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When you design a new device from the ground up you make them fit in a way that allows the remaining space to be a single large rectangle to be entirely filled with battery. This might require custom PCB to have some L shapes. If you want to target a specific weight and having that much battery is too heavy then you make the device thinner. Instead it looks like they took pre-existing components from other devices such as Pixel phones or the Google Home and put them in a larger case.

It’s not necessarily a problem that this device exists how it is, but that it is a cheap way to go about it and yet still sold at a premium price.


Yes, but at $500 the profit margins are still huge. This is like a $200 tablet being sold for $500. It probably costs $50 to manufacture.


People for once not being overworked has made it clear that the scope of modern AAA video games is unsustainable.


They are still good for alternative builds of Android such as GrapheneOS. Ideally I wouldn’t support Google at all.


Thanks. I might look into the endless things from 2+ years ago that are on sale now. Probably not though. Too many books to read. 😵‍💫


Being a patient gamer isn’t strictly about money. It’s about not getting caught up in hype and making more calculated decisions. Even so, wanting to pay what you think something is worth is just good practice.


I’ll let you know in 2 years when it is on sale for at least 50% off.


Is there a convenient way of doing this? There is no way I can always babysit my device and wait for it to reach 80% and then remove it from the charger.


Longer lifespan? Does this mean they will have user replaceable batteries? I’d consider spending more than $200 on a phone if it could actually be kept in peak condition for more than 4 years.


No, putting ads in software to the point that it is annoying enough to pay someone to make them go away. Selling software without this strategy is respectable.


You have ads on Lemmy though. Which is free and open source software whos developers disagree with the idea of an ad driven internet. Paying for it to remove the ads isn’t any better though as you are rewarding this kind of behavior.


I’m also convinced these are really just paid for by Apple ads. I’ve never seen anyone care about such a thing.


Delete account and then add facebook to resolve to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file. 😀


I just noticed it on the web browser. Great stuff. The home feed is just gone now.

👍 👍


I still get recommendations on the Android Youtube App and my watch history is completely empty and turned off.


Everspace 2

The scale of the in-game universe is quite vast. Beautiful game too.


This is a breath of fresh air and has convinced me to get this game.


So you are ok with ads and paid subscriptions to remove them, but you aren’t ok with Reddit charging for access to its API? How do you reconcile the contradiction here? Reddit developers have to eat too. They are just a business trying to make money. What if Lemmy instances started charging for its API and priced out third party apps then added ads/subscription to their own app? All just part of the cycle?


Part of the purpose of moving from Reddit to Lemmy is that a for profit corporation making money off of the free content of users was considered bad. I might even say this was the main point of contention and thought that spawned the creation of Lemmy. A free open platform where the users are more in control of their own content. Adding ads back into the mix means that somebody is profiting again off of the free content of the users. On principal this goes against the purpose of Lemmy. You may as well just use Reddit as the end goal of monetizing the fediverse is basically going to end up the same.

So for Sync to not be against the spirit of Lemmy it would need to remove its free version with ads so that the only thing you are paying for is the app itself and not for the content without ads.


I think you are missing the problem here. Paying for a good product or extra features is one thing. Paying to remove the ads that you added in the first place is another. Lemmy is funded entirely by donations and doesn’t have any ads.

It’s a pretty bad look that is fundamentally against the goals of Lemmy as ad free an open platform with a free API. Otherwise we are going to go down the same rabbit hole again and again like what happened with Reddit.


Good to hear. Now remove the ad version and I’m convinced. 👍



There are other methods of monetization besides ads. Such as… selling it.


I’m not suggesting that they should or even can be forced to change or that lemmy.world admins actually do anything differently.

It’s also not about the cost or not being able to afford it. It is about principles and and the ad driven business model being antithetical to the goals of Lemmy. Being federated is one thing, but it is also about moving away from ads. I am fully in support of nearly any monetization of software other than ads and selling user data.

Personally I just can’t understand the person who would agree that Reddit was being egregiously corporate minded and greedy to the point that they move to Lemmy and then be ok with adding ads were there previously were none. I’m definitely not going to be using it and I don’t even care that much despite my comments here if other people do. I just want to make this point known. I don’t want Lemmy to become Reddit all over again and I felt there was a bit of an honor system in place to not do things like that and it has already been broken.

Another point of contention with ads is that everyone is generating the content for free that Sync is injecting ads next to. I don’t want to help them make money off of something I do as a hobby even if it is only pennies. This is one of the main reasons I won’t use Reddit and have been favor of the federated internet.


So how would you feel about Lemmy instance hosters adding ads, harvesting user data to sell to third partiess, making paid subscription models to remove said ads they added and then charging for API access?


If true that is a real deal breaker for me. The whole idea of Lemmy is to break away from exploitative data gathering from corporations. If they are data gathering to sell to third parties then what makes them any different than Reddit? 🫤

If I had to guess most of that info is just to feed you ads, but that is already bad enough for me.


I completely agree with someone trying to make some money off of their app, but when it comes to Lemmy I can’t agree with injecting ads just so people have to pay to remove them. If it were just about the added bonus features then it would be a lot more acceptable.

Lemmy doesn’t have ads and the instance hosters rely entirely on donations.

I must say, this is pretty uncool of Sync for Lemmy developers.


I wonder if is possible to connect two Android devices with a USB-C cable and share files between them.


I recently switched from gmail to protonmail. I might start paying for the cheapest subscription at some point once I fully migrate over. The mobile app is really sleek and I think it is better than gmails mobile app.


I played Destiny 2 when it came out, but then they kept releasing more and more DLC and expansions I didn’t feel like buying for how little content there was. My plan was to simply wait until the entirety of the game was released so I could buy the rest of everything in a single purchase and play it all.

I think I heard recently they have been actually removing old content so this plan no longer makes sense.


It’s not really the thing that is important. On principal I disagree with the idea that it isn’t opt-in only. Then ontop of that if there is no way to even opt-out that is crossing the line. It doesn’t matter what it is or what it is for.


But we are talking about having our device inadvertently used by Google to locate other peoples devices. They are advertising that they have a network of over a billion android devices to locate such things. Not only do I not want to buy a tracker I also don’t want to participate in this network.


Looks like I’ll be installing some custom OS like Graphene.


There must be a way to completely opt out and not have this affect your device in any way right?


Definitely this. It’s a random link with no comment by the person posting. It’s just spam.


This device is so baffling. It’s like they just cut a controller in half and glued a cheap android tablet in-between it. Then it is not capable of much of anything besides streaming your PS5. I wish Sony and even Nintendo would make handheld devices again and then also make games for them.


I can nearly guarantee you that once you download it from Steam servers that it will require the Battle.net launcher.


I have a Pixel 4a because I refuse to spend more than $200 on a phone. The battery is starting to not last very long so either I am going to replace the battery or get a Pixel 6a for $200. I’d really prefer to not need a new phone because I like the headphone jack.