Any time I would listen to a tech podcast, they’d discuss Apple/its products for a majority of the time, despite OSX having less than 20% market share (and iOS having like half of Android’s as well). But obviously since their products are the priciest as well as the most “”“prestigious”“” they deserve an inordinate amount of attention and hype.
Why the fuck would anyone listen to a tech podcast
Serious question, if someone produced a pro-socialist tech podcast that promoted open source and did deep dives on the sick culture of Silicon Valley and its ties to capital imperialism, think that would that interest some people?
Cool, I started a thread about it over on the tech channel. If you’re interested in sharing some ideas, hop on over to the thread. https://hexbear.net/post/16847
The news about how Steve Jobs came out looking too skinny and the stock took a dive was one of those moments pre-Marxism younger me looked at the stock market and said “what is this bullshit, alchemy? John Dee horseshit?”
But then he DID die and the company hasn’t had a single good idea since.
Like yeah on one hand he was a CEO and all CEOs are cunts and he was involved with tax evasion and etc etc etc
But on the other hand he’s at the helm when they come out with the ipod, macbook and iphone, and since he died the “best” thing apple have done is “uh… Do you want a subscription service to bad mobile games??”
you’re forgetting about the big heavy smart watch, so you can carry another device for all the times you don’t want to look at your phone but want to look at your wrist instead
It hurts my soul that we already had the perfect smartwatch, it was made years before. The Pebble Round. This bitch had a color e-ink screen so you could use it in daylight, it was small and thin and light enough to look like a real watch on my tiny woman’s wrist, it was navigated with physical buttons instead of a touchscreen the size of a postage stamp, had multi-day battery life. It was the only good smartwatch and I fucking loved it. And now it’s gone, capitalism killed it, Fitbit bought the company and threw everything good about it in the trash.
Android being a Google product isn’t a good thing. They’re horrible on privacy and obviously an evil company. Apple sucks because they lock users into their ecosystem and force them to buy hardware they shouldn’t need at a premium price. I don’t know enough to verify this, but it’s my understanding that you can actually achieve the highest level of privacy using certain custom Android ROMs on the right hardware. Plus you have more freedom as a consumer in how you use the software and choose your hardware.
I think the real takeaway I have is that brand loyalty is for chumps
The point I was making is that like, general (nominally non-apple focused) tech journalists and enthusiasts spend tons of time talking about apple, tips for apple users, etc despite them being a pretty tiny minority.
Google sucks, obviously, but I only had Android smarphones and I pirate all the apps without jailbreaking or using fancy roms. 4pda.ru is a great site full of roms and patched and moded apps and what not with great moderation so you don’t install malware. The biggest obstacle to pirating apps on Android in my experience is the whole software as service thing.
I usually only use linux on my laptops, and have considered getting a macbook as their price seems pretty in line with similar quality laptops, but all the weird external adapters means I would probably never do that. In reality I will probably stick with refuribished thinkpads for the forseeable future.
THINKPAD GANG RISE UP
I actually switched to a Dell Latitude a couple years back, but every single one of my laptops have been hand-me-downs so I can’t exactly afford to be picky about the brands lol
I bought this thinkpad about 5 years ago used. It was already a few years old at that point. Since then, I have lived in a 10X15 cabin in ontario, a 10X15 cabin with a wood stove for heat in cape breton for a year, went to India with it and fully lived in a tent with it for a summer until my tent collapsed due to a rain storm (I think the laptop was being stored in a consturction site at that time so it was “safe”), and it still works like the day I got it, aside from the paint coing off some of the keys. I don’t know about the newer models, but this vintage is fucking bomb proof.
Before that, I had some Acer laptop that I bought new for double the price and it lasted for 2 years before the CPU fan broke.
Damn, you certainly sound like you’ve led an interesting life. I had an X220 (about 2010-ish I think?) and it survived the extremely gentle task of being my daily driver for a few years pretty well, besides losing a key cap which I basically pried off because of boredom
I kinda wanna buy a Huawei phone just to own the libs
They’re also just really good. Their hardware is consistently a good couple of years ahead of everyone else.
Software wise… Ehhh it’s a bad version of Android, but it’s still Android so you can remove a lot of the jank yourself.
Depends on budget. Xiaomi (and sub-brands like ‘redmi’ and ‘poco’) are much better at the low end to the midrange. Huawei’s cheaper offerings aren’t nearly as good, but their flagships are MASTERWORKS of phones.
That said, if you want a Chinese phone you shouldn’t discount BBK either - You’re more likely to know them by the sub-brands ‘Oppo’ or ‘OnePlus’. As an all rounder I’d say the Oppo Find X 2 Pro (bad name) is the best phone out of China this year. IMO it beats out the Huawei P40 Pro just because the curved display on that one is way TOO curved. It looks amazing but it’s just too annoying when you’re actually holding the thing.
If you’re on a budget though it’s got to be the Redmi 9 - it’s, and I’m not shitting you here, it’s £160 and for basic use it is more than good enough.
Honestly my p20 lite was the best phone I ever had, even after 2 years it showed no signs of slowing down, battery lifetime was still the same, apart from a few scratches (which were my fault). I actually broke it by accidentally dropping it out of a window on the fourth floor (lol) and evne though the screen was completely shattered it was still working and I could extract all my data from it. Only problem they have now is that they can’t use the Google play store anymore which makes installing apps a bit of a pain but otherwise they’re top notch
I’m interested in buying a huawei laptop to own the whites, any suggestions?
