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- Comment on 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 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really care about sound quality when using earphones at home because I only use them when there’s a lot of ambient noise so the sound will be bad either way. When doing vacuum cleaning, or the dishes, stuff like that. When I still had a smartphone I used a 1,5m extension cord so it wouldn’t pull on the jack each time I move, but since it died I’m using a much longer one plugged to my PC (not actually 10m, that was hyperbole, more like 5m). It’s not very convenient I’ll admit, but it does the job.
- Comment on 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 2 weeks ago:
Well not actually lost… I just haven’t found under which furniture it rolled yet 😅
- Comment on 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 2 weeks ago:
What statistics? People buying thin phones over thicker phones doesn’t mean much when that’s almost all that’s being sold nowadays and every phone is trying to be as thin as possible. It seemed to me that 90% of what we’re told people want is actually just what companies want to push on us because it’s cheaper and more profitable.
All the people I know who are average users couldn’t care less about how thin the phone is, two mm more or less doesn’t make any difference. They care about screen size and being able to use it without too much hassle. If they get a phone without an audio jack half of them will just assume that they can’t plug earphones at all. And they are not the ones who will complain. But then, Fairphone isn’t marketed towards average users, so maybe their users have different priorities? Idk
- Comment on 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 2 weeks ago:
- They are expensive. You can get wired earphones for 2 euros that actually work and are reasonably durable. It’s not a great loss if they fall in a puddle or if I step on them.
- They are a lot more failure prone. Half of those I tried didn’t work or only half worked, and those that did work didn’t last very long.
- They have shitty range. I can use a 10 meters extension cord with wired earphones if I want to.
- They require charging. And it’s a law of physics that everything that requires charging always run out at the most inconvenient time.
- Also THEY ALWAYS GET LOST. Wireless earphones, mouse, controllers… it doesn’t matter, if it’s not attached with a cable they’ll just disappear.
- Comment on 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 2 weeks ago:
Why does The Fairphone (Gen. 6) not have an audio jack?
After some of the criticism that we received about removing the headphone jack from Fairphone 4, we did consider bringing it back for The Fairphone (Gen. 6). However, we realized it would be at the expense of increasing the phone’s dimensions. We also looked into the consumer data and Fairphone 4’s weight and thickness were more of an issue than the lack of a minijack, so we decided to keep the same approach, although it was a difficult decision. We didn’t want to invest in OLED technology for the display and then not have improved the phone’s dimensions and weight. But just like with Fairphone 4 and Fairphone 5, we will still offer an adapter, which has had overall positive user reviews.
“We heard the criticism but decided that no, you would still need an adapter to use headphones, plus a USB-C hub to be able to charge the damn thing while listening to music or watching videos”
Funny how that’s the same excuses that we get for modern laptops terrible design. “We HAVE to make it thinner so there’s no space! You wouldn’t want a laptop that’s not complete shit if it meant it’d be less thin and breakable, would you?”
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 3 weeks ago:
That’s a relief. I’ve been dreading the day when they introduce server-side adsm but it seems we’re not there yet 😅 I’m not sure what they think they’ll accomplish with this when it’s A LOT less painful than turning off your adblocker and dealing with the ads, though. Maybe they’re just trying random things to see what works.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 3 weeks ago:
It’s okay, if it takes too long to load I just use yt-dlp to download it and watch it later. You try to waste my time, I waste your server’s resources.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying that it’s not a lot worse now, I do agree that it is. But things were already headed this way long before ChatGPT. SEO had already gone a long way in killing the web, I think AI will just be the death blow.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 4 weeks ago:
“about to destroy the web” ???
Where have you been these last 10 years? It’s been getting worse for a long time, even before AI. It’s just getting worse quicker now.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 4 weeks ago:
Future uBlock/NewPipe users
Thanks for educating people about the usefulness of adblockers, YouTube ❤️
- Comment on Tesla customers in France sue over brand becoming 'extreme right' 4 weeks ago:
sorry I meant it in a joking way, I should have worded that better 😅
- Comment on Tesla customers in France sue over brand becoming 'extreme right' 4 weeks ago:
There no need to feel so special, people in Paris are rude to just about everyone. My condolences to anyone who has to work or live there 😬
- Comment on What editor or IDE do you use and why? 4 weeks ago:
VSCode because I’m too lazy to learn Vim and I’m not enough of a masochist to configure emacs.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 5 weeks ago:
At least those corners are cut with shiny new knives. Have you considered buying a new set?
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 5 weeks ago:
How can you have too many knives? There’s just so much variety… Butter knife, steak knife, fish knife, fruit carving knife, cheese knife… GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL!
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 5 weeks ago:
That’s cool. What makes it special?
Nice one. If it’s only a status thing he’ll scrabble to find something to say about it other than it’s price. And on the very very low chance that it’s not, he’ll have an excuse to explain. Who knows, he might be a watch nerd who’s really proud that he could afford that watch because it’s a special watch to watch nerds for watch related reasons and he’ll tell you all about it.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 5 weeks ago:
That’s actually way cooler 😂
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 5 weeks ago:
Can your watch play Bad Apple? Can your watch run Doom? Can you install Arch on that watch? … … didn’t think so 😛
- Comment on Papers, Please: USA Edition 5 weeks ago:
“Your ability to fold a burrito is too suspicious”
- Comment on Papers, Please: USA Edition 5 weeks ago:
Alas not 😢
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- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 5 weeks ago:
True 😅
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 5 weeks ago:
I don’t even know what to say. How can you make jokes when reality already is making them for you? Have we finally entered The Onion Timeline?
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the idea itself is awful, but everyone is so fed up with AI bullshit that any attempt to integrate even an iota of it will be received very poorly, so I’m not sure it’s worth it.
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 5 weeks ago:
I know you’re supposed to say size doesn’t matter and I don’t want to be mean, but really… 4GBs DDR3 RAM? 🤣 🤣 🤣
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 5 weeks ago:
People listening to music or watching videos on their crappy phone speakers on public transports drive me crazy… I don’t want to hear the coughing fits of agony of your phone’s speakers for hours on the train 😭 JUST BUY EARPHONES
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 5 weeks ago:
Everything was believable until you mentioned Star Wars
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 5 weeks ago:
Whaaaat? Are they using Windows smartphones with Copilot in Korea? 😮
- Comment on “It’s Compiling!” 1 month ago:
Or just use rust stakeholder, it’s guaranteed to make you look very busy 😄
