Which phone was it? Sony has products in the low, mid and high price range and the cheaper phones naturally are weaker than an iPhone. If you compare the flagship models of the two brands the Xperia is at least on the same level of power as the iPhone.

And as an anecdote: I had an iPhone a few years ago and hated it most of the time (and I say this while using a three year old phone that cost me 200€ at the time)

There are many phones with a headphone jack that have an IP68 rating which invalidates your whole point. If the headphone jack was so compromising then Apple would have needed to remove the charging port as well.

I can’t be arsed to read the ToS again, but is it also forbidden to just share an account between several people?

My brother and I opened up that account six years ago and except for the times I forgot to turn my internet off to not be kicked out of games while my brother plays one we never had problems. It would be really shitty if we got into trouble for this because the account is valued somewhere between 1.500 and 4.300€ and is the most expensive thing I own except for my PC.

If those people are marginalised why not make organisations that help them get into programming?

When you think about stereotypical programmers, you usually picture a white guy somewhere between 30 and 50 years of age (at least in Europe and I presume the USA). Coding used to be a profession that was predominantly made up of women but when it became clear that it would become an important job more and more men became interested in IT so that now there are about eight male programmers out of ten.

Black people have similar issues (and god forbid you are a black woman) in that they often are paid worse for the same jobs than white people and have worse chances to get good secondary education and academic jobs even if they have the same intelligence as white people. Helping people to get into computer sciences that statistically have way lower chances to do so without any fault of their own is a good thing in my opinion.

In the minds of most people it is, because for them it’s just factored in the cost of their Computer.

You mean like WinRAR?

Hard to not be the best mars helicopter when you are the only one.

Send letters instead, those don’t land in the spam filter so easily.

How is it whataboutism if the US bans importing goods made with slave labour if they themselves make use of it? That is just hypocriticism on the US’ side.

Then why does US law explicitly allow slave labour? Do they blacklist themselves as well?

The only reasons I still use Spotify is because I get it from a family subscription that my mother pays, so it doesn’t cost me anything. And it would be a big pain in the ass to get all my playlists on a local drive, changing to another streaming service would make it easier but then why change anything from how it is right now?

One of the worst war criminals in our history that got off entirely scot-free and probably had a happy life until he died at hundred. He is responsible for the deaths of millions and was never prosecuted for it. In a list of people deserving of being executed he would have been on one of the first places.

Where do you live that you have such long days with apparently such a cold weather? In my area we have cuddly 0°C/32°F with the sunset happening at 16:15. I would categorise so cold that it hurts around -20°C depending on the weather.

That’s the guy that took the “lunch atop a skyscraper” photo, right?

My dad has that photo, except without the steel beams, that the Salzgitter AG several of his ancestors worked in gifted his father (or grandfather, I am not quite sure).

Like this photo but without the steel beams they are sitting on and a caption that says something to the effect of “what would they do without us?” I tried to find it on the internet but sadly couldn’t find it. Is it just me or do the seearch operators not work anymore with ddg?

In sechseinhalb Jahren wird doch bestimmt ein technologisches Wunder erfunden, dass alle Übel dieser Welt beseitigt und mir dabei einen runterholt. Man muss nur Zukunftsoffener sein!

Linux is also like veganism as in that nonvegans/non linux users get very misunderstood and unnecessarily antagonised, although the second thing happens to vegans more from my experience.

All this talk about asshole vegans really sounds like those “SJW liberal triggered by facts and logic” videos that got popular around 2015ish.

Warum höre ich von Hannover in überregionalen Medien fast nur schlechtes? Mir fallen als jemand, der seit siebzehn Jahren in Hannover lebt nur wenige positive Geschehnisse ein, an die ich mich noch erinnern kann.

They also got the technical data wrong because I am unsure if this phone really has more than ten times my pc’s ram.

It is one way to do so, german youth also use several english terms or “Digga” which is a modified form of the word “Dicker” meaning fat. Although I am no linguist I would assume that Alter and Dicker were used in combination with Freund (friend) first since those are valid phrases that still are in use.

The literal meaning is a really informal “old one” but can also mean “age” in another context. It is used exactly like you described.