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Have you seen the dashboard on a Tesla? It’s a big tablet and that’s it. Many of the basic controls you might need easy access to are hidden behind touchscreen menus. They need to pump it with features to prevent people from thinking too much about it

Just to add context because this is a somewhat polarising headline, gamergate shit is back on the rise. Gamers generally aren’t being considered potential extremists, only literal extremists that happen to consider their opinions as representative of gamers

I’m not sure about pixel 8/8a, but I’m typing this on a pixel 7 and it sure ain’t got no headphone jack, Jack. If that was my prerogative I’d be using a budget Xiaomi device

The only reason we have $2k flagships is because they have more premium features which people with lots of disposable income would want to buy. But where are these features now? Provided you aren’t shoving extra displays in your device for kicks, everything is ubiquitous (or you’re just paying extra for a SaaS unlock). If Tensor G3 sucks like G2 sucks, that impacts all Pixel 8’s, not just the A.

There’s no more space in the market for an A model and a flagship model. In terms of being the appropriate option for the average person looking for a new phone (i.e what a flagship actually is in principle), the A model is the flagship now.

That’s why the price is increasing - it’s too popular, they’ve realised price is once again the driving factor behind most purchase decisions and are now acting to try and preserve the status quo of people buying needlessly expensive handsets for no reason.

You might be right. I think I moved after reading this post from the lemmy.world team. Specifically the part:

As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.

The fediverse being in a state of fairly continuous growth, ‘as it gets big’ can refer to any arbitrary point in time over the past couple of years or moving forward. The statement is essentially, we will arbitrate the content on the instance for reasons. That’s fine, but not something I personally want out of my instance, so I left. sh.itjust.works was the other instance I considered moving to at the time, and I’d be against the team there defederating politicised instances in the same way. If I were a user there, I’d leave.

It wouldn’t really affect me anyway in this case, I got permabanned from lemmygrad.ml (which seems to share banlists with hexbear) for reason “liberal” after pointing out suggestions Trudeau literally voiced support for nazis were being deliberately facetious.

I moved from .world because they defederated dbzer0. They’ve since refederated though.

Like how servers started defederating dbzer0 for having piracy communities? Sounds great for the fediverse. What’s stopping you from just blocking the instances?

You can rent a server with 32 slots and keep your progression playing with buddies. Better than the joining players having to restart their progression to play in co-op

Eh, I only meant hyperbole in terms of antipiracy affecting the pirates that had to figure out how to crack it. As a broad gesture at the fact piracy (consumption) depends on piracy (effort) to work

Wait, but they already launched it without Denuvo. So pirates can easily crack the launch version without it, and only paying customers need to deal with the antipiracy bullshit? Nice, they took a pro-piracy hyperbole and made it actually real.