/cyb/ - Cyberpunk Fiction and Fact

>>2505
Meh, they want to limit screen-time tho. It's not about privacy.
That said, LineageOS is great. It also has superior backwards compatibility with older android apps in my experience.
You can also run it in Linux with nearly native speed through a container:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid

>>2506
Hive mind brother. I just switched over to Mint and HoloIso(SteamOs3) for my gaming computer. Fuck Bill Gates. He only bought his OS. Balmer did all the work.

>>2507
>hive mind
Indeed
>Bill Gaytes
His downfall is neigh.

>>2506
The picture on the left was made with passion. A unique pony with a unique pose and a unique outfit. Her cute anime eyes are adorable.
It's not show-accurate like the recolour on the right, probably traced from Octavia or some other background pony, but I think it's better that way.

New revolutionary Chinese phone.
Four million advance orders for a $2800 phone in three days. The Chinese market has collapsed. Western companies can safely stay away.
Black market price already over RMB 90K ($12,641)
4 million pre-order with an estimated 60-100K initial batch available
https://x.com/XH_Lee23/status/1833435764895715798

>>3447
>revolutionary
How though? What new technologies does it utilize? Multi+Folding screen phones have been out for a while now and they're generally regarded as dysfunctional and fragile with no practical applications found for the added screens or flexibility. Every other spec listing from the (uselessly) high megapixel optically stabilized camera to the multi gigs of RAM are common on enthusiast phones from all other manufacturers.

The fascinatingly dystopian swing to the ordeal is that a hundred million Chinese and Indians are in a rush to finance such a device for it to only be used to scam Westerners out of the digital currency, which we all know is what the dual SIM is for.

>>3450
>multi gigs of RAM
Is 16gigs a lot for phones? Kek

>>3447
idk, seems to me tech is just sort of out of ideas. They have been for awhile now. That's why they've transitioned from making genuine innovations and improvements to just grafting new novelty features onto devices that are already about as functional as they're going to get. Like a bendable screen is pretty cool from an engineering point of view I guess, it's neat that they figured out how to make that work. However, I can't say I've ever been in a situation where I find myself saying "gee, this task would be so much easier if only I could bend my phone in half."

>>3451
The thing is, there is NOTHING that the phone does out of the box that needs that much ram. Any recent smartphone has an APU or separate GPU with its own VRAM that handles UI and camera processing. It's as if the gigs are piled on only to give tards more time before whatever virus app they installed starts slugging their phone with backloaded ads. It gives poos more leeway to make their shitcode worse. And last I read the ram in newer Samsung phones has a 2004-tier bus speed, something like 830mhz.

>>3453
>idk, seems to me tech is just sort of out of ideas.
There's a lot of neat stuff out there that would add novelty and function to phones. The technology behind the 3DS screen for example has been made so much better in the past 14 years. Multiple cameras is already the norm on phones so they could move one to the bottom and suddenly we have a 3D camera. That would streamline using phones as quality VR headsets, especially with cheaper Samsung tablets now using 120+ screen hz. 3D capability could put phones on the map for having exclusive game titles actually worth playing. The phone could be a rangefinder with that tech and also make 3D scanning of objects and places more efficient which would contribute to every industry reliant on that. But of course, the technology is held up in patent purgatory so nobody is allowed to do anything with it unless they convince the holder to share its usage (through billions in upfront payments followed by royalties).

Patents pin technological development to the cross. Even stupid shit like modern phones not being able to use GPS satellites, instead relying on data bands, is because the idea of adding a GPS receiver to a phone is patented by some patent farm.

>>3453
>However, I can't say I've ever been in a situation where I find myself saying "gee, this task would be so much easier if only I could bend my phone in half."
I think it is about real state aka how many pixels can be shown. To me it looks like a natural evolution from a tiny surface meant to show rich text.

China's Kaiwa Technology develops pregnancy humanoid robot with artificial womb technology
>China firm plans world’s first pregnancy humanoid robot using artificial womb
>The innovation uses artificial amniotic fluid and nutrient delivery via hose, replicating natural gestation, now to be integrated into humanoid robots
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-worlds-first-pregnancy-humanoid-robot
Femoids need no apply.

>>3809
I have my doubts. China has put out bull shit before and this sounds like too much for them.

>>180
Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities
>Developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store (F-Droid) will need to verify their identity through the new Android Developer Console that Google is currently building.
>Rolling out in phases starts from September 2026
>https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-verification-requirements-3590911/

This is just increased control from Big Brother Google because Play Protect can already catch malware and they should just improve it!

