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ARKit is what allows you to use augmented reality features in certain apps. It's niche, but it's rare not to be available.

I thought for the longest time that the fingerprint sensor is right when it complains that I should clean it. Have you ever tried to clean it by rubbing it? Causing it to lock down because it interpreted the input as a quick series of invalid fingerprints? Because that's what kept happening to me. After several times of this happening, the next time I just rebooted the device. After reboot, it unlocked on the first try, without me having to clean or dry anything.

When you just wanted to pay a bill, and suddenly you can't unlock your banking app because of this, it's quite annoying. Now you need the app password. Okay, let's pull it out of the password manager. Oh right, you can't unlock that either now. So let's enter the 100 characters master key again.

I'm truly happy for every other owner who never went through this 😄

The camera is not terrible, but the missing stabilization frequently leads to blurry images. In low light it's almost pointless to even try. I was used to better image quality from phones when FP4 was released. They could have done better for the price.

I'm actually glad to hear that you were able to exercise the ability to replace a part. I'm sure others have too. I should put that more into consideration next time I come the subject.

I appreciate you took the time to give a different perspective. So I wanted to provide a bit more context from my experience.

https://discord.com/terms#5 is pretty permissive

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Use, copy, store, distribute, and communicate your content in manners consistent with your use of the services. (For example, so we can store and display your content.)
Publish, publicly perform, or publicly display your content if you’ve chosen to make it visible to others. (For example, so we can display your messages if you post them in certain servers or recommend that content to others.)
Monitor, modify, translate, and reformat your content. (For example, so we can resize an image you post to fit on a mobile device.)
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The idea that the phone was made purely in manufacturing processes where you could have a good conscience is ridiculous. Like any similar greenwashing strategy, it relies on indirection and fragmentation. You have no way to validate their claims other than some badges they bought from eco licensing companies.

The warranty is worth nothing. At the launch of the phone it was already crystal clear that no security updates would be released for the SoC of the phone after 2 years. So you get 3 more years of cute Android UI on a phone that's potentially insecure. They knew this when they designed and marketed the phone!

I have not yet replaced my battery, but I remember thinking this would be a win. This phone is a piece of shit. Why would I ever want to prolong this suffering?

I get that, I really do, and I honestly believe you have exactly the right idea.

But on the other hand, you have to realize that not all of the money purely goes to enabling knowledge sharing with Wikimedia. This is not an election, it's a company, non-profit or for-profit doesn't really matter. There are still people paying off business expenses from your donations.

I fully understand the necessity of this, but you might just feel better if your $5 literally bought someone a meal or if it paid for a fraction of a business flight to promote Wikimedia.

I do give in small streams and I do large annual contributions. I'm entirely not opposed to sharing.

I prefer to keep the small donations to individuals who also prefer a reliable stream of goodwill. Larger organizations also prefer reliable streams, but they also receive millions in donations overall, usually with significant large donors.

If you look long enough, you'll find enough material to not want to contribute to Wikimedia. If your contribution was only a drop in the pool to begin with, maybe this is one of the expenses that is not for you to carry.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/support/where-your-money-goes/ might be a good starting point.

https://www.wikimedia.de/2022/en/finances/ has some clear numbers up front, but I'm not sure if these only relate to Germany. I haven't been following the sources recently.

I'm going to claim he was detected by automated money laundering prevention systems when he collected the cash. Spotify learned about it from the feds, or their payment processor.

Besides that, in the indictment it says clearly that he was using the thousands of generated titles and bot accounts specifically to work around new anti-fraud systems. This is a classic cat and mouse game.

Yes and no:

For example, on or about December 26, 2018, SMITH emailed two coconspirators that, “We need to get a TON of songs fast to make this work around the anti-fraud policies these guys are all using now.”

To obtain the necessary number of songs for his scheme to succeed, SMITH eventually turned to artificial intelligence. In or about 2018, SMITH began working with the Chief Executive Officer of an AI music company (“CC-3”) and a music promoter (“CC-4”) to create hundreds of thousands of songs using artificial intelligence that SMITH could then fraudulently stream. CC-3 soon began providing SMITH with thousands of songs each week that SMITH could upload to the Streaming Platforms and manipulate the streams for.

I wanted to read who the stockholders of this garbage actually are. It's a great rabbit hole. This one is pure gold https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_World_Acquisition_Corp.

It's just shady shit at every level. The people who bought the SPAC didn't even know the money would go towards Trump and pulled out more than half of the capital.

Then they propped that garbage stock up Musk-style and sold it to their fan base.

The dude who ran the SPAC als has amazing stories tied to his name https://eu.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/11/16/patrick-orlando-truth-social-you-light-up-my-life-connection/10698187002/

https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-deal-delivers-420-mln-windfall-wondering-dealmaker-2021-10-21/

He was already working on mergers in China, but couldn't close the deal because he didn't have the money. All sounds like typical escalating scams.

It's clear why Trump would run a con with this guy.

They increased to 25 to encourage media uploads to train their own models with. They now have collected enough metrics to realize, most valuable content is below 10MB. Now they are optimizing. They won't lose anything valuable to them and the users who are impacted might even buy Nitro now. Win-win for them

Given the response it sparked, it was a perfect question.

I can't speak for the reporter, but I expect a question like that to trigger a memory in a person. A memory of that great time last month, where you got together with some old friends, you had a couple of beers, had tons of fun watching some stupid thing, and you did that other thing where everyone just laughed and laughed. This memory is the foundation for the response.

Or, it sparks nothing, because this memory doesn't exist at all.

Professionals usually shouldn't be caught off guard by any question. A proper dishonest politician has to dissect every question as it is spelled out. Then you respond instantly with a filler, while you mentally pick the correct memorized response to lead into.

Either he has nobody to drink beer with, is unprepared, or secretly an alcoholic or non-alcoholic.

"JD Vance is what would happen if Boss Baby grew a beard,” quipped one person in 2021.

“Just shave JD Vance’s beard and he’ll lose all support,” commented a self-described center-right Republican account in April. “He literally looks like a reddit user.”

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/jd-vance-beard-vice-president-donald-trump/?amp

Didn't even know this was an actual hot topic...