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Metro UI was and still is a sexy AF interface. The widget tiles had a motion to them that was delicate and beautiful. It was just such a beautiful OS. I’ve kept most of the phones I’ve ever owned because I like them and of the 10 or so I’ve done through over the last 13 years especially my two favorites are my windows phones an HTC 8x and a Nokia Lumia 1020.

Windows Phone and webOS were amazing. Not just for their time, but even today. Major advancements in mobile OS’ came from WebOS like multi window task managing and my favorite feature of all came from Windows Phone. The most perfect on screen keyboard man has ever made. Specifically with audio. It had click sounds that were specific to a region of the keyboard and it was a low tone that was audibly pleasing. I wish we still had the same levels of competition that we did back in the day. Link to a video about the pleasing typing sounds on windows phone

I definitely can applaud their government for potentially holding them accountable. However they’re not arrested yet, and more importantly it’s not like this was a secret or fraud per se. We’ve been hearing about China’s “ghost cities” for a number of years now. Buildings built without people in them, buildings half built or only the shell to look complete, and that’s through media that’s allowed to escape their walled garden of information. To me there’s no way that even Xi himself didn’t know that Evergande or Country Garden wasn’t out defrauding the average Chinese citizen. So while good on them for putting them under surveillance today, it’s also terrible of them to have let this gone on.

I’m also an American though so my information may be limited on this subject matter since I’m not a focused person on one country or field.

Well they are a NATO country and need to buy NATO standard equipment. So their options for who to buy from if they aren’t producing it is limited to any country producing them that is in NATO, and potentially South Korea. ¯(ツ)_/¯

That’s kinda how it works. It’s not like I, as an American tax payer, would want them with a 2 billion US funded loan going out and buying Chinese or Russian weapons. Even Turkish weapons would be one of those thing where I’d want Turkey to give their own loans for weapons. It’s American Money, I want it to go into the American economy if we’re providing the loan. Plus based on the performance it’s not like they’re going to buy better weapons anywhere else.

Fight me (ง’̀-‘́)ง

Everyone is biased. I’d like to think my 12 years working all over in various parts of the tech sector has made me more well rounded in understanding how things can be addressed differently rather than having a massive one size fits all.

First off, they release the same phone every year thank you very much.

Second, just because you’re using those devices doesn’t mean they’re properly supported. Those phones haven’t received a single security update in years which means you’re vulnerable to various kinds of SMS attacks that have been patched on devices that have received security patches. That’s the other part of E-Waste. Devices getting actual software and security support. Just because you can upgrade the SSD in a laptop doesn’t make it less E-Waste. You have simply now added a new drive to the mound of trash if that drive failed. Back in 2014-16 HP laptops had these Intel SSDs in them. They failed like crazy. Usually about 10 per every 100 devices. We kept a supply of SSDs on hand for when those drives eventually shit themselves. Now, on a MacBook a failure rate of the SSDs/internal storage is incredibly low. I personally haven’t had a MacBook that’s had internal storage failure and I’ve managed probably close to 750 MacBooks. So of the probably 2000 hp laptops, with Intel drives that we swapped after 2 years because they were dying. We created a decent amount of e-waste. Just because we could repair the device easily doesn’t mean it isn’t still contributing.

We need higher quality materials used in fab with longevity, not just repairability. I can fix almost anything given enough time. I can’t fix thousands of broken things constantly assaulting me with work orders because of unreliable parts.

Maybe don’t write out messages when you’re hOrni.

AirPods can be used with any other device that has Bluetooth. Your Android (technically falls under Linux) device, windows device, Linux device, chromeOS, and others.

The charging method they used was created for a different time period. During the first era of 30-pin they used it because it’s what the iPod used. During 30-pin to lightening there still wasn’t a standard. Android was starting to utilize Micro USB, but the amount of times that Micro USB just broke after a few uses was insane. A ton of devices I worked on back in the 10-13 time period with Micro USB ended up tossed because Micro USB was often attached to the board and people weren’t going to pay to have a new one attached.

