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This is looking great, hope the camera can at least produce decent photos. So many other phones with a QEWRTY keyboard just have awful cameras.

The Razr 2024/25 + the clicks keyboard is probably the "best" so far. Although I just got a Zinwa Q25. Amazing how good that formfactor feels after having candy bars this long.


The site lists the following specs for cameras:

> Cameras

> Rear: 50MP OIS

> Front: 24MP

Honestly, this sounds like a great deal


Thanks, I saw that, but I never can make heads or tails of just MP. Feel like some phones have much lower MP but the quality of the photo is much higher.

It does seem like a great deal either way though!


> Thanks, I saw that, but I never can make heads or tails of just MP. Feel like some phones have much lower MP but the quality of the photo is much higher.

It does not merely feel that way; it often is. That is because megapixels measure the dimensions of the files the camera generates (this is not the same as resolution) and as such are almost the worst measure of camera quality.

Boring tech websites like comparing megapixels, because that is a number, and that allows people who do not know how cameras work to review products and have opinions without actually using them. Truth is that pixels, a measure of resolution, have been irrelevant for years when one is not printing them huge or looking at them full-size on gigantic computer monitors. More or less nobody is doing that these days; they're looking at them a few inches wide on their phones or tablets, usually via [insert social app] that downsizes and compresses the shit out of them to save on bandwidth & storage.

Things like

* colour rendition * contrast rendition * low-light ability * speed of operation (allows you to get a photo in the first place) * and more things I could name

...are all far more important to what makes a good camera on a phone. If more people were like you and actually LOOKED AT THE PHOTOS we might have ended up with much better cameras than we have now.


If pictures are important to the buyer, they should get a high end Samsung, iPhone or specialty Huawei/Vivo models. Every other phone will have a generic camera lens and imaging algorithm. Source: I have purchased a lot of phones. A 4 year old Galaxy S22 will take better pictures than a 2025 Motorola or any other Tier 2 Android brand.


Funny how you are missing Oppo and Xiaomi which are heavily focused on photography with their collaborations on Hasselblad color science and Leica respectively


Old school datahand user here, are you using the trackball version of The Svalboard? How does it work as a mouse replacement?


Currently using a Magic Trackpad, but might upgrade to a trackball for convenience. It's supposedly on par with standalone trackballs!


I Velcro a touch pad on the middle of my kinesis advantage.

They made the Form keyboard but not sure the they haven't done the same for the ergo design.

It's a no brainer.


Yeah, it's a fun interactive book.

As any parent is aware a toddler doesn't need training to use a screen. If anything it shows just how intuitive these UI/UX have become.


Have you looked into Kinesis Advantage?


If you're a fan of the free market and want to see these books continue to be available go ahead and contact the rights owners and offer to purchase them.


The lock-down has never been about saving lives. It's about preventing the chaos that would occur if we did nothing and let the health care system crash.

People in charge get this, sure saving lives is nice, but it's about maintaining the order of things.

You really think if this went out of control people would not pull a gun in a hospital to get their relative help? Or groups of people would not be targeted, even more than they are now, as scapegoats?

Even now it's acknowledged that many more are going to get it, many more will die, but at least things will not spiral out of control and we will be able to manage the hospitalization rates.


Not the parent, but I've looked into this and here's my take.

1. Yes RDP 2. The cost can vary obviously, but let's take a lower-end 4vcore 16GB Windows VM (B4MS) - $29.12 (160 hours per month of usage) 3. 512GB of SSD storage - $38.40 a month

It's not a bad setup if you need flexibility to scale up your VM.


I had not known about gumroad and took a look. Would you ever introduce more of a product browsing store front experience?

I see all these great categories in the search drop-down, but no way to just take a peak into what was available.

Great read and glad you are enjoying your journey.


Most likely due to the same troll farms that paint the narrative that SpaceX wastes tax payer money.

Now who would not want a new private American company to succeed in revitalizing the industry and increasing competition. Hmm, I can think of a few.

It used to be "NASA is a bloated waste of tax payer money let private Enterprise in."

And now the same people who said that, have been convinced that private industry is stealing.


> the same people who said that

This part doesn't match my experience?

"NASA is a waste" is, broadly, a conservative/Republican stance. Almost everyone I've seen outraged about the Tesla launch was noticeably left of the average Democrat. I don't think a narrative of "they hated the public version, now they hate the private version" holds up for the people I've seen.

Granted, there's a second group on the left who hated NASA before and SpaceX now. But that narrative is usually "space exploration is a waste when people are going hungry", with not much concern about public/private status.


"NASA is a waste" is, broadly, a conservative/Republican stance..."space exploration is a waste when people are going hungry"

It's definitely now also a Far Left talking point. Larry Wilmore basically went back to the old 60's, "Why is there poverty, and we're putting men on the moon?" There's a scene somewhere where he's telling Bill Nye to STFU about his Science. This brings to mind Phillip DeFranco's t-shirt about substituting feelings for facts.


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