Why do you need a 3d printer when carrots have been coming out of the ground for thousands of years.

they explain that in the article :)

The best term I’ve heard to describe this is “Hapsburg AI”

Are there plans to build some sort of instance-blocking feature?

It’s wild that companies essentially destroyed the practice of overclocking.

I sold my Pixel 6 pro to get a Samsung S23. Unfortunately the main issues I had with the pixel were hardware-related and recurring, and while samsung isn’t ideal, most of their issues could be solved with a one-time fix.

Main issues I had with the Pixel:

• Fingerprint sensor doesn’t work with privacy screens. Period. It’s not a question of buying cheap privacy screens, the Pixel fingerprint reader is optical and is just not compatible with privacy screens. Samsung uses an ultrasonic reader which is compatible with privacy screens.
• The 6 Pro was unwieldy and ridiculously large, the smaller 6 doesn’t have the triple camera setup. Samsung is one of the few that doesn’t sacrifice phototaking ability in a smaller form factor.
• That godawful new quick toggles UI is horrible. The quick toggles are ridiculously large, and who decided it would be a good idea to merge the wifi and internet toggles?! I managed to use adb commands to split the toggles in 12, but that broke with 13.

Issues I had with the Samsung:

• Bloat - this was mainly in the form of some preinstalled software, but unlike in the early days of Samsung, I could uninstall most of the bloat easily without resorting to root, adb, etc. No bloat (pixel) is still better than bloat that can be uninstalled (samsung), but this problem was permanently solved after about 10 minutes.
• Some Samsung native apps have horrible permission settings - eg Samsung Pay requires access to your contacts, and if you deny it any one permission, the app just force closes. I got around this by uninstalling the offending apps and using alternatives (e.g. google pay) - again, a one-time issue. fuck the intrusive permissions.

some people want more storage space maybe? not OP, just guessing.

The pixel 7 line had pretty good cameras, didn’t they? Iirc it was 64MP

If you haven’t tried any of the newer Samsung, you should!

I hated the bloat on my S5 (only tolerated it because of the awesome IR blaster on that phone), but the S10 was miles better. There were maybe 2 apps I had to disable, the rest could be uninstalled.

No bloat is still better than some bloat, of course, but Samsung phones are still one of the few with a triple camera setup in a small form factor. That, and the new android quick toggles are so ugly - who thought it was a good idea to hide wifi/data behind a second layer of toggles, and then make each toggle hideously big?!

A feed with 40 videos, 25 of which I’ve already watched

This is such a problem for me. There needs to be a “remove from the feed because I’ve already watched it, but i’m still interested in this type of content” button.

shhhh. once too many people find out, the price will increase.

Unpopular opinion, but I love my Samsung phone - upgraded from an S9 to S21 not that long ago. I’m not a brand (or even OS) loyalist by any means, and Samsung has its flaws, but it’s the phone that suits my needs the most.

Firstly, I need a “small-ish” phone for one-handed use during my commute in the subway. Of all the flagships, Samsung’s is one of the few that has the triple-camera setup in a small form factor. Every other major phone maker puts the regular and ultrawide camera in the smaller flagship, and the zoom only comes in the bigger version.

Secondly, I’ve absolutely hated the new Android UI since… 12? The quick toggles are ridiculously big, and it makes me feel like i’m using kids’ mode on my phone. And who thought it was a good idea to put the Wifi/data toggles behind a second layer of menu options? Samsung’s UI fixes this right out of the box without a need for root.

As for the cons… I remember my S4 used to have horrible preinstalled software that came in the root partition and couldn’t be uninstalled. But the newest Samsungs aren’t that bad. It came with a few extra things, almost all of which could be uninstalled easily. Samsung also installs their own version of Calculator, Notes etc - some of them aren’t bad at all, and the only annoying thing about their own utilities are that they force you to update them through Samsung’s own app store. Their camera also tends to oversaturate colors, but it’s a one-time effort to dial down the default saturation in the camera settings.

So yeah, the software has a few issues, but they’re all a one-off fix, whereas my issue with other Android phones (no triple-camera setup in a smaller form factor + horrible quick toggles) are not fixable or require root.

Oh yeah. and Samsung DeX is amazing. I’m surprised Android doesn’t have an equivalent feature. I love it when I can plug my phone into a monitor or TV at a hotel or a friend’s house and play movies/games off my phone.

They have both trended towards eachother to the point that apart from UI/UX, there’s honestly very little difference for 90% of things.

This is very true. iOS and Android used to be on completely opposite ends of the spectrum - iOS looked pretty out of the box but you needed to jailbreak to do something as simple as skin your keyboard; Android used to be super confusing but you could customize literally everything. Now they’ve both shifted somewhat towards each other.

Fanboyism (for either side) is bad for consumers in general. I’ll use whatever fits my needs. I’m still on Android because sideloading is a massive draw for me, but it doesn’t mean i sneer at iOS users.

Oh man I’m sure my millions of neopoints and painted lupe is gone by now

I stole it from another random lemmy user too (lemming? Lemur? Lemmyer?)

Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck?

The best term I’ve heard to describe this this “Hapsburg AI”.

great, doubling down on the broken karma system.

The damned quick toggles still look as bad as they were in 12 and 13. I’m still hoping for a UI redesign…

First, “reaching out” is different from actually federating completely.

Second, i was referring to lemmy in particular. I know mastodon and lemmy are both part of the fediverse, but lemmy <> threads federation is a different conversation than mastodon <> threads.

this is why i find all the talk of “defederate threads” on lemmy a bit premature.

Meta isn’t even thinking about the fediverse at this point, they’re just using it as a buzzword. Their focus is on growth.

or use old.reddit.com?

Honestly, i thought I would miss reddit more, but I haven’t been back since I moved here and haven’t thought about it one bit. I expect I’ll still end up on reddit occasionally when I search for something, but I don’t see myself ever posting there again.

When they said they were having a cage fight, I was envisioning a physical boxing match in a ring, not two billionaires trying to out-lawyer each other…

To be fair everything on the web is already being used to train AI.

I’m sure new categories will spring up to skirt the rules. Like rubbing the mic on their butt ASMR or similar.

It really annoys me what they did to the quick settings though. 4/8 toggles a page is not remotely enough.

This, so much this. I really hated this.

Luckily I have windows, but I still have a bone to pick with Samsung for the way they code many of their apps. If you turn off even a non essential permissible the app just force closes.

Ah OK I thought it was the lag in having to allow camera permissions. My bad

If you really must use Snapchat, there are hardware camera covers you can buy for your phone.

Is this a surprise after it turns out spez was gaslighting the Apollo dev, and the Apollo dev had recordings to prove it?

AMEN BROTHER. I really hate the new quick toggles.

When I was playing around with the Pixel, I already tried making display size the smallest. Notification shade didn’t change, and neither did those damn quick toggles :(