It wasn’t a peace march, the organisers called for attendees to carry out citizen’s arrests on anyone they believed to be attending the convention. In 7:30’s footage you can see random people who have no connection to anything happening trying to walk past and being assaulted by protestors because of how they dress. The language used by the protestors was not “we are here to protest” but instead “we are here to disrupt” so their intentions yesterday were clearly never to be peaceful. In the footage you can also see some of them deliberately and repeatedly running into the police while filming for TikTok so they can be pushed away and scream about police brutality to their viewers.

EDIT: I should make clear that I’m referring to the organisers of the event and those protestors involved in violence. From what I understand there were like 2000 - 3000 people there and clearly not all of them were causing problems.

I mean…you’re the only one engaging. Up until 3 days ago I had zero concept that this person existed.

The video has over 38 million views and 260,000+ comments in just a few days so they’re definitely not the only one engaging.

So just shut up, and he’ll go away.

That was sort of his point, apparently:

The ordeal is a timely reminder that seeing no longer means believing when it comes to the online world. Perry told NBC News:

While everybody pointed and laughed at me for overconsuming food, I was in total control the entire time. In reality, people are completely absorbed with internet personalities and obsessively watch their content. That is where a deeper level of overconsumption lies — and it’s the parallel I wanted to make.

Most of the people who have watched his content over the years have been hate watchers, there to mock his weight gain and supposed descent into insanity. It’s the “lolcow” phenomenon, basically.

Anyway, if people had actually ignored his low effort content it would have gone more like this. But they didn’t, so now it looks like he’s achieved something more masterful than he actually has.

Not saying it’s not valid (we all want longer software support!), but wtf does length of software support have to do with rating the UX? They are completely separate things.

Yeah unfortunately their inclusion of that kind of renders the whole list pointless. This was actually just a list of manufacturers ranked by their update policies.

Why don’t they use humans like the Soviets? Are they stupid?

It’s actually 4 years now. Still terrible for the price, of course.

Wow, that video ad wasn’t subtle at all lol

If you want to stick with Chromium-based browsers, you could try Vivaldi. I am a Firefox user myself but Vivaldi is my backup browser for those rare occasions where I have issues. 95% of the browser is open source, with the remaining 5% being comprised of the closed source UI. Vivaldi has a pretty reasonable privacy policy, an inbuilt ad-blocker and is a 100% employee owned company. It supports all major operating systems and has a sync feature so you could use it as your main browser across all devices if you wanted.

The way some of the titles are changed is quite funny to me. It’s like if you saw a big scary looking ghost on Halloween and then you rip the sheet off and it’s just Huey, Dewey and Louie stacked on top of each other.

I Bought Ten of the WEIRDEST Phones EVER

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Reviewing Old Phones with Alternative Form Factors

As @nednobbins@lemm.ee correctly put it, tech savviness is the property of an individual and not of a generation. There are non-savvy Zoomers, just as there are non-savvy people from your generation.

You’re making the argument that the exception proves the rule, which is a misleading way to think about it. Most people in this thread are generalising the generations because that is a more accurate way to think about common behaviours or abilities across a very large group of people.

The actual term for Alphas is “iPad kid” lol

but on average they are definitely better with tech than we are.

Are they? What are you basing this assessment on?

Your horseshoe analogy is a helpful and simple way to think about it, thanks.

Gen Z doesn’t use uppercase anyway lol

they all type like this smh

They might deliver on the base promise but the other point is that Motorola is extremely unreliable with regards to the frequency of their updates. The OS update will come a year after a Pixel or Samsung and around the launch of a new version. See the razr 40 series, which has only recently received Android 14 (released October 2023), right before the release of Android 15. You could maybe argue that is to be expected for a smaller player in the market but the same applies to security patches, which are all over the place and often several months out of date. Even if Motorola hasn’t actually abandoned a phone, it can sometimes feel like it for the owner because you just never know when they are going to push something (if ever).

Is it meant to save us from the tyranny of payment processors like PayPal who can freeze your funds at a whim?

Wasn’t this quite literally the the reason provided in Proton’s announcement of Wallet?

Why build Proton Wallet?

Early in our journey, we experienced first-hand what it’s like being cut off from the financial system and at the mercy of large banks and institutions — an ordeal that affects millions of people across the globe. In the summer of 2014, as the original Proton Mail crowdfunding campaign was in progress, Proton had a near-death experience when PayPal froze our funds(new window), questioned whether encryption was legal, and whether Proton had government approval to encrypt emails.

Fortunately, in that instance PayPal returned the blocked funds, and Proton was able to start the journey that we’ve been on for the past decade. However, that dangerous moment has always stayed in our minds, and we still keep a proportion of Proton’s financial reserves in Bitcoin.

Having experienced firsthand the unreliability of the traditional financial sector, building Proton Wallet is an important strategic move to make Proton more resilient and independent in the future. By enabling us and the entire Proton community to more easily adopt means of payment that deliver on the promise of financial freedom for all, we better insulate Proton from the risks posed by traditional finance.

I can’t read that without this song popping into my head.

Signal…what? The Android version hasn’t supported SMS for 2 years at this point.

There are two problems and they are price and durability. These products will only ever “serve niche users” while those two concerns remain. The reason people are not buying these devices is not because of the aspect ratio, as much as tech journalists who receive these products for free would like to think this is the case.

Yeah, as did LG (sort of) with the second screen on the V50.

Test their typing skills on a smartphone without autocorrect.