My dad has it and its very good… especially xiaomis software is surprisingly good smooth and fast, i much prefer it to samsungs one UI, u do need to do some tinkering. Tho by disabling ads or as they call it “recommendations” and learning to ignore their cleaners and getapps appstore

Btw might be a naive question but i never realized why cant they just use plastic around the hinge and use glass everywhere else

Raw chip performance? Yeah… but I am kinda talking more about the actual useful features tbh, for eg the camera sensor technology has all but remained the same since iphone 14, (for all brands not just apple) nd neither have they improved the image processing pipeline, the straight out of camera images are still absolutely shit. Thanks for the proRAW tho, i have used my frnds newer iphones and they are the same with that weird pastel hdr-y look, all they r offering is just random AI improvements no one needed

Same with stuff like battery life, now i am not saying its not getting better, but it has definitely not been a focus, oneplus recently came with the silicon carbide tech but the major brands and rlly slow to adapt to that, u can see xiaomi and vivo phones still absolutely in these two areas so its definitely not tech plateauing (1inch sensors, bigger batteries), more accurately there is a weird preference order of AI and unnecessary visual changes

I am not sure what u mean by “care” but as someone who grew up isolated music has always been my best friend… or to be more accurate the best coping mechanism haha, you can coast through your moods and twists and turns of your life much better when you have a song to match your innerstate, idk but its like a way to validate ur internal emotions (which can get intense) in a safe way, nothing better than screaming “so give me reasonnn, to prove me wrong” after feeling betrayed🫣

Its about the same as i remember it being like 2.5 yrs ago tbh, which is actually a good thing… it still feels very community like unlike reddit in which the amount of activity is just so insane that you cant really participate on major subreddits, and the amount of bots are just insane….

I think what happened with lemmy is that during the whole reddit API saga a lot of people were furious and hurried to any platform they found good, and specifically in lemmy… it started getting popular with a particular type of demographic which u see popular today, however there was also some courtesy and acceptance that was lost, there was a lot of “holier than thou” attitude going around which is actually a big part of the reason why i nuked my old and quite active account here (which i regret tbh coz i did have some very good discussions), but i think that ended up alienating a lot of people that might have chosen lemmy over alternatives during that time

As of now it seems pretty fine tho, the voices do seem a bit more varied or atleast nuanced, but people just no longer are rushing to quit reddit now, and the base seems stable, the upvotes comments i see now r the same i used to see 1.5 years ago…

The map of your face?🤔

Its been a few months since i read anything lmao but i read the map of salt and stars and the beauty of your face last, tried to read the other zeyn joukhadars book abt being arab and a queer but it was just too much for me😅 i am not smart enough to read that lol

I would have to disagree, i dont really like every opinion here, it can get rather extreme, but there is a difference according to me over suggesting extreme action towards oligarchs, institutions which have hurt people etc etc (which is what i mostly see on lemmy) vs cheering on the death of innocent people just because they r of a different kind, although i should clarify here these extremist views are not that present is smthng like r/all but rather seems region dependent

You are right that the european/US side of reddit is uhmm decently left leaning (apart from the strange fetish for israel, not sure how many of them are bots), but the indian side (the one which was the most prevalent in my feed) was absolutely horrifying; i perhaps should have made the distinction clear hehe in my original post

Well i remember when i first made my first ever lemmy account like 3 yrs ago and that process of figuring out all the instances and federation thingy prolly filtered most binary thinkers out i suppose haha😅

Fair.

Actually i also left lemmy partly because it can get pretty black and white too, but honestly its much better than any other form of such platform rn tbh

Btw idk if u r confusing south asia with southeast asia but trust me when I say its not pleasant here lmao

I was too young when 4chan was arnd lol, afaik /b/ was some unmoderated canvas or smthng right?

I recently read an article though i forgot which outlet, which was about how israel funded sm crazy amt of money to manage its image on social media, seems pretty plausible considering how monotonous and repetitive pro israel comments are…

I mean if you push me yes i can get how people might feel “polarized” by the ideas of “accepting” feminism, lgbtq, or other groups, but advocating to kill and destroy then, maybe its just me, but directly opposes human conscience, I am not exactly sure how can you cheer genocide when you actively see people suffering who are trapped in such situations

Hmm, yeah ig it maybe a fair possibility that most are just agnostic, and get influenced by opinions that are propagated by a ridiculous amount of funding

I would appreciate if u can clarify what u mean, but as far as my own understanding goes reddit and X themselves dont seem to actively remove posts/comments that dont adhere to a particular worldview/ideology, if i am not mistaken? Reddit relies on mods and i dont have much knowledge about X.