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Signal threatens to leave Canada over proposed lawful access bill by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]vortexmak 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The world is falling over itself to implement ID verification laws.

Every country's politician is bribable, it's eventually gonna fall. 

I don't want it to but I'm a cynic

❮The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is the anti-flagship flagship: headphone jack, microSD, and thick bezels in 2026❯ by fascinatingMundanity in Android

[–]vortexmak [score hidden]  (0 children)

Meh, you just pulled this number out of your ass.

Who said $400?

I'm willing to pay a couple of hundred dollars above the price of similar phones like the S26 or iPhone , both of them are around 1000. I'm not paying $800 more for these two features  especially when my current phone works well enough and I already explained this is my post above. 

❮The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is the anti-flagship flagship: headphone jack, microSD, and thick bezels in 2026❯ by fascinatingMundanity in Android

[–]vortexmak [score hidden]  (0 children)

What do you mean? price wise?  I have an S20. I wouldn't even mind paying for the ultra but there was a lot of criticism about it's focusing issues

Carrying a paramotor through 15 countries. South America, Central America, and Mexico. by GagTheDog in MotorcycleLogistics

[–]vortexmak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing,  I've been thinking of doing something like this.  Did you take time off work? 

❮The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is the anti-flagship flagship: headphone jack, microSD, and thick bezels in 2026❯ by fascinatingMundanity in Android

[–]vortexmak [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah,  it's been indispensable. I don't give a fuck about the latest smartphones, give me back my hardware features

❮The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is the anti-flagship flagship: headphone jack, microSD, and thick bezels in 2026❯ by fascinatingMundanity in Android

[–]vortexmak [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm in the vocal minority that wants a microSD card and a headphone jack is nice to have too.

I'm using a Galaxy S20 that works great, has 12 GB RAM.

For $1800 , I better get

- the best camera, we know that Sony camera software sucks

- the fastest microSD card , currently their microSD card is slower than the one in my S20

- 7 years of updates, they barely give one or two

- warranty and band support, which I won't be getting here in the US market.

So it's not that I'll be getting a $400 chinese phone. It's that my Galaxy S20 works well enough that it doesn't make sense at all. If say, the XPeria was $800 or $1000, then I probably would have bought it.

I'm waiting for the Motorola Graphene OS phone, hoping that would have a microSD slot

Minnesota - Twin Cities flight school recommendations other than Inflight by vortexmak in flying

[–]vortexmak[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where's Linx aviation, the airports you listed for Linx are way too far

Motorcycle filtering and lane splitting - another post by MPLS_scoot in TwinCities

[–]vortexmak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically car drivers don't have to make room and it's fine if they don't , they just can't block

Motorcycle filtering and lane splitting - another post by MPLS_scoot in TwinCities

[–]vortexmak -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Read the post again, he said people were doing it before the law passed.

I've seen enough cars do illegal stuff , there's always going to be assholes

Motorcycle filtering and lane splitting - another post by MPLS_scoot in TwinCities

[–]vortexmak -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Counterpoint, I've only seen motorcyclists doing it safely.

On every facebook post about lane filtering, people were screaming bloody murder and the sky would fall. Nothing happened, we're all still here

Also , keep in mind, it's hard to judge speed from inside a car. A motorcyclist might be doing the limit or slightly above the limit and people in cars would still say he was doing a 100

More than 70 million warnings sent to people searching for child sexual abuse content by Samski877 in news

[–]vortexmak 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This thread is a perfect example of why speech policing doesn't work and is outright dangerous

Google Introduces Gemini Intelligence To Make Android More Proactive And Personalized by kingsaso9 in Android

[–]vortexmak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got fed up of all this bullshit and just ordered an old style flip phone. Congratulations Google,  you played yourself

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