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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
well these guys got caught

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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
wait, how the gently caress does that even work? there's a type-a usb plug in the cockpit that connects to some kind of writable mass storage device that's read by the avionics?

wtf?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
avionics get ransomwared mid-flight, plane runs out of fuel before bitcoin confirmations clear

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
what was samsung too cheap to license ask jeeves?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
android: where even the good phones render themselves completely unusable

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
magnets. also half the features don't work yet. and the camera sucks. but hey stock android

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Dislike button posted:

microsoft bought the company, destroyed it, and laid everyone off. lol

yeah, but at least they didn't piss their pants to stay warm!

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
android, but without all those pesky apps!

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
common app framework used to install malware/spyware and exfiltrate user data, 500 more apps pulled from play store

you know with one of these stories landing every week now i'm almost beginning to think the google app model is bad

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
dumb ideas, implemented poorly or how i learned to tango



i need freedom!

the freedom to have an inconsistently functional device, maintained by the finest minds on xda forums, xXXweedGoku420xXx and some chinese malware authors

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Blue Train posted:

I could see why you may think that, but supported status in this instance simply means you can download the factory image for it still

in what sense is that "support"?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

The Management posted:

are you ready for a samsung galaxy note event motherfuckers?

because you're getting one! today!!

how big will the screen be?
what stupid gimmick will they add only to abandon next year??
bixby???

get hype!!!

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
lg uses webos, the best mobile platform ever created

sony is pretty android heavy though

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
yeah, at least apple tv doesn't do 4k so they don't have to worry about 4x scaling every app

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

cis autodrag posted:

lol who the gently caress spends used car dollars on a fuckin tv

idiots who buy sony in tyool 2017

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
wait so 6" is kosher, but not halal? how does that work?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
so google buys another unprofitable business, fucks around with it for a year or three, then abandons it and everything it produced?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
oh good now we can have two mutually incompatible standards for wired headphones. make sure you buy the android compatible ones, not the iphone ones!

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
lol at having to charge an otherwise passive accessory

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Larry Parrish posted:

Band saturation is a thing. Imagine if everyone on the same subway had bluetooth on. Jesus christ

no seriously, how do y'all think this poo poo will work with any more than ten people in the same 100 square feet?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
~*battery explodes trying to drive 600 ohm headphones*~

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

OldAlias posted:

these akg k240s were $0

thanks dj-dad

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
the $99 stylus thing started with the surface

or do you mean making a massively overpriced netbook that no one has any use for at that pricepoint?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

The Store posted:

didn't stop me from getting one brand new for sub $100

what should have stopped you was buying a piece of trash, at any price.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
lmao, that is android as gently caress

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
in which samsung fails to dominate a company that no longer makes phones

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
remember when the local grognards were clamouring to buy a $100 windows tablet that used emmc for storage?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

The Management posted:

speaking of which, google has an announcement tomorrow morning, so don't waste your pixel laughs today.

evidently some of the lineup got spoilered by loving walmart

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
windows is also very bad at 2-way bt audio

idk if it's the bt stack itself or what but fairly decent headsets that work with everything else have massive stuttering/audio drop out issues

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
in that case

infernal machines posted:

wow, no poo poo, the always on listening device you voluntarily installed in your own home is always on and listening.

amazing.


infernal machines posted:

the advertising company that has an interest in having as much data about you and your household as humanly possible said it wouldn't do that, but then it did!

no way anyone could have foreseen such an unlikely malfunction.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
reminder: every time you set up an email address in microsoft outlook it auto-selects an option on completion that will pop open a web page telling you to download the outlook app for your smart phone

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
probably, i haven't dug through the 2016 gpos to find out

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
do you have outlook 2016?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
o365 pro plus and h&b ctr's have it for sure

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
android 8.0 olestra

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

OldAlias posted:

the 6p is huge, susceptible to bootloop and is an android

seems like the second issue solves the third

then you can go buy an se and stop thinking about your phone

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Smythe posted:

The SE is too small and runs bad software. It's worthless junk.

counterpoint: it does not run android

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
i appreciate smythe's commitment to his gimmick, defending a trashfire of an os that's made of hacks upon hacks upon hacks on a platform designed to compete with an email pager from ten years ago, distributed on bargain basement hardware designed by the sloppiest pan-asian manufacturers

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

eric posted:

Android was always meant to be a blackberry rip off and it still shows over 10 years later.

yes, it's why they had "project butter" and like a million other failures to get the ui to respond decently.

it was a ripoff of an overextended email pager platform, that tacked on touch support as an afterthought and everything since then is poisoned fruit from a lovely tree

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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Endless Mike posted:

to no one's surprise, oneplus continues to be bad and "accidentally" put a backdoor in the oneplus 5 that allows any app taht knows the password "angela" to do anything

this is actually a good thing because...

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