Pretty interesting. Unfortunately, pricing for phones has reached ridiculous levels. Their non pro version looks better in terms of price-value, but still not great.

Unfortunately, it will end up in companies double-dipping. Once consumers accept adds, you will see more of them, and for sure the money they get from ads is not fully reflected in the price reduction.

Exactly. They may not call themselves nobility but their influence is the same if not more.

Grow up.

You need to pay. It is a bidding, as mentioned in the first paragraph.

Musk probably sees this as a confirmation it’s working as intended.

Abuse is certainly the wrong term, putting the blame on the user. Still, I think a ‘fair use’ is no longer given if you upload 20 terabytes or so. As usual, a minority overuses free services until they have to shut down or restrict usage.

I am using LineageOS with zero problems.

30 year old studio. That’s quite sad. Another victim of hyper capitalism.

Very cool. Great reviews as well from what I’ve seen. Definitely on my top contender list. Currently, after flashing a custom ROM, I’m happy with my OnePlus 6T - and upgrading without a clear need certainly goes against Fairphone’s values.

Wow, that’s a pretty hefty fine. Wish similar situations would be fined in the same way.

I guess we are not going to know for sure for a long time.

Agree. And anyone could quickly go one from side to the other. In need of a expensive surgery? Might lose your financial freedom. Bought an expensive house and lost your job? Goodbye as well.

Greece, Canada, Hawaii are all experiencing their worst wildfire season. Let’s hope this trend reveres, though I have little hope.

Alright, so you are a bot promoting this game?

Haha, that’s a scary thought. But not unreasonable. Fine first and let the recipient proof they are not at fault,fighting through a series of AI entities.

Oh wow, you sent me down a rabbit hole! That’s a great tool. Then I realized it requires an account, as it is a paid service. And their main service is a search engine, which seems really interesting so far (you get 100 searches free). Love the customization options! What’s your experience with the result quality? Not a huge fan of having to 0ay by search once beyond a threshold, but if the service is good…Google got super annoying with all the ads. But there’s still companies like Duckduckgo that offer great search as well.

That’s super interesting! Spooky, next to your AI-generated voice being used for fraud, but something I had not thought about before.

Basically, whenever you make a request to access something from the internet (say, an ad image), it goes to a dedicated server that tells you “Where actually do I find www.website.com” (the answer is, you find it at address 128.129.130.1, this is the IP address). This is the DNS server.

If you tell your phone to use an ad-blocking DNS server - Instead of “normal” ones like e.g. those provided by Google - , whenever it receives such a request to find the address for you, and the address leads to a server that serves ads, it tells you, “Sorry, nothing found here” and the add is not displayed.

Phones, at least Android, have a setting where you can change the DNA server to an ad-blocking one (a different IP of that server).

To be fair, Deluxe editions have been available since decades. In a way it is similar that you are not getting ‘all of the game’ without it - though this often includes items next to the game (soundtrack etc.) that have no direct influence on your enjoyment. With MT you directly influence the game and repeatedly, as in, I can buy 1,2,3… “super potions” or whatever. For me they are quite distinct while similar on the surface.