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  • 6,660mAh is a ridiculous number on its own, but it’s even more so once you start comparing it to other foldables. The Galaxy Z Fold 7, which is similarly thin and light to the V6, has a 4,400 mAh battery.

    It’s really cool it has a decent size battery, Samsung is seriously behind on battery, also the new S26 series is underwhelming in that regard.

    My previous (Motorola) phone had a 6000 mAh battery, and you can really feel it in day to day use.
    My current phone is a couple generations old Xiaomi that came with a 120 watt charger. The incredibly fast charging is super nice. And I don’t feel any battery degradation.

    Maybe they (Samsung) keep up well for casual use, but if you actually utilize the power of newer phones, it does take some battery. Whether it’s filming or gaming or other demanding tasks. Just watching a movie can be taxing on a small battery.



  • its all just bloat.

    Here you go:
    https://www.brow.sh/

    If you want a lean no bloat Web Browser there are many that fit that label way better than Firefox.
    Firefox was always a full featured browser with more features than most.

    Another nice little browser would be Falkon:
    https://www.falkon.org/

    There are dozens of such browsers, Firefox is great because it’s complete, go get your incomplete browser with only aged features elsewhere, that doesn’t have the new features Firefox offer.
    Some of us use for instance the page translation quite often. If you are not used to that, you are limiting your browsing to only sources in languages you understand. I understand 5 languages, but not for instance Chinese and French.


  • Most ordinary users never make a setting change,having it off by default, would make it so those users will never be aware the features are there, and having translation available on the address bar is a major feature.
    Since they do no harm, I can honestly not see a reason why it should be opt in?
    The people that want to turn it off are just contrarian, and possibly oppose AI as some sort of principle, disregarding that in this case it actually helps people that want to read articles in other languages, and blind people to have meaningful captions on pictures that aren’t properly captioned for the blind.

    You do you, but this is not you doing you, you are being contrary at far greater cost to other people, regarding something that shouldn’t even be an inconvenience to you. You just choose to be difficult without having a real reason. Except you hate the word AI.

    What AI feature is it exactly, that you think is detrimental to your normal use of Firefox?

    I mean heck I would prefer to not even download the components

    Why? And how many other features would you prefer not to download? The plugins interface maybe? Video and audio Codecs? Support for PNG? The theming capability? How many plugins do you have? What about AI features is it that is so especially horrible to you?










  • But second, keep in mind that for a lot of people, most companies are still responsible members of society; “pillars of the community,” and generally worthy of trust. It’s not because they’re dumb, it’s because they’ve been propagandized into believing it.

    Oh boy that is so true, I was laughing my ass off during the financial crisis about how people were shocked that banks are businesses trying to maximize profits like any other business.

    They genuinely thought that banks were some sort of community institution that existed to help people with their finances, and not businesses that are selling products to make money.

    Still even if people are so ignorant that they are unaware of privacy issues, they have chosen to be willfully ignorant, because this issue has been talked about non stop for decades. For nothing to sieve in at some point, you have to be a special kind of willfully ignorant.
    Even people that are very low information on technology, know that the Internet is a source of potential surveillance, and having your info on the internet in any form is a potential for being surveilled. Everybody knows that all the big IT companies are trying to gather as much information as they can. And Amazon is right at the top among them.
    So to claim they were ignorant of Amazon possibly collecting and sharing their data is a bit far fetched IMO.


  • Question is why they bought a Ring camera in the first place?
    There is no way they can have been unaware that these gadgets can be accessed from outside.
    But it was only when the evidence was put right in their face they finally connected the dots?

    So my answer is quite simple: Because they are stupid, and bought a sleazy product from a known sleazy company, and when they found out it was in fact as sleazy as could be expected, they figured that maybe they didn’t want to to be voluntarily surveilled anyway.


  • I made a digital MIDI drum reader using Piezos on an Arduino with my wife some years ago, For that you need way more than 2 analogue pins.
    I don’t see why newer Raspberry Pies couldn’t have something like 12 analogue pins, it would be amazing for many things, and it’s dirt cheap to make today. The ESP32 has 18 AFAIK.
    In some ways ESP 32 has way better features than Raspberry Pi, but it is not nearly as user-friendly and it lacks audio. It’s also not a general purpose computer with the things that entail, but “just” an embedded system, although a very good one for sure.





  • Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.

    Unless the students are acting incredibly naive, it’s almost impossible for the anti-piracy group to lift the burden of proof here.
    In general all you have to do is to claim you know nothing about it. For instance having “evidence” that your IP address was used for download is useless as evidence.

    Also the Anti Piracy group has a reputation of themselves working outside the law here, so maybe an investigation into this group could be a good idea.

    https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Schlüter

    Johan Schlüter was for many years the embodiment of anti piracy in Denmark forming “AntiPirat Gruppen” (Anti Piracy Group).

    I 2014 idømte en fransk domstol ham 18 måneders ubetinget fængsel

    Translation: In 2014 a French court gave him 18 months UNCONDITIONAL prison term!
    The case was followed up with a €5 million lawsuit. For the fraudulent handling of Charles Trenet copyrights.

    In 2015 he was reported to police for defrauding 100 million DKK from copyright holders. The investigation found “inconsistencies” in 4 companies owned by Johan Schlüter tro the amount of 200 million DKK (€30 million). Later that year AntiPirat Gruppen" was declared bankrupt.

    i juni 2017 tiltale mod Schlüter og to andre advokater i Schlüters advokatfirma.

    Translation: In July 2017 cases were raised against Schlüter and 2 other lawyers in the company.

    So the people handling these copyright investigations and cases do not have the best reputation. In fact they are the real thieves stealing from copyright holders, embezzling their money through their judicial con job. Promising to help, but doing more harm than good, to a degree that in Denmark laws have been changed to basically protect against activities by anti piracy lawyers that are immoral and illegal.