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couleur
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Funny stuff. My wife still uses an iPhone 5S and it still works quite well. Anecdotal as it is. I‘d never expected a phone to work for 6 years without major issues. It was her first smartphone. My second hand 7 is still good aswell, and doesnt feel slowed down. Anyway. Its all trash. I upgrade my PC more often.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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Frant
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Feb 2020 02:27 Post subject: |
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My Samsung Galaxy S4 (7 years old now) is still working just fine. Had to buy a new battery but that's it.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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couleur
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Feb 2020 02:29 Post subject: |
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Nice!
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Feb 2020 12:02 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Feb 2020 23:28 Post subject: |
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"We don't want your shitty phone either"
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Feb 2020 08:09 Post subject: |
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| Frant wrote: | | My Samsung Galaxy S4 (7 years old now) is still working just fine. Had to buy a new battery but that's it. |
Yep recently did the same thing, bought a oneplus 7 outright for dirt cheap and a plan thats 90% cheaper than current market rate. already paid for itself in 4-5 months.
who is buying 2k+ phones? imbeciles.
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Sin317
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Feb 2020 08:45 Post subject: |
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A couple of years back, I thought "oh nice, now I can play games on my phone, ergo I need a better phone..."
Of course, once I had a better phone (back then it was like the S4 and then S6), that a) basically no game on phone actually needed a "good phone" to be played and most importantly, b) how fucking crap games on phones are anyway and I've got a fucking PC at home to play proper games...
Now I have an S9, which costs me 4€ every month for 2 years, i.e. around 100€...
In between the s6 and my current s9, I even got a "J3" from Samsung, which is like 150€ retail, lol, and you know what, it did the job as good as my other phones before and after.
And for those who argue about for example picture quality... stop using a fucking phone and use a proper camera... even a low-cost camera is infinity times better than any phone there is lol...
But anyway, in the end, people don't spend too much, because of quality, that's a myth, but because of status, and that's a fact.
No matter the brand, as long as it costs more...
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Wubbajack
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| Quote: | | It’s a way better keyboard. |
Oooh, yeah, cause PC world works EXACTLY like Apple's - there only one model for EVERYTHING.
| Quote: | | The WGA needs to step in and actually do something. |
How about YOU USE A DIFFERENT FUCKING COMPUTER?
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LeoNatan
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LeoNatan
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| red_avatar wrote: | | LeoNatan wrote: | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/apple-wont-let-filmmakers-put-iphones-in-villains-hands-rian-johnson-says/
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"Apple won't let filmmakers put iphones in villain's hands"
Then why did Steve Jobs hold an iPhone during Apple events  |
Amazing, these read like Onion articles
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ixigia
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| Yuri wrote: | | red_avatar wrote: | | LeoNatan wrote: | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/apple-wont-let-filmmakers-put-iphones-in-villains-hands-rian-johnson-says/
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"Apple won't let filmmakers put iphones in villain's hands"
Then why did Steve Jobs hold an iPhone during Apple events |
Amazing, these read like Onion articles |
Haha yeah, some years back one could still separate satire from real pieces of news with relative ease. Nowadays it's practically impossible 
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Waargh
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Waargh
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| Posted: Sun, 1st Mar 2020 18:23 Post subject: |
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For 1299 you get a version with wireless airpods charger built in
Today I didn't even need to use my AK. I gotta say it was a good day. (c) - Ice Cube
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Wubbajack
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 11:33 Post subject: |
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@ the $999 stopper
1 and 2 are still amazing.
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HubU
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Przepraszam
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Last edited by paxsali on Thu, 4th Jul 2024 23:12; edited 2 times in total
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Aug 2020 16:27 Post subject: |
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Figured I'd put this here - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53835079
It happened back in '05 (the actual event, article is current), but still an interesting read.
I can never be free, because the shackles I wear can't be touched or be seen.
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3E74
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WordPress founder claims Apple cut off updates to his completely free app because it wants 30 percent
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This sounds ridiculous
WordPress, the iOS app, lets you build and manage a website right from your iPhone or iPad, for free.
Separately, WordPress.com also happens to sell domain names and fancier website packages.
Now, WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg is accusing Apple of cutting off the ability to update that app — until or unless he adds in-app purchases so the most valuable company in the world can extract its 30 percent cut of the money.
Heads up on why @WordPressiOS updates have been absent... we were locked by App Store. To be able to ship updates and bug fixes again we had to commit to support in-app purchases for .com plans. I know why this is problematic, open to suggestions. Allow others IAP? New name?
— Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) August 21, 2020
Here’s the thing: the WordPress app on iOS doesn’t sell anything. I just checked, and so did Stratechery’s Ben Thompson. The app simply lets you make a website for free. There isn’t even an option to buy a unique dot-com or even dot-blog domain name from the iPhone and iPad app — it simply assigns you a free WordPress domain name and 3GB of space.
To be clear, the app doesn’t sell anything, and why would it? It’s an open source project. Apple is requiring the addition of functionality that has no plausible reason to exist.
— Ben Thompson (@benthompson) August 21, 2020
Apple admitted to The Verge that it’s involved, reminding us that in-app purchases are required whenever apps “allow users to access content, subscriptions, or features they have acquired in your app on other platforms or your web site.” But again, the WordPress app doesn’t sell anything itself, and it sounds like you can’t do anything special with anything you’ve purchased from WordPress.com (beyond uploading additional files or selecting website themes) from the app, either.
While Mullenweg says there technically was a roundabout way for an iOS user to find out that WordPress has paid tiers (they could find it buried in support pages, or by navigating to WordPress’s site from a preview of their own webpage), he says that Apple rejected his offer to block iOS users from seeing the offending pages.
Mullenweg tells The Verge he’s not going to fight it anymore, though — he will add brand-new in-app purchases for WordPress.com’s paid tiers, which include domain names, within 30 days. Apple has agreed to allow Automattic to update the app while it waits. (The last update was issued yesterday.)
In other words, Apple won: the richest company in the world just successfully forced an app developer to monetize an app so it could make more money. It’s just the latest example of Apple’s fervent attempts to guard its cash cow resulting in a decision that doesn’t make much sense and doesn’t live up to Apple’s ethos (real or imagined) of putting the customer experience ahead of all else.
Mullenweg, of course, is only one of those speaking out publicly about the Apple tax and the company’s uneven enforcement of its rules. Yesterday, a group of major news publishers banded together to ask why Amazon, and not them, should get a sweetheart deal that allows the giant e-tailer to pay 15 percent instead of 30 percent for Prime Video. And all of this, of course, is happening in the shadow of Epic Games’ gigantic fight against Apple, one that Apple responded to this very afternoon, complete with a cache of emails from Epic’s own Tim Sweeney.
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lol..
WordPress offered to block the only place iOS users could see paid features — but Apple rejected it 
..:: Life - A sexually transmitted disease which always ends in death. There is currently no known cure::.. 
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once u get so big, u start becoming delusional and think u are always right (and ur lawyer yes men leeches telling u are and anyone who was made a millionaire by a billionaire)
But the morality is completely gone and they have peaked now and more people will see the maddnes that is apple
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LeoNatan
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HubU
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LeoNatan
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What? 
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M4trix
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HubU
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