| ▲ | dmbche 5 hours ago |
| Has anyone yet seen one of those phones? Was it a honeypot all along? (A la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield) Edit0: they seem to exist and they have a headphone jack? Incredible. |
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| ▲ | craftkiller 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > they have a headphone jack And an American flag with the incorrect number of stripes. I wonder which 2 colonies they decided weren't worth including on their phone. |
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| ▲ | adam12 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why all the hate for headphone jacks? |
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| ▲ | neogodless 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In theory, maybe? This is behind a paywall... https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/trump-mobile-phone-revi... Title: Trump Mobile T1 phone test: device no longer ‘Made in the USA.’ Heading: We tested the Trump Mobile phone. It was 9 months late and no longer ‘Made in the USA.’ And then there's https://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-t1-trump-phone-is-the-same... (linked in the sibling comment at The Verge) "Trump Phones Are Finally Here—And People Aren’t Happy" |
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| ▲ | tzs 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | From the CNET article: > There is a headphone jack, but it's on the top of the phone. They say that like it is a bad thing. I've always preferred the headset jack on the top because if I'm using the device while sitting and the jack is on the bottom it interferes with resting my phone holding hand the table if I'm at my desk or on my chest or leg if I'm the couch. The main argument I've heard for jack on the bottom is that most people normally put their phone in their pocket with the top down, so if the jack is on top you have to flip it. Google is telling me that jack on top was the norm in the early days of smartphones but gradually changed as the pocket argument won out. Of course this wouldn't matter at all if more phones rotated the screens so that the display was upright even if the phone is upside down. Then everyone could have the headphone jack where they want. | | |
| ▲ | malfist 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Of course this wouldn't matter at all if more phones rotated the screens so that the display was upright even if the phone is upside down Generally I don't want to get my skin oils all over the lenses on my really expensive smart phone. | |
| ▲ | dmbche 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think it's about when you put your phone in your pocket, you have to have it top-up while most people put it top-down, shortening the lenght of the cable and pushing against the connector. In that optic top jack is worse, I believe |
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| ▲ | FireBeyond 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They went instead with "Assembled in the USA" printed on the box, which means that the phone was put in its box in Florida. "Official" MAGA hats now say "Made in PRC" as if their wearers are too stupid to realize that means People's Republic of China, after the backlash against "Made in China". It's not a bad bet, actually: a media outlet back in the day polled a bunch of Republican voters and asked "If the government were to introduce, instead of Obamacare, some form of Affordable Care Act, would you be opposed?" (And the number one Google query on the last election day? "Did Biden drop out?") |
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| ▲ | ipython 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I was going to say that I saw some unwrapping videos online, but then I saw... https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/936018/trump-mobile-t1-phon.... Personally, I still use my BidenPhone, which was an upgrade from my 2009-era ObamaPhone brick. /s |
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| ▲ | zikduruqe 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The real joke is the "Obama Phone" meme from back in the day, is from the Lifeline project that was started by Reagan. It's funny to see how all the history has been scrubbed from the Wikipedia entry. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lifeline_(FCC_pro... | |
| ▲ | nathanmills 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Was the /s needed? | | |
| ▲ | kibwen 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You misunderestimate the gullibility of the average human. The \s is always needed (though the interrobang is also acceptable). | | |
| ▲ | swores 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There have been quite a few punctuations proposed for indicating sarcasm, but interrobang not one of them - that (‽) is literally a combined ? and !, and is (per wikipedia) for "a question in an excited manner, expresses excitement, disbelief, or confusion in the form of a question, or asks a rhetorical question". This page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation - has sarcasm ones (but I don't think any are as well known as the interrobang, which itself isn't exactly universally used... though personally I'm weird enough to have a keyboard shortcut to type it on my phone) | | |
| ▲ | podunkPDX 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > I'm weird enough to have a keyboard shortcut to type it on my phone) I'm not the only one‽ | | |
| ▲ | swores 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You thought you were‽ <3 (Unrelated, do you work at Paradox? Or 3 letters in your username coincidental to their abbreviation?) | | |
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| ▲ | khazhoux 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I find all "/s" tags to be offensive to comedy. Can you imagine "A Modest Proposal (/s)" ? | | |
| ▲ | kibwen 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Two peeves in one here: The "/s" is just punctuation, same as "!" or "?" or even ".", which was a radical suggestion at one point. Punctuation isn't bad, it's not necessarily good either, but it is often useful. It should be judged based on whether it improves the ability to communicate via the written word by encoding nuance that would have been expressed verbally. And A Modest Proposal isn't comedy, it's also not sarcasm, it's satire. Modern satirists may have confused themselves into thinking that the point of satire is to be subtle, but this is a disastrous idea. Satire is political commentary, it's supposed to be so over-the-top and starkly obvious in its intent that it cannot possibly be misconstrued as accidentally arguing in favor of what it's trying to argue against. This is why, for example, Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is bad satire: if someone has to ask "is this satire?", or someone has to helpfully point out that something is intended to be satire, then it's bad satire by definition. |
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