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It’s stupid but I get it. When someone not on iMessage is in a group SMS, all the modern features of iMessage are degraded. The simplest solution is killing SMS altogether. It’s an ancient technology bound to the limitations of the 80s. Read more

I don't know what people are doing that they're breaking any phone let alone foldables. I had three of the latter over the last three years and always traded them in in perfect condition.  Read more

I said the same thing. I had the Fold2, Fold3, and Fold4 over the last few years. There were several problems that finally annoyed me back to a standard phone: the constant cleaning, the weight of the phone made it uncomfortable to use for long periods, the battery is too small for what it’s powering, there are too… Read more

Apple is almost hopelessly behind as other brands are in their fifth generation of folding and flipping smartphones.  Read more

I snagged a new-old-stock Galaxy Z-Fold 3 a few months ago on Amazon for about $750. I’ll never go back to a standard sized phone. Never... Read more

Intellectual Poverty, like copyright, is a cancer. It rots and decays culture and technology. “Planned obsolesence” and so many other problems are rooted in this broken and utterly unnatural concept. Copyright was created for the express purpose of censorship and control by authorities Read more

Gee, it’s nice to know we have these stalwart heroes protecting the rights of the bourgeoisie while they grind the workers down to dust./s Read more

What type of a screwed up world do we live in where you need to pirate books? What next - A ban on Shakespeare? A protest on teaching reading? Shutting down libraries for giving people easy access to these book? “Pirating books” was absurd, yet that’s our current reality, what other absurd concept will be the next… Read more

Generative AI is being used everywhere and it never proposed to be the solution to people being shitty. It’s just a tool that makes your daily work less tedious. People were falling for scams long before even the invention of electricity, it’s not the tool’s fault.
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I upgraded from an iPhone XR (5 years old) to an iPhone 14 Pro Max and it was aWORLDS difference in performance.  Year over year incremental changes are simply not worth it.  I think your point lends to the renewal cycle changing from what used to be yearly to every couple of years. Read more

Verizon gave my wife and I free iPhone 14 Pros (upgraded from 11s) so if they keep doing that I can see why their equipment sales might be down. Not sure what I had to commit to but I’m not paying any more for my plans, so who knows. Maybe one day I’ll find out. Read more

spoiler alert- gonna happen anyways Read more

Yet another reason to like my favorite news source.  Read more

What is this, a controller for ants?! Read more

That looks really painful to hold. I got Carpal Tunnel Syndrome just from reading this.
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Why is this even a thing? UI/UX designers keep forcing changes on us for the sake of keeping their job. Read more

I liked it at the corner, I felt it was easier to reach. Read more

Sorry man, but streaming games to a device does NOT make it a steam deck competitor, at *all*. Read more

I believe the Gameboy you’re thinking of released almost a decade into the life of the console Read more

I got their Odin Pro on kickstarter and love it for gaming. I stream Diablo 4 from my Xbox One and it’s been awesome. Battery life is great. Glad to see this company bringing more to market. Read more