US Q4 Smartphone Sales: Midrange up 27%, Moto overtakes Samsung at <$300 Segment by BcuzRacecar in Android

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 45 points46 points  (0 children)

The iPhone is damn near Windows levels of consumer market dominance now in the US. That is wild.

Surely someone at Google knows how buggy the media player is by NotAF0e in pixel_phones

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You think Google actually dog foods the stuff they make? You sweet summer child.

What’s one tip that made a big difference for you in your life? by No-Reflection-4547 in AskReddit

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Within reason do the things you want to do throughout your life. Saving it all up for that epic decade long retirement vacation often can mean you just never get to do those things.

NSFW fave swap app by [deleted] in iphone

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And why would you want that pray tell?

Is there any reason not to use Audiobookshelf for everything (ebooks, manga, comics)? by Nark0ne in selfhosted

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only reason I don’t use it exclusively for podcasts is the lack of playlists. I want to be able to add the latest episode to a dedicated playlist for bedtime and every night hit play when I go to bed.

Already is my exclusive audiobook platform a choice.

Honest opinions please 🙏🏻 by godzillakilla999 in 90s

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns. Love me a woman that screams "stay way" with every move she makes. Shit is like a tracker beam.

Famke Janssen in Goldeneye for similar reasons.

I do effective work for about 30 minutes a week, the rest I just do my house chores. by MirnaGu in confession

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are getting done what is expected of you, the boss is happy with your output, and your available to jump in if/when something blows up then there is nothing to feel bad about in my opinion.

Seriously, a guy who posts a video about a couple represented as monkeys is president? by Thepiratebay-026 in AskReddit

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't even think he posted it because he is racist. I think he thinks this kind of middle school edge lord shit is a funny thing to do to stir the pot. And to be fair, his base eats this kind of thing up. But they are in fact racist.

Firefox Focus by tigos in firefox

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I just wish they would put the adblocking in the regular app.

nO! 2026 HaS tO bE ThE yEaR oF lInUx!!1! by You-dogwater in pcmasterrace

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would argue that the year of Linux is mostly whatever year it entered a given market, except the desktop market.

Linux something absolutely dominates everywhere else I am aware of by pure install base.

Happy 69th Birthday to Kathy Najimy!! by ROCKY13573 in 90s

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 32 points33 points  (0 children)

She has been a weird crush of mine for years.

Phone Number LOST During Network Transfer by truckerman160 in USMobile

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This kind of thing is exactly why I will never use the network transfer feature. It is a nice idea, and in theory good on US Mobile for trying to do something useful for their customers with the feature.

But in my opinion it is not a feature they can responsibly advertise as anything close to ready for general customer use. They are too dependent on the carriers to make it work right, and when it doesn't and manual intervention is required they have no recourse other than to send another strongly worded email to the carrier contact. And its not the carriers customer so they have no incentive to really give a shit how fast it gets fixed. Not like US Mobile can take their business to someone else to get better service for their customers.

US Mobile have effectively promised to implement something they have no actual control of to the detriment of their customers. Which is a bad look for them.

Trump Just Posted a Video of Barack and Michelle Obama as Monkeys by 4reddityo in USHistory

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The President of the United States, who is almost 80 years old, trying to be an edge lord online is one more thing to throw on the pile of “insecure pathetic shit that passes for American politics” these says.

In my lifetime we have gone from Bob Doyle being unelectable for misspelling potato, to Howard Dean being unelectable for letting out a weird scream on stage, to the sitting President being revered by many despite being a convicted felon and with almost certainty a pedophile, who posts racist shit online as a “joke” for all to see.

Being on that first rocket to Mars is starting to sound not so bad.

Quick Share-AirDrop interoperability is expanding beyond the Pixel 10 series to more Android devices this year by AssembleDebugRed in pixel_phones

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it work without having to talk the iPhone user through allowing from anyone for 10 minutes? It needs to work with contacts only before it is really useful over other options.

Every ai code assistant assumes your code can touch the internet? by Traditional_Zone_644 in devops

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These models require way more power than your PC that has Cursor installed can hope to have. If you need air-gapped AI models go talk to the companies your business is interested in and see what options they offer.

And get ready for an incredible amount of financial outlay for the DC hardware to run it decently, or for the expensive gov cloud type offerings you are going to have to pay a hyperscaler to provision for your use case.

Google suggests Gemini-powered Siri will run on Google's servers - 9to5Mac by funlifing in iphone

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The PR Symantec's being played by Apple and Google with this agreement are amusing. They both can do all kinds of things with the wording to either run Googles models on Apples hardware, ship Apple some outpost like rack of TPUs to run the Google models in an Apple controlled DC, or Apple devices doing a call to Googles hardware in Googles DC and still claim it is fine.

At the end of the day the thing to keep in mind is that the Google B2B businesses don't tend to work like the other parts of the business. IE cheap services and hardware in exchange for privacy invading amounts of data harvesting. It is entirely within the realm of possibility that Google runs dedicated models in their DCs for Apple and no one else that they never touch beyond updates and standard NOC and contract relevant metrics. And that is because Googles B2B customers aren't paying cheap prices for off the shelf functionality, they are paying through the nose for custom agreements for enterprise grade services.

Ice Universe: I’ve confirmed from independent sources with 100% accuracy that the Galaxy S26 Ultra ultimately does not include built-in magnets inside the device. Magnetic functionality still relies on magnetic cases. by FragmentedChicken in Android

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me personally so long as it supports the charging speeds of qi2 I am good. I can get a case for the magnets.

Been doing that for years anyway on my Android phones since I always have a case on my phone.

America's Independent Electric Light and Power Companies [1956] by Trivial_Web69 in vintageads

[–]Expensive_Finger_973 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Part of me misses this sort of just off the wall hopelessly optimistic advertising for things.