ah great, another glowie thread

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they have nice cameras. but the battery life is attrocious and sometimes will run into radio issues (iirc fixed only one or 2 generations ago)… lack of otg support is also one minor issue

also Huawei laptops. Jfc what a trashy counterfeit of a MacBook and if you get an AMD one, better also get a good cooling stand. The keyboard is terrible and costs a fuckton to replace and generally the repairability is like with macs, the USB ports are built in a way that just begs for either them or your peripherals to be broken, they might overheat while charging, they ship bloatware and the speakers are ridiculously quiet. My friend’s mom bought her one contrary to my advice to get a second-hand thinkpad or just any other business-line laptop and it she had to return the first shipment because the screen got bent during shipment.

MIUI… don’t even get me fucking started on this garbage. It literally removes numerous features from vanilla android, presumably to relocate some performance budget to the bloat they add.

Beyerdynamic or Jabra are also quite good, depending on your budget. Cheap Sennheisers might have overly strong bass and bad breathability.

premature optimization is a root of all evil.

also when those morons decide to do ‘microservices’ but end up creating glorified SOA with one messy DB where half the tables are not even used by anything, updates in place are the standard and there is nothing like one team per service, but instead everyone is expected to navigate millions of lines of spaghetti code with poor documentation, barely any reuse and inconsistencies all across the board with this oh too-fucking-common entity service anti-pattern.

and so much fucking coupling that you better start deploying your dev cluster just right after waking up so it maybe is up and running by the time your daily is over.

Fun fact, I used to work at a company where a lot of projects use Elixir and a bulk share of my coworkers have been outspoken critics of microservices precisely because OTP manages to power fault tolerant and scalable systems but not by insane levels of complexity like kubernetes does but by CoC that rarely gets in your way.

a decentralized file hosting/sharing protocol that powers library genesis, for example

come and destroy the IPFS, then!

not enough AI features! /s

one of the best

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And then for no good reason a “FOSS” app’s binary grows by a couple MB…

simple is often the opposite of easy

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markets access and hitherto investments play a huge role actually. Israel is the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. In Ukraine the worst scum of the earth, agricultural produce and energy speculators (and real estate/companies hiring swathes of cheap labor in countries with large refugee populations, like Poland) as well as the military industry are benefitting from dragging this conflict out as long as possible whilst not allowing Ukraine to lose completely as to not lose access to hers market on beneficial terms.

us be like please please stop spying on our children so that WE can do that and also prevent the thoughtcrime of believing genocide (in Palestine) is bad

*keys and *omas are more fun though. mastodon’s way too businesslike to encourage a fair share of people to pick it over shitter (it works other way around as well tho)

Imo random is good if you limit it to stuff compatible with Android 12 or newer, because there is a ton of legacy stuff that might have security or usability issues and any bugs would not be resolved

will this affect invidious/piped?

imagine using an sms app that requires network access

pretty much, though it’s pretty basic in terms of functionality at the moment

hmm strange, maybe some applet but when I was using it on my 3rd gen i7 laptop it never went silent and the CPU usage could spike to even 20% when idle