It has about the same capabilities as a normal phone , is better in a a few niche uses, but is much more fragile and costs double. What, are you not sold?

I used to break a backpack (usually zipper failure) every year until I got a swissgear backpack. It’s 15 years old. It’ll probably make it to 20.

It’s highly likely that you had one or more bad-but-not-dead cables (like a weak termination) that was limiting your speed. By swapping everything out you fixed the problem. Cat 5e to 8 definitely shouldn’t have caused that much if a jump (if any).

This isn’t your moment .

Agreed on both counts. This happened because Microsoft made adoption easy. And this will be fixed within a day. None of the fundamentals have shifted. Even though it’s stupid, this isn’t going to fundamentally shake anything up.

Kids, this is what you become if you sniff glue.

Damn you guys borrowing consonants from polish names now?

Cooking them relatively briefly would probably take care of it.

Hammer

This is just a less gross version of “DAE store their piss in jars so they can commemorate their unitary secretions”?

Nexus 5 was the best deal on a phone I’ve ever had. If it had a better battery and camera it would have been perfect.

Okay but like…why?

Without phone-number based contact finding signal wouldn’t be relevant enough to matter.

It is worth remembering incentives though. Apple is primarily a hardware company. Most of their revenue comes from iPhones. Google is primarily an ad company that makes money selling ads, and your data.

This obviously doesn’t make Apple a privacy champion , but it should be considered. Apple is at least theoretically in a position to push for the privacy of their users, while Google is not.

That’s fair, the privacy concerns are not ultimately addressable with a closed-source application. I can encrypt communication and the db itself since I am self-hosting it, but ultimately I’m using the obsidian app on desktop and mobile so I don’t know where the data is going unless I specifically manage it’s network usage etc which is a ton of extra work.

I haven’t actually started taking notes with obsidian yet, I just got it setup. But the plugin support is…massive. IDK.

Yes I probably should have implemented that, but the Obsidian plugin implementation (“Self-hosted Live sync”) appears to work almost shockingly well. I was amazed by how easy it was to setup . Setting up a couchdb instance took more time than getting sync going across all my devices, and couchdb wasn’t that hard either.

I recently settled on Obsidian too. It’s proprietary software, but the text files themselves are in simple markdown and readable in a text editor. Additionally, you can sync across multiple devices using their paid service (which works flawlessly for everything) or set up sync yourself for free if you know how to host a couchdb instance yourself (works perfectly for everything except iOS, apparently).

The plugin support was baked in from the start so it’s extremely flexible.

The long and short of it: it’s not cheap.

True, but not the key point. If it were merely expensive then more companies would do it.

The issue here is that allowing anyone to upload a video and then serving it to literally anyone else, for free, is not a viable business model. You have to stuff it with ads to even come close to solvency and even then people fight back with ad blockers. I’m sure they experimented with embedding ads directly into the video stream by now and determined it’s not currently a good idea, but I think it’s coming.

The point here is that I’m not even sure YouTube makes much of a profit (if any) . There’s no money to be made with this model which is why YouTube has nearly no competition.

People brought up pornhub. Have you tried using that without an ad blocker (even with an ad blocker they have to keep getting around it to force ads on you)? That’s what you have to become to actually money with this model.