It’s like saying I don’t like drinking water from planet Earth. Good luck with alternatives.

Ugh, this is exactly why I find his video kinda misleading and unfair. It’s one thing to test the durability, but its a completely other thing to basically frame the device to consumers as a fire and explosion hazard by doing things to it that no normal person does, even by accident.

The claim that in the last 10 yeas no other phone exploded probably lies in the fact that phones were mostly not foldable and double the thickness. The iPhone 6 Plus bent just as bad, just not at the place where the battery was. He said it himself, he probably punctured the battery while bending more the already bent and shattered phone.

He, for what I can remember, also didn’t bother to explicitely mention that this is an extreme case and it could happen, but tries to play it casually like Google has a massive issue and he “just used the phone as normal”. He created bad publicity, surely attracting many many views by framing this as something unexpected and controversial.

If he started punching all phones for a test, they will all go up in flames.

Imagine, they announce a Chinese phone brand, like Huawei or Xiaomi. Although that Xiaomi 17 Pro Max… damn.

Because only Google provided everything needed to actually fully support the hardware it runs on. Besides, hardware is just the skeleton, as long as you exchange the brains inside, you are fine. Like a bomb shell but empty inside.

Same way you protect anything else valuable in your house - by locking the door and potentially installing (selfhosting) security cameras. I’d completely disagree that a server will be a target for a common thief. What are they gonna do with that? Who is gonna buy that from them? What can they buy with that? It’s useless garbage for them.

I know a different guy from history who also has seen great potential in media for propaganda.

Just shit right under it on the floor to show your disagreement.

Reasons I see:

a) the generation that grew up watching LTT is now at age where they don’t watch as much YT as they did before b) increasing amount of things happen which put viewers off c) consumer technology peaked and is now “boring” d) new generations don’t have as much interest in technology altogether

Let’s explain:

a + c) people watching LTT years ago were living in an exiting tech era where it boomed and you had mayor leaps in tech basically on a yearly basis. Moving from floppy disks to CD’s to USB sticks. CRT to LCD displays. 16-bit to 32-bit color. Solitare and Minesweeper to Call of Duty 4 and Need for Speed. Symbian and Blackberry to Android and iOS. Tons of manufacturers, tons of competition, tons of new and exctiting stuff.

Let’s observe the state today: iPhone looks the same for the past half decade. Android is basically just Google and Samsung. Storage is now all in cloud. New games are recycled and upscaled old games. Every new generation of hardware is same thing just 10% better/faster. New OS releases are just refinements without new features. Most changes are done just for the sake of change. Existing hardware can basically be enough for 5+ years. What is LTT realistically supposed to talk about that is interesting? There is simply no more interesting tech.

This ties in into d) - tech peaked, new generations “just use it as it is”, there is no need to tinker with it, prebuilt PC’s are more than fine for years to come. Since AI the IT job landscape seems to be in decline, both in demand and in pay. People do other stuff now that is more lucrative.

LTT is dependent on stuff happening so that they can make videos about it. But, stuff kinda just isn’t happening. Or the stuff that happens is just not noteworthy news anymore.

This made my blood boil, and then I remembered I switched to Linux a month ago… all good.

Probably just register as a hobby developer and in worst case scenario sign apps I build from source with my own key and install them on my own devices, in case the original developer is not registered. None of the information I give google is new, they know all of that probably long time ago, and I don’t plan to distribute apps, just install them myself.

This seems like a macOS system where you can install apps from outside of Apple Store, but it still needs to be a registered developer. It’s not THAT bad, as it may initially look like. Just remember the old Android Marketplace with tons of shady fart and flashlight apps.

But, I bet there will be a root workaround for that so… no worries. Root, disable, hide root, enjoy like nothing happened.

We are aware of the problem, but don’t really have a magic wand to create our own mineral and energy resources overnight, including production lines for advanced chips, defense, train a proper army all while maintaining social plans and investment into infrastructure. The time for solving the problem is long gone, and now the only thing remaining is to do the best we can under the current circumstances.

If we go to a trade war with Trump, we will also deteriorate the our economy and Trump can pull his military support leaving us with both economic downturn and extremely weakened defence capabilities. This can’t possibly be better than playing along, for now.

A simple thing would be to cut a lot of social programs and finance more pressing matters, but we know how the people will react to it…

We kinda need all support we can get considering the blood-thirsty bear to the east. It would be very unwise at this point to go and poke the big hungry bear on the west. We can defend ourselves with a few sticks at best at this point. Or we have a bazooka, but politicians unwilling to use anything but a stick. One of those two.

SailfishOS on a Jolla phone.

Unfortunately, that is 0.1% of their global market that is affected. So, they don’t really have much to lose.

So, their chips become unsuitable for enterprise servers. Datacenters avoiding them and buying AMD. Intel losing enterprise market share and revenue. Reduced revenue causes next layoffs, probably again people working on things that keep the business working. Shoots itself in the foot and being surprised about the consequences.

Getting expensive would be the wrong wording. The price of subscription is simply following inflation. Otherwise as long as the price stays the same while people get raises, you could say it’s getting cheaper.

But it could becoming increasingly not worth it. Depends how much % of your pay is spent on the subscription long term, as both of them go up. If the % is growing, then it’s bad, if it’s mostly the same or going down, thats good.

It’s cheaper if you have 5 friends and take the family plan. I’m paying ~€2 a month for the last couple of years.

AI can only deliver answers based on training code developers manually wrote, so hod do they expect to train AI in the future if there is no more developers writing code by themselves? You train AI on AI-generated code? Sounds like expected enshittification down the line. Inbreeding basically.

Also, small fact is that they invested so much money into AI, that they can’t allow it to fail. Such comments never came from people who don’t depend on AI adoption.

If it was simple and easy to install and play games on Linux as is on Windows, I would have switched over a decade ago.

Oh no! Anyway…