I had a Samsung Fold 3 and then upgraded to a Fold 6 which ended up costing less than half after the trade in bonuses and promotions. It’s insanely useful for me to be able to open it up for watching videos, reading books or articles, sketching ideas and more. Being able to just unfold it halfway to stand it up on a table is also pretty useful at times. It definitely enables you to do a lot more things that would’ve been a pain on a regular phone.

Durability is surprisingly much better than I had expected. I’ve dropped it a few times and it’s still pretty solid, though I’ve never dropped it while it was open.

I also like that it’s narrower than a normal phone and thicker since it really helps for one handed use which is why I’m not a fan of the Chinese ones or the rumours of the Fold 7 being much wider and thinner. Honestly, it’s an unpopular opinion but I thought the Fold 3’s width was perfect, they just needed to trim the bezels further.

So yea, I can’t go back to a regular phone anymore. Even though I spend 70% of the time folded, the 40% where is unfolded more than makes it worth it.

Windows Phone may have been a lot more successful and we’d have much better UI than we do now.

Technically doesn’t です・だ serve a similar purpose to “it is” in this case. I’m not a native speaker but does it sound a bit strange if someone were to just say 雨? You would usually say 雨だ right? While it’s not the same as “it”, in this usage, だ・です is closer to the meaning of “is” so it’s kinda similar?

That said, the absence of a concept of “it” in Japanese has never occurred to me so that was an interesting revelation. I am also a native Mandarin speaker which doesn’t really have an “it” either so maybe that’s why.

Imo people should start with C first since it is a lot simpler than C++ while still providing a lot of what you mentioned. C++ adds a lot of things like name mangling, templates, L & R value references that can quickly make things a bit more daunting for beginners.

I also generally find error messages for C a lot more parsable for beginners than C++ ones.

I’m so grateful for Kotlin, it gets rid of so much of the annoyances in Java.

It’s only better imo if you set it to native resolution for the AA. If you set it to anything below that, there’s definitely still artifacting. It’s not crazy obvious but no way it’s not noticeable, especially if you have a larger screen.

Haven’t watched anything Orange or Ufotable have put out have you?

I’m not American, but my country has largely moved off phone and SMS but we still get spam messages on WhatsApp and Telegram. The spam and scam will chase you wherever you go, if they haven’t, it just means those platforms aren’t popular enough in your region for them to switch to.

Didn’t they get fined or something by the US for lying about policies related to this issue? I can’t imagine the EU wouldn’t be even more strict on this considering existing precedence.

Sometimes all I need a small compact SSH machine when I’m at a client’s site. This is a perfect use case for it.

Well there’s that, but I was talking more about how they were selling it when hey first announced it. My point is that with stuff like this, the companies have lied before. I’ll believe it when I see it.

So like how Huawei was hyping up their new mobile OS which was really just skinned AOSP?

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic here. I hope you are. If not a quick search on Wikipedia would show China’s aggressive behaviour towards its neighbouring countries.

Not the rest of the world though, we didn’t vote for this. Your fellow countrymen did and sure they get what they deserve I guess, but why do we also have to suffer?

The same Google that’s been constantly trying to add features that deter 3rd party app stores?

My point is more that what they wrote didn’t make sense talking about Japanese corporations when more American companies are listed. The entertainment industry is simply awful, nationalities aside.

Personally I think it’s a much fairer system than letting bots scalp all units on their website. Unless you’d prefer that?

UMG and Warner Bros are Japanese? Lol

Perhaps but I haven’t encountered that myself. I’m ethnic Chinese that’s a citizen of another ethnic Chinese majority nation so I’ve encountered this specific type a lot more.

The reverse, however, isn’t true. It may be somewhat understandable but not entirely reasonable to assume someone who is Chinese is from China which is what I’m trying to say.