Ugh, this is exactly why I find his video kinda misleading and unfair. It's one thing to test the durability, but its a completely other thing to basically frame the device to consumers as a fire and explosion hazard by doing things to it that no normal person does, even by accident.
The claim that in the last 10 yeas no other phone exploded probably lies in the fact that phones were mostly not foldable and double the thickness. The iPhone 6 Plus bent just as bad, just not at the place where the battery was. He said it himself, he probably punctured the battery while bending more the already bent and shattered phone.
He, for what I can remember, also didn't bother to explicitely mention that this is an extreme case and it could happen, but tries to play it casually like Google has a massive issue and he "just used the phone as normal". He created bad publicity, surely attracting many many views by framing this as something unexpected and controversial.
If he started punching all phones for a test, they will all go up in flames.
Because only Google provided everything needed to actually fully support the hardware it runs on. Besides, hardware is just the skeleton, as long as you exchange the brains inside, you are fine. Like a bomb shell but empty inside.
Forskin ins there for a reason. It's protecting the head of the penis. Cutting it off is just a poor way of not having to deal with the problems if you don't wash it properly.
Same way you protect anything else valuable in your house - by locking the door and potentially installing (selfhosting) security cameras. I'd completely disagree that a server will be a target for a common thief. What are they gonna do with that? Who is gonna buy that from them? What can they buy with that? It's useless garbage for them.
Illegal immigrants are of absolutely all sorts, so there is no single human trait that is uniquely only found in illegal migrants.
Also, people don't oppose illegal migrants, they oppose illegal migration as a general thing. Illegal migrants are not the problem, they are simply the cause, and people hate the problems that arise in a society after to much illegal migration.
People need to stop calling everyone they disagree with racists, its so watered down that it completely lost any meaning and weight behind it. Didn't get up to a granny on the bus? Racist. Driving a white car? Racist. Using an iPhone? Racist.
There is a version of illegal migration that I would support and truly leave an open door for everyone: You must adopt the culture, you must learn the language, you must find a job, you won't get any welfare or housing and you can't ask for anything in our society to be "like it was at your home". And voila! Everyone welcome.
Everyone would need infrastructure, not only internet access, but also power, a smartphone and/or a PC.
Still millions of people live in areas where they don't even have reliable electricity acces, or don't even know how to read and write.
How would these people, that live of soley their land, buy a smartphone or PC and internet access and be able or know how to use it?
You first need world education, basic world infrastructure (water, electricity) before you can even dream of internet access.
a) the generation that grew up watching LTT is now at age where they don't watch as much YT as they did before
b) increasing amount of things happen which put viewers off
c) consumer technology peaked and is now "boring"
d) new generations don't have as much interest in technology altogether
Let's explain:
a + c) people watching LTT years ago were living in an exiting tech era where it boomed and you had mayor leaps in tech basically on a yearly basis. Moving from floppy disks to CD's to USB sticks. CRT to LCD displays. 16-bit to 32-bit color. Solitare and Minesweeper to Call of Duty 4 and Need for Speed. Symbian and Blackberry to Android and iOS. Tons of manufacturers, tons of competition, tons of new and exctiting stuff.
Let's observe the state today: iPhone looks the same for the past half decade. Android is basically just Google and Samsung. Storage is now all in cloud. New games are recycled and upscaled old games. Every new generation of hardware is same thing just 10% better/faster. New OS releases are just refinements without new features. Most changes are done just for the sake of change. Existing hardware can basically be enough for 5+ years. What is LTT realistically supposed to talk about that is interesting? There is simply no more interesting tech.
This ties in into d) - tech peaked, new generations "just use it as it is", there is no need to tinker with it, prebuilt PC's are more than fine for years to come. Since AI the IT job landscape seems to be in decline, both in demand and in pay. People do other stuff now that is more lucrative.
LTT is dependent on stuff happening so that they can make videos about it. But, stuff kinda just isn't happening. Or the stuff that happens is just not noteworthy news anymore.
Probably just register as a hobby developer and in worst case scenario sign apps I build from source with my own key and install them on my own devices, in case the original developer is not registered. None of the information I give google is new, they know all of that probably long time ago, and I don't plan to distribute apps, just install them myself.
This seems like a macOS system where you can install apps from outside of Apple Store, but it still needs to be a registered developer. It's not THAT bad, as it may initially look like. Just remember the old Android Marketplace with tons of shady fart and flashlight apps.
But, I bet there will be a root workaround for that so... no worries. Root, disable, hide root, enjoy like nothing happened.
We are aware of the problem, but don't really have a magic wand to create our own mineral and energy resources overnight, including production lines for advanced chips, defense, train a proper army all while maintaining social plans and investment into infrastructure. The time for solving the problem is long gone, and now the only thing remaining is to do the best we can under the current circumstances.
If we go to a trade war with Trump, we will also deteriorate the our economy and Trump can pull his military support leaving us with both economic downturn and extremely weakened defence capabilities. This can't possibly be better than playing along, for now.
A simple thing would be to cut a lot of social programs and finance more pressing matters, but we know how the people will react to it...
We kinda need all support we can get considering the blood-thirsty bear to the east. It would be very unwise at this point to go and poke the big hungry bear on the west. We can defend ourselves with a few sticks at best at this point. Or we have a bazooka, but politicians unwilling to use anything but a stick. One of those two.
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