Iran and Turkey would be a better place, that’s for sure. Especially Iran was a free country, women rights and everything. Now priests control the country, and women are getting killed for not wearing their clothing “correct”.
Also, the whole western world entered the “dark ages” which was a big push backwards in terms of living standards and science. That was because of religion, so we might be 100-200 years ahead now, if it wasn’t for that.
My personal opinion (as a dispassionate atheist) is that religion isn’t the problem with human nature. In the U.S., for instance, we have some Christians who have strayed so far, I don’t get how they’ve even seen a Bible verse. But also, basically every major Civil Rights leader was a Christian preacher or woman of faith. There are similar situations everywhere. There’s Buddhists who are so non-violent they wouldn’t kill a fly and other “Buddhists” who commit genocide, which doesn’t even make fucking sense.
So, my view of religion is that it’s mostly not the thing to focus on. People can be organized for good or evil and there’s plenty of secular things where people define an identity. I suspect if religion never existed, we’d have all the same problems. I mean, we have soccer hooligans and it’s not because people object to 22 people getting some exercise on a lovely afternoon. (Or a miserable, rainy Wednesday night in England.)
Do you have a real, good reason to not buy Chinese phones?(I mean brand. Most likely you own a phone made in China, anyway).
i’ve bought a few chinese branded phones and i’ve consistently liked the build quality and specs; but the biggest reason why i don’t anymore is because they don’t work with android auto.
i’ve employed the workarounds that you can find online to get it to work; but they’re no where near as good full support you can get from a samsung or a motorola
Well, when Russia is killing people who say mean things about them in other nations and not just on their territory, and China has a similar history…
Then you’re talking about putting a device with questionable intentions that you can’t verify on your home network? On your work network?
China has been specifically caught in the past, installing things on their devices meant for out-of-country shipment, specifically for the purposes of espionage.
The intelligence apparatus of the West has gotten up to some hinky things in the past, but 1. Not to the same degree by a long shot when it comes to end user devices (they’re far more likely to monitor communications from datacenters and cooperative platforms) and 2. Even if you’re already compromised by 1 nation state, why would you want to be compromised by 2?
I want a Chinese phone so badly, but I live in the USA so I think I’m SOL.
My Note 20 5g Ultra is starting to break down in certain places and the economy isn’t what it used to be, so I’m not eager to spend another thousand plus dollars on a phone. There’s plenty of great looking Chinese phones that go for like £200 in the UK that I’d love to consider, but it’s just not an option here and the comparable Samsung device is a grand or more over that.
I’m still rocking a Galaxy Note 9 from 2018. Somehow still performs surprisingly well, holds a charge for longer than 24 hours, and I just don’t feel like the phones that came after it really offer that much of an advantage technologically. I don’t have any app slowdown or latency issues, really. I’m not about to drop several hundred dollars upwards of a thousand to get a meager incremental gain AND lose my treasured headphone jack which I still use on a weekly basis. I loved the note 8 and prior to that owned a note 4. I’m not sure what I even want to settle for from where I am right now. I know it’ll never happen, but I still ardently wish that the note 9 would just get a refresh, all the same features and structures (including the headphone jack!!!) but with newer versions OF the GPU, the CPU, the RAM, the solid state storage, a 5g antenna… The cameras were fine. Don’t even need better cameras. Oh well…
I don’t know that I can help, but I used to have a blue notebook that I wrote poetry in when I was an angst teen. It probably only had a half dozen that I was really proud of, but I wish I had them still. My mom found it once and then relost it, so maybe some day when my folks are gone I’ll find it again.
Many Chinese manufacturers don’t have close ties to the government
You sure about that? How do you think all these Chinese companies just magically appeared from without significant investment, most likely from the CCP?
I’m sure some companies were subsidized by the Chinese government, like Huawei, ZTE, etc, but I’m sure many aren’t. Remember that in many ways the Chinese economy is savagely capitalistic, and that there are tons of millionaires looking for investment opportunities
Oxidation in the fab process. They have simultaneously claimed that oxidation isn’t causing any issues, and that it’s caused only “some” crashing issues. Because they’ve been so wishy washy, it’s probably safe to assume that any 13th or 14th gen CPU that experiences any kind of crash or BSOD is degraded and should be RMA’ed immediately, otherwise you risk getting stuck with a permanently physically degraded CPU.
Intel says they identified the issue sometime in 2023 and fixed the fab process. So the good news is that any newly manufactured Raptor Lake CPU shouldn’t have this issue. The bad news is that Intel won’t give a date range of when the fab issue occurred, or exactly what CPUs it affected (by date code), so really the only choice consumers have at this point (before we get to the inevitable class action lawsuit) is to RMA at the slightest sign of instability.
Intel is also planning to release a microcode update in August, but there’s a lot of doubt that this can be fixed via microcode.
This was affecting 50% of Raptor Lake CPUs in data centers, and it’s become clear via video game telemetry that it has also affected a significant number of consumer chips.
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