Apple pushed hard into USB-C in the beginning. The MacBook Pro was the first device to basically have all USB-C ports and they got absolutely trashed for it. Heres just one of the many articles complaining about the new MBP. If you were around during the switch from 30-pin to lightening then you might also remember the PR nightmare Apple faced with people saying they were only changing the standard because of money and wanting more accessory sales. Without realizing that 30-pin broke like crazy and just sucked.

Apple listed several reasons for have a built in battery. I was a huge believer back in the day of user replaceable/swapable batteries. However over time after working on devices I’m on the side of internal batteries. The size can be slightly reduced. You gain better dust and water resistance, and quite frankly the cost to replace the battery in an iPhone for instance is almost the same as buying the battery if you wanted something OEM. I use to buy a ton of Zero Lemon 10,000maH batteries for my note phones and those batteries CONSTANTLY failed and I was buying new ones.

During the era of the galaxy S3-4 and the note 7 debacle (and I owned several notes) I never once in my time as cell phone repairs had a single bad battery iPhone come in. They just didn’t happen all that frequently. iPhones aren’t the best for repairs, but during the last two iPhone keynotes they’ve specifically started talking about what steps they’re taking to make them more easily repairable. Coupled with the absolutely amazing software and security updates and you end up with a device that’s better than almost every competitor for environmental impact. Even the darling of “repairability and environmental impact” the fairphone still only receives about 6 years of support. The modular repairable design of the fairphone is certainly amazing, but if you only give it 6 years of OS and security updates you’ve effectively made a phone that still has a service life of 6 years. Far below apples 8.5 years with the iPhone 6 and onward. Of all the companies they’re the largest and they’re still trying to at least be better about the environmental impact and their repair-ability. People just like to shit in Apple because they think it makes them “cool” or counter culture, or some kind of dumbass IT wannabe. The reality is that for 99% of people it’s a great phone, for its damage to the environment it could always be better, but compared to its peers it’s making massive improvements and pushing the industry in other areas. I think Apple sort of recognized that phones aren’t changing much these days so finding a new “thing” like repair and sustainability is what will set them apart.

This take is hilarious. Apple, which has phones that are the longest lasting with the longest updates, is somehow the worst company? Have you ever worked on tech before? Dude, I cannot tell you how many shitty ass galaxy S3-4s I repaired that had “pillow pack” where the battery dies and inflates. Or how many LG phones got stuck in a boot loop, or how many HTC devices had broke ports that were soldered to the mobo so it was either charge to solder (yeah ok) a new one on or buy a new phone again.

When I was working on enterprise systems it was the same story too. MacBooks only ever had problems if someone dropped it and broke the screen, otherwise those things lasted upwards of 8 years and that was 10 years ago when laptops didn’t last for shit. We threw out thousands of Acer and Asus Chromebooks every 4 years back in the day because Google and the manufacturer would stop giving them security updates so they couldn’t test with them. Or god forbid it was one of those crap Samsung Chromebooks at which point the little DC pin connector just basically broke and it was again a port soldered to a mobo.

I get that Apple isn’t perfect. I can shit on them for their monopolistic behavior, their longstanding hatred to self repair, and their walled garden systems that make it impossible to administrate over as a sysadmin. However to say they’re the worst offender in an industry with peers like Samsung, LG, Acer, Asus and others is laughable. At least we can get 8 years out of a device. Hell the iPhone 6 received almost a full DECADE of security updates with 6 solid years of full system updates. Sustainability is beyond just repairability. It’s also how long a device can actively, and safely, be in service.

Honestly, the agencies always go hard AF. Our National Park Services has a fire ass social media and does some wild things. USPS sells some fire ass drip even.

