Well wait a minute, like there was a dot com bubble, but not an internet bubble.

AI related valuations are very fucky and speculative right now. That part can't last forever. But yah, the costs will come down over time and it absolutely 100% is not going anywhere and will be in everything. It doesn't mean markets are rational about what it actually means today, because there are a lot of people throwing a lot of money hard in any direction they think has the AIs.

Given the kitsch look I think USA "envisioned" products these days are a hard pass. The phone looks like the kind of cheap trinket you'd buy at a Marrakesh market for someone who tells you it's 100 dirham but when you go to pay claims you agreed to pay 100 euros.

Except that market stall owner has more integrity and is more trustworthy than Trump.

Of course Donald Trump is trustworthy. He tried his best, but ultimately he was hamstrung by HUSSEIN Obama destroying manufacturing in this country by selling out to China using Hunter's laptop. There was a plan for Biden to fix this but he fell asleep. It was all there in Hillary's emails. The dumbocrats have destroyed the country. Also did you know how smart Donald Trump is? Apparently most people don't even know dumb has a b on the end. Trump did. He pointed it out. The man's genius has no bounds and you criticising him makes you a horrible person piggy.

We have ample evidence that expectation bias translates the use of high end cables directly into a perception of improved audio quality.

In many ways this is no different. Drawing a flag and the word Trump on a Chinese device gives the perception of American made quality. The question isn't one for your dad though. The question is for someone else, the people who *HAVEN'T* yet bought the phone need to have the fraud pointed out. Just like you wouldn't recommend to your friend to buy monster cables even though you're fine with not criticising your dad as your advice came too late.

Don't leave it too late out of complacency. This should be news.

It's good and everyone should do it, but it's worth noting that PiHole isn't the be-all and end-all of solutions. There's a significant portion of ad content that needs to be blocked dynamically based on page rendering rulesets which PiHole simply doesn't catch. A proper browser plugin is still a must.

That said PiHole is a godsend for locked down Android devices on the network which don't benefit from any simple adblocking.

DNS is nice and all, but if you're not running an adblocker that can intercept webrequests in flight you're not running a good adblocker period. DNS holing (while a good idea in general, and one I do too) is just pathetic in comparison to a proper browser based blocking feature.

There's nothing popular about the adblockers running in an unpopular browser. The headline excludes you buttercup, but your main character syndrome aside for a moment.

What a stupid fucking "post" you made.

When Firefox stops locking up from doing something as mindblowingly complex as scrolling through reddit maybe I'll reconsider it. I can look past the other issues, like the slow rendering of some pages, but I soured on it a few years ago due to breaking bugs, and bugs which are Mozilla's fault, not the fault of web developers.

Maybe when they are finished with looking at shoehorning pocket and VPNs, and AI into their browser they can actually start fixing some bugs for a change.

Why not?

Chromium is open source spyware (including no longer supporting V2 adblocking). Vivaldi is just a Chrome skin with little meaningful change (including no longer supporting V2 adblocking). Opera is just Chinese spyware. Brave claims to be for the users but has a history of fucking them over especially with affiliate redirects. Edge is ... LOL. and Firefox... dear Firefox... I want to like you, but at some point I'd prefer you to stop doing shit like focusing on running your VPN service and actually fix your fucking code so I can do something as basic as scrolling through a webpage without it locking up.

Lynx still seems to be a good privacy focused choice but doesn't support nice modern features like displaying images.

At this point the question is only what condiments are you serving with your shit sandwich.

Why would you not expect it? The upstream code support for V2 is being removed. It's not some flag that can be set. Vivaldi will have to actively fork and proceed to fully maintain the code base going forward, without incorporating these upstream changes. This kind of thing can quickly lead to breaking bugs.

But in any case you don't need to expect anything. Vivaldi creators have been open about this and...

unfortunately ...

We will keep Manifest v2 for as long as it’s still available in Chromium.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/manif...

Yeah but then you're using Firefox, which has distain for users in a whole different set of ways, not the least of which is an endless focus on everything except for fixing bugs.

That the phone isn't a complete piece of shit. Originally it leaked that they were going to use a $150 cheapo mediatek based phone. This is at least an okayish mid-range 5G phone with a albeit ancient Snapdragon 7 system on a chip.

It's a lousy price for the phone but phone prices are shooting up. I just had to replace a phone and to get a good modern Snapdragon chipset with a nice fancy modem cost me $800 and that wasn't even top of the line.

It's still a terrible price because you can get a $250 Motorola edge that's only one gen behind on the soc and from what I can tell they are massively overcharging for the service. Like they're selling $20 a month worth of service for $60 a month which is probably why they were able to be embarrassed into putting a slightly okayish phone. Also I don't know if it's an accident or by design but using one of the Snapdragon ships with the slightly better modem versus a mediatek chip will probably spare them a bunch of support calls from people who can't get signal on their shitty Network. Remember that resellers don't get preferential treatment on the network.

All this said I would keep an eye out because I wouldn't be surprised if after the heat dies down they swap out these decent 400 to $500 phones or shitty 100 to $150 phones.

That's why you have to go out of your way to tell them. So they can say blah blah Biden blah China and Kamala's phone would have been worse. So we can go back to not feeling bad about not visiting this summer.

Because it's the default in most cases and it's fast with extremely good memory usage.

And honestly I have so many other things that have eaten my privacy alive there's no point in worrying about Chrome doing it. I am way more concerned with the lack of antitrust law enforcement and with widespread voter suppression at the county level.

A lot of the reason Firefox still gets money is because companies are afraid of antitrust law enforcement if there aren't any other browser alternatives. The reason Google is doing this now is that they are quite comfortable that they aren't going to face any antitrust enforcement so they don't need to worry about shutting out ad blockers and other useful extensions.

Eventually they won't be in the slightest concerned about antitrust enforcement. In the old days the other companies would be worried about Google controlling all the browser code but nowadays the way they look at it it's cheaper to just bribe Google a bit than it is to have any antitrust enforcement.

You see this in the beef industry. In the old days McDonald's and the other fast food restaurants would sue the beef producers for antitrust violations resulting in cheaper prices across the board. Nowadays the beef producer is just give McDonald's a kickback in order to prevent them from doing a lawsuit and of course the administration sure is shit isn't going to do one. McDonald's gets to pocket the difference in prices because they're a large buyer but when you go to the grocery store you pay more.

It's another case where a system we didn't really think about has been dismantled and it's having wide-ranging effects. This is what's called a chesterton's fence if you haven't heard. Basically don't take offense down unless you understand why it was put up

I imagine quite a few American students speak a second language, such as Spanish or Hebrew.