myopenid2's comments

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”

You sure as hell better be satisfied when you're paying quarter of a grand for an earphone.

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”

Just grab a regular Bluetooth earphones then. Those $20 ones may seem to be too good to be true, but they work and sound great, and you can replace them on a whim if they do die.

Source: owns a cheapass Soundpeat.

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say

Here's a cynical view: a human is cheaper to "develop" and "program" than a fully automated production plant in most third world.

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok

This report lack a lot of technical information. What counts as "personal information"? What did they send exactly? Is sending app analytics count as personal information? Why don't you hold American software companies to the same level of rigor?

Case in point, almost all apps on my Android phone snoops on my "personal information"; Google literally knows where I am all the time; Facebook SDK snoops on the apps I use, and justify the collection of the data with "better personalization of services"; WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) vacuuming contacts off my phone; LinkedIn snoops on my clipboard etc.

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok

Feigning ignorance doesn't make facts disappear.

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review

That's a 3000$+ laptop at the time, makes me miss the portability of laptops.

But can you do anything productive on that thing now? How is the battery life?

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review

Realistically nobody still uses the original iPhone SE now.

You can run Windows 10 on a Centrino laptop from 2010 but you're not gonna have a good time.

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: Modern Android is pretty secure

I never got ads in any of the Samsung apps, I keep hearing this but never saw it in my lifetime using Samsung phones.

Also don't know what are people's problem with Touchwiz. It's a launcher, why are people so anal about a launcher? It does what it's supposed to do and stays out of the way.

I chose Samsung because of the value it brings in software, particularly Knox and support for app containers. Their hardware ecosystem is also quite fleshed out, although I haven't buy into it yet.

No other phone manufacturer comes close in terms of value.

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: WHO admits China never reported the existence of coronavirus outbreak

Source? (Preferably non western source)

myopenid2 | 5 years ago | on: Phrases that incorrectly trigger Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant

Ok boomer works on the GH too