I recently picked up a Huawei mate 20 (non pro) It's ridiculously fast, insane battery life, ok camera and my version does not have an IDIOT curved display. (Bye Samsung!)
But I did just hear they charge to unlock the boot loader, I'm not sure how I feel about that. I tend not to load custom ROMs on as much as I used to, but still seems kinda bad.
Before anyone makes privacy China comments, two things.
1, I don't care, too much. 2, if you're using Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. Your privacy is just as boned just by a different country
I've got 2 contacts in there and I continue to hear stories about these people effectively hijacking the workplace, shaming others into joining their protests, putting up banners all over the campuses and so on.
Nothing wrong with equality but now you basically have the gestapo running around making up rules and trying to enforce them, people who seem to think their entire job is to stop people working productively and to just push politics.
Google is no longer producing exceptional tech, or at least, less of it. There's a lot more misses now, there's a lot of odd decisions, I feel like management are stuck for getting things done, dealing with these people and moving in the right direction.
I visited a campus a few months ago and it was something/straight/ out of a TV show / movie or 1990s high school drama, I saw a wide variety of people walking around chatting and little productivity. I'd say I saw a 60/40 ratio of women to men, most people relatively young and attractive. Out of the 3 or 400 people I saw, I'd say, I saw about 5 guys, at most who were your traditional looking neckbeard type programmer dudes (Let's be honest, a lot of us don't present great) - they were on their own and just generally looked pretty out of place there if anything. The only thing I saw less of, was people over the age of about 35. I've never felt so old in my life. It felt like clique club.
But I digress, I've posted this before and had responses here before, from others inside, confirming that there's a good portion of the workforce, simply not doing/real work/. It's a place of business, to develop products and software and a/lot/ of staff are not only not doing that, they're actively making it more difficult for the business to do so.
I miss the days where I thought Google was the most amazing company of all time, near a decade ago. Endlessly producing amazing things, better than others, for 'free'. Now they shut things at a moments notice and 'fix' existing products with UI overhauls that make them worse (this month? Google maps)
This is some Bezos level pricing - radiation deflection up the wazoo so the things grow ok in space, power supply, heating, servicing and what have you. Flying it up there, flying it back - astronomical... pricing. That's some seriously expensive heart.
Considering the morality of some of the rich, wouldn't it be easier to just harvest them from some very fit, stem celled up 'donors'? I'm sure within 15 years China will have some PREEMO organs up for grabs, we're talking Syndicate (yes, that Syndicate) level upgrades here, eyes, hearts, legs, arms etc.
The "war on fake news" from what'sapp is very stupid. Firstly they don't actually give a shit in the slightest, they just need to pretend they do.
Secondly it impacts normal people not forwarding fucking "news" Example: I tell a friend a story of some kind, who knows? Maybe a big 3 paragraph job about what happened with my car crash or my crazy incident at the supermarket. If I wrote such a thing in a particular way, I could forward to others without it being obvious. Saving me time. Then they added a "forwarded" flag to messages. Making me look rude. Or detached. By simply saving myself needing to re-type something.
Now they're going to limit how much I can forward? Not good at Xmas or new years, when you need to send those token messages that everyone does. (Insert Larry David moment here)
It just seems such a bizarre angle to tackle "fake news" in this way. Inconveniencing everyone?
Someone else pointed it out, about a year back and I haven't stopped noticing it since. Want a social justice post? Look for BeauHD on slashdot, yay let's politicise the site, thanks.
(I googled his twitter too, same stuff there)
Stick to news for nerds, stuff that matters, that's all we want.
While he may give Jason his dues I'm still not certain that negates my point, surely some women attacked, furthermore it's huff post, they are truly truly, click bait garbage. With a particular bias.
1, "Huffington Post" 2, "Hundreds of *men* who read my review did not" (which is exactly why, Huffington Post gives a shit)
Jason Momoa is a handsome man, currently in the "omg yes please!" Club for girls (and some men) across the world. I find it hard to believe this guy was threatened only by men. Furthermore, I suspect this was exaggerated, due again to #1, who have an act to grind. They may as well be called "extreme left, hate white men post" at this point.
Someone please mod this angry guy up, he's entirely correct, language or not. UI developers are only step away from being as awful as parking inspectors, lawyers or realtors.
