sweethome3d is specifically made for interior design.

You can make what ever you want in SketchUp.

2 headphone jacks, SD card expansion, USB-C, a micro USB port and removable battery.

Sounds overkill but sounds great to me.

i really don’t know how they would make other apps work with this though.

Interesting to see if this design is better for one handed operations though.

I don’t think you can. A credit score and a credit report is what companies use to determine if you can get credit from them and at what terms.

If you are in the USA, freeze your credit. So many data breaches happen to millions of people regularly. Be safe.

This is a cost cutting measure to hire less people.

I don’t have stats to back this up but most people, like high 90%, don’t turn any of that off.

I agree with you that it sucks and is horrible. I wish there were more laws to protect us.

Everything I stated is just a quick summary of why these robot really don’t do much for data collection and is more of a money saving matter to not hire more security personal.

Me explaining how they track you does not mean I agree with it.

Your emotional state does not change reality.

They are already data mining you without these robots.

They use facial recognition on cameras. They use OCR on your license plate and scan your toll pass. They use your phone location if you connect to their “free” wifi. They track your bluetooth devices that’s constantly looking to connect. They track you foot traffic and see what stores, what aisle, what product you picked it up and how long you had it in your hands.

Google “Target loss prevention” stories of frequent shoplifters that had profiles on them for months and stop them when they can charge for grand larceny rather than petite larceny. There is a reason why Westfield malls are everywhere. It’s easier for them to control their own data than to constantly buy or contract out data from other companies.

These bots are probably getting more data but they are more for security. A moving camera is more of criminal deterrent just because it is moving. These bots are so they don’t have to pay for more security guards than anything else.

Intel is about 5 times the size of Qualcomm in terms of equity.

i found this article:

Intel’s shares closed up 3.3%, while Qualcomm fell 2.9%. Qualcomm, with a market capitalization of $188 billion, is worth about twice as much as Intel.

source

So based on Intel’s shitty stock price, Qualcomm can buy a good chunk of Intel which is enough for voting power I guess. Someone please correct me or add insight to this.

One of the first major problems took place with Android 10, as it restricted navigation gestures to stock launchers.

Note in 2019 in the beta release of Android 10, Google took away swipe gesture navigation and forced third party launchers to use the older 3 button navigation.

Moon Readers cloud sync is amazing if you read from multiple devices. I think they recently added book syncing too.

Thanks for the info.

I wanted a Dick Tracy watch so badly. Tech just decided to skip all of that and put a screen on a watch. Boo.

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Google Wallet, formally Google Pay, formally GPay, formally Android Pay, formally Google Wallet, formally Android Wallet, does the same thing.

Switching phones and returning something was such a pain since it generated an entirely new number.

I am definitely not trying to defend the manufacturers here, only point out that there are solutions for those like myself who want to continue using their wired headphones with newer phones.

Understood.

I agree with you with the SD card too. That one probably annoys me more. It made everything so much more difficult. Transferring files, backups, swapping out music, seeing pictures from a camera or drone… Made the device less like a computer in everyway.

Yes that is true but speaking on clinging on to an older phone, a headphone jack had a superior physical hold. My phone got saved a few times because my phone was connected to my wired headphones.

These dongles that came with phones were also usually very thin. It also sticks out and made of plastic. It just adds another weak point. They somehow added a weak point to a great piece of technology… On top of that phones no longer comes with the dongles.

Also dongles aren’t sexy. It looks like a hack to make something work. Phone companies made headphones unsexy while making wireless earbuds really sexy.

Some people said that a headphone jack made dustproofing and waterproofing more difficult. Maybe but it had be done before. They also said it brings down the price of the phone to get rid of them. Weird considering the Google A series and Samsung mid range phones had it but their flagship phones didn’t.

You made a lot of great points. Thank you for those.

I actually have bluetooth earbuds either came bundled, or I was gifted them. They have come a long way. Easier to connect. Better latency and better sound quality compared to the older version of bluetooth.

I like them, I am not a complete hater but I really am annoyed that this stuff will just turn to ewaste while my headphones have lasted me decades.

I’m just an old head yelling at the clouds.

This is the main reason they got rid of the headphone jack. Some headphones lasted forever.

Now you have Bluetooth earbuds with tiny batteries that goes in a case with another small battery. Batteries that small will last 5 years tops. On top of that sound quality hasn’t improved and latency got worse.

that makes sense. Thank you.

No negatives listed on the Wiki page. Are there any? Does potting increase the likely hood of overheating?