It's been quite a few years so I don't remember specific models, but there was a period where Australian releases weren't shipping with Snapdragon, while global releases were. I recall being quite annoyed at the pixel at the time. Samsung was bad for it too. Probably still is but I've had the same phone for ~7 years now so I've not been keeping up with releases.
I stopped buying Google hardware after I got the pixel 2. It was an amazing phone, had an incredible camera. Really wanted to upgrade when the 4 was coming out so I started following the release news and noticed that they were putting previous generation processors in the 4 - like, previous to what was already in the 2. The camera was worse, the storage was smaller etc. killed my hype for it.
Then before the 5 was released, my 2 stopped charging and it was out of warranty so they wanted more money to repair than it would cost me to buy a phone from another manufacturer. Bought something else and never looked back.
I also had a Google Home at the time and it was one of the most frustrating tech experiences I've ever encountered.
I wouldn't be surprised if they brick the tablets now that they don't care about the product anymore.
Saw him live in Perth at his old University when I was a teen and it was amazing. My parents were ultra religious and shitty about it so a lot of his songs resonated lol. Was my political awakening.
Yes it's the correct orientation for book spines, but the words are still right to left so it reads "Library Public Fullerton". Easily could have been fixed by switching them around and moving them to the left side of the card. Could also make the books progressively smaller so the angle leads the eye in the right direction, or add some shapes to the spine that direct the eye. He's kind of done that with the lean but it still feels wrong when reading it. Would be even better if he stacked the books with the text vertically instead imo.
Idk, but I'm over them and all "smart" tech so it'll need to be a vast improvement. I'm going backwards. Nothing fucking works right anymore. And everything is enshittified into a subscription or just full to the brim with ads. Usually both.
Started storing my media locally on a NAS. Bought a new MP3 player recently. Getting wired headphones and a dug out my old iPod dock because it's so hard to find a speaker with aux input. Apparently brands consider that to be a luxury feature and only put it in the top of the line models if at all. My Sonos speakers all bricked themselves with the app or are so much trouble to get working every time I want to listen to music that I don't bother anymore. Never getting anything without at least having a backup wired connection and offline mode.
Got a retro Gameboy emulator when the switch two came out - I'm not buying an identical console just because the company decided to squeeze me by software locking the games to the new console. They got me back in the day with the 3DS too. Anything I can't play on that, I can play on PC.
My current smart phone is 7 years old and when it goes I'm either getting something simple without Android or going full dumb phone. I have an old digital camera that I actually just dug out of storage and charged the battery last night to see if it still works. If not I'll be replacing it with another so I don't need a phone to have a camera. My partner is looking into getting a handheld SBC instead of a phone for his next device.
In the original (higher res) version of this from back in the day, you could see that his design wasn't even good. The name of the library is on the book spines from right to left, and the left side is wasted space. The middle one is way better. Other entries must have been terrible lol
It's not even a good threat. Like, do you know how much we hate you? Go if you're not going to make it worth it to have you around. We'll be better off.
-insert checklist so long you have to scroll to see all the options, and you have to untick them one by one to actually turn the algorithm off. And it pops up every time you go back to the website if you didn't tick "enabled"
Yeah but it's expected for them, this would truly signal the fall of America as we know it. The President only running twice is like one of the things with America.
It's bad already, but if Trump steps down or the rest of the government finally does something about him and prevents him from running, then it's just business as usual clicking that ratchet to the right. If he's allowed to run again or keeps the presidency that's the signal that the ratchet has reached the end.
Curious to see the rest of the cancelled shows or if it's mostly just gay content. The author pointed out a couple of gay dating shows got dropped too, I can't help but wonder if they just had low viewership though. They sound boring lol.
You'd think the BBC would have plenty of money after selling doctor who off to Disney so Disney could kill it though.
Are people still fans of corporations these days?
It's been quite a few years so I don't remember specific models, but there was a period where Australian releases weren't shipping with Snapdragon, while global releases were. I recall being quite annoyed at the pixel at the time. Samsung was bad for it too. Probably still is but I've had the same phone for ~7 years now so I've not been keeping up with releases.
