Any time I would listen to a tech podcast, they'd discuss Apple/its products for a majority of the time, despite OSX having less than 20% market share (and iOS having like half of Android's as well). But obviously since their products are the priciest as well as the most """prestigious""" they deserve an inordinate amount of attention and hype.
Serious question, if someone produced a pro-socialist tech podcast that promoted open source and did deep dives on the sick culture of Silicon Valley and its ties to capital imperialism, think that would that interest some people?
Cool, I started a thread about it over on the tech channel. If you're interested in sharing some ideas, hop on over to the thread. https://hexbear.net/post/16847
Probably some people but not me. I just don't really care about technology because no matter what being developed I already know it's just gonna end up being a tool with which the capitalists oppress us. I've already seen the ending, no reason to watch that movie again
Let he who was never a lib cast the first stone at the struggle session
Indeed, in my experience most tech podcasts are super consumerist or bootlickers
The news about how Steve Jobs came out looking too skinny and the stock took a dive was one of those moments pre-Marxism younger me looked at the stock market and said "what is this bullshit, alchemy? John Dee horseshit?"
But then he DID die and the company hasn't had a single good idea since.
Like yeah on one hand he was a CEO and all CEOs are cunts and he was involved with tax evasion and etc etc etc
But on the other hand he's at the helm when they come out with the ipod, macbook and iphone, and since he died the "best" thing apple have done is "uh... Do you want a subscription service to bad mobile games??"
you're forgetting about the big heavy smart watch, so you can carry another device for all the times you don't want to look at your phone but want to look at your wrist instead
It hurts my soul that we already had the perfect smartwatch, it was made years before. The Pebble Round. This bitch had a color e-ink screen so you could use it in daylight, it was small and thin and light enough to look like a real watch on my tiny woman's wrist, it was navigated with physical buttons instead of a touchscreen the size of a postage stamp, had multi-day battery life. It was the only good smartwatch and I fucking loved it. And now it's gone, capitalism killed it, Fitbit bought the company and threw everything good about it in the trash.
Fitbit bought Pebble and then Google bought Fitbit.
Android being a Google product isn't a good thing. They're horrible on privacy and obviously an evil company. Apple sucks because they lock users into their ecosystem and force them to buy hardware they shouldn't need at a premium price. I don't know enough to verify this, but it's my understanding that you can actually achieve the highest level of privacy using certain custom Android ROMs on the right hardware. Plus you have more freedom as a consumer in how you use the software and choose your hardware.
I think the real takeaway I have is that brand loyalty is for chumps
The point I was making is that like, general (nominally non-apple focused) tech journalists and enthusiasts spend tons of time talking about apple, tips for apple users, etc despite them being a pretty tiny minority.
Oh for sure. I'm not disputing that at all, just throwing in my two cents about the two.
Google sucks, obviously, but I only had Android smarphones and I pirate all the apps without jailbreaking or using fancy roms. 4pda.ru is a great site full of roms and patched and moded apps and what not with great moderation so you don't install malware. The biggest obstacle to pirating apps on Android in my experience is the whole software as service thing.
I usually only use linux on my laptops, and have considered getting a macbook as their price seems pretty in line with similar quality laptops, but all the weird external adapters means I would probably never do that. In reality I will probably stick with refuribished thinkpads for the forseeable future.
THINKPAD GANG RISE UP
I actually switched to a Dell Latitude a couple years back, but every single one of my laptops have been hand-me-downs so I can't exactly afford to be picky about the brands lol
I bought this thinkpad about 5 years ago used. It was already a few years old at that point. Since then, I have lived in a 10X15 cabin in ontario, a 10X15 cabin with a wood stove for heat in cape breton for a year, went to India with it and fully lived in a tent with it for a summer until my tent collapsed due to a rain storm (I think the laptop was being stored in a consturction site at that time so it was "safe"), and it still works like the day I got it, aside from the paint coing off some of the keys. I don't know about the newer models, but this vintage is fucking bomb proof.
Before that, I had some Acer laptop that I bought new for double the price and it lasted for 2 years before the CPU fan broke.
Damn, you certainly sound like you've led an interesting life. I had an X220 (about 2010-ish I think?) and it survived the extremely gentle task of being my daily driver for a few years pretty well, besides losing a key cap which I basically pried off because of boredom
Interesting life is for the dogs. I built a house 2 years ago where I live with my wife and son and it's like pulling teeth to get me to drive an hour to the mainland now.
I didn't. I actually found it odd that someone else did. I don't really use the vote buttons.
They're also just really good. Their hardware is consistently a good couple of years ahead of everyone else.
Software wise... Ehhh it's a bad version of Android, but it's still Android so you can remove a lot of the jank yourself.
Depends on budget. Xiaomi (and sub-brands like 'redmi' and 'poco') are much better at the low end to the midrange. Huawei's cheaper offerings aren't nearly as good, but their flagships are MASTERWORKS of phones.
That said, if you want a Chinese phone you shouldn't discount BBK either - You're more likely to know them by the sub-brands 'Oppo' or 'OnePlus'. As an all rounder I'd say the Oppo Find X 2 Pro (bad name) is the best phone out of China this year. IMO it beats out the Huawei P40 Pro just because the curved display on that one is way TOO curved. It looks amazing but it's just too annoying when you're actually holding the thing.
