sovietknuckles [they/them] @ sovietknuckles @hexbear.net

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I wasn't recommending against Chinese phones at all. And I made the mistake of assuming OP/anyone reading was in the US, when they might be from Europe or elsewhere where the phones work fine.

I'm US, and I bought my OnePlus phone directly from them online. I haven't noticed the issues you're talking about, but maybe that's because I use Wi-Fi for calling and apps whenever I can, and not carrier data.

I was with you at first when you mentioned OnePlus until you started recommending against Chinese phones in general for some reason

But thats the main issue with importing a Chinese version of those phones or importing a Xiaomi is that your signal will be terrible when everyone else is fine.

I have a OnePlus 11 5G and my signal is fine. Admittedly, I had to contact my MVNO carrier directly to find out what APN to enter in order for data to work properly, but that is specific to the MVNO, not my phone.

Then some carriers may have trouble activating the phone for you.

It sounds like you've bad a bad experience. Carriers that require you to activate your phone are unnecessarily giving you extra hurtles, and this issue is generally limited to big carriers whose users don't know about MVNOs/don't know any better., Any respectable carrier will let you just insert your SIM card, maybe input an APN, and call it a day.

I really don't recommend buying a phone without US carrier support or WiFi bands to save yourself a lot of trouble.

My OnePlus 11 5G reception and Wi-Fi support are excellent, and I really don't recommend counting out all Chinese phones because you, personally, weren't able to get them working

The main problem with Google is their phones are objectively worse hardware wise to just about every other brand at the same price

Agreed, Google's hardware is subpar, but that is a Google-specific problem. OnePlus cameras are better than iPhone cameras.

They also know what you visit on Red Note

Really? How?

They say they will

“While we are committed to providing reliable and affordable internet service to customers across the country, New York’s broadband law imposes harmful rate regulations that make it uneconomical for AT&T to invest in and expand our broadband infrastructure in the state,” the company said in statements provided to CNET and Ars Technica.

This is blogspam. While Ars Technica put this quote near the beginning of their article and wrote an article afterwards to put it into context, this short article gave AT&T the very last word.

Whoever came up with this didn't do a basic background check on the tech...

The law was likely requested by a billionaire. Practicality doesn't matter as much when it's a direct request

Trump cancelled smdh my dick head

Coke is BDS now

The campaign to ban TikTok started immediately after Israel blamed TikTok for young people hating genocide.

An article from March 2024 pointing to the leaked phone call as the source of the ban: Leak shows pro-Israel lobby chief blaming TikTok for pro-Palestine youth. Now the US is banning the app.

Some things would be good if it's everywhere, like communism

My main takeaway was that we can make anti-natalism posts now

It's legal and makes them money unless advertisers drop them now, why would the capitalists not

America ISP options for any given address are listed at https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/ , and you can filter it to only show high-speed ISPs. It gets updated a few times every year

I would be wary of idolizing any particular neurological condition.

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

Don't be irl Sheldon.

Don't compare autism blackface with autistic people

Nah you're good, everything ends after heat death anyway

Yep, a "click Slack every 2 minutes" script is an absolute must. My boss is mad if Slack shows me as away and I don't answer them, but ever since I started using the script, they're patient

OTOH there's a lot of jealousy over people who I see out and about as "normal" and knowing I'm not going to be them.

Idolizing neurotypical people is silly and we autistic people are cooler and better

Part of me wishes I could just deal with a 9-5 job like most people and maybe empty my mind of Politics.

Result-based 9-5 jobs that are 100% remote aren't so bad. There's the expectation that I'm online between 9 and 5 PM, but a cron job I made opens the chat program at 9 for me and I wake up hours later