pumpkinseedoil

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[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

China flooding the market with cheap EVs still makes the rich richer... Just different rich people in a different country.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 56 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looks interesting, but I think a website would be better suited for this (so people can spontaneously play it without having to download anything). Please consider making one :)

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In the text about Sodom and Gomorra the way I understand it God is punishing them for wanting to rape the angel or whoever it was who's sleeping there. Not for it being a gay act when men rape a man.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

It's hard since it could theoretically also be an actual user who used that website themself.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's not like antisemitism prevented people from supporting the NSDAP (in many cases the opposite). Sure, when they were elected they didn't know what to do with Jews yet, but antisemitism was one of the pillars of their philosophy (if the people are unhappy you have to take responsibility or simply point at someone and say "they are responsible, it's their fault") and antisemitism has existed since forever. (Of course there were not only Jews in concentration camps but they were initially made for them).

And sadly antisemitism still exists today in many areas of the world.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's fundamentally different from steel. We don't really have an alternative currently. You could use something like aluminium but that's not environmentally friendly either (in the initial production, for recycling it's great).

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Coal is required for steel, electricty-based heat would only work to lower carbon emissions (especially when recycling steel since you don't need coal there), but you couldn't prevent them.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I was born with bad eyes. People back then also were born with bad eyes but couldn't do anything about it.

Obviously you can also get bad eyes (shortsighted) when always only focusing on short distances but it's not the only way. Most people also become far sighted when they get older (the pressure inside your eye lowers and therefore your eye becomes shorter)

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

I completely understand that features come in their native language first but even such long-standing features like call screening aren't available in any other language than English yet (also didn't know it even worked outside the USA)

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago (9 children)

You might want to take a look at Aptera. If we're lucky they'll sell their first cars in 1-5 years

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Many of these extra features are only available in the USA, and quite a few features only work well in English.

Anyway, my previous phone (Galaxy S8) was perfectly smooth until the very end. Of course loading times for larger programs are shorter now on my Pixel 7 but in the end it barely makes a difference (I'm not playing any ressource-heavy games). Not sure what you're doing to get a modern Android to lag.

I agree that the extra apps aren't necessary, but it's good that there actually is some competition for Google and most of them can be uninstalled (or at least could be uninstalled on my S8). And they have some pretty good software, not everything is back (I really like their launcher and gallery). Bixby can also simply be disabled, and you can bind any action to the Bixby-button (Google assistant, opening an app, ...).

But where Pixels actually are better is when it comes to the camera (or rather camera software), their photos currently are the best ones (by phone cameras) on the market (yes, I'm including Apple here) (of course Apple and Samsung aren't far behind (at a much higher price), but it's incredibly impressive what the Pixel base and A models can do at a much lower price). Their photo editing AI (or rather their chip for it) also still is better than Samsung's.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de -2 points 8 months ago

Good quality but still overpriced. You pay for the brand name.

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