Oh come on, the post is literally about liking slim-waisted, big-titted women, and you complain about someone implying being overweight is not attractive?

So, basically, yout requirements are 1. breathes 2. watches anime

To be fair, a lot of those depend on some client side trust. Which is conceptually stupid, but it is the way it is.

I will probably have to go the route of two phones soon. One for my stuff and communicating with friends and family, and one (maybe one of the cheaper iphones?) for all the “required” apps.

Funny enough, you tend to see quite some people in China do this. I wonder why.

This. Alternative OS exist: Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, SailfishOS, just to name a few.

What is missing are the apps people want. And those include mostly commercial apps, where the developers need to weigh dev hours vs profits, and decide to only target the big two for obvious reasons. That is the key problem.

He is certainly not the best pick, was considered very conservative 30 years ago, but I don’t think he is an open pro US lobbyist. From what you hear in the news, he seems to cooperate quite well with France and the like.

I understood that, and I disagree with that statement either.

A plastic card has no wifi, mobile radio, gps, cameras or microphone. The only data it can give away is “john smith paid here for porn and liquor at 4:20”. A phone has all of the above, and uses them to collect data about you, which is then used against you. Graphene, by not running all the vendor-specific, preinstalled garbage in the background, is a lot better in that regard than any smartphone you can buy at the store.

So, in my opinion, it is worth to give up the small convenience of tap-to-pay with a phone and use tap-to-pay with a card. Yes, cash would be even better, but better is the enemy of good. Paying with Monero in a dark alley while wearing a ski mask is even better than that, right?

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How can you spend time thinking about phones, when there are children starving to death in Africa! See, I am can do that too.

Besides, I do carry cash for everyday expenses, and I do prefer cash. I don’t know where you got that idea from.

But the question was to replace tap-to-pay. Sadly, tapping people with a fiver makes them irritated at best.

Risc-V is not going to be any better. Technically, the ISA of Arm is very well documented. Sure, it is created and licensed out by a single company. But that doesn’t matter when the device is either locked or has so many non-documented quirks and peripherals.

I have this little offline only single purpose device that handles tap to pay for me. It is actually waterproof, survives falls, is light enough to not be noticed, and hasn’t run out of battery in a few years.

Jokes aside, what is wrong with good old plastic cards? If you don’t want an extra wallet (which I need anyway to carry ids, drivers license, cash, emergency ear plugs, a handy sticker or two…), just get a phone case with card/cash slot thingies.

Same. Why should bootloader unlock stop OTAs? Sure, i dont doubt that some manufacturer somewhere does this, but I would not expect it to be the norm.

1. Not true. There are plenty of people who get of on “illicit”, “risky” sex or on the roleplay of it, while not involving/actually wanting kids.

2. Yes, it is a power and probably narcicism thing. But I think that especially on this case, paedophilia is defined as wanting to have sex with underage persons.

As long as that kink involves only consenting adults, it might be weird and gross, but not anyone’s business to judge.

Don’t get me wring, the guy is still an asshole, and there is the whole power difference/financial dependence thing, but honestly, wanting to have many children with adult women is the least of the problems we have with the guy.

Jokes aside, I think it is more that they want to attract the really good people. There already is a complete power imbalance in many science fields, and in applied fields, they will still have to compete with industry jobs.

As someone thinking of doing a PhD, I want those dirty foreigners and their ivy league diplomas out! They are stealing my jobs!

Emotionally, I want to agree with you, but lynching is almost always going to hit the wrong people, too. The well connected teacher/coach/advisor who likes to prey on girls is not going to be hit, but the black guy who happens to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time, and triggers all the “we must protect our women!1!” ?