so than Reddit. So I’d say don’t be discouraged. And if nobody ever disagrees with you in life, you are doing something wrong.

MKBHD’s yearly video lamenting Xperia Phones are my only reminder that Sony still makes phones.

My first smartphone was an Xperia, so I still have a soft spot for them. But it’s unlikely for them thrive in this market with cutthroat margins.

Damn. Didn’t notice this, but that thumb looks inverted.