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As hyperbolic as this title sounds... This will basically make Google into even more of a monopolistic power than it has been. It's the zero-click web: you Google a question, you read the Google AI result, then you remain on Google.
For the average boomer with a computer, this is basically 50% of the internet. The other 50% is Facebook and maybe ESPN. The most popular computers run like molasses, chugging at every click. And any website that doesn't fit within this tightly walled garden has either been choked out of existence or is so laden with advertisements that it forces the average user to run back to the relatively comfortable walled garden.
(I'm summarizing that last paragraph - using what's left of my human Intelligence - from a section of a much better Ed Zitron article.)
It's an admirable benchmark at least. I was eying "pocket laptops" but I didn't see any with a screen under 8" that also supported a SIM added or PCIE slot to add my own, let alone hardware that wouldn't require tinkering to run Linux. Most were $400ish devices with questionable build quality and Windows 11 preinstalled.
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Replacing a smartphone with hardware that fills your smartphone needs is more expensive than I'd like.
- MNT Pocket Reform: €1,050.00, or $1,215.86
- 2013 Sony HX50, used: $220
Over $1400 and a lot of space for devices that, together, perform roughly the same functions as a new $800 smartphone.
How do phones manage to fit such decent cameras into their tiny chassis while still keeping the price down and also being a phone? I've seen explanations about how incredibly cutting-edge tech makes it into phone cameras, but it's hard to fathom how the surveillance inside of them subsidizes the camera costs.
(Regardless, I would love recommendations for a good all-around digital camera that can actually compete with a phone's camera app: low light conditions, macro, a little zoom, gps tagging, preferably fit in your pocket. Even if it's old)
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