i dont get why you go out of your way not to mention the complaints were racist in nature. its not about some people complaining they dont like ac because its a mediocre franchise when it comes to gameplay or smth like that.

read the article before you type out a comment under it maybe. hint: you missed the point entirely.

Sweet, this was one of the pain points with my pixel. Just felt so much more clunky than it needed to be.

Yeah, it will be interesting to see how this pans out. With that calender anecdote i just wanted say that its already slowly happening.

Also this horrible made with AI trailer for ARK Evolved just dropped a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2eCWWaCzwQ

For now i’m at the point where when i see a company use AI in any obvious way their legitimacy drops in instant to rock bottom. But i can see that easily change over the years if this just becomes common practice and i start to dont give a shit anymore.

Already spotted two calenders with AI “art” in the wild. Both were calenders which are given away by companies for free as marketing.

I understand why but i still hate it tbh. First because a day where i dont spot ai slop is a good day and second is the implication that now in atleast two cases not a single legimate artist got paid. Sucks.

I ran geekbench on my pixel 7 with both the stable and beta branch of grapheneos. No difference between the branches. Didnt see any performance numbers like in the article. It scored higher than run to run variance compared to the average geekbench presents though.

and thats why i finally gave up two years ago and bought a pixel and installed grapheneOS. also i just dont use shitty apps anymore. its a good life

The stagnant ram/storage situation weirds me out. Dont get me wrong 6/8GB ram and 128GB rom served, serves and will serve me well. But damn i bought a phone in 2019 for 300€ with the same specs and 6 years later i’m expected to pay almost double the price for the same. Doesnt make any sense to me from a consumer perspective. Yeah the SOC is faster, the cameras a bit better and the screen gets brighter. But there is no reason for me to upgrade unless support ends for my current phone or it just breaks.

The only compelling feature i see in the forseeable future is the whole desktopmode and virtualization thing. If done competently i would pay for that since i dabbled with the idea a lot in the last few years. It just was shit from the software stack standpoint. But then give me 12-16gb of ram and atleast 512gb of storage for lets say 600€ or less.

Oh yeah, this article was about gemini ai. Well i dont give a shit.

i’m way less concerned since i read the question correctly the second time.

My first thought went to those M-Disk/BDXL bluray disks which supposed to last 1000 years if you believe the claims. So with 100gb per disk you would need atleast 1000 disks. Probably more since the data probably wont perfectly fill out each disk. Writing to optical media is slow and according to the very first searchresult i found it takes upwards of 3hrs to write and verify a single disk. So with a single drive it would take atleast north of 3000 hours if nothing goes wrong. A year has ~8760 hours btw. Oh boi.

But i wouldnt want to rely on a single copy of each disk. If the data is so important i would like to have atleast 10 copies? So the year would probably consist of only maintaining and repairing several burning rigs and going through like 35.000 blurays and then finding spots to safely store them.

But how will they read the data of the disks in the future? Blurays and todays data formats most likely wont exist anymore. So you would need several redundant PCs with bluray drives which hopefully last that long. The HDD/SSD wont last in them. Linux live disks burned on the blurays? On top foolproof documentation how to operate all that ancient shit.

My head hurts

i dont get it. that kind of hardware could have been had for the same money 4 years ago. the only upgrade is the max brightness compared to back then. like yeah, i’m also surprised what you get for 200$ because there hasnt been a meaningful price/performance uplift in years.

Look, i hate elon like everybody else. You know because he’s a fascist.

But this article is just so petty and shit. Like wtf is wrong with a centered taskbar? Get a grip on life.

Motorola G100/Edge S

Atleast here it can be had for under 200€ on the used market.

You need to unlock it via the motorola website. But then its fully rootable. Atleast with the retail unit i purchased.

Buildquality is good. Nothing fancy. Its mostly plastic. But it holds up quite nice after 4 years. The chromed plastic of the frame flaked a bit from my rough handling.

Removable sim and SD-card slot. Battery isnt removable. But its not the worst when it comes to repairability according to teardowns i watched.

But it has a headphone jack!(!!!)

Runs officially up to android 12. Last time i checked it should get android 15 with lineage.

Security… well there is only so much lineage can do with the official vendor support beeing ended like 2 years ago. But its good enough i guess.

That 21:9 1080p 90hz LCD screen is solid. 500 nits brightness isnt state of the art anymore but its more than useable.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 combined with 8gb RAM is still performing well. If your into emulation it handles most of the consoles well. Even switch and pc emulation apart from the most performance hungry titles.

Cooling isnt the best. Its just a heatpipe from the SOC directly too the battery. SOC will heavily throttle as soon as the battery gets to around 40 degrees C. That nets you around 20-30 minutes of the SOC running at full tilt.

USB 3 5gbs with display out is a really cool feature. Sadly with going custom rom you will loose the great ‘ready for’ desktop mode from motorola.

Its a bit big and heavy for my taste though. I switched to a smaller device as my daily driver.

All in all its great device for screwing around imho