Have phones gotten any new exciting features in a while?
I remember enjoying upgrading my phone in the aughts and early tens, but it seems like most devices have plateaued and they're all pretty much the same now.
The exception being foldables, but I'm not really sure that's something I want or would use fully.
A whole new kind of low quality, unimaginative, worthless crap is headed our way. Hurrah!
Man, fuck Duolingo. The users came up with these jokes about the product because while it's useful, it's also annoying as hell, and they turned that into a marketing campaign.
Lazy ass mother fuckers oughta pay the users for writing their marketing plans
Bit dramatic but hey fair enough!
I dunno I think that's a tad conspiratorial... lemmy is a pretty small audience upon which to launch state sponsored disinformation campaigns. It's a far simpler explanation that it's just some dork annoyed at bot comments, which makes sense tbh, it's just easy to solve by blocking the bot.
I get it's annoying to see a comment on almost every news article shared that contributes nothing to a conversation, but you can also just block the bot and be done with it.
I'm not sure why it's enough of a bug bear to take even the short amount of time it took to make this image and post it.
I want a Chinese phone so badly, but I live in the USA so I think I'm SOL.
My Note 20 5g Ultra is starting to break down in certain places and the economy isn't what it used to be, so I'm not eager to spend another thousand plus dollars on a phone. There's plenty of great looking Chinese phones that go for like £200 in the UK that I'd love to consider, but it's just not an option here and the comparable Samsung device is a grand or more over that.
It's your own thoughts dingus
Oh hell yes! So looking forward to playing this.
Streaming is just cable
I think the Dark Souls games have kinda earned an undue reputation for being unapproachably hard. They're really not all that tricky once you learn that death isn't a huge loss condition, just a step in the journey. I initially found them frustrating, but once I learned to not be bothered by dying and simply try again, I found an immense joy in exploring the worlds and challenges within.
Some bosses I beat first try, others will take me an afternoon or a few days to beat, but I have fun with it either way. Different strokes for different folks and all that, but I think Dark Souls and it's like are good lessons on how to get over feeling bad about "losing" and just enjoy the game.
Plus, you can always explore areas to gather up whatever you need to level up and slowly get marginally stronger as you become more familiar with your character and tweak it to your liking.
I've got a flagship Samsung device from 2020. The screen has cracked in an unimportant way on the front and over one of the camera housings on the back, but I can't even tell which camera is affected by it, so I guess I didn't need that one anyway.
Hate the camera bumps. Sucks that those became standard.
I was looking into getting a new phone but it just seems like a waste of money.
The Huawei devices look good and for a fair price, but I can't even get them in the USA. So... I guess I keep this?
The foldable looks kinda useful for reading and in use with a stylus, but they're so much money... and I bet that thing gets dust in it and scratches easily.