Well someone’s gotta pay for that small country’s worth of wasted electricity

These cars are passing EU safety tests which are generally more demanding than the USA.

They are definitely getting good, fast.

…for now

It’s less that people are putting faith in Elon (sure, some fanatics might be), but it’s that everyone else is somehow even worse.

SpaceX is actually getting stuff to space, despite their prototypes blowing up. Hell, even if this Starship thing is a complete failure and never works, their existing rocket, the Falcon, is still far beyond any of the competition.

The SLS: $10 Billion and a decade late to develop a ship that recycles old Space shuttle parts, then costs $2-3 Billion per launch, and maybe can only launch one every 2 years.

ULA Vulcan: currently years late, still finding problems, and even after all that gets worked out, it can maybe do 6 launches a year?

SpaceX: 1-2 launches per week.

That’s not faith, that’s just facts. I would absolutely love to have somebody else step up and take SpaceX’s crown, but… there really isn’t anybody. Bezos’s Blue Origin may have the biggest chance, but they are more likely to act like ULA than SpaceX.

I tried to hold out, but for my current phone I prioritized camera quality over headphone jack. I definitely use the cameras more than the headphones.

With that being said, those two features are essentially mutually exclusive. Good cameras are a “flagship” feature, whereas lacking headphone jacks are also a flagship “feature.”

The only exception is Sony, which unfortunately is very overpriced.

it doesn’t even work in my region, so it’s a no go.

I like the idea of the fairphone. And it would be nice if you could upgrade individual modules, like the camera, battery, or screen. But that would probably require way higher costs in support

yep. I don’t think the Pixel 8’s AI capabilities are much more powerful than the 7. Most of the new features they advertised are offloaded to the servers.

I was thinking of getting a Pixel if the price dropped enough, but I just can’t live with a shitty battery no matter the price. That’s one of my dealbreakers. OP12 is potentially my next phone though.

I think the modem is the same anyway. At most they may have changed some behaviour with software but it’s still crap.

no small efficiency cores… really have to wonder what the battery life will be with this.

Then again, maybe simply running the large core at a lower speed will end up being the same efficiency as a small core? Qualcomm is also cutting down on small cores for the Gen 3…

because it costs $999.

it only does what a <$500 phone can do, the the only reason pixels can “do what no other phones do” is not capability but artificial restrictions.

surprisingly this is how people defend the new pixel 8 pro.

$999 for mid-range performance? “Well I don’t play games anyway so it’s fine”

I’d be happy with a mid-range phone too, except I want a good camera. That’s basically the only reason I’m looking at high end phones…

Also it’s such bullshit that only mid-range phones have SD cards these days.

Well the 8 looks like a terrible value. Minimal upgrades over the 7, no software benefits like pro controls, $100 price increase.

Just wait for the 7 to go on sale and get that instead.

blow it all on a gacha game and don’t even get a single character you want

the successor to a watch with below average battery life, to pair with the successor to a phone with below average battery life.

It’s like Google doesn’t even know the length of a day here.

doesn’t look like it’s getting the GN2 sensor. Which is weird because that would mean it also isn’t getting staggered HDR

wait until they hear about headphone jacks!

this is the company that invented a mouse you have to flip over to recharge…

too expensive and battery life isn’t as good. 5V is already stretching my budget. I guess I could wait and hope there’s a massive sale at some point, but I was already intending to wait for the 5V to go on sale, not buying at release.