Let’s not get it twisted, any Chinese company is tightly controlled by the government.

When you need to read a Wikipedia table but it’s way too big for the phone screen without scrolling sideways or zooming so far you can’t read it

Because the front screen on my pixel fold is actually smaller

Yet the performance basically peaked already. They are doing 15% increases at the top end and less for the cheapest phones.

(2023)

Oh, so there are authors that never read a story before and just made it up in their heads?

There is no real difference between AI and humans in respect to borrowing elements from other stories.

AI stories may be lacking in some respects, but you can’t tell me human stories don’t recycle the same tropes

Human stories are also plagiarized

Yes, which fairphone actually accomplished

https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds

Because you don’t use them enough to discharge them completely

It’s better if you can just use the same equipment forever by replacing the battery.

That won’t work in this case since the company is out of business

Stock buybacks are just more tax-efficient dividends. Both return value to the shareholders, but buybacks only realize the gains for the shareholders that want to sell some stock.

If they were illegal companies would issue more dividends

It’s free because you’re the product

No, not until you embrace open source software. It was always going to be enshittified. Just a matter of time

[Buy Turbo to unlock on all servers]

Because I don’t care to set up a bot that monitors what is being said while I’m offline. Matrix is actually better, though

Oh, it can get a lot worse

It’s actually better than Google’s search results which are SEO spam

Yeah, it’s fine as long as you don’t block legitimate users. For example, when I use a VPN a lot of sites block me. Even when my actual IP is banned when I’m in China (4chan range bans Chinese IPs) or the website is blocked in China.

Ever heard of counting attempts? Log the IP, present a CAPTCHA after 100 requests in a minute.

Besides, if I wrote a bot I would run a browser dialer from Chrome. It would request your site in a Chrome tab and appear completely legitimate to your stupid fingerprinting scripts