What do you mean by not seeing this particular one?

I lean towards agreeing that this is a massive bubble, it's just these things are complicated and I don't support making quick judgements in such situations.

Or were you talking about something completely different? Sorry, I am a little bit confused.

The thing is bubbles are extremely difficult to define/contextualize before they pop.

hahahaa

It would be funny if Arora and other oligarchs eventually find out that they may be building out their own Darwinian moment. Arora and others like him would really benefit from reading a little bit of history.

While it might be click/rage bait, my personal inflection point in performance impact is whether the difference is in single or double digit percentage points.

I am not an AI/ML sсeptic, but this scheme really does make it look like the current setup is de facto a collusion driven bubble for scamming.

Era of $200 dGPUs is over and it's not even purely due to ML tech impacting component costs. Inflation and overall cost of packaging mean that it's not viable to have $200 dGPU (outside of the absolute low end that's barely comparable to mediocre iGPU performance).

One could argue that with chickens it's genuinely more difficult to manage such a seasonal issue.

It's a whole different thing with memory where it's clear there is de facto collusion to raise prices (and they've even been caught doing it before).

This is for commercial use cases.

The usage itself feels alot more snappy compared to the PPP, general UI work is comparable to a normal android i would say, and no longer each action has a delay.

What UI system do you use (as I understand there are KDE and Gnome mobile launchers and others?). How do they compare to the Android launchers/platforms (perhaps you've tried Samsung OneUI)?

I am thinking of getting a Jolla phone in the coming months. While leaving US mobile platforms doesn't seem viable in the immediate future, I thought I might as well start preparing for the move.

Any issues related to battery / heat are extremely challenging to deal with in a smartphone. You can workaround certain things not working, platform derived battery issues are the kiss of death.

Cheers!

Phones cheaper than USD$400 tend to have 6-8year old chipsets

What area of the world are you from? Just curious where there is such a state of affairs.

This is definitely not true for Asia and Europe. It been a while since I was living in North America, but this didn't seem true back then. Although I lived in a city and didn't buy through carriers and never dealt with carrier blocking independently bought phones.

Perhaps North American carrier requirements have changed since then.

I recognise that Pinterest is a pretty big player in social media and seems to have relatively broad reach (first heard about it in my country maybe in 2011?).

It just seems Pinterest (as a product) is really subpar compared to say Insta, TikTok or even Twitter. I am not talking about their commitment against the interests of the user/public (they all suck on that front), it's the UI/UX and subpar features.

One big one is slow loading and display of images. It's always slow and they didn't even try to design it in a way that would perhaps move attention away from this.

Their image categorization algorithm and source/context provision is a joke.

While I hate Google Lens with a passion, it does seem to have the most powerful source identification feature and it can come up rare variants/sources that are not available though other such systems.

My focus is on research though, not commercial activity so my use case is probably not important to Pinterest.