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  • Apple plans complex hinges to support 'iPhone Fold' screen

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    Evert since I saw the concept I much more prefer the slide out screen idea, as demoed in the Oppo X 2021. With finding I associate double thickness and less elegance. But since to my view both ideas are still in - more or less - concept phase, I’m curious which solution will prevail. 
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  • What is Roblox? Everything you need to know

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    An entire industry evolved around the core idea to deceive and trick minors into giving away their best parts - life time and money. 
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  • Apple investigating glass ear cups for AirPods Max

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    macgui said:
    […], like the old iSub, […].
    This and the two sound sticks. Memories :)
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  • Zuckerberg wants to 'inflict pain' on Apple for privacy changes

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    DAalseth said:
    heli0s said:
    I’ve had a Facebook account since 2007 but I left every one of their platforms last year and never looked back. Sure, connecting with family and friends is marginally more difficult but my mental health is much better and I’m not feeding their “outrage-for-profit” model with my data. 
    I've closed and deleted my FB account. I'm still on Instagram because that's where a number of artists that I follow post their stuff and I post my art there too. However I'm reading more and more comments from them that the new algorithms are becoming impossible to work with. If they don't post very regularly, and get a lot of likes for every post they don't get promoted in people's feeds. Even people subscribing to them start missing content. It's becoming unworkable. A number are openly talking about jumping ship. Cartoonists are going to Webtoon and Tapas. Even Tumblr in some cases. If this continues I'll likely close my account too. I already cross post to other sites. 
    As mentioned by others many times before: there is no thing as a free lunch / if the product is for free then you are the product etc. 
    while being aware of this, at the time I signed up for FB as well as WhatsApp. 
    And it didn’t disturb me to be the product back then. What changed over time were two things:
    a) realizing how much my data apparently is worth and how ruthless the last bit of information is being squeezed out and used - much more than I thought at the time. 
    b) that either Z has no ethics at all, or is too underdeveloped to have any. 

    Happily living without either app since long time now. 

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  • Zuckerberg wants to 'inflict pain' on Apple for privacy changes

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    “They’re breaking my toy!” 
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