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Chris Sayers reveals why he left Blizzard; fake promotions, lies, and gaslighting in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Coincidentally Ive gotten back in to Star Craft 2. Still a banger of a game! I hope that the franchise survives.

Advice: What 2022-2024 phones should be on my radar? in c/android@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Haha! I think I've convinced her that the colour doesn't matter as much as she thinks.

Advice: What 2022-2024 phones should be on my radar? in c/android@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah. I imagine the Global's are less of a hassle. The Chinese ROM was horrific. Got most of it to work eventually but could never get the assistant to work at all pretty much. MIUI in general I found to be a bit of a hack experience.

Advice: What 2022-2024 phones should be on my radar? in c/android@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Good shout. Yeah I'm struggling to comprehend that people pay top tier laptop / second hand car prices for a phone. The 8 pro is basically perfect otherwise. 7 or maybe 8 vanilla could be the way to go.

Advice: What 2022-2024 phones should be on my radar? in c/android@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks. Added to my research pile!

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Advice: What 2022-2024 phones should be on my radar? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by PotjiePig@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

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High Midrange or old Top Range. £450 - £850 ish.

I went from a LG G3 to OnePlus 3T to a Xiaomi K30 Ultra (variant of a Poco F2 Pro, Chinese ROM). My partner went from and old iPhone to the same. Loved the phone and the pop up camera, but the Chinese ROM, and in many aspects, Xiaomi bloatware drove us batty. Awful user experience. Is their Global ROM also rubbish?

Now it's time for a new phone, I liked Xiaomi bang for buck but I'm wary of its software experience on their global devices (does Google assistant work out the box? Does clicking on a link in a browser route you to their horrible GetApps store? Does G maps locations work? Do they lock out custom launchers? Do notifications and syncing get pushed correctly or does the battery Optimizer aggressively shut all things down in the background?)

Our priority list as follows:

AMOLED 6.5 - 6.7 inch
Great camera, ideally with a telephoto
Waterproof
Not too plasticy a build
A smooth android experience with minimal bloatware
Not flagship prices but mid tier, to mid upper tier.
She wants a pretty colour like purple

So my question is, what phones should be on my radar?

Current list:

Pixel 7 / pro (8 I think is too pricey, but that phone is my personal benchmark)

OPPO Reno 10+ (also a bit steep but she wants the purple)

OnePlus 12 (how's the camera? I loved my 3T but have heard they aren't as good as they used to be)

S22+ or S22 Ultra refurbed (cons a year old but has purple an IP68 is it a better pick than the OPPO?)

Xiaomi 12T or similar, suggestions?

Realme GT5 pro looks sick, but I have Chinese ROM ptsd

Thanks for advice. My phone knowledge is a bit rusty and their must be a bunch out there that I would never think to look at.

Chris Sayers reveals why he left Blizzard; fake promotions, lies, and gaslighting in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 74 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Holy shit what a bunch of blistering thunder cunts. I hope Microsoft guts them.

xkcd #2866: Snow in c/xkcd@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Invert this graph for Londoners.

An unusual scene in c/risa@startrek.website

Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’ in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Strike 1: upload an AI racist post changing a person's ethnicity

Strike 2: not even paying her for her work, and taking her only 'income' away which is exposure. (Silly of people that work for exposure but that's another topic.

Strike 3: apologize in the form of a thinly veiled threat of legal action

Strike 4: feign ignorance, by saying you did it because you were overwhelmingly popular on social media, and weren't paying attention and had no idea you didn't pay your models. (Don't lie, you absolutely knew). Pass the blame further by blaming the fans, because apparently someone else had a vested interest in changing the race of one of his models.

Strike 5: try and turn the narrative by making sure everyone knows that the event is in honour of his dead wife, and actually WE should feel sorry for HIM.

Sounds an awful lot like narcissism (what's the narcissists poem?)

This guy seems to be a bit of a racist scumbag, who not only takes advantage of young models, but is happy to throw those around him under the bus or throwing his lawyers at the problem before dishing out an honest and humble apology.

Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

That's the ticket.

I've developed a tool to convert voice notes into structured text: seeking your valuable feedback and suggestions! in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Really useful tool, especially it's simplicity. No need for too many frills actually.

But just a note on your pricing, Microsoft Word has this built in and you get a whole word processor and their onenote and drive ecosystem for cheaper than your base package. There's no way on this planet I would pay that, even if I used it professionally.

Windows 12 May Require a Subscription in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not OP, but Linux isn't much good for professional creative work. Would love to try it out, but without a functioning Adobe suite it's not gonna happen.