I dont need a laptop right now but damn this thing is sexy. Its been a long time since hardware gave me that “do want” itch even though i dont need it. Ryzen would have been great but even with an Intel SOC this thing is a compelling package.

show me that magic llm which doenst infringe the copyright of nearly everybody, which doesnt have an unprecedentet impact on the enviroment to train and run, which wont be used to cut of people from their income, which isnt owned by technocratic billionaire assholes, which isnt peddled and promoted by fascist goverments, which doesnt halluzinate, which isnt a blackbox, which actually works and doesnt fail at the simplest tasks sometimes, which doesnt infringe my privacy(allegedly tbf, but you know). the list goes on.

sure, sure technology itself isnt evil. but thats not a hill i want to die on in case of llms. they’re problematic on so many levels. full stop. i dont think its a naive take to have some skepticism against this clusterfuck. potentially some technologies could make the world a better place. but llms dont fit into this category.

yeah, usb 2.0 is still super common and for a lot of people this probably isnt even an issue tbf. but for me it is. i actually connect my phones via usb to other devices quite often. i wont buy an usb 2.0 phone ever again. my last two phones had usb 3.0 and gsmarenas phonefinder lists 433 other devices: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nUSBType=2

Why not both?

800€ flagship phone with fucking USB 2.0 in 2025. lmao

I was upset at my Huawei P9 only having USB 2.0 and that was 9 years ago.

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Sweet, this was one of the pain points with my pixel. Just felt so much more clunky than it needed to be.

I ran geekbench on my pixel 7 with both the stable and beta branch of grapheneos. No difference between the branches. Didnt see any performance numbers like in the article. It scored higher than run to run variance compared to the average geekbench presents though.

and thats why i finally gave up two years ago and bought a pixel and installed grapheneOS. also i just dont use shitty apps anymore. its a good life

The stagnant ram/storage situation weirds me out. Dont get me wrong 6/8GB ram and 128GB rom served, serves and will serve me well. But damn i bought a phone in 2019 for 300€ with the same specs and 6 years later i’m expected to pay almost double the price for the same. Doesnt make any sense to me from a consumer perspective. Yeah the SOC is faster, the cameras a bit better and the screen gets brighter. But there is no reason for me to upgrade unless support ends for my current phone or it just breaks.

The only compelling feature i see in the forseeable future is the whole desktopmode and virtualization thing. If done competently i would pay for that since i dabbled with the idea a lot in the last few years. It just was shit from the software stack standpoint. But then give me 12-16gb of ram and atleast 512gb of storage for lets say 600€ or less.

Oh yeah, this article was about gemini ai. Well i dont give a shit.

i dont get it. that kind of hardware could have been had for the same money 4 years ago. the only upgrade is the max brightness compared to back then. like yeah, i’m also surprised what you get for 200$ because there hasnt been a meaningful price/performance uplift in years.