Also with an analogue, cabled headset, it can pick up radio stations.
Headset cost $20 bucks. Not amazing, but shockingly good bass compared to a $20 dollar headset from when the first iPhone came out.
Nope, the phone is not made out of titanium.
I have dropped it plenty of times and its fine, no screen cracks or broken buttons, hell, I even accidentally dropped it fully into a bath tub once.
Turned it off, popped the back cover and the battery out, left it alone for 2 hours to dry out.
Its fine, no damage whatsoever.
I entirely fail to see why absurd processing power is necessary for anything beyond some mobile games, which are crap.
I have some ok free games 2D games, but theres only so much you can do with a touch screen.
This $200 piece of crap can run 99% of what 99% of people use their phones for 99% of the time.
Only downsides are no games, no stupidly high resolution cameras.
EDIT: I have been a software developer, database admin/dev, data analyst. Stereotypical tech worker in many ways. Never fucking understood why getting a 1000+ phone every year or two made any sense to anyone.
No games and no good camera aren’t small issues. I suppose the no games part can be minor, but not having a good camera means you have to carry an actual camera around if you want good pictures, and that’s quite inconvenient unless you’re a photographer.
Well the camera on this thing works fine for anything you would post and or view on social media resolutions, as well as basically any computer monitor under 4k.
If I was really interested in taking high resolution photos at 4k or higher, I actually just would get a proper camera with better ergonomics, ability to use a tripod, etc.
Cant really see why the vast majority of people would need that kind of resolution anyway unless theyre doing professional work.
I’ve got an older iphone which ticks all the same boxes minus the stupid port it has. Only reason I would have to upgrade would be for a better camera. I’ve started painting 3D models recently and this thing takes shit ass pictures
Why is it too much to ask for these in 2024? My Samsung Galaxy S4 had all these a decade ago. And the pictures I took with that phone still look good today.
Thanks man. I don’t have that one anymore. I had to get out of it in 2015 because it was falling apart and I finally got hit with the Prelude Curse when someone backed into it and never left a note or insurance info. The body was perfect before that :(
The bigger joke here is the salary. ₹8000 (rounded to floor) INR per month. That’s like $100 per month. Absolutely pathetic. And why do I know it is months? Because I’m pretty sure Amazon India pays ₹80,000 per month for their internship, which is about ₹10LPA.
I talked to a business leader yesterday who said that their outsourced overseas developers were not performing well, so they were planning to directly contract some overseas developers, because then they would be “captive”. And he proceed to refer to them as “captive developers” for the rest of the conversation.
Sir, you should not refer to people who work for you as “captive”. That has a very negative connotation, and I’m shocked you don’t hear it. Please at least notice everyone else’s reaction when you say it.
The Pixel 6 brought 5 years of software+security updates; the 8 brought 7 years. The 6 started using semi-custom Samsung soc. 8 brought new security features at the hardware level. Beyond that, minor changes afaik. 6 Pro brought true zoom (I really appreciate it), there’s a few features that need the 8 soc for “ai”, variable refresh rate on the 7 (I think), higher+lower vrr on the 8, etc.
I upgrade regularly: whenever an interesting feature or security improvement is made available, or if a family member needs a new phone (I get the new one, they get my used). Nexus 4, 6, 6P, Pixel 2 XL, 3XL, 5, 6 Pro, 7 Pro, 8 Pro. Toss in the Nexus 7 gen 1 and 2 (cellular) too, and my days of having a conversation with a tablet held to my ear for calls. Family is all pixel 6 or newer right now, and shouldn’t need to upgrade for another 2.5y.
I’m on a five year old iPhone XS MAXXX and it runs like a brand new phone, and the battery lasts all day. I’m only considering upgrading because I’d love a 120hz screen and USB-C.
I agree with ya but I still used my 5s for 4.5 years! They replaced my battery for free out of warranty cuz the batteries were shit on that gen, though. The power button got all fucked up after that too, but I used onscreen controls to mitigate that. Woulda been cool to have that fixed too, but at they point I wanted a bigger screen.
