PotjiePig

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I started to watch him as he never pulled punches and picked some great match ups of guests and hot topics.

I stopped because his insufferable ego kept compelling him to continuously talk over everyone with his non-stop opinionated smug. Once I noticed I was just watching one man listening to the sound of his own voice while guests that I wanted to hear from get repeatedly cut off at every third word by his desire to manufacture Jerry Springer type drama, I realised how punchable I truely found him to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haha! I think I've convinced her that the colour doesn't matter as much as she thinks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah. I imagine the Global's are less of a hassle. The Chinese ROM was horrific. Got most of it to work eventually but could never get the assistant to work at all pretty much. MIUI in general I found to be a bit of a hack experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Good shout. Yeah I'm struggling to comprehend that people pay top tier laptop / second hand car prices for a phone. The 8 pro is basically perfect otherwise. 7 or maybe 8 vanilla could be the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks. Added to my research pile!

 

High Midrange or old Top Range. £450 - £850 ish.

I went from a LG G3 to OnePlus 3T to a Xiaomi K30 Ultra (variant of a Poco F2 Pro, Chinese ROM). My partner went from and old iPhone to the same. Loved the phone and the pop up camera, but the Chinese ROM, and in many aspects, Xiaomi bloatware drove us batty. Awful user experience. Is their Global ROM also rubbish?

Now it's time for a new phone, I liked Xiaomi bang for buck but I'm wary of its software experience on their global devices (does Google assistant work out the box? Does clicking on a link in a browser route you to their horrible GetApps store? Does G maps locations work? Do they lock out custom launchers? Do notifications and syncing get pushed correctly or does the battery Optimizer aggressively shut all things down in the background?)

Our priority list as follows:

  1. AMOLED 6.5 - 6.7 inch
  2. Great camera, ideally with a telephoto
  3. Waterproof
  4. Not too plasticy a build
  5. A smooth android experience with minimal bloatware
  6. Not flagship prices but mid tier, to mid upper tier.
  7. She wants a pretty colour like purple

So my question is, what phones should be on my radar?

Current list:

Pixel 7 / pro (8 I think is too pricey, but that phone is my personal benchmark)

OPPO Reno 10+ (also a bit steep but she wants the purple)

OnePlus 12 (how's the camera? I loved my 3T but have heard they aren't as good as they used to be)

S22+ or S22 Ultra refurbed (cons a year old but has purple an IP68 is it a better pick than the OPPO?)

Xiaomi 12T or similar, suggestions?

Realme GT5 pro looks sick, but I have Chinese ROM ptsd

Thanks for advice. My phone knowledge is a bit rusty and their must be a bunch out there that I would never think to look at.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Invert this graph for Londoners.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Don't forget the 60s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Late reply, sorry just going though my messages here. But I get all the Linux love, however I assume you're a developer or a writer. Linux is incredibly niche and basically a non option for a vast load of industries.

Im a professional video editor and animator. Adobe is my bread and butter. I can't use another option realistically either as it mostly doesn't exist or I have to send out my projects to other creators and need to be able to talk to other PCs.

Linux doesn't support Adobe, it doesn't support about 80% of my other creative softwares, it won't play nice. Windows, for my use case runs like a dream.

Until Linux gets broader adoption of actual pro level applications for the film industry (and many others), it will always be a niche OS for coders and web devs sadly. I'd sooner roll back to windows XP than use Linux.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Strike 1: upload an AI racist post changing a person's ethnicity

Strike 2: not even paying her for her work, and taking her only 'income' away which is exposure. (Silly of people that work for exposure but that's another topic.

Strike 3: apologize in the form of a thinly veiled threat of legal action

Strike 4: feign ignorance, by saying you did it because you were overwhelmingly popular on social media, and weren't paying attention and had no idea you didn't pay your models. (Don't lie, you absolutely knew). Pass the blame further by blaming the fans, because apparently someone else had a vested interest in changing the race of one of his models.

Strike 5: try and turn the narrative by making sure everyone knows that the event is in honour of his dead wife, and actually WE should feel sorry for HIM.

Sounds an awful lot like narcissism (what's the narcissists poem?)

This guy seems to be a bit of a racist scumbag, who not only takes advantage of young models, but is happy to throw those around him under the bus or throwing his lawyers at the problem before dishing out an honest and humble apology.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't use Edge BECAUSE they keep begging and throwing ads at me for it. It's off putting, desperate and exactly what I don't want.

I don't use it because the Edge splash screen is chokka ads and news stories I don't want.

I don't use Edge because I find Bing annoying, and prefer duck duck go and google in that order, and I'm sick of constantly being nagged to use shit I don't want.

Microsoft get it in your head, you are an operating system. Your job is to Operate MY system. Do that well. And by all means build more software, make it optional and installable by choice. If it's good and works for me and not for you I will use it.

I don't use Chrome either. It no longer works for me. It now works for Google first.

Ive recently downgraded Firefox from browser number 1 to number 2. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not the best.

Currently I'm enjoying Opera because it feels fresh and zippy and works for me , but I'm not loyal. Edge if you do good, maybe I will use you too. But stop your pathetic shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's the ticket.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Really useful tool, especially it's simplicity. No need for too many frills actually.

But just a note on your pricing, Microsoft Word has this built in and you get a whole word processor and their onenote and drive ecosystem for cheaper than your base package. There's no way on this planet I would pay that, even if I used it professionally.

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