All that is worthless when the phone will be released without battery.

Well they actually did. This is from leaked Google store pages for the new Pixels.

Why wouldn’t they?

There were rumors earlier this year that said Google will discontinue a series.

Google Pixel 8a leaks absurdly early with absurdly rounded design

This thing looks awful if real.

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Then build me a railroad track fucker.

As someone who hasn’t paid more than 500€ for a phone I can only laugh at this. 1000 is still outrageous.

Yeah and TSMC complains about US workers but at the same time keeps opening new plants there. It’s pretty obvious what it’s like to work for TSMC.

“If an engineer [in Taiwan] gets a call when he is asleep, he will wake up and start dressing,” he said. “His wife will ask: ‘What’s the matter?’ He would say: ‘I need to go to the factory.’ The wife will go back to sleep without saying another word. This is the work culture.”

Fuck that shit, that’s not work culture, that’s exploitation.

Yes, Sync for Lemmy is a battery hog in my case too. So much so that I uninstalled it a week or so ago but then installed it again since all other apps are not my cup of tea. This time I have restricted its background usage and it seems much better now.