Legitimately, if they were still making them with half as much focus on content as they were in the first 5 generations, I’d have no issue paying for the “same game” with new Pokemon every few years.
It’s that the price went up but the actual quality of the product went down. GameFreak used to give a shit and put real effort into them, then the lead director left and was replaced with the current one, and they entered this spiral of formulaic mediocrity every 2 years with increasingly diminishing returns, all the while slowly chipping away at player agency.
I have an ingenious system for this: I put my 20 Usb c cables in a box and if I want to transfer data to one of my devices I try a couple of cables from the magic box until it works.
My corporate overlords would happily pay this middleman 9k USD/mo per intern just to avoid adding anyone to our dental plan.
Yes, my company does remain profitable despite the best efforts of upper management to force out the good developers and replace everyone with contractors.
This guy essentially founded modern “rationalism.” He has millions of literal followers, not just the Twitter kind. His dumbass is the one that spawned the Effective Altruism cult that has become extremely popular with tech bros. Sam bankman-fried, Sam Altman, Elon musk all subscribe to this “philosophy.” It’s all batshit insane and incredibly stupid.
When your ego is large enough to fantasize that a malevolent AI will create a simulation of yourself to torture for eternity simply because you didn’t spend all your money trying to bring it into being.
As an autistic dude, I feel like I know that it’s weird too say, but I also feel like it makes sense. Like it’s hard to quantify x% better, but I’m sure there is a number, for me at least, where if someone is that much better and would date me, I’d do it. It’s not romantic to say, but it’s true. And I’ve been dumped for other people twice so the same must have been true for them.
It just feels like one of the thousands of unspoken rules you’re not allowed to talk about out of politeness. But honestly I would like to know that number for my SO.
If you’re curious about an alternative view, I suggest The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. Relationships are about growing your own and the others natural abilities, something you do and not about trading something you have. The OP post is a materialistic view and a belief in inequality. YMMV.
He’s also the psycho who founded a movement which designed to let insane billionaires justify spending their money however they want, no matter the people they hurt now, as long as it’s ‘for the greater good’ long term.
The OOP needs to kiss the business end of a wood chipper if you ask me
Interesting, I haven’t heard his name. I do like Nick Bostrom though. I started reading about this Effective Altruism, on paper it sounds all very nice, but this OOP materialist nonsense bodes very bad for any ethical AI lol. It also seems to be focused on donating and solving everything with billionaire money instead of on governance. Do you have a link to some good critique of this EA stuff?
EDIT: Never mind, found lots of it lol !sneerclub. These extremes growing out of longtermism and TESCREAL should be a laughing matter but apparently they are well funded gaining access. A good article summing this up.
I’m very much aligned with these sci-fi ideas except the first thing we should teach an AGI is to love (see my book recommendation). Which seems something OOP has little capability for. Extinction might not be the worst case scenario with these guys at the helm lol.
sure. just codify the human experience of love, marriage, sex, relationships, family and their interpersonal connections and the entire population into a single integer in a way that the difference between 42 and 43, and 1 and 153, is meaningful to everyone regardless of race, culture, creed, ethnicity, language, class, location, age, upbringing, wants, needs, desires, hopes, dreams and in a way that remains meaningful for up to 8 decades as well as the first meeting of a relationship and encourages people to feel safe, confident and happy to leave a relationship based on a relative number to their assigned integer. It should keep you busy for a little while but I look forward to seeing what number you assign to, for eg a Liberian refugee in Sierra Leone or a Changar itinerant harvesting travelling village, or Prince Harry of England and when I see it I can say “ah, yes, an 81, of course.”
This is a weird attempt to put me down?? Obviously this is a personal number, I have no idea why you think I’m implying there is one formulas that fits every person in the world other than you just wanted to fight.
I didn’t intend it to be personal, but you did say you see the appeal, so I was doing a bit on the concept. But not really dedicated to you. After all, we’re all just usernames to each other at on here.
Tell me you’re a 44 year old man with a Messiah complex who spends his Friday nights trolling college bars for girls his estranged daughter’s age without telling me.
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