L’Nux

Astroturfing is only allowed from premium accounts.

I actually don’t know a lot about those models.

They last so long I tend to skip a few models at a time, and only bought my pixel 8a about 6 mths ago. So there’s been no need to research.

I’m sure there’s some good reviews or spec comparisons online. They tend to be excellent phones though.

I’m a tech snob but also a cheap bastard and they always fall into that middle part of the Venn diagram.

You can get a pixel in the “a” series for a lot cheaper than the main series or pro.

I always run them and they last forever.

For example a pixel 8a is just under $400 full price.

Graphene also runs better than android due to lack of bloat, so you won’t notice the lower specs quite as much.

Graphene is probably overkill for a simple (commercial) privacy use case but it seems to be the best for confounding google and also stability. So that’s why so many people use it.

And there’s not much in terms of downsides.

thERe arE no sTRIngs ON mE

Just go to the grapheneOS website and it will walk you through it.

I have a medium competency with this kind of thing and the actual install was shockingly easy. Took about 15 mins.

You just change a couple of settings on your phone (it walks you through everything), plug it in and then press some buttons in sequence on their site.

Just make sure you back up everything you need from the phone first.

It’s really shit for the customer, AND it’s cheap?

Double win!

• Intel

“Here are 4000 images we took of quadrupeds within 5 miles of your house.”

“Hey officer. This guy understands videos in Spanish and seems really interested in Latina content creators. Go grab him”

I don’t know about fastest. Don’t Japan hold that title?

I’m just talking about the scale of them, and the average speed that they can manage (very important when looking at the scale of distances to travel).

Super weird. I didn’t know about that.

Probably the state invested so heavily in the sector that they created a bit of a bubble. Then to have them slow down suddenly would pop it.

I think it’s wasteful but not as bad as having not enough houses for everyone and a housing market that’s sucking most of the populace dry.

With a bit of innovation, maybe the market will find a use for all the apartments.

Honestly, if people successfully using adblockers were a worthwhile market, we’d have seen laws against adblockers years ago.

Do you have a source for the housing thing?

In terms of the rail having air resistance that feels a bit of a Fox News point. It’s not perfect so why bother with anything but loads of big cars?

The sheer amount of rail rolled out in the last 10 years dwarfs anything any other country is doing.

I think the influence of their billionaires is strongly curtailed.

There’s no powerful car lobby blocking train production for example.

When it comes down to it, the state can slap down any corporation or private citizen trying to strongarm it.

This has its own set of problems, for sure though.

The housing situation is notably better though. They’ve got some good ideas (also the high speed rail).

All (or a lot of) the apartments in cities are leased from the government for 99 years.

And so the prices are incredibly reasonable for an average living space. No greedy layers of middlemen trying to suck passive income out of you.

I’m sure there’s examples of where it’s bad, but from what I’ve seen, their housing situation is pretty enviable.

Yeah but you might as well make them work for it.

It might save the next guy because they don’t have time.

If people aren’t adopting it, it’s not a boom.

It’s an investment boom.

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Bezos was talking about computer rental being the future of the market.

Presumably with him reaping the rewards.

“Fake it till you make it” is a time-tested business strategy.

Especially when you’re considered too big to fail.

And also when you don’t consider survivor bias when trying to “learn” from the success stories of the past.