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by wkat4242 1y ago
> I can acknowledge my own interests here (having control over how exactly the device I own runs), but I can also see the interests of phone manufacturers — protecting revenue streams, managing liability and regulatory risks, optimizing
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by wkat4242 1y ago
That is indeed high, I wonder why. I doubt the welfare system is the cause though. Most of the countries in Europe have pretty socialist tendencies. Making it a heartless society like the US certainly isn't the solution. I think self c
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Sorry that's not a correct figure. That 25% is only in Melilla. Which is basically an small town-exclave in Morocco (a bit like Gibraltar which is a British exclave in Spain). With a population of only 86.000. Same with Ceuta (21% unem
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by wkat4242 1y ago
But what's so bad about the future? I don't really understand. Spain has been very socialist ever since the fall of fascism in the 70s. Now that was bad. Things have only improved a lot since. We in Spain live totally fine too :
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yeah I think I would have liked one too. It's just that when the passport came out, blackberry OS was already on its way out so I didn't buy it
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by wkat4242 1y ago
I guess it aims at the blackberry passport types. There's a lot of people still missing that one
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Users aren't safe anyway when the gatekeeper is Google. They're deeply evil these days and our phones are mainly a surveillance tool for them. Apple is only slightly better. They limit espionage from other parties but not their ow
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by wkat4242 1y ago
My future? More like this. And green and healthy. The city has become much greener over the last years. Socialist places tend to value the environment more. And yes of course I own things. I don't own a car because I don't want on
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Umm socialism works pretty great in most of Europe where it's a much nicer place to live than the US. All the talk of immorality and corruption is justified when aimed at Soviet style communism. But that's not the only way. When a
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yeah it's a bit comparable to Sealand. It's cool them issuing passports and all but if nobody recognises them you might as well use your hacker space passport
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by wkat4242 1y ago
SIP was useless over a mobile connection those days. 3G's latency was way too high to support a decent voice call. SIP only worked reliably over WiFi.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
I think that requirement is losing some relevance. I only use HiDPI displays these days. Apple also switched to a font that looked pretty bad in low DPI, i forget which release it was but I think it was the San Francisco font.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yes and also more and more apps are blocking custom ROMs. Even the McDonald's app is doing it now (I know, you're not missing much there but still...). It refuses to launch if it was installed by any method other than the official
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by wkat4242 1y ago
It's not so bad but depending on the 'hand that feeds' in the long term is unsustainable, especially if that hand can't be trusted.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yeah same here, public transport in Spain is clean and nice :3 I'm so happy not having to own a car anymore and I hope I never have to drive again. Also, €22 for all my travel needs for a month is amazing
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Well they can but not with custom firmware installed. As grapheneos is custom firmware, the google key makes no sense in this context.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yes this is why the current duopoly is so toxic.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
But even then, Google will keep hampering AOSP efforts too in the long run. They're also introducing a new requirement that sideloaded apps must be validated by them.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
It's pretty nifty though because besides changing the wavelength it must also preserve the exact direction of each photon. Without the correct light field you'd see nothing.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Of yeah i remember those. It was great to check if a remote was working. These days I just use my phone camera. The IR filter isn't perfect and IR leds are tons brighter than visible ones so if you point it right at the camera you can
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by wkat4242 1y ago
An iPhone is even less open
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Many have unlockable bootloaders (though the number is rapidly declining with Samsung closing up). But not many have relockable bootloaders. This is one of the things that grapheneos have set as a minimum standard, hence the reliance on p
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Yeah they've become a real commercial outfit now. You could see this already during the shortage period, they always prioritised system integrators. I stay away from them now. It was nice while it lasted.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
> Take the AlphaServer DS25. It has wires going from the power supply harness to the motherboard that are thick enough to jump a car. The traces on the motherboard are so thick that pictures of the light reflecting off of them are nothin
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Ehh I've seen some of these teen games involve complete immersion in oil or even water (can be done as distilled water doesn't conduct but if only a pinch of salt gets into it...). Or even more extreme things like liquid nitrogen.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
> But doesn't the hardware "overclock" and "overvolt" automatically these days? If it's done by the manufacturer it's within spec of course. As designed. The overclock game was all about running stuff o
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by wkat4242 1y ago
Maybe they didn't have anything logging the temperature. They didn't expect it to die after all.
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by wkat4242 1y ago
> Did the CPUs die of heat stroke? Modern CPUs measure their temperature and clock down if they get too hot, don't they? They do, but the thermal sensors are spread out a bit. It could be that there's a sudden spot heating happ
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by wkat4242 1y ago
For a national broadcaster it would have cost peanuts. And there were no per minute costs. Teletext was part of the video signal. Every page was transmitted over and over and the TV just chose which one to display. Now expensive TVs could a
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by wkat4242 1y ago
And there's no images. I really hate those news pages that are 90% photo

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