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
>Starting today, Google is implementing a change that will enable its Gemini AI engine to interact with third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even when users previously configured their devices to block such interactions.
>An email Google sent recently informing users of the change linked to a notification page that said that “human reviewers (including service providers) read, annotate, and process” the data Gemini accesses.
>https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/unless-users-take-action-android-will-let-gemini-access-third-party-apps/
Apparently, even ADB can't always uninstall it but you can still try uninstalling it using Android devtools: adb shell pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.bard

Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data
>https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-latest-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ssdshdds-may-corrupt-your-data/

>>3830
>verifying developers’ identities
>breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data
F

Racist AI makes roasties obsolete

This is for the resident anon faithful follower of the religion of science. This time a female priest announces the new miracles and reassures a bright future for the faith.
>Good News for Battery Progress!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Mu7AAiabo

>>4074
This is for the resident anon pointer-outer of bad posts. Your post is bad because instead of writing your opinions and relaying information, all you did was namefag and link a clickbait YouTube video.

>>4075 here. I misread and overlooked the crucial word order in >>4074. This resulted in my joke not making sense. I am pointing out my own post as bad. I will ingest 70ml of potassium cyanide.

>>4076
>I will ingest 70ml of potassium cyanide.
That's over the top, try bleach better.

>>4074
>if you believe virology is a real science or that the earth is round you follow the religion of science.
Protestants are a fucking joke.

>>4074
>This time a female priest announces the new miracles and reassures a bright future for the faith.
What drew you to that conclusion? That's literally the opposite of what she's doing in the video. The first half of the video is her expressing skepticism of ambitious "breakthroughs" in battery technology (and rebuking clickbait media headlines), and acknowledging that the reality of battery tech progress has been gradual and modest. The other half is expressing cautious optimism that battery tech may improve and thinking of ways that the weaker, larger sodium ion batteries may be applied in different ways.
What is the "religion" or "miracle" being presented here? Do you think that cautious optimism about gradual improvements in battery technology is zealotry? Did you even watch the video you posted?
What is your point?

>>4083
>What is your point?
Science per se is fine, its priests and believers are sausage.

>>4084
>sausage
WTF. Why /mlpol/ is messing with the meaning of words? I wrote c-r-i-n-g-e. Have the anti-White SJWs taken over this board?

>>4084
What does the video you posted have to do with that? It's just a random scientist lady giving out some lukewarm realistic takes about batteries. How does that further your point?
>>4085
The filter has been there for years. Expand your vocabulary..

>>4086
>Expand your vocabulary..
Would someponer in the staff be gentle enough on bringing justice over the responsible of messing with the code?

>>4087
Answer the questions.
>messing with the code?
We have had filters on various meme terms since the site's inception. 4chan does it too. If you don't like it, take it to /qa/.

>>4085
>>4087
You're sounding pretty sausage there, bro.

>>4093
Okay. Maybe it was a bit edgy.

>>4092
So you're just talking out your ass and don't actually have anything intelligent to say. Thanks for clarifying.

>4096
>misuse of memes by the newfag who doesn't even know what they mean
Sad. Many such cases.

>>4097
I'm disappointed.

I'm not disappointed at all. I have come to expect very little of you.

>>4118
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025-01380-1.epdf
Do you think their mechanism is wrong?

>>4119
I think I come to imageboards to read what other users of that imageboard have to say, and not what some shills have published in some tabloid. Merely dropping links doesn't count as discussion.

>>4120
>nature paper
>tabloid
You're a gorilla nigger. You're the blackest retard gorilla nigger I've ever seen.

>>4121
Different anon here.
Think about it, it is unlikely someponer will read a scientific paper as we lurk here for fun and drama.

>>4122
Fair enough. I remember during covid I was pretty much the only one actually reading the papers. Learned a lot about biology in the process, but I actually enjoy reading research papers.

Cloudflares shit the bed again
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/cloudflare-down-websites-offline-with-500-internal-server-error/

>>4137
>Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted
I bet a pajeet messing with the code was involved.

>>4138
Patching a React exploit, probably CVE-2025-55182, which may have caused the last outage.

>>4123
Long ago I worked at a place where we had access to lots of doctoral dissertations. When the supervisors would go home I'd read them.

One of the problems, though, with research papers and suchlike things is that more of them are bullshit than not, even in the hard sciences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

tl;dr We don't know what we don't know. People have died and continue to die as a result of Dr. Shekelberg's grant farming grift.

>>4163
The hard sciences don't have nearly the same problem as the social sciences, but I know what you mean. Some good rules of thumb are to be skeptical of 3rd rate journals and anything done with difficult to replicate materials like cancer cell culture studies.