I've just skimmed over your post and I get the impression you're implying it's still possible.
I've just done this and it doesn't hold the position, it's a temporary view while holding your fingers down.
Literally more difficult and requiring endless holding of two fingers, in a navigation app that honestly we really shouldn't be touching the screen for at all, when driving.
I'm sorry, but how fucking insanely stupid are ui developers at this point? I mean if this was a one off, fine. But this shit KEEPS HAPPENING.
Btw for my version? Avoid tolls has worked fine and remembered for several years?
In the eternal quest to keep the moronic UI developer employed, (as seen by most tech companies the past 10 years nearly) Google have recently, entirely stuffed Google maps.
The 'compass' to the right of the screen which you can tap for 'full overhead' or 'rear chase helicopter, video game style' camera has been very "cleverly" removed by yet another moron.
There's no simple way to have the map always face north when in navigation mode, there's no simple way to make the map always have the above view camera. It's just the behind view thing and the tracking seems suddenly worse to boot.
I'm _intensely_ sick of UI change for the worst, it's been like this for a decade and only getting worse.
See this interesting snippet showing some of the most common themes of modern UI design, IS worse for end users. https://twitter.com/bob_burrou...
I can't emphasize how sick I am of finding software becoming more difficult to use.
Wow, you're trying to promote one of the most insanely censored, extreme EXTREME far left, circle jerk "our way or the highway" sites on the internet.
ResetERA will ban anyone who doesn't agree effectively.
A case of a site that "eats its own" whereas NeoGAF has regained a small amount of it's reputation having now started allowig people to actually discuss things again.
The most surprising thing is that Wikipedia aren't taking the ResetERA angle
Seen several articles now over the years where the narrative has been hijacked politically in one way or another, skewing the information.
If there's an article sticking to basic facts "this is how combustion works" no issue, but anything explaining how an event went down, the motivations of people doing it, how people were impacted? Yeah no thanks. PROBABLY correct but totally definitely not certain.
SORRY! I MISSED MY POINT regarding the conspiracy theory...
Thereâ(TM)s been too much pump hype pump on 5g, which doesnâ(TM)t seem that urgently needed? Is there some kind of inherent black door on 5g networks? Better tracking of user location? Easier to decrypt? Thereâ(TM)s just too many articles on it at this point, where it feels they âwantâ(TM) to pump the product.
I just canâ(TM)t get excited for it in the slightest.
I must have seen at least 50 articles discussing 5g in the past 6 months.
I understand 3G had its own issues, but iâ(TM)m Really not sure what 5g can actually offer. 4g when specâ(TM)d out at the max is exceptionally fast.
They also seriously improved the handshake time, which I believe makes the latency feel better when initially establishing a connection.
At this point, iâ(TM)m unsure what 5g can actually offer? Is anyone finding bandwidth the issue on their cell phone? Iâ(TM)d say battery life, cpu performance. Iâ(TM)m almost positive that what would make phones feel nicer would be/even smarter/ browsers using better caching routines, some kind of improved local dns cache, better ad blocking, faster types of optimised sites in general. (Iâ(TM)ve heard about something called AMP which people hate, but obviously itâ(TM)s some kind of attempt to optimise using the web on a phone)
One complaint i see people make often, is half loaded web sites, you scroll down, an element loads in and then shifts your location on the page, frustrating. This is the kind of thing which should be eliminated.
Can anyone explain to me why Slashdot seems to retest something as fucking simple as a quotation mark? Why do my posts get butchered on this site so frequently, is punctuation banned?
I've been posting here a long time, why is this not fixed? My post looks like an abortion.
Slashdot Mirror
For around the past 5 years, I've generally noticed simply less insects around in places I would traditionally expect them.
Obviously they are still around but there just /seems/ to be less.
I am firmly, firmly in the camp of the post, I definitely believe we've begun the 6'th mass extinction. It's gonna be a doozy.
They've suddenly locked my account and told me I MUST validate with a cell phone text message.
Does anyone know a reliable web text service which allows me to do this, that isn't on their "do not trust" list? Preferable in western country.
I recently picked up a Huawei mate 20 (non pro)
It's ridiculously fast, insane battery life, ok camera and my version does not have an IDIOT curved display. (Bye Samsung!)
