@gggeeee that's an amazing deal

but yeah it's the same SoC as the note5

the whole benefit of motorola phones is the moto mods

that speaker looks like it could fill any room you're in with noise. perfect way to piss people off at parties.

I mean you also escape from MIUI

I don't think the redmi note 5 is supported by lineage yet

note 4 is

sony compact phones 😩

I got my XZ1C for $320 buying it open box from amazon. rooted and DRM fixed + nova launcher prime. snapdragon 835, dual front facing speakers, headphone jack, and guaranteed updates all the way to Android P.

and there's a chance it will unlock 120hz by the end of its support cycle. if Sony is gracious.

awkward, his mom was about to buy me an iPhone X as a thanks for letting her suck my dick

@gggeeee there's a mod for that

I have a Sony but if I had known about the Redmi Note 4 when I bought I would have gotten one

at least I still get to be one of the few remaining smartphone enthusiasts that can use my phone with one hand

I can use my phone comfortably with one hand and touch any part of the screen with my thumb

so it's not a regrettable purchase

a few hundred extra bucks in my pocket would have been nice though

I could have gotten a note 4 and a thinkpad for not that much more than the price of my phone

it's a 4.6 inch screen

https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_xz1_compact-8610.php

it's actually amazing on the hardware level

various software problems make it worth less

software disabled 120hz, fingerprint sensor

unlocking the bootloader disables the camera

a few of those problems you can get around but 120hz is still not an option until Sony throws us a bone

it's 330 ppi

I can hold the phone up to my face and still not see an individual pixel

$325

plus tax but free shipping

I have a friend with huge hands who still uses an iPhone SE because it's just a little bit easier to handle

and he doesn't like to ever use two hands

nah, I live my life on my phone

I am just a tech addict though

yeah 6 inch screens are for lonely NEETs

smaller phones are better for actually communicating with people on the go

which is what phones are for in the first place

can't tell if tiny phone or huge face

idk why anyone middle class and up would use a xiaomi phone

seems like xiaomi phones are for working class and/or neets who need to pinch every penny but still want to be able to watch porn anywhere at any time

more like phone prices explained by a phone autist

if you have the money for a flagship, buy a flagship

duh

it's a relative thing

if you make $80k a year then go spend $700 on your phone

if you make $20k a year then buy Xiaomi

yeah but there are just better $700 phones tbh

don't listen to me on anything

listen to your heart

😩

/g/ takes good principles to the extreme. like any application with a GUI is "bloat" because it uses 50MB of RAM.

but we are in /csg/ so I can see why I would be the minority

I am a poorfag and I like to pinch pennies. but that's not to say I don't like to fantasize about Pixel phones and 1080Ti desktops.

what do you mean?

depends on what you're doing I guess

the X220 and T420 are the best laptops if you know your way around a screwdriver and don't have much money

but if you do have much money, there's the LG Gram or Dell XPS

or even the X1C

(laptops are still PCs)

nice ninja edit

eh, they still have their place for poorfags.

there are things I can do on my desktop that I just can't do on any other device, like watching movies in 4K.

lmao no

a $3000 gaming laptop will give you top tier gaming performance for at least 5 years assuming you don't break it

(btw I sell laptops for a living)

did you have something on topic you wanted to talk about?

autism

I actually wanted to try out linux deepin sometime soon

I distro hop constantly but right now I am in love with Manjaro XFCE

(it does)

a distro is a preconfigured environment + a package manager

manjaro uses pacman (the Arch package manager) so everything else manjaro is just the preconfigured environment

tl;dr it's the manjaro flavor of XFCE, not the XFCE flavor of manjaro

it still uses ubuntu repos though right?

nice

plug n' play

yeah GNOME does not deserve flagship DE status

XFCE is superior in every way

deepin seems to have potential

I gave deepin a test drive on my arch box but it installed too much extraneous shit that interfered with my non-deepin usage

will install deepin linux on one of my old laptops sometime soon to test out

I am convinced that the GNOME devs are former mac users who are frustrated that Linux is so complicated to use

agreed on Budgie

Solus is a great project

they just need more manpower for their repos

I am fine going on IRC to bug the devs about needed updates but most users should not have to do that

linux is a software ecosystem with so many choices that you'll never feel entirely confident that you picked the right one and will spend the rest of your life obsessing over whether or not you have the ideal user experience

and you'll never know for sure because most of the tools take years of habituation to use optimally (keyboard interfaces with manual configuration) and you've already picked up new tools before you got to use them properly for more than a few routine tasks

unmodded Morrowind at 4k 320fps 😩

morrowind's replay value is actually insane

once you realize the whole story was just michael kirkbride's gnostic autism spilling over into a fantasy universe where he can shit on the catholic church and the demiurge through the power of 3D prose

"wait a second, why does every mission in the main quest require me to read a ton of lore"

it all makes sense now

@Cad I can substantiate everything

he admitted on reddit to being a gnostic christian and the parallels are striking in the story

if you learn about gnostic mythology literally _everything_ has a counterpart in TES lore

this isn't just an absurd train of thought for the lulz though, it was actually kirkbride's intention in every way

and there are some parts where he got lazy with the name changes and made it obvious. like how the "Apographa" are the documents proving Nerevar's betrayal at the hands of the Tribunal, nothing like the Christian Apocrypha that prove Jesus was a gnostic and betrayed by the Catholic Church.

heh

there are actually references in some translations of the bible to Jesus being able to walk through walls and appear in several places at the same time

how did he resurrect though?