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Firefox + uBlock Origin here still holding strong.

SP was always just unfunny and cheap to me, never enjoyed it or it's jokes. Agree with The Simpsons though, can throw on like any random episode and it's good watching. Gonna add Futurama in here, I find that great but most of the jokes in it are self-referenced, so it's better to watch them in order.

I mean, if they pull it off it will be great, but until it's in our hands, there are no expectations.

Of course they do. The S23 for example is smaller than the iPhone 15, was the same price on release (came out Feb 2023) and has features beating the iPhone 15 Pro Max, a much bigger and more recent device. Most features/hardware on the bigger phones exist in smaller phones, most of the extra space on larger phones is usually just taken up by a larger battery anyway. They can go watch some teardowns, look into all the software locked features like with the recent Pixel 8 phones, instead of blindly jumping to the defence of these mega-corporations who only want to upsell.

But yes, obviously some features are a lot harder to fit in a smaller space, but I thought that was the obvious asterisk to my comment. Perhaps they should spend some R&D on figuring that out though, rather than rehashing the same devices year after year which is just leading to e-waste.

(I'd love the 3.5mm port back too, but they all want to sell their wireless 'buds' now, so not going to happen for that reason alone :c)

So yes, it was bait.

Is this bait?

That will be a side effect of them locking abitrary features behind the bigger and thus more expensive models, if there was feature parity smaller phones would probably still be the norm.

I think the S23 is the perfect size, I wish that was the standard, with some larger ones for people who like that.

Even on that video, the cop sucked the entire time (due to the lack of good training). You are alone on a busy highway, the last thing you want to do is start a fight, you don't even want to be on the shoulder like that, it's far too dangerous. No matter how you wanna show this, the guy should never have been put in a position to be shot.

Nah fuck that. It was verbal until the cop tased him, then its not exactly shocking that it causes him to react. The cop was screaming the whole time, no de-escalation at all. Just get him to the side of the road, safe and talk while waiting for backup. It's just more evidence of undertrained US cops. There was no reason for this man to die.

Yes wait for a Steam sale. https://steamdb.info/sales/history is good for tracking them, although they are usually all the same dates every year, so not exactly unpredictable.

They are clearing inventory of the current SKUs ready for the refreshed ones, so it's highly likely it will be on sale again this month and/or during the Autumn sale in November.