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  • A lot of nerds would be perfectly capable of installing a different OS. But i atleast often forget that screwing around with the computer itself isnt the focus for a lot of them. They just use the computer to get shit done in their field of special interests. Like for me the whole administrative overhead of switching to Linux was only bound by the resource of time. But i really looked forward to it and had a blast when i finally secured enough time to do it. In the end i just learned a new aspect for my hobby. For others that would just take time away for the things they want to do. Interest in open source, privacy, beeing in control of your digital shit etc also isnt as common as one would hope even for computer nerds.

    With that said in the last two years i still saw a big shift. Atleast in the other online spaces i frequent and even in my private life tons of people picked up Linux. Just because the strain of windows became so insuffereable.






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    1 month ago

    i think i never even used a terminal to install a browser and i dabbled with linux on and off for over a decade now. there was always a gui to install a browser. well, not on arch in 2014 but back then i never made it past a half broken desktop enviroment. so my point still stands technically.





  • What a whiny little bitch you are.

    I’m not even vegan. But meat eating morons signal posting that they’re sick of vegans are way more common and annoying than vocal vegans.

    Its such a overplayed prejudice for as long as i can remember. I came across overreaching vegans which actually annoyed me maybe five times in my life. Signalposting meat heads are more like a weekly occurance.

    Random vegan at a bbq “hey, can i have small sliver of aluminum foil for my stuff and if you guys dont half intentionally wrench the meat juices over my veggies, that would be cool”
    What always follows: 10-30 minute moronic rant of some meathead because eating meat is his whole personality.





  • I feel like it is in human nature. Its in most of us. But basically all of us encounter this only with video games. Like incremental games were the numbers most go up and it is deeply satisfying even though a lot of them have a deeply disturbing meta-subplot going on while you progress through absurd numbers. Had the same feeling with the ye old Sim City titles. At the start you might roleplay as a “good” virtual mayor but at some point you probably reach the point where you are going to plane entire neighborhoods to build high-rises with fake water-access to min-max your economy on the limited space you are given. The games are already abstract to begin with but with time the abstraction layer gets to the point where you try to game the given rules of the designer.

    I’m no expert. But i feel like Zuckerberg managed to reach that point in real life. Basically unchecked by the rules of society he does whatever the fuck he wants to play a perverted meta-progression of life.


  • The dim 400nit 720p lcd screen is the biggest no-go for me. Especially on a 6,6" device. I had a budget 5" 720p phone many years ago and it just sucked even back then. The brightness wars got a bit silly recently with screens with claimed peaks up to 3000nits. But having ~1000nits is pretty neat under direct bright sun light.

    The SOC is pretty mid. I’m sure it will do normal phone stuff adequately but a phone i had seven years ago had better and higher clocked prime cores and it was 50 bucks cheaper back then. Mediatek devices tend to have practically no custom rom support which also isnt great. But tbh the custom rom scene isnt in a great spot atm either way. It isnt a negative in my book but also doesnt tip the scale to the positive.

    8GB of ram is okay at that price and the current market conditions. 256gb of storage is pretty good. But no mention at all what kind of storage? So in the best case UFS 2.1 which would be okay or at worst EMMC which would just suck.

    Idgf about selfies. But if you do that front camera will look like ass. That secondary 2mp macro at the back is just utterly useless and a waste of space and ressources. 50mp on the mainshooter doesnt sound to bad but look at that tiny lens. With that the sensor must be tiny too. Combined with a shitty camera app of a tiny manufacturer i predict the pictures will look like they were taken in the last decade.

    Most people dont give a shit but i do: USB 2.0 in 2026 should be illegal.

    Headphone jack: exists, which is good.

    In regards to the software: idk, man. Over the years i’ve seen a lot of big privacy claims by niche companies. The privacy focus was IMHO almost always just a marketing device. The actual implementation was either lackluster or straight up misleading. Yeah, and just reading the usual marketing blurbs doesnt give me any confidence its different this time. Especially if they claim their rom is completly degoogled but Aurora Store is preinstalled. Technically correct but you wont believe which service owned by google Aurora accesses. :D

    For 350 bucks i rather buy yet another used Pixel and put Graphene/Lineage(if its older and unsupported by Graphene). The hardware on Pixel devices isnt even that great considering their flagship pricing on new phones. But even a Pixel 6 runs circles around that Brax3.