From what I can tell color OS has bloatware but it can all just be uninstalled. The major complaint with color OS is that it has a different icon set that's meant to look like ios. Also by default color OS is missing all the Google apps but that's a Chinese thing. They can be installed they just aren't there by default like they are for oxygen OS.

There are probably some oxygen OS specific features I'm not thinking of that are going to be missing from color OS because I've turned them off in order to get my 13r closer to stock Android.

Why more people are buying DVDs/blu-ray. They have the movie. They own it. It can't be taken from them. It won't change.

The same with books. No worrying that your digital copy will mysteriously disappear one night. You have the book. You bought it. It's yours. The words won't change.

This shit goes all the way back to the opening of fight club. You figure out how many users have actually used content and therefore are likely to notice and Sue and you figure out how likely they are to be able to sue in the first place since it's very difficult to do any sort of class action lawsuits in America anymore thanks to lobbying from large corporations. Then you figure out a dollar amount on all that and a dollar amount to pay for the licensing and Bob's your uncle whichever one is bigger wins.

This is what happens when you vote for anti-consumer, anti-regulation, anti bureaucracy politicians for 50 years.

The thing people don't seem to understand is all those bureaucrats are the white collar cops walking the beat of the corporations screwing you over.

The only reason the DMV sucks, which is the only reason anyone hates bureaucrats, is because we intentionally underfunded because you can register the vote there. Several States just passed laws requiring the legislation to fund the DMV in order to create minimum wait times and as soon as they did that the DMV was fine and there was no complaints anymore about bureaucrats.

Also more people registered to vote.

Regulations are written in blood. And if you don't have somebody there to enforce those regulations the blood isn't going to stop. That somebody is definitionally a bureaucrat. Because we don't have cops policing corporations. Funny that when you and I do something we're not supposed to a guy with a gun and a stick shows up but when a multi-millionaire CEO does the same shit it's a guy in the suit with little or no power...

If you're in the States and want an equivalent that seems to be the one. I tried the newest Samsung Galaxy but the battery life was horrible.

Qualcomm chips have by far the best modems. If you've got signal issues the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 or 5 is the way to go. But they're battery hogs so you really want that 7000+ mwh battery...

Also watch out for expensive phones with old Gen 6 and 7 chips.

Errr, hearing aids are significantly larger with standard hearing aid batteries being larger than airpods themselves,

No, they're not. My dad has hearing aids and they are about the same size as an airpod.

For reference, this is close to, but not the same as, what he has. This shows the size of the various airpod models. They are not "significantly larger" than a hearing aid, and in fact are nearly identical in size.

Like seriously that is an insanely ignorant example. Cheese also contains calcium so what excuse does chalk have for not being used as a sandwich topping?

Yes, your example is insanely ignorant. Cheese is a food. Chalk is not.

We bred them to be like that. It started out that they were just useful pest control and then we gradually selectively bred the ones that were the cutest and most affectionate.

And in charge of basically everything. What in the name of fuck did people expect? Cheap eggs?

People don't want the news. News consumption continues to drop. People always thought of news as a bit of a chore. Something you were supposed to keep up with but not anything you enjoyed. It got turned into 24/7 entertainment crap when Fox News took over but that's not news that's propaganda. And even that isn't very popular.

People in America are in the habit of blaming individuals for either systemic problems or what our Epstein class is doing. It's a bad habit and I wish we would stop but well, there's all that propaganda encouraging us to do it...

I wanted the high-end Qualcomm chip because it has a much better modem and I have lousy reception in my area. Switching to the high-end Qualcomm chip was night and day. People could actually hear me on calls and I stopped getting text messages 6 hours after they were sent. My bedroom is no longer a dead zone.

Samsung has an equivalent phone but they put a small battery in it either because they were being cheap or because they didn't like how much it made the thing weigh. Whatever the case the battery life is horrible on it. Maybe it's better if you're not sitting in a dead zone where the modem has to work harder but I am.

