Lots of questions remain. Fast charging is 1 of them. But if it charges in 5 seconds and costs $40k and only lasts 3 charge cycles, it's completely pointless.

If it were legit they'd be screaming at the top of their lungs for people to come and test them, and they'd be handing them out to journalists.

9h ago

FTC Endorses Age-Verification Tech

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artyom @piefed.social 9h ago

Yeah of course, because age verification = ID verification = surveillance, which benefits corporations and govt at the expense of the people.

10h ago

Insider Confirms Sony Ditching PC Ports: "You'll Be Seeing Fewer Single Player Games Arrive on PC."

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artyom @piefed.social 10h ago

PS makes pretty much all my favorite PC games so that's unfortunate for me.

13h ago

Losing the lie-flat form-factor - What to do with off-centre camera bump?

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artyom @piefed.social 13h ago

I mean they're just the best, in my opinion, and that's almost nothing to do with hardware, and everything to do with software.

1d ago

Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

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artyom @piefed.social 1d ago

I'll never forget carrying around my Galaxy Note 2 and this guy asked me if it played DVDs LOL

1d ago

Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

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artyom @piefed.social 1d ago

Xperia is massively overpriced, full of bloatware, trash software, 2 years of software updates, and they're absolutely massive. And not just massive but like, insanely tall. Hard to believe they're still around while LG has called it quits.

1d ago

Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

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artyom @piefed.social 1d ago

In a world chock-full of $1200+ phones, yeah, I'd say $500 is firmly in "budget" territory.

1d ago

Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

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artyom @piefed.social 1d ago

The Pixel 7a is a budget device.

2d ago

Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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artyom @piefed.social 2d ago

Been that way for a long time. They rejected me years ago. Much like Google, MS is in the ad business, and they want your personal details to sell to advertisers. Letting you sign up with fake account is contrary to their interests.

It infuriates me to no end that so many FOSS devs are still using Github. No one fucking cares about privacy or sovereignty until it personally fucks them.

2d ago

Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

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artyom @piefed.social 2d ago

Where did you see that?

2d ago

Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

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artyom @piefed.social 2d ago

Samsung and Apple make their own processors too...?

2d ago

Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

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artyom @piefed.social 2d ago

We're talking about the pixel 7a here, the budget model, not a "pro" anything. It doesn't have a large sensor.

http://medium.com/@techstoriesonline/mkbhds-blind-smartphone-camera-test-winners-a-pixel-perfect-podium-tech-stories-3378dd6b28c9

2d ago

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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artyom @piefed.social 2d ago

What laws? As far as I know it's not illegal for children to view pornography. Are you suggesting it should be? And you would have their parents charged with a crime if they were to do it?

2d ago

Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI

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artyom @piefed.social 2d ago

Boy, what a terrible title. It reads like Trump actually has a modicum of concern about ethics.

2d ago

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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artyom @piefed.social 2d ago

For real. Let's repeal all the laws around age, and make parents responsible. Drinking, smoking, driving, body art, firearms, etc. Let parents decide!