TonyOstrich @ TonyOstrich @lemmy.world

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Yeah, I never said I thought it was tennable or that any system like I described has ever actually existed. Wishes and dreams, ya know?

Is responding to someone like that really the most productive way to communicate or have a conversation?

What kinda bothers me is that I recognize that something like YouTube is expensive to run and just switching to an alternative isn't super feasible. I would be more than happy to pay for a service like YouTube that I use everyday. HOWEVER, not with their bullshit double dipping. If I am paying a company like Google to use their services, I don't think it's unreasonable that their should be an expectation or mechanism where that means I am not just no longer served ads, but that all tracking and data collection about my account(s) are stopped.

That's never going to happen though :/

Yeah Asus' Zen UI does it as well, but they have text labels under all of the buttons that appear after taking a screenshot.

I don't agree with the OP that removing the jack is a mortal sin. However having worked in related induatries, I don't think removing it really saves much if any money and it is entirely possible to make a phone or any other electronic device water resistant even with a headphone jack. Hell you can get wired ear buds that can be submerged in water.

I know it wasn't mentioned specifically, but even fairly cheap watches will be water proof to like 30 meters and still have a user replacable battery.

I just wish companies would be honest about it.

I'm not positive but I think the option "Add to Home Screen" is the same thing as the above user mentioned. That's what I have in my menu options, I don't have an "Install" option there.

For a local repair store the cost of the device isn't that bad. I could be wrong, but I bet a lot of the initial purchases will be businesses and then once it becomes open source the tinkerers will go ham.

A friend who is a tech at a Costco pharmacy told me yesterday that they are expecting a shipment of the generic to arrive today. While my pharmacy has no ETA on the name brand and does not have access to the generic from their distributors as far as I have been able to surmise.

Are there any better alternatives? The only ones I'm aware of off the top of my head would be Samsung's Exynos, Kirin, and MediaTek. From the little experience I have in the space it always struck me as Qualcomm being the least shitty option, not necessarily the best.

Can you elaborate on why? Like, I'm not surprised, I just am not involved in this space enough to know why.

I have a 512GB microSD card in my current phone that is about half full. I don't have any interest in paying a subscription to store my stuff on someone else's server ("the cloud"), when the SD card only cost me a couple of months of what a subscription would. I periodically back up the SD card at home.

As to what's on it? The usual stuff like pictures and videos, but also game ROMs, call recordings, shows/movies, ISOs, utilities (I can make my phone appear to be a flash drive, bootable even). I also backup my texts and other records using a third party app. When I do have to swap phones, transferring the SD card over and then restoring stuff like settings, messages, records, etc is way faster than any of the OEM transfer tools.

I don't think so, I see an old spoke wheel on Android running Liftoff.

Shit that's good.

Their whole thing is to do this stuff with Linus. It's a constant friendly back and forth. Linus will make fun of and trash Dbrand in videos they sponsor, while Dbrand makes fun of him. In a vacuum, this looks really weird/bad, but if you are familiar with the back and forth it very much comes across as two really good friends taking the piss and just having fun.

There is basically no piece of content Dbrand isn't willing to sponsor with LMG because they don't give a fuck.

Makes sense, and you are right about where my brain went to. I was thinking this just sounds like capitalist bull shit, lol.

What makes it a liberal ploy exactly? Like I agree with everything you said, but I'm not sure what context the word "liberal" in your sentence means or is referring to.

I was just coming in to question the use of the word "escape". Such sad bull shit.

That link was exactly who I expected, and I appreciate you 😂

I was just coming in to say the same thing. Don't get me wrong, I think the average consumer's desire for speed and convenience above everything else (including ethics) is a problem, but that is completely separate from these industries posting record profits (even after adjusting for inflation) yet still paying and treating their workers for/like shit.