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I recently bought the FP6 with android preinstalled and installed /e/os myself because it was cheaper that way. Installing the is is not difficult at all and there is a detailed guide availabe.

I'm pretty satisfied so far. I'm not missing any functionality except for the headphone jack, but I was willing to compromise on that. Sadly it's almost impossible to get a phone with headphone jack nowadays anyway.

I generally look for smaller phones with long battery life, and value durability and longevity over cutting edge features. In that regard, the phone is very good in my opinion. It's smaller that current flagship phones and over the holidays I even went a week without charging it, on day-to-day use I'm currently charging it every 2 to 3 days.

I can't speak about how repairable it is yet myself, but according to FP and ifixit repairs should be very easy for things like changing the battery and doable with some steady hands for more complex repairs. There are no glued down parts, everything is screwed down or clipped in and you can buy spare parts straight from the manufacturer.

You're one of the people the meme is talking about.

The version of the ai images in the game was already the one with some human touch ups. Then ubisoft admitted they were using ai generated images and replaced the generated images with the same ones just slightly more touched up.

The ai slop was always meant to be in the game, ubisoft just didn't expect this much backlash. They received a 5.7 Million € grant from the German government for the development of the game but despite that refused to pay their artists.

Anno 117 enthält unter anderem AI-Slop Ladebildschirme, die mehr schlecht als recht nachretuschiert wurden.

Ubisoft behauptet, dass das nur erste Entwürfe sind, die versehentlich nicht mit den fertigen Assets ersetzt wurden [1]. Ich halte es für wahrscheinlicher, dass das schon die fertigen Bilder sind und sie einfach nicht mit so extrem viel Backlash gerechnet haben. Das "fertige" Bild ist immer noch derselbe AI-Slop, nur besser nachretuschiert als vorher, also keine wirkliche Verbesserung.

[1] https://www.thegamer.com/anno-117-ai-generative-artwork-ubisoft/

2 Stunden warten um ein 100GB grosses Spiel runterzuladen, das dann aufgrund mangelhafter Optimierung mehrere Minuten lange AI-Slop Ladebildschirme anzeigt muss diese neue AAAA-Experience sein, von der Ubisoft immer redet.

If you look at the older titles, there's so much love and passion that went into the artworks. 1404 is 16 years old and has aged incredibly well, because of the high quality of the work that went into it. This is missing in 117.

They tried to build a lot of hype around the game and get people to preorder. Maybe those numbers were (far) below expectations?

The most recent release is probably Anno 117 which came out yesterday. While decently looking it's lacking features of the previous title (like coop mode and mod browser) with the promise they will be added later and is priced at around 60€ or 90€ if you want to gamble on the quality of the promised to be released DLC. They also relied on AI generated images in some of the assets used in the game instead of paying their artists. Optimisation for the game seems to be ok, but not great but it might be too early to judge that fully yet.

This article is AI generated and therefore worthless as a news source.

I swear, reading error messages shouldn't be a god damn super power.

If the author had any reading/writing skills, he'd not be using a slop generator.

Thumbnail is AI slop. Yes, I'm judging this book by it's cover.

I generally agree with your statement, just one thing to keep in mind: Mypy sucks for any library larger than a few thousand lines spread over a couple of files, but pyright is developed by M$ and might be part of their usual Embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy. The other two contenders are pytype (google) and pyre (facebook), so it's not like there's a good selection of independent, good and FOSS type checkers out there at the moment.

Astral - the people behind the ruff linter - are currently developing ty, yet another static type checker for python, with a lot of promise, but it's going to be a couple of months, maybe a year before it is in any shape to be used in production code.