Don’t know why the down votes. Yes you could argue the Chinese traditional cultures don’t glorify cheating but then there’s as much Chinese traditional culture in China today as there are the classical culture of the ancient Greeks in the US right now lol

In real life people praise taking unfair advantages to achieve what you want in popular cultures in today’s China, where people praise it as a form of strength, sometimes even “wisdom”, in a society where respect to established standards and moral principles is viewed as foolish. And you really can’t blame them either considering such things as “established standards and moral principles” are the most popular ingredients of propaganda and political brainwashing, and a lot of Chinese people are actually not idiots who can’t see that.

You only need to visit Chinese language social media now to see that everywhere.

Technological advancements don’t reduce research opportunities, rather they create more opportunities because the whole industry becomes more developed and more sophisticated, as well as creating new industries. When this doesn’t happen, most of the time it is because of a weak and dysfunctional economy (as well as dysfunctional society due to poorly devised social political policies) cannot always support turning research and development to actual commercial possibilities. This used to be exactly what China is very good at in fact, because China has some of the world’s most vertically integrated production capacity, like for example you can find the factories that make 70% of the different types of components in a smartphone in the same city, significantly reducing production and supplier overhead to an extent you rarely see in other countries until very recently, so it was never the lack of industrial capabilities here.

I agree it would be super cool to see plumbers discussing about Fermi paradox in their break time, but the reality is that is a very American middle class thing, whereas in China the majority of population have extreme social prejudice and bigotry between different social economical classes and education backgrounds, its extreme extent can only be matched by the racial and gender prejudice in the US, and I do not think Chinese people are socially and culturally equipped to handle this increased amount of contact across social economical status and education backgrounds anymore than American people are in average in handling contact across races and gender identities, while having significant less developed and significantly more dysfunctional social institutes.

This was never about academic jobs vs non-academic jobs. Yes it’s true there’s only so many academic positions for people with higher education, but those people with higher education should be working in high economic value positions where their level of education is actually of use. For example these people with higher education degrees in science and engineering should be working in an R&D team of an industry leading company, instead of working as a delivery driver, film crowd, or a fricking police axillary which anyone without the education background could perfectly do.

This is not what happening because there is no available positions in any industry leading company’s R&D team because such companies cannot afford expanding their advanced level work force. There is a tremendous lack of social economical resources aka employment opportunities, not only this is a real sign of a struggling economy, but this is also extremely detrimental to the country and its economy as a whole, because a de fecto surplus of people with higher education degree devalues such qualifications, and make it even more difficult for people with such qualifications to find career opportunities where their qualification can be used for creating value, even if such social economical resources does come to existences, this leads to a repeating cycle that keeps getting worse.

I think that’s exactly what people were referring to when they say “culture for specific bacteria”. Remember it’s not a bacteria species that phages target, rather it’s molecular signature on certain bacteria they target, and it’s a constant arms race in the nature, so there could be endlessly many possible kinds of molecular signatures found on what’s technically the exact same species of bacterium.

So they are not “breeding a phage culture for one bacteria”, rather they were breeding phage culture for the 1000 or so kind of molecular signatures, out of millions of trillions possible ones.

Yeah phages have extreme specificity just like most other viruses, and that is both a really big advantage and a really big challenge, on the one hand if you get it right you rest assured it will absolutely not harm anything other than that one single target bacteria you breed it against, no antibiotics can be nearly as safe in comparison, but then on the other hand like you said it requires you to take time and lots of work to breed a culture first before it can be used at all :/

Maybe in the future this process can be automated, and maybe we can even do genetic engineering to create engineered phages on demand in an artificial process that’s much faster… Oh well one could dream lol

Exactly

Yeah it’s certainly interesting that at least one vendor is trying to push for such a specific extreme niche. You do have to give up pretty much everything else for it, only 1 year software support, on buggy software made by a very small and not-resourceful company with poor software quality and support track record, no SD card slot, no IP rating, and no unlockable bootloader even so no root and not custom ROM after they end the official software support, etc.

But yes, looks like if the only thing you need is the best of the best sustained performance, this one is the best choice among all phones with this SoC.

It’s actually not entirely that simple, there are a bit more nuance in this. They definitely do trade a bit of battery longevity, but sacrificing longevity alone won’t give you 100W on a battery that typically can only do 45W, you will get it bursting into flame instead.

Rather, many of those Chinese phones that charge at super high power were double-cell or multi-cell designs. A multi-cell battery would allow you to reach much higher charging current under the same voltage while generating less heat due to lower resistance between terminals. But multi-cell batteries are inherently less space efficient than single cell batteries.

So they took different priorities and also traded space efficiency for charging speed, and of course this trade also means they have to trade other things to get back the space for battery, such as size of speakers (and therefore speaker audio quality) for example.

On the other hand many of those Chinese phones also don’t abide by standard protocols even way before PPS became a thing, and many of them required their own vendor’s proprietary charger to get the marketed charging speed, which have a VERY non-standard voltage, so that they can keep current low by raising voltage higher than standard USB/PD voltages, to keep the power high. This often also meant you need not only the vendor’s proprietary charger, but also their proprietary cable too because their non-standard charging voltage is also beyond the voltage that’s standard for USB cables. This principle is common now with PD chargers (like for charging a laptop for example), but they have been doing this way before PD protocol, so they have their own choices of voltage/current combos that are incompatible with PD protocol. And of course those Chinese companies like Xiaomi and Huawei would never give a flying F about complying to established industry standards and avoid vendor lock-in, customer rights be damned lol

You mean the circle below the cameras? That is not a button, this phone has an active cooling system, yes you heard it right. The “button looking” thing is the fan’s protective grill, and the blue “ring” is the built-in RGB lights inside shinning through the gap for air to flow through. There is another set of openings on the side of the phone that gives another opening for air to flow through.

Because of active cooling this phone has no IP rating at all. Based on benchmarks and reviews I’ve seen so far they managed to allow the GPU to have nearly no thermal throttling, with the active cooling system. However, disappointingly, it does throttle the CPU a LOT still.

Ubuntu Touch, perhaps? Lol

Hmmm it looks pretty but is it just me or Weather Master’s UI looks soooo much more iOS-like than Breezy Weather?

That’s the thing, for multitasking a foldable’s screen size is not even remotely as transformative as a 10+ or even 12 inches proper tablet, while for just the most basic “have each side for different thing”, which I guess is like the lowest possible standard we can have for multitasking, a conventional non-foldable phone doesn’t do it that much worse, you just turn your phone horizontal and do split screen in landscape orientation.

On the other hand, with a 12" proper tablet you can meaningfully have 4 or even 6 windows showing on your screen at the same time, for some real multitasking, at a moment’s notice.

My point is that current foldable phones don’t offer enough screen size, to be transformative enough to justify the long list of downside you have to deal with, like fragile screen, screen fold crease, etc.

Consider Sony Xperia 1 series then, they always have fully open policy regarding to unlocking and rooting with no deliberate restrictions whatsoever, took me less than a minute to root my Xperia 1 VI shortly after I got it. Also their very AOSP-like ROMs make modding much easier too.

Also I bet you don’t find many other flagship phones in 2024 that still have both SD card and headphone jack lol

I do. The only reason I don’t want any of the current foldable phone is because they are still too small to be a proper “tablet but fits pocket when folded”.

With a tri-fold system it could easily have a main screen size beyond 10", and then it’s finally getting into proper tablet sizes.