Unfortunately WhatsApp managed to take hold of the Zeitgeist during the early 2010s when some European carriers were still charging for texts or charging lots for data.

The fact Meta was allowed to buy WhatsApp is a travesty. We’re supposed to just trust that Meta isn’t lying when it says it isn’t looking at the E2EE keys? Come on. We have literal governments using it as a communication tool.

They’re just trying to push Graphene/de-Googled OS. Every third comment on this Lemmy community does that.

Could be your NAND failing, more likely just needs a factory reset. But Pixel’s lack of a good backup system is frustrating. You’d likely need to set up all your apps again.

I dunno as a Brit it’s pretty exciting.

Isn’t that iPhone out of support?

In what way? Battery life?

I notice apps closing on my Pixel 7 with 8GB every now and again, but it’s totally not a big deal for me. I can imagine certain users who swap between Reddit, Instagram and some game want more RAM, but most users won’t care or notice.

Part of it is longevity too, right? With phones being supported for longer and longer you kinda want more of a headroom as apps and OS become more RAM-heavy.

This 12GB limit probably isn’t going to stop me from upgrading, but I certainly wont be paying MSRP.

Do yourself a favour and just pay to replace your 9’s battery. Would keep you going until the 13 or even 14. That’s how I’m still using a Pixel 7 today.

I mainly want to upgrade for the improvements to the display, and for integrated MagSafe.

I get that on the face of it it’s a bad deal, but I don’t think RAM capacity is the only factor in a phone’s performance.

Given Pixel’s longevity these days, I wouldn’t expect Pixel 10 or even Pixel 9 users to be jumping to the 11 anyway.

I appreciate that they’ve dropped the 128GB model, but paying more for less RAM highlights the sad state of tech right now 💀

I held onto my Pixel 3 until I got the Pixel 7, and always said I’d wait for the 11. The 12GB RAM is still an upgrade over my 7’s 8GB, at least.

Reminder: never buy Pixels at MSRP. There will be great trade-in deals and sales in November, then again in January.

I’m British and when that happened my take was basically, Palestine Action was a proscribed group and technically it’s against the law in the UK to support a proscribed group so I figured it was just a temporary issue where the law was being applied too broadly… But it’s been years, and it’s still an issue. I really hope Burnham addresses this when he becomes PM later this month.

To be fair it’ll also reset adapters/devices by disabling and reenabling them, which can help with basic issues.

You’re the one somehow bemused at the existence of an article about a part of history (of gaming), which again is a very common thing. Consider therapy.

To follow your bizarre example, we’d never have articles or interviews about 9/11 ever again. Let’s just not bother talking to people who were around back then.

Wow, more pointless comments.

Money. Capitalism.

Turns out, when you build a society and culture where you want more more more, and to get that you need money, it becomes very easy to control and turn people.

Same here, I remember being 15 and sharing the video around school on this amazing new website called Google Videos. I watched that demo multiple times and ate the hype big time, and then we know what happened next.

A few years later, EA ruined Battlefield and I’ve never bought a game from them since.

Holy shit dude, nobody’s forcing you to read it and comment all that drivel.

A website made a recap article about it, including interviews with developers. That’s an extremely common practice in journalism. This submission is a recap of that interview. Instead of losing your shit and typing all that out you could have read 4 lines of the article to learn that yourself.

This is Project Aluminium.

This is such an incredibly vague question. Ahead of its time in what way? Star Trek was ahead of its time by having interracial kisses. Lost was ahead of its time with big-budget action and large ensemble casts. And Netflix’s Dark was ahead, behind, and in-between of its time.

I can’t believe Lemmy doesn’t have a “Mute this post” option. I’ve gotten 300 notifications of Very Smart Lemmy Users posting their disdain for Reddit. You’re all the same person, I swear.