AI slop AND US politics. Great.

Nobody fucking cares and nobody is going to fucking care.

I mean, if you want tone policing, reddit is still there.

Cool. I’m not going to do that another three times when I can spend less money on phones that don’t break.

Not to mention Google doesn’t do stores where I live.

During which time I have no phone.

Not acceptable. Bought something else.

I have owned 3 pixels.

5a - bricked randomly 8 - screen failed within 6 months 6a - stuck in a bootloop, gave up on fixing it just before the battery issue made headlines

I gave them a fair shake. Never again.

absolutely have to

absolutely have to

And if I can’t, I’ll just stop using the internet for anything I don’t absolutely have to.

I don’t really need my smartphone. A laptop will do.

Except that’s exactly what we want. Google services that respect privacy and aren’t full of ad cancer.

Banned in North America in 3… 2…

It doesn’t.

That’s fine.

Headphone jack would have been trivial to add.

For $700 I’m not interested in compromising my own convenience for theirs.

Impractical shape. Second screen has no practical use at that size.

Looks useless.

I didn’t keep track of how that lawsuit turned out.

That said, it is labeled “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” on everything in the car.

Supervised as in you have to be ready to stop this kind of thing. That’s what the supervision is.

I wouldn’t have had time between pumping iron and getting head, myself.

Driver failed to control their car and avoid a collision.

FTFY.

I’m sure the car did actually take the action. But there are TONS of unavoidable warnings and reminders to the driver to supervise and take control when FSD goes wrong.

Which you can do by such super-technical means as “hitting the brake” or “steering the other way” or “flipping the right stalk up”. Rocket science, I know.

Driver’s fault. Bad technology, yes. Worse driver.

Yes.

You hit the brake.

Corporations can’t suffer. It doesn’t matter whether you “steal” from them or not.