i misread it lmfao

apparently the j5 2016, a phone i used to use, has partial support for postmarketos, with the only issues being microphone not working and brightness not being controllable. would be cool if i do that but my dad forced me to flash original firmware because “it’ll be very expensive in the later years, a collector would buy it!”

real

i know people that use tablets and phones to type out entire essays and stuff… how?! the keyboard feels really bad no matter what i use, i’d rather use my laptop. i don’t care that i can use my actual keyboard, a computer feels smoother for that purpose alone

another example are kiosks. like in a fast food restaurant. i tried one of those and it didn’t feel responsive just as you said

how is the pinephone pro in general? i can’t afford it and i don’t know if it’d be viable sooner or later. currently i have an s9+ and i’d need to switch to a new one, hoping for a xiaomi or anything with support for custom roms. i won’t be able to get my hands on a pixel tho

i also hope china breaks new ground chip-wise to be honest

i love me some king of the hill

(the second panel is heavily obscured by the text but i don’t know how i’d fix that tbh. still good. ib4 “leftist memes be like” joke)

playstation 3 can play bluray, so if this was the next generation of consoles stuart little 2 on bluray would’ve still caused the playstation to be bought

idk anything about berserk other than gut’s theme and the skeletons, sorry i can’t come up with a better joke

hey fellow foss games enjoyer! thanks for the reply!

it’s not just the regular usage of a modern-day smartphone that sucks. for instance, playing on a phone (statistically one of the largest demographics in terms of video games, don’t let the pro g*mer propaganda get to you) is genuinely not fun at all. no tactile feedback unlike a keyboard or a controller and to get those you need intricate set ups that hold your phone and turn it into not-a-phone that not only is harder to carry but also defeats the purpose of a playable experience easily played from the magic slab in your pocket.

back when phones were little tiny bricks like the nokia or flippies like that one motorola i constantly played jewel quest on as a kid, you had physical buttons. a directional pad with a middle clicky button, standard stuff. not made for games, but it felt usable. now swipe, tap, swipe, tap, triple finger tap, whatever. touch controls are a mess!

my fingers are too large to accommodate stuff like “claw gripping” that actual players of mobile games do. it’s a weird place to be honest

for elderly family members that just require to send and receive phone calls, mobile phones are a total mess. i have to help my grandma constantly because it’s either “swipe up to answer” or “look at the top to press the green button to answer”, or even “press the right button to answer which is a bit green, the left one is a bit red and that declines the call, all of them are white so you can barely see which is which” or “same thing but you swipe instead”. there’s no rhyme or reason, it’s always different. my sister sometimes uses facebook messenger even if i moved most of my family members to signal, it’s always a different way to accept the call. on a “buttoned phone”, you press the greenish button that never moves to a different place. here, you do anything based on certain types of calls. like what the actual fuck

i can’t wait for linux phones to be viable enough, it’d be cool to run xonotic on a fone natively with no hiccups. i saw someone already run supertux on a pinephone or something, funnie :D

my country has this culture where new is good, but also old is good. my family used to buy second hand but “new is always better and will work unlike second hand” smh

only good guys use ifone ! putin uses huawei mega evil moster ogm

jokes aside i’d get a xiaomi. i really want something to custom rom. sadly, pixels are not an option. i knew someone who said that iphones are superior because they’re called “smartphones” and android phones are just called “phones”. romanians call them phones regardless, fuck it, just fuck it, i can’t stand phone wars anymore, it’s all a wallet battle

i heard it was real! it’s the apple “no villain clause” apparently and was shown by the director of “knives out” rian johnson

and james bond was known for using android phones at one point, but is that a villain or a protagonist? i don’t give a shit, the br*tish ew yucky barf sound effect 5

throwing a phone, whether it’s an apple brand or a robot brand or even a linus brand, on a window will yield the same result. it’s a phone. it’s a fucking phone. why cause a war over it? the companies want money, not a verbal equivalent to an indentured servitude towards the fact that you used competitor’s product. you switched phones? ok cool, just don’t shove that “iphone better” down my throat i had that experience for too many times, especially with my inlaw

also i forgot to mention something in my main comment but this is pretty important: i hate phone wars almost as much as enforced “download our app” and maybe phones altogether.

