Ted Jackson

Wait till you experience the unmitigated joy that is Xiaomi’s battery optimisations, resulting in permissions you grant to the launcher for gesture and media support to be constantly revoked. 🙄

I understood that reference

This is your only realistic option, IMHO.

Incidence of thrombosis was much higher in people who contracted COVID, mind you.

In many markets your smartphone is your primary, or only, computing device. Many people use their phones as media consumption devices. Those are the two primary drivers of our ever growing handsets.

I believe he’s implying he was asleep during geography.

No doubt, but custom ROMs aren’t on your average buyers radar.

They’ll need to lift their game on software updates for that to happen. Many of their handsets ship with an outdated version of Android, and they rarely see more than one major update.

Seconded. I’ve got a couple of Sofirn lights and they’re excellent value. Their UI is pretty straightforward as long as you avoid their pro models which use Anduril or other “enthusiast” firmwares.

I was looking for the Bender reference, and you did not disappoint. 👍

You keep telling yourself that. 😉

Obviously people misunderstood. I’m very much pro vaccine - fully vaccinated and triple boosted.

I was making reference to the fact that anti-vaxxers were citing comorbidities in regards to COVID deaths to downplay the numbers while refusing to do so for deaths shortly after vaccination. This was especially galling in light of the fact that the first groups vaccinated were the most vulnerable: the elderly.

Something, something, comorbidities…

Sorry, I forgot that only applies to COVID deaths.

Spread the rumour it’s schoolgirl urine, change the name to Pi-Tsingtao and export to Japan. Problem solved.

Because they’re OpenAssholes™

The other holy trinity: the father, the son, and Adolf Hitler

I’m new to Lemmy but I believe Boost for Lemmy allows you to filter on keywords.

Welcome to the Pay Per View information economy. Amazon, and others, have been pulling this shit for years.

And in breaking news,

checks notes

A company owned by a notorious Nazi is apparently full of Nazis.

Well steal my onions and call me Jacques!