Do you seriously expect tinfoilheads to be capable of cost-benefit analysis?

Well, let’s hope it’ll piss people off into seing the light

And how did it look on the inside?

… That was Balanced on top of the statue of Liberty or something

I feel like most of the time Hugo and friends are quite enough. They may not be as flexible, but are certainly lighter, more secure, and easier to work with.

I can kinda understand folders that utilize this design to optionally give you a bigger screen, but this looks like folding for the sake of folding

Huh, I was honestly expecting something like https://youtube.com/watch?v=dcYlytyuKsc

Feeder works fine with the 1st 2, but the last has no articles (i mean the file the site provides) so it’s hard to check. It can def. add it, tho

I mean, “give access” and “double your bitcoin” are somewhat textbook phrases for scams…

Although, I def. see how one can miss it at first. I remember one bank scam call where the thing that ultimately clued me in was a rather unprofessional response along the lines of “don’t call crying back to us” when I’ve said I’m a bit busy to go check the card or whatever they’ve asked to, while what should’ve done this in the 1st place was another textbooky “have u transfered any funds to Joe Shmoe”. Looking back, would’ve been funy AF to pull the Karen on them 🥲

I don’t really understand the 1st requirement…

allow 3rd-party app stores

So, apparently f-droid/aurora/etc are not allowed or something?

let stores distribute the same stuff gplay does

As in “give 'em a way to pull stuff from gplay and not punish for letting ppl download it”? Mb useful, but the lack of specificity may defend the purpose. Like currently, AFAIK, nobody really prevents ppl from publishing both on gplay and f-droid, for example

The rest lgtm

You can, but why’d you want to platform something on a social network singlehandedly lowering the IQ of the whole IP address block?

No, they’ve definitely been Chinese last time I’ve checked. It’s just that it seems a bit weird to me to distrust software just because it’s Chinese, since foss stuff from china can be trusted as it’s possible to audit it (say, shadowsocks or xray), and proprietary software from outside of china can send your data wherever it’s programmed to (e.g. windows or chrome). Besides, while it’s alleged China could influence Chinese developers to either hand over userdata or backdoor the software, it’s not like other governments can’t, and for an average Joe the consequences are, I suspect, more or less the same

s/owned by a Chinese public company/proprietary/

Although another problem is that it doesn’t bring anything new to the table. Yet another chromium browser with built-in proxies and data collection 🤷

I suspect they’ll need something more tangible to manage that…

Given qi2 uses magnets to properly align the coils in the phone and the charger, it should result in generating less heat and overall greater efficiency, so it very well may generate less or the same amount of heat [edit: despite the higher amount of energy transmitted ]… That is, if your phone supports it. But all things considered, it’ll unlikely ever be as efficient, and, hence, warmer than a regular wired charger. I mean, you’re pretty much going ac → dc in the power supply, then dc → ac in the inductive charger, then again ac → dc in the phone itself for no particular reason. That being said, pd also runs quite hot at times, so, IMO, smth like plain old 5v 1amp charger would be more preferable given the use-case

Free as in free beer, not as in freedom. You can technically block undesired (or all) outgoing connections via opensnitch/portmaster, tho.

I’m wondering if those criminals are by chance mentally challenged. A private and “secure” phone with a proprietary “secure” messenger hidden as a calculator app… Doesn’t the word “anom” ring any bells for them?

Idk, vr porn is creepy af. Or at least it used to be 5 yrs ago or so… Imagine a girl so huge one her tit is bigger than your head, for example. So, yeah, I noped out pretty much instantly

Now that’s not creepy at all

They paint themselves as an arrogant and problematic client to deal with.

Huh, apparently they sometimes behave like that with customers as well: https://lemmy.ml/comment/14451901