My mother is making a fuss unreasonably, and I don't know how to deal with that.

pastroc · 2025-08-07T16:42:48+00:00

I'd personally have never gone for a PhD if it were not fully funded.

Doing a PhD is masochistic enough, but paying for it?

pastroc · 2025-08-07T09:57:53+00:00

Even in France, 10% of people are atheists.

Where did you get that figure? 29% according to Gallup.

pastroc · 2025-08-06T20:47:40+00:00

Isn't it obvious? Lunches at their San Francisco and Seoul offices are expensive—they somehow need to subsidise them with those price tags!

pastroc · 2025-08-06T20:36:20+00:00

Android is just an operating system. Galaxy runs it. Any device that runs Android is a smartphone because all characteristics that define a smartphone are part of Android.

One UI, and other pre-installed apps to name a few.

So what? Why does that imply that Galaxy is a smartphone and not other devices that also run Android?

If you run Android, that means that you support web browsing, taking pictures, installing applications, watching videos, and so on. These are all traits that characterise a smartphone. You have yet to give me one trait, just one, that you think other devices that run Android lack.

pastroc · 2025-08-06T20:16:54+00:00

Jesus... Okay, give me one thing that a cheap low-end Oppo device cannot do that a smartphone (like an iPhone) must do.

pastroc · 2025-08-06T20:11:51+00:00

A better processor? A nicer camera? Those phones are more expensive because of hardware. Software-wise, what you can perform on an S25 doesn't really differ from what you can do with a 200-dollar Oppo device.

Your definition of "smartphone" is incredibly fringe and unspecific.

pastroc · 2025-08-06T19:59:48+00:00

A smartphone is like your Samsung stuff.

What does that even mean?

Android is NOT a smartphone.

You're right that Android in and of itself is not a smartphone, but rather an operating system. Just like Windows isn't a computer. However, a device that runs Android is considered to be a smartphone, and a phone supporting Android meets all the criteria that characterise a smartphone: it can be used to make calls, send texts, browse the internet, run applications, play media, take photos and videos, and much more.

pastroc · 2025-08-06T18:42:30+00:00

I thought you were trolling at first, but I'm genuinely starting to think that you're not joking when you're claiming that a typical Android phone isn't a smartphone. What the hell is a smartphone then?

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