You should listen to blind smartphone user Steve Nutt discuss his experiences using AI tools on the Phone Show Chat podcast or read about the experiences of Ann, a woman who was paralyzed after a stroke, who was able to communicate again using her voice thanks to AI. In other words, let the disabled speak for themselves instead of assuming they are some homogenous group of people who all share the exact same opinion as you and have nominated you as their sole representative.
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The fragility question over folding phones has always been about two things - the weaker inner displays and the long-term durability of the hinge after many actions. GSMArena don't actually address either of these potential issues - the closest they get is "scratching" the plastic screen protector on the inner display with their fingernail. The hinge is "tested" by hanging a weight on the inner display and by being used as a hammer to hit a peg into the ground. After this complete waste of time, their conclusion is "kudos to Honor for making such a durable device". If you're going to bait views with titles like "fragile foldables" or "unbreakable?" at least actually make a genuine effort to test the durability issues that are unique to folding phones. No one gives a fuck about waterproofing or the fragility of the frame, these are not common issues on any high end smartphone these days.
You act like this is a universally confusing concept, when it's only Americans who seem to have difficulty understanding that different countries have different laws and definitions. In any case, it was reported as solitary confinement in both the EU and US at the time so I'm not really sure what you guys are crying about.
That is sort of like complaining that people think of the US when they hear “school shooting”:
No it's not, because in this case it was quite clearly solitary confinement in Sweden and Denmark. If you read that and thought "oh they mean US solitary confinement" then you are retarded.
I can't really say whether any of the people you've listed are actually more or less "evil" than one another but in terms of why they present differently, there are a couple of factors I can think of.
One is the changing state of the tech industry. Data and attention are the most valuable commodities now, so these businesses are designed to be aggressively anti-consumer. There is also less big investment now and/or companies are required to pay back their investments quicker, which has degraded the quality of their products and services. Google's big decline is heavily related to this, for example.
The other aspect is the rise of the culture war shit in the US. Most of the people you listed are American or live in the US, and people there have completely rotted their brains with that shit. It's infecting the rest of the West as well but if you want to see what a genuinely retarded nation looks like, the US is where it's at.
I suspect if you swapped these groups of people between their relative eras you'd be disappointed in how similar they turn out.
Ok so I think what most people think about when they talk about solitary confinement is the US version
"Okay so I think what most people think about when they talk about Sweden and Denmark is the US".
He was held in solitary confinement in both Sweden and Denmark. This was reported on at the time. I'm not sure why you're trying to second-guess me when you clearly have zero knowledge about the history of this guy.
I believe it was because he failed to return to Sweden to serve his Pirate Bay sentence and instead remained in Cambodia where he was living at the time. There was an international warrant out for his arrest and when he was deported back to Sweden he was judged at risk of flight or further "criminal activities". He was removed from solitary after a few months, so I'm not sure if he was put back there for his later, longer sentence of hacking.
EDIT: He was later held in solitary confinement in Denmark for at least 10 months while awaiting trial for hacking.
I don’t see it listed as supported by lineage OS. That tells me the bootloader isn’t open.
It released one month ago. Even if the bootloader were unlockable, it wouldn't be officially supported by LineageOS yet. Someone actually needs to buy the phone, build for it and then maintain that build. For a popular custom ROM series like the Pixels or something, sure they will be supported very quickly, but other models often take quite a bit longer to be supported. Most people who buy this phone will not be buying it to immediately install LineageOS.
Yeah, the ones in the main feed are often terrible. What makes it even more annoying is the (what I would consider) real article titles that are behind a click are generally much better.
What do you define as "lower quality"?
I think their point was to show that the hinge is "durable" because it can sustain 5 kg of weight, but when have you ever heard of a folding phone breaking because someone applied extreme force to the hinge in the wrong direction? The reasons these phones fail are consistently either the hinge failing, dust getting behind the display (through the hinge) causing the display to fail, or the display randomly cracking while being opened normally. None of these are predictable or preventable issues so a durability "test" where they take the phone and do very deliberate and stupid things with it is useless.
I feel like so much of the durability marketing from manufacturers is around things that are not actually relevant to the genuine concerns about this technology. For example, Motorola's new razr phones have lost their dust proofing rating, yet the manufacturer tried to spin this as an improvement because they simultaneously bumped up the water resistance rating. All the tech journalists who covered the device gobbled up this marketing spin and told their readers and viewers that the new razr was way more durable than the 2023 version based on this one line. But as I've said, water resistance was never the key concern about these devices. Maybe the durability of this technology really is improving but we have no way of knowing this as consumers when journalists refuse to ask those hard questions or conduct proper testing.