Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts
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"For the amount of space it takes to include a second speaker or second camera it doesn't really make sense when you can just plug in an external one"
You sound like an idiot.
I can buy a phone from HMD that's more repairable, more modular, and has sustainable features.
Fairphone has been a busted flush since they ditched the headphone jack. It's just the most obvious sign amongst many they started making landfill phones.
Edit: Disregard. I have the 13, not the 12.
~~Normal laptop formfactor. You can have a touch screen as an option but it doesn't do the full 360 fold round into a tablet.
I own one and the hinge goes 180.
It's an excellent laptop, I grabbed one when the first AMD board was available and it runs Fedora flawlessly and has windows on an SSD when I need it.~~
You could afford a house and got a free or cheap education
The state has sold off everything in your lifetime to keep your taxes low, including housing. Which you bought and now own.
Millennials are generation rent with a government renting back what it sold as taxes rise.
And the cold war is still going on, what is it about Gen X that makes them think it stopped. Putin is at war in Europe right now. The cold war only ever paused.
Proxy wars didn't stop with Vietnam, the cold war didn't stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
You get to experience the events of the world while being comparatively rich.
You got to experience the only decade or so without a cold war threat while millennials experience the threat of Russia and an increasing threat from China.
And millennials were told as children the world would burn if we did nothing. Gen X and the Boomers did nothing.
Yes it sucks.
But you had it good, and politically you've fucked us recently. After being previously politically apathetic.
We've got a world to repair and it remains to be seen if Millennials will actually move past apathy into fixing it with Gen Z or continuing to fuck it up like Gen Z.
No headphones jack.
Trash generating hypocrites.
HMD are doing everything better than fair phone now with their latest models. More repairable, more flexible, long term support and updates.
Cheaper too.
Except they were basically beyond design life.
And every new plant comes decades late and 4x the original budget.
It's Valve so I'm calling it now. There will be a Steam Deck 2. It wil be awesome.
There will be no Steam Deck 3. The market will take over and Valve will lose interest after the innovation is finished.
Sure and cops can't lie about being a cop.
Definitely real rules.
Due to a quirk of unifying 2 standards, Europe and the UK, the range is 216.2 volts to 253.0 volts.
That encompasses infrastructure built to a tighter tolerance around 220V in Europe and infrastructure built to a tighter tolerance around 240V in the UK (and Australia).
We expect 3150W out of a kettle most of the time. Our heaters will say 3kW.
Usually you'll find a few volts over 240 out of our outlets and that's to design spec.
It remains to be seen what he's actually done to benefit anyone who gave him anything.
And he stopped accepting them once he entered the office. We found out because he told us about it all and the mistake of accepting some gifts a bit too late.
With the only arguable benefits being publicity for the brand it's not nothing but it really is daft the perspective tricks that have been played with that particular molehill. It's the press that actually gave the gifters the benefits, not any actions by Starner himself.
Being given something isn't proof of being bought. Acting for the person who gave you something is.
I predict that as the COVID era corruption comes to light his previous job will result in him prosecuting and recovering quite a lot of public money. Sadly I don't think he will get a result of jail time for anyone. The laws just aren't in place for that and he can't get them made retrospectively.
A UK constitution would be very interesting. But I'd just settle for some actual laws specifically against corruption rather than relying on MPs following conventions and being honourable.
The shocking thing is that hundreds of millions of pounds worth of corruption through the "fast lane" wasn't illegal to do. We'll only be able to recoup from the companies who actually didn't deliver their contracts.
He's a prosecutor who apparently can't be bought.
That's far more dangerous to a billionaire than a firebrand.
If Starner only delivers a non-corrupt legal system it'll be an incredible win for the Country. But I do think he needs 10 years in office so he should focus on actually winning the next election.
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Look into the maintenance costs of Germany's 1970s reactors before calling an entire nation brain dead.
The cost of nuclear today is high and continues for thousands of years. Cost is the entire problem.
Nuclear power isn't green, it's just at the beginning of the cycle where it's waste is seen as a small problem because there isn't a lot of it. Like fossil fuels were a century ago.
Unfortunately we don't have a lot of suitable places to put nuclear waste so the small amount we already have is already causing problems in Europe. The US being a bigger place may get to that point a little later than us. But nuclear waste stores are already oversubscribed in the UK, Germany, and France.
Nuclear power is short sighted.
The money spent should be on renewables and grid storage. Then more efficient heating and insulation.
Not nuclear, not carbon capture.
Proponents of nuclear power never look at the total lifecycle cost of a reactor. In fact it's usually deliberately hidden.
Nuclear reactors have always been and will always be military technology. They should be funded as military spending.
By all means put a price on carbon so they can get a better price on energy but the military should be funding the reactors they need and dealing with the waste out of their budgets.
It was dead the moment we didn't elect a low towing fop.
Russia funded and led the conservative movement here in the past 10 years. We got Brexit, we got incompetent government, they got a place to park their wealth (a lot of it is still here), they got crimes without much fuss.
Europe was weakened.
As the funding for Trump's loans and Musk's Twitter buyout as well the moment we woke up and voted for a different party we became a target state instead of a puppet state.
Even Boris Johnson realised we had to help Ukraine. They replaced him with Truss and Sunak, more controllable puppets.