There is the red magic but at the time I bought my phone it was closer to $1,100. Not sure why but it's dropped down to 800. That's not great but with RAM prices it could be worse. But I did only have to pay $500 for the phone I have now because it was right before the AI apocalypse.

Right now if you want a high-end Qualcomm chipset you just don't have a lot of good options on Android besides that red magic.

I'm just seeing the world as is. If you actually stare the real world in its eyes with all the children being murdered by Elon Musk so that he could be a trillionaire and bombs dropped on children in Gaza so some stupid little nationalist asshole can live out some weird fantasy or watching kids in America starve because some people just get off on that or because it doesn't matter how hungry your kid as long as somebody else's kid is hungrier well if you actually face that reality you turn out like me.

I guess ignorance is bliss and all. So go ahead and enjoy yourself. But I think the reason you commented is you know how bad things are and you know how horrible and horrific they are and you're trying your best to act like things are normal. You're the dog surrounded by fire in the meme.

Maybe survivorship bias will work out for you like it always has. Good luck and try not to think too hard

Conventions are a lot of fun but not everybody can live in a major city with a major convention. It doesn't really do any good for you to fly out to LA for Comic-Con. You're going to meet a lot of cool people but then they're going to scatter to the four winds.

Facebook makes it possible to meet people in your area with your interests. So you can find a d&d group or a bunch of guys to go fishing with or something like that.

This is especially important in our modern dystopia. Increasingly game stores are shutting down because private equity owns all the property and game stores just aren't profitable enough for the amount of square footage they need. All those tables that you are playing at aren't merchandise you are buying. And a store wants to get you in and then back out again so they can get more customers in. You hanging around doesn't result in enough extra sales. Yeah you might pick up a mini or two or a expansion book but then you're going to hang around using up space for basically the whole day.

Also people have to move a lot. People have to upend themselves and move to other cities all the damn time now because Jobs go away and you have to live where the work is. So if you're new to an area Facebook lets you find the community you want to hang out with.

I'm really sad to see the complete lack of nuance in this supposedly science focused forum.

Facebook can be an evil company whose product has good uses.

Actual social media instead of Doom scrolling can exist.

Social media means connecting people with like-minded interests in a positive environment.

Most websites don't do social media. We don't really have a good term for what they do.

That is on purpose. It's the same reason right wing extremists brand themselves as conservative.

If you're going to do something horrifically evil you don't just set yourself up as Horrifically Evil LLC. You pay a marketing firm to confuse the public because the public does not like nuance.

This is a complete non-story because this is dead in the Senate. Really tired of the news media wasting my damn time with stories that are meaningless.

Brick and mortar stores want daylight savings Time changes because their Big Data models indicate people spend a little bit more money in their stores during daylight hours. So we're not going to be able to get rid of daylight savings time because every time it comes up they just splash a bunch of cash around.

This is most likely just a fundraising average by a bunch of people in the House of Representatives

You can probably find the article but years ago a father found out his teenage daughter was pregnant because Target started sending him coupons for baby stuff. The reason Target did that is because they figured out that if you bought certain things that were not related to a baby it meant that you were pregnant. It was relatively simple machine learning that made that possible.

Facebook isn't a nice company but no company is a nice company.

I don't want to necessarily defend them but Facebook does have legitimate uses. I'm a introverted nerd so I don't have a lot of use for it but I have a couple of friends you are what you would call an extroverted nerd.

I can't think of any existence more frustrating and depressing than being an extroverted nerd. You're someone who wants to be around people and you aren't comfortable if you're alone but you're kind of weird and off-putting. Not for any fault of your own it's just you know you have something wrong with you as far as people are concerned. Maybe you're ugly maybe you're short and fat maybe you're on the spectrum and have zero tact so you blurt out incredibly uncomfortable and inappropriate things pretty much non-stop.

For those kind of nerds they can find like-minded nerds on Facebook and congregate and hang out.

And for regular people they can find people into their hobby. One of my more normal buddies finds his fishing buddies that way.