This is fucking ridiculous

Host our own, but still the main problem is that it needs to register an account on xitter 😕

Plus, unmaintained means if nitter changes something in the HTML, it stops working

There are bangers like video title bash injection or all notifications being able to run arbitrary bash on your machine.

Mednafen via mednaffe?

They can’t have a list of all the installed browser extensions but can probe if a specific one is installed. So they probe ALL of them one by one

Still not enough proof of genocide, I guess

running a model on a reasonably specced laptop

my 128GB M5 Max MacBook Pro

TIL a $7000 laptop is “reasonably specced”

SMS are free also, but, the networks see them as a cash cow. Why letting users receive them for free when they can charge them 16 cents each? Example faq: https://www.windtre.it/come-faccio-per/cosa-sono-e-quanto-costano-gli-sms-bancari

And the same for the banks. They say “ah we need to buy the most premium finest quality priority service in order to let you get them as soon as possible” and charge the user 30 cents each. So, 30+16

A double scam

Here a decade ago you could get a scratch card with a code table, or a physical otp generator, but now you can’t. It’s app or SMS and you’ll get charged 50 cents per SMS received

Don’t forget about the new automatic Google play services check that app developers can enable with a single click on build. That automatically blocks the app from working on any degoogled ROM

Totally not a bubble

It might be useful in some countries where the prevalent unencrypted messaging app is preventively scanning every single image before actually delivering it to the recipient, and silently dropping it if some forbidden keywords are found

Easier said than done, in my country there isn’t a single bank that hasn’t reinvented the wheel, all of them have a dedicated app to show the otp for the login

Can we install a stub package called com.google.android.verifier so the silent installation of malware will fail? It’s technically feasible?

It seems awesome!

I felt dirty every time I had to use tinkercad, fucking Autodesk

Lol and what happens if there’s a goal during the ad break? Or they stop playing for an ad break using some BS excuse??

Not a soccer fan, but I was under the assumption that during the middle of each half they always had ads since decades? Otherwise they show the empty field for 10 minutes?

That is the price if you ship million of units. Realistically, how many units can ship this? 10k? 20k?

Once you consider the price of the plastic shell molds (custom), the custom keypad, the custom motherboard, the custom assembly line, this price is almost cheap.

I wouldn’t even consider a purchase even at a third of the price, but it was a scam if they simply put a sticker on some Alibaba clamshell with stock android, instead here they even partnered with Jolla to have sailfish is as base with the android emulator. That’s much more expensive than just slapping android aosp with a minimal launcher and calling it a day

Browser and email is the bare minimum, though.

Even the cheapest clamshells in the 2000s had those two.

Don’t preinstall it by default if you want to look minimal but being forced to sideload (their app store blocks this essential category???) an Android APK in the emulator instead of using native Linux apps for that, is ridiculous

I understand that for a small company like them (it’s being owned by a YouTuber now) creating hardware is extremely expensive and 499 can even considered cheap with all the custom stuff in this device, plastic molds, dedicated assembly lines and so on, but my mind can’t accept paying more than 149 for something like this

Disclaimer: I wrote “idiot” to describe someone who paid for the product not because they’re actually idiots, but it’s because Microsoft is treating them like that: their official solution on the website is “simply subscribe to the latest and greatest or buy a new “perpetual” license to office 2024 to continue using what you paid for”