Currently doing a DIS rewatch. Not a big fan but not on the hate train either. But man, my intestines cramped from the cringe when that scene popped up.

DIS S01E04

How do you wanna be remembered in history? Alongside the Wright Brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane? Or as a failed fungus expert? A selfish little man who put the survival of his own ego before the lives of others.

Well, he got his mention in Star Trek as one of the great people to will have advanced humanity, so I guess after having that had crossed off his list he could just do something different next.

Is that the bubble beginning to pop?

Do you have steam running in the background in desktop mode or did you shut that down?

It’s really not. I get that the US have a lot of problems, especially when it comes to training people to deescalate, not use force when it’s not absolutely required etc, but it’s not the same on all countries.

Like… I’m from Germany. Police here are trained for years, with a focus on values and deescalation, before they commence their service. This really results in a relationship of trust between them and the citizens, like when they e.g. arrest people and tie them down to burn them alive in their cells instead of shooting them. Or when they don’t run rampant in the streets to kill or citizens (duh) but instead finance right wing terrorist groups that then kill citizens. You see?

Are you kidding me? That’s a huge phone you can turn into a tablet. The outer display is 6.5". If anything, I’d want a flip and only use the outer display, but I’m not paying a thousand bucks for a phone with a gimmicky hinge that I don’t need.

Second sentence in the article, emphasis mine:

It has an AMOLED touchscreen display

The idea is that this is a phone you can use to communicate on the go, while leaving your primary phone at home.

So we’ve come full circle, with mobile phones now being big and bulky so we get mobiler phones that are slightly less huge. What nonsense. Just fucking sell me a small phone!

Video by “German science guy”

not available in Germany

So… What are those two stars for then?

That means they are only depending on apple for the one thing only apple provides, which is app purchases on the Apple platform. Everything else they have locally or backed up somewhere else. It’s literally their point that they’re independent despite having used the platform for so long.

Why would I remove my laptop fans? They’re the ones that keep up their morale and cheer them on.

Never did. Doesn’t change the fact that a lot of forums are now deserted and have a pinned post that points to a fucking discord.

I don’t think there are many applications that I hate with more passion than discord and anybody who willingly chooses that garbage piece of software to further hide what used to be searchable forum content behind login walls and proprietary apis should be forced to search for a solution for a simple problem of their most beloved hobby all over hundreds of stupid discord channels for all eternity.

Which is entirely not the point.

Well, none of what you say is wrong. It’s just not the point. There were other options besides tesla - and while they were different (e.g. I’m well aware of the small golf battery), they were there.

You say that for you it was the only decent option. Fine. But not the point. Maybe your usage profile warranted what tesla offered. But “Tesla was the only player in the EV scene back then” is just wrong. That’s all I said.

That’s literally their point?

Regular cars are capable of lasting until they literally break down and die.

These don’t exist anymore. If they do, it doesn’t matter if they move by burning fossils or electricity. It’s not a matter of EVs being movable smart devices that will be left behind eventually, it’s a matter of cars being like that.

I’m pretty sure Tesla was the only player in the EV scene back then.

Absolutely not.

I bought a BEV back then. It was a VW Golf. Still driving it. The leaf, eNiro and i3 were contenders for me.

Had Sony smartphones for years. Loved them. The real issue with Sony nowadays is imho their terrible update policy which only offers two or three years if updates iirc, which is so much less than other players it was a dealbreaker for me. Last time I had one I could flash a custom rom but the camera was locked to the original firmware, with the default mode being much worse than the one Sony offered - which I considered a dick move. Dunno how they behave with their current phones though.

Just checked, the phone will supposedly be updated until 2031, which isn’t bad. Battery, camera, display all seem to be fine.