blackkn1ght

joined 1 year ago
[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Luckily while this government is stupid, they are not anti-european, so italexit is not a possibility.

[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There will be no italeave/italexit. Even the worst populist here knows it's suicide.

[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 10 months ago (7 children)

We have a really stupid minister in charge of this stuff. And i mean it in the truest sense of the word, this guy has a room temperature iq.

Anyways, the sale ban will probably fail in court, the production ban will only harm the italian industry because sure as hell they can't stop european synthetic meat from entering the country.

[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Corporate bootlickers and astroturfers were amongst the first to migrate here, and unfortunately are quite abundant.

[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

Wade is a fucking treasure!

Cheap nuggets, drum things, cool music sampling old Simpsons episodes, gameplays of the worst imaginable videogames, Frank...

There's much to love in his trash network of channels.

[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 167 points 11 months ago (14 children)

So Alphabet:

  • is the developer the most used browser (chrome) and its open source skeleton (chromium) on which most of all of the other browsers are based on (edge, brave etc)

  • has the most used video platform online, with no close second (unless you count porn, but i'd still argue its not close)

  • has the biggest share of devices relying on its platform worldwide (android)

  • has the most used search engine worldwide.

Alphabet has to be split up. Alphabet alone is deciding what shape internet will take in the future.

[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sideload uYou plus with Altstore if you want to keep all the account functionality.

Download Yattee from the App store if you prefer to watch with Piped.

Yet the samsung galaxy s5 existed and had the same ip rating (ip67) as the iphone 8.

All while maintaining both the headphone jack and a removable battery.

All excuses are just that, excuses. They wanted to remove it to profit from the sales of more expensive buds.

You can say that something is obsolete when a superior alternative is created, and is widely available.

E.g. you can say that cassettes are obsolete because cds exist, or that cds are obsolete because of streaming (arguably), but saying that one of the most widespread and reliable connectors is obsolete just because you think it's old is just an idiotic thing to say.

On one hand i welcome what fairphone and also nokia, motorola and others are doing, making replacement parts available to the general public, but still i think Fairphone are huge hypocrites as of right now because of their choice and lame justifications. I expect this crap from apple, not from the "bastions of repairability and sustainability"

[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's useless to argue with this guy, he's just going around shouting that the audio jack is obsolete, doesn't even know what obsolete means and is just throwing a hissy fit.

He can't name a solution, it's just everyone's else problem that we want to use the better option.

[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Some people will just swallow propaganda, and defend corporations even going against their own interests.

To be clear, i'm not against bluetooth audio, heck i even have a set of high end Jabra earbuds, but those are not a substitute for my AKG k702 or my Audio Technica M40x. Having an audio jack is about having an option, and we know companies are lying through their teeth because somebody managed to add an audio jack to an iPhone without losing any functionality at all.

[–] blackkn1ght@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, just because you say "it is obsolete" doesn't make it so.

Yes, i'll give you my argument. The headphone jack is an industry standard, has been for decades and will be for much more time. Audio equipment, recording interfaces, anything that has a minimum of quality standard uses wires and jacks.

The 3.5mm jack adds 0 latency and allows for much, MUCH, higher audio resolution and don't have to compress the audio before allowing you to hear it.

The usb plug is just a stupid cop out. It's not really a standard, is something that was born as an excuse. Why should i have a more fragile connector that has to rely on electronics when i can use a cable that i can fix myself if it breaks? Also, please point me in the directon of some high end headphones with a usb connector. And i mean high end, reference quality, not some brandless crap from amazon.

Because Fairphone are arguing in bad faith. If they were really concerned about repairabilty, they would have kept a reliable and easy to fix jack instead of selling overpriced bluetooth earbuds.

If anything, this whole ordeal is a constant reminder that corporations are not our friends, and that some people will somehow just blindly defend them.

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