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It's mostly an iteration on existing handhelds with extra Microsoft changes on top. It's exciting if you don't want to leave the comfort of Windows. Unfortunately, it's just as much of a nightmare for privacy and other ethical reasons as other Windows handhelds. It also seems like it's going to be power hungry and not aimed at directly competing with the Steam Deck, which is still the industry standard right now. Handhelds need more efficiency, not more performance.

Also it's Z2 Extreme, not Zen 2 Extreme. The Steam Deck's APU is based on Zen 2, the Z2 is based on Zen 5.

Repeating misogyny is still harmful even if it isn't your own thoughts that are misogynistic

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Any way to confirm this is legit?

If you're a bit forgiving with the definition of "Robin Hood", large open source projects that are sponsored by big corporations.

The money they get from companies is given to (usually underpaid) contributors and to keep the project going, to the benefit of everyone.

You say you're open source but don't link to the open source code. Nothing more

Their source code: https://github.com/silexlabs

there's a lot of mention about being FOSS but they never actually prove it, which is funny to me

Thanks for letting us know to delete Telegram!

Is Revolt federated? I thought it was only FOSS

If you're going to misinterpret the scope of "whatever they want" at least be creative about it. I think they meant they wanted to be able to install tractors on their iPhone. Bonus points if it made cool transformer noises.

Clearly they actually meant any iPhone program/app.

That's quite compelling but I still can't find any official confirmation of that information. The BashSquare website doesn't mention any employees but does mention the app (and their website is on the G Play store). IMO the information you've provided is enough to confirm it uses some of the public boycott list, but could still be omitting things (though very unlikely; that would be a wild Israeli misinformation campaign).

The boycott website doesn't provide barcode prefixes for companies to boycott, which means there is still some information that isn't verifiable, and it's one of the more crucial parts of the app's functionality (if you're not scanning barcodes you could just use the website). I did manage to find a way to look up barcode prefixes but there was no mention of a public API so it makes me think that either they're part of the app (see qualms about open/verifiable dataset) or the app is using some proprietary API/scraper to get that info.

Thanks for the info!

Unfortunately that has no bearing on whether the tracking is active

I'd be inclined to agree if it wasn't broken down into more detail than what I actually shared. The app includes ads and one of the trackers is Google AdMob, so that's definitely not anonymous tracking. It's also impossible* to be sure whether the other two trackers, Google Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics, are anonymous.

*without reading the source code, at least

Edit to add the report that Aurora Store used