colin

oh god, Cybertruck culture is just incel culture applied to a different topic. different groups, maybe, but the same culture.

Why are we OK with thick folding phones, but not with thick no-folds?

i think by "we" you mean the manufacturers? AFAICT they just gave away the game: the push for thin phones was more from the supply side than the demand side. not saying people don't generally prefer thin phones -- just that the preference is probably weaker than has been made out to be.

that said, i think it's more fair to compare things like cubic volume and weight than just the thinness. a 1/2" thick full-size phone would be uncomfortable in my pocket, whereas a 1/2" thick wallet-sized phone might actually be more comfortable than a traditional smartphone.

crafting a search term has changed over the years though. the old approach of "type 3-5 keywords into the box and get a list of pages that use those words close to eachother" isn't supported anymore, and the new approach is "type a phrase and we'll look for things semantically related".

at that point, the input box isn't that different from the chatbot box.

oh wow, often these efforts are limited to either a single metro area, or to those parts of Europe that are all well-connected to eachother but scrolling the database i see routes for every continent (i mean, except for Antarctica) 💛

that's a lot to remember and i don't see the point of it. android girls are perfectly alright with me 👌

i know this form has only two boxes but you gave me this pen and there's some room in the margin so --

hmm, who's that lady my Aunt plays bridge with each Sunday? Jill something-or-other? she seemed kind 📝

Acchi Kocchi. just two oblivious kids crushing on each other in that "it's obvious to everyone except them" sort of way. format wise it's skit based, almost like if Lucky Star had been written to be more wholesome and less crude.

btw, i'd also appreciate recs from any other Acchi Kocchi enjoyers in the thread 😉

Orion won’t make its way into the hands of consumers

not for you though (unless you're a Meta employee).

but yeah good hardware is good hardware and if i could just use it as a display for any other device i have i would totally use it around the home: following a recipe without having to shuffle my phone and the ingredients; running a lengthy command over ssh and doing chores while i wait, without having to check my phone every couple of minutes to see when it's done...

those things all rely on the software though. will they open it up as a dumb wireless display/terminal, or not? if they don't, it's kinda dead to me no matter how great the hardware is...

slide out keyboards are a niche that's just barely hanging on. there's the F(x)tec Pro, and the Cosmo Communicator, at least. seems they're more in style for handheld game consoles: i'm crossing my fingers ASUS or one of the other mobile-phone gaming manufacturers will notice that and cash in.

soup is what happens when the fridge isn't totally empty, but somehow's still missing a key ingredient for every recipe you can remember.

so i guess that's not far off, and the rest is just a matter of outlook (and taste)

first birds, now acorns? fvck, man...

i mean everything here is just people dunking on other people dunking on other people in the most cringe way. maybe y'all get it and are just operating on a higher level, but i can't tell. Poe's law breaks my brain. but GP gets it, i can tell that.