But I did just hear they charge to unlock the boot loader, I'm not sure how I feel about that. I tend not to load custom ROMs on as much as I used to, but still seems kinda bad.
Before anyone makes privacy China comments, two things.
1, I don't care, too much.
2, if you're using Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. Your privacy is just as boned just by a different country
MS are really offering good deals, features, support for the system, especially the backwards compatibility stuff.
Think we'd get this if they were dominating?
Thank goodness they're around too, keeping Sony on their toes.
Now, who will do this to Amazon?
As their computers don't reboot in the middle of something they were doing.
Bill has softened and shown he gives a shit about the planet. Maybe it's a 'token gesture' or something but it's more than most at his wealth level.
Good on him.
Was upper management blackmailed into hiring or shamed into hiring them though?
I've got 2 contacts in there and I continue to hear stories about these people effectively hijacking the workplace, shaming others into joining their protests, putting up banners all over the campuses and so on.
Nothing wrong with equality but now you basically have the gestapo running around making up rules and trying to enforce them, people who seem to think their entire job is to stop people working productively and to just push politics.
Google is no longer producing exceptional tech, or at least, less of it. There's a lot more misses now, there's a lot of odd decisions, I feel like management are stuck for getting things done, dealing with these people and moving in the right direction.
I visited a campus a few months ago and it was something /straight/ out of a TV show / movie or 1990s high school drama, I saw a wide variety of people walking around chatting and little productivity. I'd say I saw a 60/40 ratio of women to men, most people relatively young and attractive.
Out of the 3 or 400 people I saw, I'd say, I saw about 5 guys, at most who were your traditional looking neckbeard type programmer dudes (Let's be honest, a lot of us don't present great) - they were on their own and just generally looked pretty out of place there if anything. The only thing I saw less of, was people over the age of about 35. I've never felt so old in my life. It felt like clique club.
But I digress, I've posted this before and had responses here before, from others inside, confirming that there's a good portion of the workforce, simply not doing /real work/. It's a place of business, to develop products and software and a /lot/ of staff are not only not doing that, they're actively making it more difficult for the business to do so.
I miss the days where I thought Google was the most amazing company of all time, near a decade ago. Endlessly producing amazing things, better than others, for 'free'. Now they shut things at a moments notice and 'fix' existing products with UI overhauls that make them worse (this month? Google maps)
This is some Bezos level pricing - radiation deflection up the wazoo so the things grow ok in space, power supply, heating, servicing and what have you. Flying it up there, flying it back - astronomical... pricing. That's some seriously expensive heart.
Considering the morality of some of the rich, wouldn't it be easier to just harvest them from some very fit, stem celled up 'donors'? I'm sure within 15 years China will have some PREEMO organs up for grabs, we're talking Syndicate (yes, that Syndicate) level upgrades here, eyes, hearts, legs, arms etc.
Can't say I disagree with any of those points to be honest.
The "war on fake news" from what'sapp is very stupid.
Firstly they don't actually give a shit in the slightest, they just need to pretend they do.
Secondly it impacts normal people not forwarding fucking "news"
Example: I tell a friend a story of some kind, who knows? Maybe a big 3 paragraph job about what happened with my car crash or my crazy incident at the supermarket.
If I wrote such a thing in a particular way, I could forward to others without it being obvious. Saving me time. Then they added a "forwarded" flag to messages. Making me look rude. Or detached. By simply saving myself needing to re-type something.
Now they're going to limit how much I can forward? Not good at Xmas or new years, when you need to send those token messages that everyone does. (Insert Larry David moment here)
It just seems such a bizarre angle to tackle "fake news" in this way. Inconveniencing everyone?
He was fired for being dumb enough to admit it / being caught.
Not only are you putting words in my mouth, I had no idea it was a woman who posted the article, I assumed it was a male.
If you can't tell HuffPo is a social justice slop rag, not my problem.
Someone else pointed it out, about a year back and I haven't stopped noticing it since.
Want a social justice post? Look for BeauHD on slashdot, yay let's politicise the site, thanks.
(I googled his twitter too, same stuff there)
Stick to news for nerds, stuff that matters, that's all we want.
While he may give Jason his dues I'm still not certain that negates my point, surely some women attacked, furthermore it's huff post, they are truly truly, click bait garbage. With a particular bias.
Oh one more thing!
