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Fuck no. It’s all disgusting.

I just want rainbow transparent tech back. Let me feel like I am still in the early 2000s.

All data is routed through somewhere you don’t have control over at some point. If everything is encrypted then you are fine. You could setup a vps and proxy through that instead of Cloudflare, but you are just relying on the vps provider to protect any data/not snoop then rather than Cloudflare.

The only real way to be completely private is to just avoid connecting to the internet at all, but that’s not really feasible. Just get to a point where you are comfortable, you’ve already done more than most to protect yourself (as much as you can without it getting silly anyway). Good job!

They would have been fine if they just gave them budget and left them to it, but it was never about producing good games.

Because they are a scummy company, they want full control.

This is not surprising at all.

There’s plenty of ways to add more functionality with user scripts, also lots of front ends to pick from.

Yea if you have a potato pc then vlc is probably the better choice, mpv is built to perform on newer hardware. Although, I have never tested as I don’t have a low/old spec PC laying around anymore.

Its worth it to try, it’s much faster than vlc and highly configurable.

Who is using vlc when mpv exists?

The laws to ban “AI”, you mean?

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Of course not… people should still do regular backups.

No consumer decided it would be better without it, there’s literally no reason to defend it’s removal. It doesn’t exist because the phone companies wanted to sell their wireless earbuds, that’s it. Anything else they tell you is bullshit.

Why are you trying to justify not having it? You can still use your wireless buds if you want if the port exists, you can still use your USB-C earphones or adapter if you’d like. It can exist in harmony along with other features, like it did for decades before capitalism called for more profits.

We were doing perfectly fine 10 years ago and manufacturing has only gotten more advanced, the only real reason the 3.5mm port was removed is because Apple wanted to sell people their AirPods. That’s literally it. The rest of the manufacturers soon followed suit when they realised how many people were buying AirPods.

Or just put the port in the phone.

“just”, I think not giving money to Apple or Google anything is a perfectly good reason alone to want expandable storage.

Phone manufacturers charge a massive premium for more storage on a phone, storage which is then lost if the phone dies. A microSD card can be moved around and they cost little.

Not everyone has a home server, in fact a very very small percentage do and being able to store their photos and what-not on a microSD card is very valuable. The freedom to add more storage is a good thing to have. Most people can understand an SD card, but not how to setup an entire home server with syncing etc, let alone exposing that to the web to access it anywhere. It also costs money to run, a microSD card doesn’t.

The only reason we don’t have expandable storage or a 3.5mm port anymore is: money. They want to sell you that cloud service, upcharge you for more internal storage and make you buy their bluetooth earbuds.

Thanks, I didn’t know about this. Though it should just be default settings you can change… size, position, enabled/disabled. All pretty simple settings that should be provided.

Fair, I suppose it depends on how the software handles it too. Personally I never let notifications stack up and the VPN for me is on the other side. I’d personally rather have the shorter phone and a cutout.

Yes that’s exactly it. A camera under/behind the display. Not at the bottom of the screen aha (the bottom changes I guess too, depending on your phone rotation).

Yep… everyone wants phablets. Apparently.

I don’t mind the cutouts (if done right), they just sit in the notification bar, so they never obscure anything anyway. That’s a place Sony could have shaved off the extra height imo, the top and bottom bezels are pretty unnecessary.

We are slowly moving to under-screen cameras now though.

After having a phone without a 3.5mm port or a microSD card slot, the top 2 features I want on a phone are a 3.5mm port and a microSD card slot.

Shame Sony discontinued their Xperia 5 series, even if they were also excessively priced.