Comment Re:Oh well (Score 3, Funny) 108
Are you seriously telling me that humans can't be equipped with two massive dicks and a pussy at the same time? This is the worst day since they told me Santa isn't real!
I love LineageOS and F-Droid, I wish the open source movement were larger on Android. Most app developers seem to drool at the 0.00001% chance that their app goes viral so of course they want to enable ads, while in reality making basically nothing anyway.
However, the loss of convenience that you mention can be somewhat gradual. You can still use for example gmail and normal apps from google play store with LineageOS, which may be more or less "necessary" when you need to run an application from some clueless car park operator, banking app, or similar. The good thing is that you have the option to avoid it.
Whenever I used it it was to find the actual information I was searching for. Quite often you search for some keyword (in quotes to force an exact match) and when you click through to the website, the information is nowhere to be found.
Often this is because it was hidden to normal users who they wanted to jump through hoops to look at their precious data, but they want to use google as a free marketing tool.
The cached version showed the same thing they show google, so they can't hide it.
Streaming was never an option for me because they can decide at any time to prevent me from watching my favorite movie or show.
It's like having all your personal data in the cloud without a physical backup under your own control.
The only way to make sure I can enjoy the childhood memories of shows that I watched, movies I watched, is to download them. This is no longer possible with most computer games, due to their dependency on locked-down proprietary servers. Heck, I wouldn't even trust a physical player these days, which could easily be designed with a decryption key that expires unless updated every now and then from the internet.
Would be a much more attractive device for me if there was a way to get it without any weird cloud connection or "operating system".
I absolutely do not trust this device not to interfere with the content, even if I pass it through a physical port.
It has nothing to do with peripheral vision.
I used to have a three-monitor setup for coding, which I replaced with a single 38" 32:9 to remove the borders. I bet that if you have three monitors on a desk, you will not have them arranged flat, but each monitor will be pointed to face you (evidence: google image search on multi-monitor setups). The curved ultra-wide does exactly the same thing but seamless. A flat monitor would distort the windows.
My monitor came with a full color calibration report for the whole panel, so of course it's not the "lowest tier". I don't even think they make this format in a flat version because no one would use it!
Of course if you buy a cheap gimmick "gaming" monitor that has a ridiculous curvature for its size, you get what you pay for.
John Calhoun's work suggests that overpopulation is not a thing. If the population density becomes too high, individuals stop reproducing, ultimately leading to population collapse.
Since this has never happened once in any other species, I think John Calhoun is pretty much talking out of his behind.
At least it allows us to keep going with our funny "exponential growth in a closed system" pyramid scheme.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
