ISP provided equipment is also made outside of the US. This affects way more than just telecom stuff

That’s actually super neat. They really buried the lead with that article headline.

I’m personally not pissed but I’m not sure if they’re missing something or not. Or just old fashioned ragebaiting. If it’s ragebaiting, they got me.

Which already has been redesigned by people who know what they’re doing. This is just someone making a minimalist phone.

I’m not sure if I’m missing something or not.

I was referring to the Arduino phone. In general you’re not wrong.

The scope of the conversation is just the phone itself.

Hardware was designed first, and then they applied software.

Edit: when I meant necessity for the cut down software. I meant it as in “the Arduino is barely fast enough to run the software, any extraneous thing needs to go”

Which already exists and has existed for ages.

Lineage os (Android), e/os (Android), postmarket os (straight up Linux) would all be excellent answers for cutdown/debloatable mobile phone OSes. (also Ubuntu touch and whatever the pinephone shipped with)

Its probably a lot harder making an unintrusive os than it is making this.

This is cutdown hardware leading to simplified and cutdown software as it’s a necessity here.

I wouldn’t consider it reinventing the wheel. Giant algae tanks to replace trees is reinventing the wheel. They’re just making a phone out of parts that would have originally been in a cheap phone at one point (before they got turned into development boards).

If I wanted to be super uncharitable, what the maker did was akin to this.

https://youtu.be/d59J78yhwtg

I think they’re having more fun making it than looking for a perfect solution. The fastest way to accomplish this is just buying some flipphone from Kyocera or something.

Also it’s a prototype. It wouldn’t survive in the real world in it’s current state.

You need to be able to relock the bootloader after flashing firmware. Pixels can do it and that’s it.

It’s specifically the ability to relock the bootloader with custom software. Pixels are the only phones that can do it.

they’ve been quite good on the pricing front?

The Zune is perfect.

I’m just happy they give the option to turn off the ai overview as a setting.

I’ll try it again. They’re not mine so I didn’t get too much time with them. But the mids are indeed lacking.

https://www.soundguys.com/monoprice-bt-600anc-review-52955/ Monoprice BT-600ANC review

That’s my current pair if you want to see a frequency response chart.

Hikvision is app only which is really annoying. I wouldn’t recommend it. (it also crashes my emulator for some reason)

That’s how I eqed the set I borrowed. I had no eq in Deezer and it was a downloaded flac. It still wasn’t great but better than stock.

Maybe. My current set is a tired pair of Monoprice BT600ANC. I found that the high end of the xm4 lacking compared to the bt600anc. Noise canceling was about the same level as the 600anc.

Idk if I used a really bad set of wh1000xm4s but they sucked. Too bassy and muddy. Like more than they should have. I hope their studio headphones are much better in that regard.

I really need to get a new display replacement for my old vaio f series laptop. The screen layers are doing the funny vinegar thing. That and some sort of ssd. Maybe a USB Dom or some msata thing with a converter board.

Quite a few phones have desktop modes now, and they work alright. I wish my phone had it. My iphone 16 supports USB dp alt mode but only a direct mirror.