There are of course other factors, but the effect of global oligarchs spending fossil fuel wealth is clear in Western Democracy at the moment. Saudi is another big influence, they court both sides as long as they aren't crossed.
Every crisis delays climate action, every election they can influence delays action. The longer they delay the more profit they get.
Trains are easy and they're easily electrified already. So putting solar on the trains won't have any advantage.
Rails are the difficult part of railways. They never seem to put them between my house and my work. They've put something called a road in between instead.
Not when you consider the maintenance costs of the plants they closed. Basically of them were beyond original design life.
And the democracy sausage!
Because by having a private company "screen" people there's added corruption.
He gets to simply sell clearances to private companies.
You've proven yourself wrong.
Mochi Tetsu is mentioned in that article as being a source that produces higher quality products than iron sand. Exactly what you're arguing against.
The facts are that due to the limited availability of good quality iron ore the steel produced in Japan often used iron sand and that led to lower quality products.
Why? The past lives long in the memory.
Sony was at the Vanguard of Japan's post-war recovery. Making any electronics for the home.
Rice cookers and standard small white goods in the 40s.
They had a huge success with the transistor radios in the mid 50s.
Bearing in mind transistors themselves were first created in 1947. Sony is putting them in consumer products 8 years later. Copying a product produced in small numbers but making it better. Using the latest technology.
I own a 1960s reel to reel machine that still works perfectly. Sound on sound recording, echo and reverb effects. Built using transistors and "solid state" amplifies. Not at the cutting edge but using transistors to mass produce a product more reliably than previous tech.
All high fi equipment following the same pattern. Can they replace the old style amplifiers in record players. Yep.
The cassette tape comes along Sony makes it portable. And this is the point they also start hitting the top of the market in quality.
The portable tape decks Sony produced are considered the best.
This is while they're dealing with videotape and producing betamax and the first consumer recorders and cameras.
Sony is a mark of reliability from the 50s by replacing old tech with transistors and a mark of quality by being better than the mass market competition by the 70s.
They then look at digital and create their own media. Betamax is a war they eventually lost even though it was better quality than VHS. But they made money on the professionals end of the market because of that quality.
This moved Sony into that direction. Focusing on the premium product, aiming high and for the mass market, but with the idea that quality will guarantee the high end segment.
In audio
Digital cassette DCC, DAT CD SACD Competition for Dolby Surround SPDIF optical audio. LDAC Bluetooth protocol
All the devices to play and record/transmit these.
In video: U-matic Betamax MMCD (mothballed to then partnering with DVD) Blu-ray Blu-ray 4K
The devices to play and produce them. The media to go on them from Sony Music and Sony Pictures.
Displays they created Trinitron displays to go with their analogue video cameras and formats.
They produced the first LED backlit LCDs. They produced the first quantum dot displays to go with the professional cinema quality digital cameras.
In the computing world they produced the first 3.5" floppies then CDs, then flash memory storage.
They tried to partner with Nintendo on the first CD-Rom gaming system and, when they were kicked out, launched their own console.
Sony have aimed for the professional market and bring those lessons learned to the masses.
Always based around a media format.
1999 Sony produced SACD. R&D in audio finished when that wound up in 2007.
High end audio equipment before that point is great. After that it's just badges up stuff made to the lowest price.
2006 Sony produced Blu-ray. Blu-ray 4K looks to be the last gasp in 2016.
They were aiming for the top with video, TVs and blu ray players were great.
They're still the best quality audio and video products you can buy.
But no one is buying them. We left quality of CDs for the convenience of mp3. We left Blu-ray for streaming.
We left high quality physical products for software products and codecs for convenience.
We left individual electronic devices for smart phones.
Sony have stopped R&D and quality control on devices as the market for them has dropped.
You can still buy a great high end TV from Sony.
Everything else, they've let the high end go.
If the high end isn't mass market. Then they're not going to make it high end anymore.
But as the last mass manufacturer to leave so many segments over the years. The cheapest high end device is still often a second hand Sony.
When the high end drops out of a segment all the individual components they would mass produce get penny pinched. Before they would produce huge numbers of lasers for CD players and make sure they were all good enough across the whole range.
When no one wants a high end CD player, no more high quality lasers get made.
The same with each component. Amplifiers, connectors, buttons, power supplies.
Sony's products borrowed from each other's tech and as the high end went in one area it had knock on effects in others.
Look at the PS5, the components are not produced in Japan by Sony. They're outsourcing.
The 4K Blu-Ray disk drive is optional.
They say they're unlikely to ever release their 8K Blu-Ray standard.
Top quality is no longer a priority and you place 20 years ago about right for audio. Probably 10 years ago for video.
The playstation 3 was Sony's last CD player in a console. The last to be backwards compatible. The last of the Sony attitude of trying to be the best and trying to be backwards compatible.
The best CD players, SACD, players, DVD players etc all come in one Sony 4k UHD Blu Ray box.
Then you need a decent receiver and speakers to take that digital signal through a DAC, and amplify it. The last vestage of high end Sony audio is there.
The TVs the last of Sony's high end lines in general.
The best portable cd players without breaking the bank, old Sony's.
Still an idiot.