Yep, when you want your Orange Julius to cost $22

Oh wow 3-4 is great. My current android phone is using 9Gb out of 12. It’s insane. I have no idea what’s using it all.

I hope that since this phone isn’t running android, 6gb will be enough.

Welcome to the Abandoned By Microsoft club. For me it was Windows Phone 7.

My first two smartphones were keyboard phones that I had a love-hate relationship with. The rest were all a hate-hate relationship, except my current phone which is back to love-hate. How many smartphones has the average person owned now? I am up to 12…oh god.

I do the same, including plugging the usb-c port. I specifically got a 5-watt qi charger over the 10 or 15 watt ones so that my phone would slow charge overnight. The phone doesn’t get warm when charging that way, unlike when I use the usb-c port.

I don’t think Microsoft (or Apple) want people to have personal computers anymore in the way that PCs have historically existed. That is to say, they don’t want your computer capable of running arbitrary code of your choosing. They don’t want your computer to have the potential to do everything, to run everything, to make anything.

They want to control and lock down all aspects of your machine and what it can do, retain ownership of hardware via software licenses, and monetize every click and keystroke.

Microsoft doesn’t want you to have a functional computer anymore, they want you to have a dummy terminal that runs Office 365 and Copilot.

I really want phones like this to actually work and to succeed, but there are so many things these companies have to get just right – it’s a huge undertaking.

Releasing a phone that’s admittedly unfinished seems really risky. People are getting sick of unfinished products being tossed at them for full price, with the empty promises from the company that those missing features will be added in later.

I thought $500 for only 6GB of ram is really disappointing.

Why are the road signs gaslighting me

This made me actually laugh out loud, thank you.

If OP only turns it on when there is a drone above their house, how would it be easy to get caught?

That’s what I have a cat for

Really? I never knew because I had never heard anyone ever finish one!

Omg that’s awful, no wonder people never finish it!

Thank you so much 🙂

I want you to finish it. No one ever finishes it. I don’t even know the rest of the limerick because no one ever finishes it!

I don’t think they are just hinting about selling user data. They specifically changed their terms of service to allow it. They /are/ going to do it.

Genuine questions: If we get rid of all the ads, how do news companies get funded? Information can be freely copied and redistributed online – including all news articles. How would our favorite tech sites be funded?

I’ll be honest, I donate every chance I get to support devs for the awesome free software and services they provide, but news is different. I don’t actually pay for any news. It comes from so many sources. What’s the best financial model for news companies in a capitalist society? As a consumer, what’s the ethical model for paying for or consuming news?

Magisk requires patching the boot image to gain root. The i believe the boot img gets overwritten during an OS update, and so each time it needs to be repatched. I’m not knowledgable enough to automate patching the boot image automatically after an OS update.

This may not be the type of answer you are looking for, but personally I check on my friends and family. It helps me somewhat avoid overly browsing Lemmy. I’ll send them a text asking how they are or what’s new.

I tell my brain that this is a local and personalized news source. 🙃

Yes