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voltaa

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  • You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time.

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  • I mean, not strictly talking games this year but we've had Baldur's Gate 3, Expedition 33, Hades 2, Fellowship, Little Kitty Big City, Dispatch, Split fiction, Silksong, Black ops 7 (lol jk), Nightreign, Lies of P and plenty more that I probably am not aware of recently. Games haven't gotten shit lately, games have always been shit. Just like "all music from the 70s was good" is due to only the best standing the test of time, "games were better in the 90s" is because we forgot the absolute garbage that surrounded the gems that still hold up.

  • Fairphone CEO says it’s a ‘myth’ that sustainable tech has to cost more and be of lower quality: ‘Neither is needed’

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  • What would you consider a natural lifespan for a phone? I'm currently using a Pixel 6 that I got in 2021, it's still well within it's 8 year lifespan (which is around what I would call reasonable for something that costs me $800) and the USB-C broke at around late year 2 early year 3. It's been the same issue with each phone of the USB-C getting loose and eventually failing to charge. As for your point about the micro USB port outlasting the button, same vibe those ports were indestructible, this is an issue that has only come up and consistently come up when phones started switching to type C. My blackberry bold is still kicking and usable so you can call "user error" all you want but I'm not convinced I suddenly became bad at maintaining my phones suddenly when the port swapped.

    So I'm supposed to solve the issue of not wanting bluetooth headphones by...using bluetooth headphones? For five years while I wait for my phones natural lifespan to pass? K. Like yes I get the audio quality argument, you're going to use a DAC anyways as I do on my desktop, but having the possibility of my headphones dying on me, as well as the price to performance when compared with wired options is enough for me to not want to deal with it. Sure I can get 100$ bluetooth buds, but they're going to not only not be high quality, they'll sound like shit at best.

    The "scenario I made up in my head" is coming in the next few years, guaranteed. I remember when "the 3.5mm jack is going away" was a stupid argument that wasn't going to happen too.

    Just like I can buy a phone with a 3.5mm jack (with increasingly limited options for that each year) that isn't my only criteria when buying a phone, it's about weighing pros and cons of it. Sure you can't fit an optical drive in your razor thin Lenovo, but you have options to buy a laptop that can, it all depends if you're priority is buying something functional or something pretty.

    You're probably right though, it's on me for having a broken port on the only piece of tech that I can't easily open and tinker with, I just don't understand technology.

  • Fairphone CEO says it’s a ‘myth’ that sustainable tech has to cost more and be of lower quality: ‘Neither is needed’

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  • I read the comments properly. Laptops are modular where you can slap any old disc drive in them, I have one in my basement right now where I can do exactly that. If I couldn't swap it easily without taking apart the laptop, I can easily open the laptop and attach it to the board as well, something that I can't do with modern locked tight phones without specialized tools. Last resort would be using USB and an external drive. Tech literacy is dead when people are arguing against having a 3.5mm jack and don't know that you can open a laptop with a screwdriver.

  • Fairphone CEO says it’s a ‘myth’ that sustainable tech has to cost more and be of lower quality: ‘Neither is needed’

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  • You can only use the USB-C dongle for as long as your USB-C port functions, which for my last 3 phones including the one I'm typing this on, isn't for the life of the phone. So once that fails which it always does, how do I listen to music? I shouldn't be forced to use Bluetooth headphones/earbuds when they are objectively worse options that the collection of wired headphones I've gotten over the years. What about when the phone manufacturers decide that contact charging is good enough now and remove your USB-C ports, where does the dongle go now?

    Your point about optical drives on computers is fucking dumb, since computers are still 100% modular and customizable, the point is that phones are not. I CAN put an optical drive on my PC, I can't put a 3.5mm jack on my phone.

  • Something something far-left

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  • Massive respect to the men and women who stick with their teaching careers despite not being paid, respected or honored in any way by Western society.

    America isn't the entirety of western society

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    Doing It

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  • It depends on the people's kid. Your parents kid for example seems like a dickhead.

  • Springfield, Ohio faces 2nd day of bomb threats after Trump ‘eating pets’ rant

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  • It only takes about a tenth grade level of understanding physics and chemistry to make a decent device from scratch. With the access Americans have to over the counter explosives (tannerite) and arduinos you only need enough of an education to know how to copy and paste code. Relying on people being uneducated isn't a good strategy because these things are extremely easy to make. I work with some people that I question whether or not they can read who build effective devices with little to no effort.

  • I hate the rich

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  • And how do you think unions come about? Historically it's by setting things on fire.

  • Not to mom shame...

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  • I take apart bombs, missiles and other explosive ordnance for a living, and sometimes we have to wrap certain components or fuzes in aluminum foil to lower the effects of RF on them for transport. The general rule I follow is if you could put it underwater and water would get in, then radio frequencies won't be deadened. So if she wants to be protected then she would have to create a watertight seal around her head and do us all a favor.

  • It helps to set your preferred age range from 18-120 for full coverage

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  • Maybe being the kind of person who refers to it as sloppy 1/80s has something to do with it.

  • Nato chief says Donald Trump comments 'undermine all of our security'

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  • Really? Trump mentioning that most nato members do not meet the required defense spending undermines nato.

    As a member of a NATO military that doesn't meet the targets for spending, I agree this doesn't undermine NATO, it's just the truth that we need to start pulling more weight monetarily.

    BUT that's not the point and you missed key details about what he said that absolutely DOES undermine NATO, such as:

    "I said: 'You didn't pay? You're delinquent?'... 'No I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever they want. You gotta pay.'"

    So you're showing that you either didn't read the article, didn't understand the article or are being willfully ignorant of the article.

  • Nato chief says Donald Trump comments 'undermine all of our security'

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  • That's nice of you to say. What do you suggest he does about it? I'm so sick of these spineless, yellow-bellied Internet commenters saying that something should be done about it and suggesting precisely fuck all. OFFER A SOLUTION, ALREADY, YOU COWARDS!

    Edit: Mocking tone aside, I'm serious, what can Jens realistically do? Kick the USA out of NATO? That's Trump's goal anyways. The issues with Trump are an internal American issue that can't be fixed by Norwegian politicians unfortunately.