Hector_McG

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What's the point of buying new phones every years?

Other than your carrier give it for free or cheap, I don’t really see the reason why should you buy new phone. I’ve been using Redmi Note 9 for past 3 years and recently got my had on Poco F5. I don’t see the point of my ‘upgrade’. I sold it and come back to my Note 9. Gaming? Most of them are p2w or microtransaction...

Hector_McG, (edited )

I have just done the same.

Although Google are now promising 5 years of support for Pixel phones, Pixel phones are not a core business for Google, and as they have shown many times, Google will end projects at the drop of a hat with no regard for their customers.

There are secondary Android companies like Samsung that promise long term security updates, but are always behind the publishing curve compared to Google. This means that malicious actors have the opportunity to study Google’s published updates to reverse engineer cracks that they then exploit.

The current Android security update model is inherently insecure due to this issue. Until manufacturers are forced to update in a timely manner ( by which I mean simultaneously with Google) I won’t buy another Android phone.

Hector_McG,

I first saw this joke back in the days of 8-bit home microcomputers. Of course then it only needed 256 lines of code, and took up about 8k of your precious, precious RAM.

Hector_McG,

While nuclear power produces bountiful clean energy,

Well no, it doesn’t, not at the moment. It may be low carbon, but it certainly isn’t clean, as the £120 billion ( and rapidly rising) costs of cleaning up the Sellafield site demonstrates. A cost so large that the “low-cost electricity” argument used to justify it’s build are proven to be false- the electricity wasn’t cheap, it was very expensive, the bill was just deferred until end-of-life.

Hector_McG,

Right now, nuclear power plants use fission, which creates energy by splitting atoms — the science at the center of the blockbuster “Oppenheimer.” While nuclear power produces bountiful clean energy,

Read the article. It claims that right now, nuclear fission produces bountiful clean energy, which it clearly doesn’t. And right now, neither does fusion.

Hector_McG,

Right now, nuclear power plants use fission, which creates energy by splitting atoms — the science at the center of the blockbuster “Oppenheimer.” While nuclear power produces bountiful clean energy,

Read the article. It claims that right now, nuclear fission produces bountiful clean energy, which it clearly doesn’t. And "right now*” neither does fusion.

It’s your reading comprehension that’s in doubt, not my knowledge of fission vs fusion.

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