First mover advantage works against new housing too.

Like, you as a small retail consumer in your twenties, move to a place that you really can’t afford. You find a way to buy a condo/house/apartment and tie up 90% of your net worth and expenses to that new place. You scrap by on other expenses like transportation and food and clothing, but you find a way to make it work.

Because of supply and demand and no new places being built, the price of your place increases 3x in the next decade even though you didn’t do anything to improve it.

Your net worth increased almost that much (depending on how much you paid down towards principal) and now you can leverage that “home valuation” to borrow against and buy more things. Maybe even use it for a down payment on another condo. But you are going to do it because you are in your 30’s now and tired of living the simple life of a pauper. You need things. You need cash flow. You DESERVE it.

Now you, a small retail consumer, are aligned with big real estate because you don’t want new housing to come in and drive down the net worth that you borrowed against to live a better life. So you would be more susceptible to voting against housing density projects, and you would be outspoken about keeping the “charm” and “character” of your quaint little neighborhood.

Rinse and repeat for 75 years and this is the result.

I’m not sure there’s much of an ecosystem. It’s just three products and I don’t think the guy even looked at the budget tablet.

Usually you end up with products from the same manufacturer because there is a package deal or promotion sale. Which is the case now for their earbuds.

Yeah, OP12 and OP12R both have high frequency pwm. So does the Fairphone 5, apparently.

240Hz pwm dimming means lots of flicker and eyestrain at lower brightness levels.

I guess I’ll just hold on to my current phone a little longer and see what the OnePlus 13 brings.

I’m probably the only person in the world who hasn’t played Minecraft.

We have a family Minetest server runnning Asuna since Summer 2023. Usually based around just crafting different things. Even for a few months we just put on creative mode and built two huge cities about 8,000 blocks apart and sky train connecting them, and then a third underground cave city about 2,000 blocks away.

We’ve had major upgrades of both Asuna and Minetest within the past few weeks so it’s pretty exciting.

Nice looking phone, within my budget.

No word on the pwm rate though. I know the 12 and 12R had high frequency pwm dimming; hopefully NotebookCheck does a review of this phone.

$1/day after discounts and rebates. Right now that is in the Pixel / Nord range.

I’m challenging myself to use it as my only laptop browser for a month. It’s not bad but it seems slow compared to Firefox.

I last used Epiphany probably 20 years ago. Galeon for a bit before that. The situation back then was reversed; those browsers were much faster than the full Mozilla Suite with which they shared a rendering engine.

Only one peer, can you guys seed?

Nothing as nice as

Gnome on a retina

10 year old MacBook.

Great catch. It seems that since the last time I’ve turned off email subscriptions, they’ve added three more at the bottom: Drive, Pass, and VPN to individually deselect. So it’s opt-in until I manually opt out. Additionally, this is inaccessible from the mobile or desktop app and I’m not sure it will turn off the top right advertising banner that shows up sometimes.

Will this make them stop spamming me for likes and referrals even though I’m a paying customer? Maybe they can even offer me that 6TB storage tier that I’ve been willing to pay for but only happens to people who spread the gospel and bring in referrals.

The tone around this company is too preachy and evangelical compared to other paid services.

The last computer I built for my dad before he passed ran Xubuntu LTS exclusively for about half a decade. No problems. He did updates himself.

It’s funny that we buy these metal and glass phones and then protect them with rubber and plastic cases.

New phones are made to show wear so that they lose resale value.

I like the design and wish manufacturers in general were a little more flashy with their phones. This photo is reminiscent of the last days of Nokia.

But if this is anything like the days of HMD Nokia partnership/branding, it is pure trash. I owned the X20, XR20, and T10 tablets since new and none of them work anymore, and the XR20 never got the updates it was promised.