Well if Mercedes and BMW could stop making electric cars as ugly as humanly possible we would quickly see them take that market back. Lucid makes an INCREDIBLY gorgeous car and if I was in the market for an 80k plus dollar EV it would certainly be that over the ugly EQS sedan and the i7 EV with its buck teeth. The German automakers are stuck in a loop right now and I hope they’ll soon get out. As for Germany’s other economic sectors; much like the rest of the world everyone is still recovering from Covid economy shock. Especially when we went from producing nothing for 1-6 months, then slowly starting, then ramping up like crazy and now coming back down to reality. It’s going to be a rough couple years of Capitalism having to learn that businesses and economies staying flat isn’t a bad thing. No progress, but no loss either. Germany isn’t alone in this.

I hate defending anyone from that shithole instance that is Lemmygrad… however the most recent interviews from our top generals here in the states say that the balloon after assessment didn’t collect any intel, was actually off the entire time and they suspect that it wasn’t actually meant to be over the states. There’s no doubt it wasn’t a massive balloon, but the story was really over blown because someone saw it, snapped a photo, and the press and social media took off with it.

Here’s the CBS Sunday Morning video about it.

It’s not like as if we here in the states don’t also launch massive balloons, or hell massive amounts of aircraft over others airspace collecting data. Sometimes that data isn’t even for military or surveillance purposes, sometimes it’s dual purpose, and sometimes it’s all military/surveillance.

100% it’s why I mentioned Capitalism requiring feeding. It’s like when people say “I can’t wait for the next housing collapse so I can afford a home.” While forgetting the part of housing collapsed where the average worker can’t afford a house and often all that happens is the millionaire and billionaire class swoops in and buys up all the property. 08 wasn’t famous for making more average Americans able to afford a house. It made it so companies like Blackstone could go around and feast for cheap.

I know you think that it sounds intelligent, but it’s not. People don’t watch movies to fulfill their desire to cause harm or violence. Murder porn is an actual thing and is also incredibly abhorrent to the same point. Pedo porn is specifically feeding a desire that should be helped or completely removed from society. It’s giving someone a dopamine hit for an effectively bad habit that over time can create a link that feels like either it doesn’t hurt anyone and moves to something more, or feeds a desire to do something in real life about it.

Seek help, otherwise I hope you don’t get a chance to act on any urges.

Just gonna add you to a government watchlist…

I don’t know how people are surprised by the current interest rates or market… when lockdowns happened my wife and I had bought our house a year prior and I immediately told her since we both had high paying and safe jobs we should remodel everything we wanted and buy three cars since I figured interest rates would get jacked up and supply economics indicated people were going to stop doing renovation work using contractors for a minute before supplies would get expensive.

These are all market reactions. It’s a rubber band of effects that happened because of the pandemic and the shock to the economy. Capitalism requires constant feeding so when the world stopped it for even a month it did major damage and when it went on longer in key areas it basically collapsed those sectors. It’s gonna be a while before things get better, but honestly this recovery is better than I expected.

Well I guess we know which ones we’re working as informants… 😅

They probably have automated sell of dates or automated sell of prices.

This is part of a consistent pattern over the last year.

He probably hasn’t bought any stocks due to receiving stock as part of his employment contract.

It could be insider trading, but considering how companies have been doing pricing structures and rapid shifts from free to subscription based and then seeing sales/profit increase I imagine it’s worth it for them to simply keep the stock long term, but an initial sell off was put in place at a certain price. Sometimes there’s smoke and there’s fire, and sometimes it’s just simply the fumes of capitalism creating a system that’s uniquely imbalanced for everyone else, but isn’t really insider trading.

Between the first article I already provided, and being in Cell Phone repair at the time when the switch from 30-pin to lightening happened I don’t think you realize how much flak Apple has caught each time they come out with devices with different connectors. The amount of people that quickly jump to “they’re just trying to make their customers pay more.”

I mean, the switch from 30-pin was full of people saying it was just so Apple could sell new accessories to people. Even though lightening was a better solution than 30-pin or Mirco B of the time.

I don’t know if you’ve been in the industry like me, but trust me, if you had you’d understand why Apple stuck to lightening as long as they did. It was a great connector for its time and served its purpose.