this is separate because it’s not informatory like the one about tracking. this is just a rant i did while sleepy. i apologize for commenting twice and will not do this again, i thought it was allowed

i like phone when i can emulate funny game, i like phone when shattered pixel dungeon is a thing, but i hate people who call my phone shit because “not iphone” or “not samsung” or whatever phone brand people worship, i am not made of gold, my trees don’t grow money, shut the fuck up

i have this classmate who is so smug about “converting into an apple fan” and i told him “good for you, be in debt for all i care” and he also got the apple watch. i don’t understand smart watches for people that don’t do jogging, don’t those cause stress for showing you your heart rate? but i digress. he was like “you thought i wanted an iphone? no, but after seeing with my very eyes how it works and how it takes pictures i put my own money into them and i got a phone that i will have for at least 5 years, and iPhone 14 Pro comes with iOS 17 out of the box, so the years of updates are set for me”, like yea sure spend an entire minimum wage salary at a phone that cannot be repaired or fiddled with. see how an iphone works? that shit looks the same as 15 years ago or whatever. they’re the phone you get to look like you are the coolest of the cool on earth, they’re the phone that movies are obligated to sign a contract to use (and only for the good protagonists, never the antagonists! android evil ifone good ! buy more now best no fake real)

little me seeing minecraft pe free no virus on android: ok this is the one i want

this guy just makes me want to throw him out the window

data is easier to obtain through a phone from what i know, that’s why important features are getting probed from the browser version and transferred to the mobile version (which is most likely a browser version due to the chromium craze), no way to do it in any other way other than through “the app”

browsers like firefox have some measures to keep data in or whatever, especially on phones (which is why some privacy advocates prefer using the browser for stuff that ask for phone programme apps or whatever they’re called. software.) and even companies that use this data junk go like “IT’S BETTER TO USE THE APP!” because they really want you in the grasp

C Robin

A Robin

the ai used for those png lip syncing looks just like shit from the year 2000 where you have to put markers on a picture so that it’d move them and make the image look like it’s talking, like imagine the image becoming mush to contort the lips in there to move. i can’t even find a proper image that conveys that tbh. anyone remembers the “princess jane” twitter thing? if that was made in the late 2000s people would go “this is funny home video”, not “HOLLYWOOD WILL DIE AND WE WILL RULE THE MOVIE WORLD WITH UNLIMITED CREATION IN OUR FINGERTYPES”

i know you mean the ones a la dream machine whatever and i agree, those feel extremely uncanny, everything morphs and melts and most of the time it doesn’t even know what to do so it ends up making shit up

videos about ai either go “HOW TO MAKE MONEY” or “FUNNY NSFW FREE, TALK TO ANY AN ANIME !” instead of “this is really cool”. china does a good job at using ai for anything but slop, don’t forget that china stay winning

all of that electricity and water wasted on shit like “REMOVE CLOTHES FREE IN IMAGE” to get disgusting without any form of consent (don’t forget csam, as the original poster mentioned! why the fuck) and “simpsons live action” where homer changes his face every single time and the computer has no clue how to make lisa’s hair spikes so it’s always changing in every shot. we are speeding up the warmth of earth for slop. this is how we will die. not from cool robits, but from water sources drying up, electricity being at maximum usage at all times due to ai centers, causing so much pollution from the current system of generating power (fossil fuels, nuclear power) and earth just losing its last breath from all the heat and all that jazz, i am tired sorry for being incoherent

my condolences. you are a great person, ayjan, and your posts always gave me happiness when i used to lurk here. i hope you will have a good break, if it’s even a break. we will all miss you regardless

can’t wait for the usa to shit its pants

thank you!! happy new year!!!

ayyyyyy happy new year!!!

keep the news and memes coming, we love them :D

thanks aria, happy new year

thank you, that truly is beautiful! happy new year as well

(also happy account creation time day thing. right now i got to responding so sorry for being very late to the party lmao)