beware of fanged girls. also, beware of idols. especially, beware of fanged idols.

the SD card slot is removed because it’s a security issue. data on SD card is per spec (iirc) not encrypted sothat it’s compatible with typical SD reader software on your computer. therefore anything that you store on your phone’s SD card can be read by an attacker who steals your phone and extracts the SD card.

make phones slimmer which is necessary because of uhh

to lower manufacturing costs

also i want to point out that eSIM has potential advantages. when i order a physical SIM card, i have to wait 3 days to receive the SIM card by mail (of course that varies based on where you live). when i buy eSIM, i can get access as soon as payment is processed, which with modern banking systems takes between 5 seconds and 15 minutes.

what if i want triple SIM?

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“walls of text” are anything that’s hard to read because it’s very long, tedious, without a clear format or structure, and mostly boring because it repeats itself in 5 variations without any clear reason.

Posting is a vice, and only a vice.

posting/commenting is what we make of it. :-)

in separate but related news, high-calorie food is better digested when it’s mixed with lots of low-calorie fiber. relevant link

edit: to clarify, it’s relevant because it’s the same with ideas. “high-impact ideas” are better received when they’re mixed with a lot of low-impact context and examples.

in IT there’s the Signal-to-noise ratio concept. i think verbosity increases the noise, mostly. i try to keep my comments succinct and to the point.

education is the most important element of progress, and discussion is literally the most effective tool for that.

also don’t tell me what to do, i don’t like that, thank you.

i’m in the same position as you. i’m trying (or rather i tried) to be active in a number of activist groups where i live but most of them are too busy with petty infighting to actually improve anything. that’s why i’m so active on lemmy now, because here i feel like i can actually get things done by talking to people, having interesting discussions, learning and teaching stuff.

exactly my experience. people actually looking at data and making decisions based on reality is rare. most people adhere to group-think and do what their friends think is acceptable.

i unironically agree. i wrote about it yesterday

basically the ideal text length is 1-2 paragraphs where you say your opinion, not longer than that, because longer text easily is perceived as a wall of text, and that’s very exhausting to read.

Basically my ideal piece of text looks like this:

3-5 paragraphs, 1-3 lines each, and 1-2 images strewn into it.

the difference is whether the state consisting of mainly one ethnicity is a fact or a goal

if it’s a fact, well then it’s just how it is but other people could potentially live in this country and have the same possibility, chances, …

if it’s a goal, however, that means you’re not providing the same chances to everyone, but are discriminating based on ethnicity and treat people differently, which is a problem.

to anyone too lazy to watch the video:

he gets asked whether he’s a socialist. he says “idk what a socialist is but i support medical care for babies, sheltering homeless people, educating the population …”, he goes on for a minute, then the interviewer changes the topic and askes him “carl do you think that time travel is possible?”

might it be that people have a problem with the -ism because they think it means you’re putting your ideology above everything else, including real observations?

well … i’ve heard a lot of people saying “communication is key to a healthy relationship”

and i would say “communication” is auditorially close to “communism” too.

windows is shit because windows fundamentally doesn’t care about you. it’s a company and has the fiduciary responsibility to make as much profit as possible; your experience in all of this is completely secondary.

He’s also very smart.

[…], we’re on the cusp of a new digital nervous system for the 21st century.

I like that way of painting things.

He is right about a lot of good points.

I’d like to add: We need general purpose computing devices. These are devices where you can run your own software on.

The necessary pre-requisite is that the bootloader of the device is unlockable and relockable. That is very important both in the context of desktop and mobile devices.