I honestly don’t know why smartphones got so powerful and expensive, and everyone just rolled with it. No one iPhone user needs the hardware that the latest iPhone provides, and I’m sure as hell Apple doesn’t even let you push that hardware to its limits. The average Joe just uses an instant messenger app and maybe a few social media apps, and that’s it. Who in the world actually needs hardware so powerful and compact that it is on the verge of experiencing quantum tunneling?

Nope, sadly not.

The Chinese version is now not unlockable at all AFAIK, and the global version became this way after HyperOS came out.

They’re sadly not available in my country.

I bought a Redmi phone myself because I had heard that it’s really easy to unlock its bootloader.

It isn’t.

You have to install their shitty community app, wait for a month, then try your luck applying to unlock your bootloader everyday at exactly 0:00CST because they only take around 2000 applications per day and it resets at that exact time. If you’re late one second it tells you that the application quota limit has already been reached. But in my experience, even when I do it at exactly 0:00, I get a random unrelated error thrown at me and if I try again after that I get rate limited for that day. Fuck Xiaomi. I’m probably going to just sell this and get a dumb phone because it just isn’t worth it.

I know both terms, I just don’t understand the meme.

I don’t understand 😥

Sorry, I had just woken up so I missed it 😓. I would suggest asking this in your distro’s forum if you still have Linux installed on that laptop.

What GPU does your laptop have?

What phone model is it? You can probably unlock the bootloader and install a de-googled rom, or get root access and de-google it yourself.

Mullvad VPN?

But I don’t think any frontend allows you to disable those shitty machine translated titles. Like what the fuck is this?:

I’ve had a much better experience with OnlyOffice compared to LibreOffice in terms of MS compatibility, and it’s a Flatpak so it should have no issues running under Bazzite.

If only it was as innocent as “on and off days”. Those statements can be found in this video’s first minute. And I hope you’re saying “Big Science” satirically as science is not a conglomerate, nor does the worldwide scientific community have any ties to a specific corporate entity/state/nation. And she doesn’t “suggest” that “scientific research hasn’t delivered as much as it once did”, she clearly states that in all fields of science, most of the research paid for by your taxes “is almost certainly bullshit”, and that one should not trust scientists. Then after she gets called out for this, she just acts like she was actually only talking about the fundamentals of physics, not every field.

And her defending Eric Weinstein — a man literally directly funded by the Peter Thiel behind the Dark Enlightenment movement — for his pseudoscientific “theory” of everything with obvious fake outrage, saying that “If you take away one thing from this video, let it be that Sabine said Eric’s a good and fairly normal person”, implying that a theory of everything is something that everyone in her circle has, saying that she hasn’t looked into the theory (which is a lie, this gets exposed in the video linked on the original post) and that she “is not interested in unification ideas”. Unification in physics by the way is the thing that has been wildly succesful twice and that has allowed her to post her shitty propaganda online. And this is only the first one and a half minutes of that video of hers. As such, I would recommend being skeptical of her opinions on the fundamentals of physics too.

Edit: My apologies if this reply sounds rude or condescending, that was not my intention. It’s just a side effect of having to describe people such as Sabine.

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t make unhinged statements like “I don’t trust scientists” and “Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit” though, at least as far as I know.

Wow

I have binged on nuts as well, but some nuts are also very calorie-dense and can cause weight gain too.

She doesn’t just talk about String Theory, she acts like an authoritative figure on everything. And I could hardly say that Professor Dave is a grifter.

She used to be a pretty popular popsci content creator and still continues to be one to this day, though the reason for her popularity now is that she has started feeding conspiratorial narratives.

It worked. Thanks!