Smart glasses with a rebrand.

I’d be wary of smart glasses though, they’re the holy grail of data harvesting. Companies will be able to see exactly what holds people’s attention, what they look at most, what tempts them most, as well as see any personal information you look at, what physical goods you own and interact with, etc.

There’s a reason Google chased it so hard, and why companies like Meta are trying to do it now.

You’re on lemmy.ml

This has always been a Tankie instance for people that hate the west but don’t have the balls to move to the countries they simp for.

Sorry my words hurt your feelings my guy. You were wrong though. It was a really stupid comment to make. A really really fucking dumb one.

There is more to a phone’s specs than just the amount of storage…

And 500€ for a phone with 256GB doesn’t seem bad at all, so I’m not sure what you even mean there? If you want more ram and storage, there’s the 580€ one, I guess.

today 7000-8000 mAh should be easy, without adding bulk or weight compared to phones 2 years ago

A OnePlus 15 (released just recently) has a 7300mAh battery, so right within your range. I’ve not seen much complaining about bulk, either.

It feels like it never quite decided on what it wanted to be.

Wow, I feel the absolute opposite. Of all the UXes I have ever used, Gnome feels the most like they have a vision they’re committed to.

Not everyone likes it, and I get it’s very different to the WinUX that most others have settled on, but they absolutely have a vision, and they execute on that vision.

Extensions break with every update.

Sort of.

When a new Gnome version comes out, Gnome’s default behaviour is to mark extensions as unsupported. But in reality unless you’re upgrading to the first Beta releases, you’re unlikely to run into that, as extension developers will have marked their extensions as compatible long before the new Gnome version has hit stable and distros start pushing it.

You can disable the check if you like, but hypothetically that could lead to issues (say, if Gnome radically changes the calendar applet, and then you force enable an extension that tweaks the old applet). Gnome, probably wisely, goes with the more stable option.

If you just use the stable branch, you’re unlikely to ever get broken extensions.

You can optionally donate money each month.

They call this a SailfishOS subscription, but in my mind a monthly donation with no strings attached doesn’t really count as a subscription.

You don’t get anything from it directly, it just goes towards software development, funding the forum, etc.

They’re still ultimately reliant on Google.

Translation: influencers who wont say a bad thing about the product

The way smartphones have evolved has been awful.

When they first started gaining traction, I thought that over time, as the hardware improved, we’d increasingly see devices that were essentially mini PCs, with all of the freedoms that come with it. That as hardware became more capable, PC and smartphone software stacks would converge.

I yearn for proper Linux phones. Plenty of gnome apps are already ready in terms of UX (try shrinking them down to a smartphone screen size, they’ll seamlessly switch to a smartphone UI, it’s pretty incredible). Maybe one day.

So is a $200 phone, but that doesn’t mean $1200 would be a good price for it.

Modern cars are a marvel of engineering, but I still wouldn’t spend $500,000 on a Toyota Corolla.

The Adwaita team, and a bunch of devs that make Adwaita apps explicitly said that theming their apps is fine, they simply asked for users who theme their apps not to submit bug reports that are actually just theming issues.

There’s nothing worse than spending hours and hours trying to replicate or resolve a bug, only to find out it’s because the user installed an anime girl theme that’s caused some issue.

Those devs were completely right to put out that request, and I think it’s wrong that they received a lot of hate for it.

They are open source devs, donating their time to give you software for free. Is it really that bad they politely ask not to receive time-wasting bug reports for things that they never broke in the first place?

FFS. Who the hell is even left that allows unrestricted bootloader unlocks? Sony?

E: oh, Pixels too I guess

Haven’t had an Xperia for a while, but I always really liked them.

It feels strange that the Xperia 5 V hasn’t had a successor yet.

I don’t use YouTube as a music source, but that’s a cool addition for others regardless

Graphene won’t magically fix your dud battery.

This seems like such an obvious thing to do now that I’ve seen it

I really liked my Nothing Phone 1, but £800 is a hard sell.

You’ll be glad to know, then, that the nothing phone 2 came out in 2023, two years ago.

Not only that, but nobody is forcing you to upgrade anytime a new model comes out anyway.

That’s not even the full extent of his homophobia. He also made donations to a politician who said that AIDS is a great thing and will purge the world of gay people.

He also gave an interview about the whole being pressured to leave Mozilla thing, and said he was disappointed in how intolerant of his beliefs Mozilla staff were once they became public knowledge.

Yes, you read that right, a man who wanted to strip gay people of their rights cried about fucking intolerance towards him. Clown.