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I find keeping a phone longer than three years absurd, guess we like different things!

My fold4 lasted 3 years, and still works. I'll concede it was only able to unfold to about 85% open at the end when I decided to upgrade. I was happy to upgrade to the fold 7 which has a redesigned hinge and better dust protection. I acknowledged the risk of mechanical failure as a possibility compared to a slab phone and after using it for years I decided I was still very impressed with the flexibility of having a tablet in my pocket. The fact that my 7th generation is significantly thinner and has a 200MP camera compared to the 4th is what sealed the deal.

It's not perfect for everyone, but I wouldn't go back to using a slab, there's too much functionality I'd be pissed giving up.

Granted, I tend to upgrade my phone every 2 years or so anyway.

I recently learned of a term "reverse centaur" and found the ideas in that article were very entertaining as a way to explain why CEOs are obsessed with LLMs. The author of the book being interviewed has a few hot takes that I think are pretty relevant here too. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/

Two time buyer, can confirm. They're legitimately useful and durable enough for me.

Good for you, welcome to the internet where people's opinions abound. I didn't accuse you of writing it with an LLM I said it was an LLM style, if you don't like my opinion, that's fine with me. I simply found the writing style unsettling. Cheers!

The description has such an unsettling, overconfident, llm-style tone for a project described as something to challenge LLM hallucinations.

Yes, I have to agree the problem is not just gun laws, and, in isolation, changes to gun laws would not fix the root of the problem.

Yeah, so I guess we should just change nothing, right?

/s in case it wasn't blatantly obvious we are in desperate need of changing gun laws.

Un fucking believable.

Here are a few more views:

1. 3D render

2. Back side

3. Silkscreen with front and back sides

Yeah I hear that some people like to keep the bus pullups closer to the host. The other gotcha is that the voltage for the I2C doesn't have to match the VCC pin and I didn't want to assume that users would want those coupled together. Perhaps I can add some DNP resistors so users can have a choice of a pull-up on the dev board if they like.

Naturally, just like a making a pull request, I found that my annotations were incorrect for the LEDs (it doesn't functionally change the schematic) after posting. My intent is to have all odd LEDs on U1 and even on U2 so that when I place them in a circle it's easy to make usable patterns with one controller at a time as I learn how to use animation engines.