I stopped buying Google hardware after I got the pixel 2. It was an amazing phone, had an incredible camera. Really wanted to upgrade when the 4 was coming out so I started following the release news and noticed that they were putting previous generation processors in the 4 - like, previous to what was already in the 2. The camera was worse, the storage was smaller etc. killed my hype for it.
Then before the 5 was released, my 2 stopped charging and it was out of warranty so they wanted more money to repair than it would cost me to buy a phone from another manufacturer. Bought something else and never looked back.
I also had a Google Home at the time and it was one of the most frustrating tech experiences I've ever encountered.
I wouldn't be surprised if they brick the tablets now that they don't care about the product anymore.
Saw him live in Perth at his old University when I was a teen and it was amazing. My parents were ultra religious and shitty about it so a lot of his songs resonated lol. Was my political awakening.
Yes it's the correct orientation for book spines, but the words are still right to left so it reads "Library Public Fullerton". Easily could have been fixed by switching them around and moving them to the left side of the card. Could also make the books progressively smaller so the angle leads the eye in the right direction, or add some shapes to the spine that direct the eye. He's kind of done that with the lean but it still feels wrong when reading it. Would be even better if he stacked the books with the text vertically instead imo.
As if anyone is going to see that money.
Exactly. Such a strange choice for a library of all things to choose the design with the text that reads the wrong way.
I genuinely believe it would be a net positive for the world if he died.
Idk, but I'm over them and all "smart" tech so it'll need to be a vast improvement. I'm going backwards. Nothing fucking works right anymore. And everything is enshittified into a subscription or just full to the brim with ads. Usually both.
Started storing my media locally on a NAS. Bought a new MP3 player recently. Getting wired headphones and a dug out my old iPod dock because it's so hard to find a speaker with aux input. Apparently brands consider that to be a luxury feature and only put it in the top of the line models if at all. My Sonos speakers all bricked themselves with the app or are so much trouble to get working every time I want to listen to music that I don't bother anymore. Never getting anything without at least having a backup wired connection and offline mode.
Got a retro Gameboy emulator when the switch two came out - I'm not buying an identical console just because the company decided to squeeze me by software locking the games to the new console. They got me back in the day with the 3DS too. Anything I can't play on that, I can play on PC.
My current smart phone is 7 years old and when it goes I'm either getting something simple without Android or going full dumb phone. I have an old digital camera that I actually just dug out of storage and charged the battery last night to see if it still works. If not I'll be replacing it with another so I don't need a phone to have a camera. My partner is looking into getting a handheld SBC instead of a phone for his next device.
In the original (higher res) version of this from back in the day, you could see that his design wasn't even good. The name of the library is on the book spines from right to left, and the left side is wasted space. The middle one is way better. Other entries must have been terrible lol
It's not even a good threat. Like, do you know how much we hate you? Go if you're not going to make it worth it to have you around. We'll be better off.
Hey, I thought it was hilarious
Do you want the algorithm:
🔳enabled
🔳enable only necessary
☑️enable custom
-insert checklist so long you have to scroll to see all the options, and you have to untick them one by one to actually turn the algorithm off. And it pops up every time you go back to the website if you didn't tick "enabled"
We're well past halfway cognizant, but I don't think that'll stop him 😂
There's a reason the right is constantly seeking to make schools worse and good education harder to access.
Yeah but it's expected for them, this would truly signal the fall of America as we know it. The President only running twice is like one of the things with America.
It's bad already, but if Trump steps down or the rest of the government finally does something about him and prevents him from running, then it's just business as usual clicking that ratchet to the right. If he's allowed to run again or keeps the presidency that's the signal that the ratchet has reached the end.
That's a pretty quick way to get me to never answer your calls again.
Curious to see the rest of the cancelled shows or if it's mostly just gay content. The author pointed out a couple of gay dating shows got dropped too, I can't help but wonder if they just had low viewership though. They sound boring lol.
You'd think the BBC would have plenty of money after selling doctor who off to Disney so Disney could kill it though.
As a non American I'm very excited to see what happens with the 2028 election when Trump runs again