I was referring to being forced to use crapple or doevil phones.

Because literally any era of Microsoft is so much better.

Well, yeah. Suicide is illegal, and any contract to commit a crime is void.

A 95% false positive rate isn’t actually that big a deal if you have a good way to test the claims. I wonder if you could set it up CtF-style, where you don’t get notified until the LLM can write to a specific file on the target box.

Do you have a guide on which baseline rules are good? I use Claude Opus 5.5 at work and while it’s definitely more helpful than not having it, it also does some incredibly baffling things that a human would realize immediately are unproductive.

In my experience, the LLM usually proposes a solution, but it’s a crapshoot whether it works well. And plenty of bugfixes go well beyond a few lines, especially in older code.

It was originally conceived to replace Android, but then it got relegated to Google Home devices, and now it’s basically just a REST client for Gemini that’s bleeding users because Gemini on smart home stuff sucks even more than Gemini normally.

Check out the Fairbuds 2, then. The batteries still degrade, obviously, but you can reasonably replace them.

I’m starting to think that Carl Pei gets off on making good but somewhat unfinished phones for a few generations and then following them up with bloated, confusing garbage. OnePlus did the same thing.

They’re much closer than e.g. Samsung OneUI, though.

And Fuchsia! RIP Fuchsia.

Sideloading has been a word for installing apps that aren’t from a store at least since I started using Android in early 2010. There was never any negative connotation, aside from the acknowledgment that you wouldn’t get automatic updates.

“Cleaning up” seems a little generous. It’s finding them, but someone still has to patch them.

Also, even ignoring taxes, it’s pretty common for tech products to cost the same number of USD, EUR, and GBP.

There are only a few dozen devices on that list total. Hundreds more are relevant; for example, the AYN Odin 2 and newer likely work very well, and I can personally confirm that some games work well on the Odin 1 (but only if you upgrade to LineageOS 22, since the stock firmware is stuck on Android 10).

Social credit score doesn’t apply to regular people in the PRC. It’s for corporations and sometimes politicians. https://youtu.be/wYaKoDyIvWA

I asked someone from Switzerland and he said “Well the flag is a big plus.”

https://youtu.be/J9INnMMwvnk

I like the Surface Phone 2 form factor. Having the display be glass helps a ton, and the bezel inside is pretty small. It would be even better with an e-ink outer display; that’s plenty for most phone things, and then you could open it up for videos and such.

So it stops being xenophobic or fascist when a majority elects them? The literal Nazis were elected by a plurality; would more votes have made them not fascist or not xenophobic?

It could be (not taking a side on whether it is) a difference in degree rather than kind. The effect would still be markedly different in many cases (being excluded from a bathroom is annoying, being excluded from nearly every bathroom is a different matter entirely), but that doesn’t mean the intent isn’t similar.