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PonyPanda
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@partridge@elves.forsale How is your pinephone experience @p ? My suspicion is that every YouTuber that reviews it (and the Librem) is getting paid to make it look bad.
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PonyPanda - https://freespeechextremist.com/users/PonyPanda partridge - https://elves.forsale/users/partridge @p - https://freespeechextremist.com/users/p Who would pay to make it look bad? Reality is though, while the concept is very nice, there's no getting around the fact it's specs are bottom tier
PonyPanda
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@wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw commercial competitors that don't people getting redpilled on FOSS.
@p @partridge@elves.forsale
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PonyPanda - https://freespeechextremist.com/users/PonyPanda @p - https://freespeechextremist.com/users/p partridge - https://elves.forsale/users/partridge While I love the concept of the Pinephone, letβs be real here. No one is turning to it from actual commercial products. The specs are just simply too low for anything but a project device or toy
PonyPanda
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@wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw speak for yourself. I don't want an overpowered phone so I can be a retard and watch high definition movies on a 6" device.
Modern phones are gay and you're beholden to their product cycle of needing more power for a more bloated OS. A potato spec phone with FOSS firmware is a game changer. I'm not saying the pinephone is it but you can see why commercial interests would want to steer people away from it.
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PonyPanda - https://freespeechextremist.com/users/PonyPanda @p - https://freespeechextremist.com/users/p partridge - https://elves.forsale/users/partridge Sure, and I am speaking only for myself. However, while I can see why some commercial interests might be less than thrilled about such a thing, let us not kid ourselves into thinking that those who are willing to accept a potato CPU, RAM, camera (this probably being the most important for Average Person), and OS incompatible with βanything they wantβ, is anything but a insanely tiny niche market. Again, I personally like the concept. I also know that trying to sell anyone on it is a losing battle the instant they ask how its camera compares toβ¦ name a phone. Or if they can run WhatsApp on it. Or.. name an app that isnβt a native Linux thing.Which is fine. Itβs a project device and shouldnβt be judged by the merits of a commercial phone. Of course, there is that niche market which I presume you belong to who donβt care about it being as capable as a Pixel 4 and for which a FOSS OS is more important. Nothing wrong with that at all. Hell, I just wish they offered it with specs that were decent is all
PonyPanda
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@wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw it's not about that. Your average normie doesn't need that much shit. They're happy to check Facebook and play Candy Crush Saga or whatever the fuck it is. And if they can do that for something that isn't $1000 RRP they will. It sucks because Korean phones were meant to be the cheap alternative to Apple until they went Gucci. Then Chinese phones were the cheap alternative until THEY went Gucci.
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ferrarilegends πΈπ©
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@PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw [email protected] @partridge@elves.forsale so, what's gonna be the new cheap alternative now? indian phones?
PonyPanda
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@ferrarilegends@poa.st that might be a thing. I remember when India were upset with China over that border skirmish and hearing many Indians commenting on how cringey the boycott of China was because Indians all buy cheap Chinese phones to run Custom ROMs to make TikTok videos all day.
Maybe India would get into the phone game especially because the west want to sanction China. Big tech manufacturing contracts would move from China to India.
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Chinese "to the last mugicha" man.
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@PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com @ferrarilegends@poa.st [email protected] @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw
irl works with south asian partners. pre covid will average one flight a month.
they arent there yet.
PonyPanda
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS@poa.st yeah. With all due respect to the desi bros, I think India has too much going against it rn to be any sort of competitor to China.
@ferrarilegends@poa.st @p @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw

Chinese "to the last mugicha" man.
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@PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com @ferrarilegends@poa.st [email protected] @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw
Look up tsmc. This whole decoupling thing fucked everyone.

Chinese "to the last mugicha" man.
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@PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com @ferrarilegends@poa.st [email protected] @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw
Dec 2020. Winston(taiwan) plant that assembles iphones. getting chimped the fuck out because of late payment of issues for salaries.
MischievousTomato
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS@poa.st @PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com @ferrarilegends@poa.st [email protected] @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw funnily enough people blamed apple for this when it was the managers of the plant that were to blame. Indians jewed other indians lmao
MischievousTomato
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@ferrarilegends@poa.st @PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com [email protected] @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw "sir, please do the needful to unlock phone"

Chinese "to the last mugicha" man.
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@MischievousTomato@poa.st @PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com @ferrarilegends@poa.st [email protected] @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw
Its not managers alone. in that part of the jungle, plants cant handle the manpower by themselves. they sign contracts with recruiting firms that will go to butt fuck nowhere to get their workers. They sign these sops on but lie about their salary, medical leave and stuff. Basically most if not all of the workers will be out of state and living in doms.
to secure these contracts, every guy will offer their own private kick back to the managers, they take it off the top of the worker's agent fee to get in. Yes in some places, the workers pay to get work(supply economy lmao).
when they figure it out, they are in debt for the agent fee and need the job anyway so they cant really make a fuss.
in this case, the plant because of covid is pretty cash starved and withheld the pay for a little too long. Plus they were underpaying what the buggers thought they signed up for.
PonyPanda
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS@poa.st Jesus Christ. Fuck that.
@MischievousTomato@poa.st @ferrarilegends@poa.st @p @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw

ferrarilegends πΈπ©
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS@poa.st @MischievousTomato@poa.st @PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com [email protected] @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw this was a shitshow waiting to happen, and hiring indians only made this worse
MischievousTomato
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@ferrarilegends@poa.st @IAMAL_PHARIUS@poa.st @PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com [email protected] @partridge@elves.forsale @wolfie@pleroma.wolfie.pw this only teaches us that the needful **MUST** be done when dealing with indians