How is this news for nerds, stuff that matters? I'm surprised BeauHD didn't post it, to be honest.
Two issues.
1, "Huffington Post"
2, "Hundreds of *men* who read my review did not" (which is exactly why, Huffington Post gives a shit)
Jason Momoa is a handsome man, currently in the "omg yes please!" Club for girls (and some men) across the world. I find it hard to believe this guy was threatened only by men. Furthermore, I suspect this was exaggerated, due again to #1, who have an act to grind.
They may as well be called "extreme left, hate white men post" at this point.
http://i.4pcdn.org/tv/14639966...
Someone please mod this angry guy up, he's entirely correct, language or not. UI developers are only step away from being as awful as parking inspectors, lawyers or realtors.
I've just skimmed over your post and I get the impression you're implying it's still possible.
I've just done this and it doesn't hold the position, it's a temporary view while holding your fingers down.
Literally more difficult and requiring endless holding of two fingers, in a navigation app that honestly we really shouldn't be touching the screen for at all, when driving.
I'm sorry, but how fucking insanely stupid are ui developers at this point? I mean if this was a one off, fine. But this shit KEEPS HAPPENING.
Btw for my version? Avoid tolls has worked fine and remembered for several years?
In the eternal quest to keep the moronic UI developer employed, (as seen by most tech companies the past 10 years nearly) Google have recently, entirely stuffed Google maps.
The 'compass' to the right of the screen which you can tap for 'full overhead' or 'rear chase helicopter, video game style' camera has been very "cleverly" removed by yet another moron.
There's no simple way to have the map always face north when in navigation mode, there's no simple way to make the map always have the above view camera. It's just the behind view thing and the tracking seems suddenly worse to boot.
I'm _intensely_ sick of UI change for the worst, it's been like this for a decade and only getting worse.
See this interesting snippet showing some of the most common themes of modern UI design, IS worse for end users.
https://twitter.com/bob_burrou...
I can't emphasize how sick I am of finding software becoming more difficult to use.
Wow, you're trying to promote one of the most insanely censored, extreme EXTREME far left, circle jerk "our way or the highway" sites on the internet.
ResetERA will ban anyone who doesn't agree effectively.
A case of a site that "eats its own" whereas NeoGAF has regained a small amount of it's reputation having now started allowig people to actually discuss things again.
The most surprising thing is that Wikipedia aren't taking the ResetERA angle
Seen several articles now over the years where the narrative has been hijacked politically in one way or another, skewing the information.
If there's an article sticking to basic facts "this is how combustion works" no issue, but anything explaining how an event went down, the motivations of people doing it, how people were impacted? Yeah no thanks. PROBABLY correct but totally definitely not certain.
SORRY! I MISSED MY POINT regarding the conspiracy theory...
Thereâ(TM)s been too much pump hype pump on 5g, which doesnâ(TM)t seem that urgently needed? Is there some kind of inherent black door on 5g networks? Better tracking of user location? Easier to decrypt? Thereâ(TM)s just too many articles on it at this point, where it feels they âwantâ(TM) to pump the product.
I just canâ(TM)t get excited for it in the slightest.
I must have seen at least 50 articles discussing 5g in the past 6 months.
I understand 3G had its own issues, but iâ(TM)m Really not sure what 5g can actually offer. 4g when specâ(TM)d out at the max is exceptionally fast.
They also seriously improved the handshake time, which I believe makes the latency feel better when initially establishing a connection.
At this point, iâ(TM)m unsure what 5g can actually offer? Is anyone finding bandwidth the issue on their cell phone? Iâ(TM)d say battery life, cpu performance. Iâ(TM)m almost positive that what would make phones feel nicer would be /even smarter/ browsers using better caching routines, some kind of improved local dns cache, better ad blocking, faster types of optimised sites in general. (Iâ(TM)ve heard about something called AMP which people hate, but obviously itâ(TM)s some kind of attempt to optimise using the web on a phone)
One complaint i see people make often, is half loaded web sites, you scroll down, an element loads in and then shifts your location on the page, frustrating. This is the kind of thing which should be eliminated.
Can anyone explain to me why Slashdot seems to retest something as fucking simple as a quotation mark? Why do my posts get butchered on this site so frequently, is punctuation banned?
I've been posting here a long time, why is this not fixed? My post looks like an abortion.