If you're on a budget though it's got to be the Redmi 9 - it's, and I'm not shitting you here, it's £160 and for basic use it is more than good enough.
My new p40 lite came with Android preloaded but no play store, I'm in Germany though so that might change things
Honestly my p20 lite was the best phone I ever had, even after 2 years it showed no signs of slowing down, battery lifetime was still the same, apart from a few scratches (which were my fault). I actually broke it by accidentally dropping it out of a window on the fourth floor (lol) and evne though the screen was completely shattered it was still working and I could extract all my data from it. Only problem they have now is that they can't use the Google play store anymore which makes installing apps a bit of a pain but otherwise they're top notch
I'm interested in buying a huawei laptop to own the whites, any suggestions?
They're extremely nice, especially the AMD ones. Beautiful construction. Taobao has a lot of models.
Nah, apple products often have legitimately better build quality, even for the price. I've seen Macbooks last 10 years.
So have thinkpads (which are admittedly on the pricier side too, but I guess that's more a point about getting what you pay for than Apple specifically)
Thinkpads are so bulky, but it's definitely the second best laptop and they haven't been more durable than macbooks in my experience.
Even on a recent Street Fight they were like "Android users are people who are super into tech and like the xtra features" and Im like "Nah i was just poor in college and needed a phone for under $200 and now Im stuck in the google ecosystem"
I mean some of us are, sure, but the bestselling Android phones every year that I've checked have been whatever sub-$100 Samsung was offered for free with prepaid plans that year
Overpriced shit, less features, more pricey, super closed systems. Once upon a time their PCs were not ibm clones so you could argue thee was some value there maybe
Fucking hate my work MacBook. Apparently if it gets the tiniest amount of wet on it, the touchbar dies and the computer is bricked when you try to update (even if the rest is fine, literally worked fine for months without the touchbar). I'd rather run Win10 with WSL at this point. At least Windows can make a half decent window manager for their OS; with OSX, you have to use 3rd party software to have that.
When they refreshed the Air line recently, they also made those fucking awful. You can't do anything on them without them throttling the CPU because it's overheating.
Don't even get me started on the butterfly switches on the MacBooks. It's like tapping your fingers on the goddamn table and they're defeated by the tiniest amount of dust.
Expensive, fucking garbage.
bUt ThEy'Re So UsEr FrIeNdLy
When someone who's pretty tech savvy needs to look up numerous tutorials to figure out how to manage windows or take a fucking screenshot, I think that's a sign it's not very user friendly, just minimalist and simplified
lol removes every port besides lightning - which sure, is a great replacement for usb - but damn now I have to plug in the dongle to use my hdmi monitor & headset and that means it takes up the usb spot on the dongle so I can't use my wireless mouse and now I'm screaming into the void because someone just told me "lol buy a usb to lightning adapter for the cord"
I don't think my 3am self made nearly enough effort in stressing that the 'great replacement for usb' part was sarcastic lol
All it is for me, is an expensive laptop to run iterm2, web browser, and email/slack because the devs and managers at my company are all mobile devs and all they know is iOS and Macs.
windows management sends me, I was so hyped when I got a macbook for work and I was like now I find out how great these are, finally and ... I just couldn't split screens lol. I installed fedora in parallels on the mac
When they refreshed the Air line recently, they also made those fucking awful. You can’t do anything on them without them throttling the CPU because it’s overheating.
lol yeah for some reason the company i work for decided that 2018 macbook airs were the best tools to use for, among other things, having 500 tabs of Salesforce open at a time and I weep whenever I hear the fans kick up as soon as I open Firefox.
amazingly, I've had this thing for almost two years and its now to the point where if I take it off its charger the battery only lasts like 2 hours due to the fans constantly running at max speed due to the shitty heat management lol.
I'm hoping that the Pinephone or the Librem 5 have good enough software before too long. I have a Pinephone on the way but by all accounts the distros currently available are all early WIP. I wonder how well dotnet apps will run on that hardware.
those look really cool, but the only problem is that a fully linux running smartphone is still a few years out.
The Librem5 as a concept is really cool though, even if the hardware is abysmal.
I use my Pinebook Pro for most of my computing at the moment, because it is a huge advantage in working as an embedded firmware developer.
I completely ignore and disbelieve that; the only evidence I actually have that that might be true is them refusing to unlock terrorists' iPhones, but I'm sure a trueanon listener's gonna reply to me saying they actually did and the whole "we literally can't" was just to hype their privacy PR cred and I'll be vindicated once more
There are websites like AndroidAuthority or WindowsCenteral you may find more interesting
iOS has 45.2% marketshare in the US. It makes sense that a website would talk about it a lot
It's frustrating to see basically everyone in my new class having the latest iPhones. Idk why I expected civil engineer students to be more based and less rich. I have a 3 year old lg, hope I can use it a year more. Overconsumption bad
I'll use my old iPhone until I literally cannot anymore. Boggles my mind how many people are "upgrading" year after year
