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If you mean the literal Kardashians, they’re only a dozen, but figuratively it’s like a gebericised trademark and there are thousands of people like that.

There’s a whole lot of people who are basically famous with being famous…

If you have to just open a website related to work, it’s fine, but in some instances, in order to access work resources, the phone has to be managed by the company, so this creates an obvious concern about private data. I guess “taking pictures and using social media” from the example here doesn’t fall under that category, but that doesn’t mean it’s the same for other cases.

Even if it’s not that complicated, it might be just about separating work from private life. If I have to use a phone for work, I’d personally much prefer it to be a separate device that I can turn off and put in a drawer when I don’t need it.

Apple vs Samsung aside, she wasn’t concerned with using her own phone for work?

How do the local backups work? I’m interested in defacing my profile, but still want to preserve some things I find useful.

I agree about the “everything in one place”; besides that, in terms of shopping, there’s not much to it. In terms of services there used to be some pretty neat stuff, e.g. unlimited cloud storage for photos (including RAW files) for something like 50 EUR/year, but of course they axed that.

Plenty of alternatives for everything, just maybe a little less convenient.

In terms of media, I don’t stream from paid services; whatever I pay for is either at local shows where I buy CDs from artists directly, or through label stores, or through outlets like Bandcamp (btw it’s Bandcamp Friday right now until the end of the weekend, go support what you like).

Can’t remember the last time I bought something from there to begin with.

The Moon landing was staged, but Stanley Kubrick insisted to shoot on location…

Off the top of my head a Fuji FinePix S5700 I had borrowed from a friend for some time (that was more than 10 years ago). That thing was doing continuous focus while on and idle, and it would lock focus when you half-press the shutter button - so completely backwards to what you’d normally expect from a camera.

Photography.

I’ve been doing it for a long time and I’m still somewhat mediocre. It could theoretically make me money, but for me the excuse for not doing it boils down to “but it would require me to deal with people”, given that most sought-after and commercially viable things to shoot are weddings, graduations and so on. In the end I keep it as something I (mostly) enjoy and occasionally do as favours to friends and family. I mostly shoot live music in order to support the local scene; I also do extreme sports and a bit of wildlife & landscapes.

I remember that term. It was short-lived.

You have to also consider that when 5" was big, bezels were big too. With today’s thin bezels the same physical size that used to hold 5" could probably hold 5.5".

Because apparently people want big phones.

For the last 10-15 years it’s been a boiling frog situation really - .1 or .2" increase every generation until 7" somehow becomes the norm (for a phone, not a tablet, mind you).

I wish there were more small hi-end phones too.

Politics aside, I’d be curious to see how far something like this can go. Can’t not think of Opera Software - even they were not successful while they were using their own proprietary tech.

People do this on digital too.

Can someone explain how something as generic as a keyboard can be a subject to patents?

Fully agree with the sentiment, and at the same time I think it’s a lost battle. Even more so with more niche tech like cameras (where one is usually invested into an ecosystem instead of having just one piece of gear that can be sold on its own 5 years in - like a laptop).

One of the few positives of today’s designs is the better screen-to-body ratios that we have. This would mean that we can have a 5" screen in the same physical body size that previously used to house a 4 point something inch screen. But for some reason the latest flagship small phones are from a few years ago - I guess sales figures show they’re not sought after.

What’s next? Talking about healthcare?

Then why list them?