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And customer support. Unless you aren't going to sell to humans they're going to break/not RTFM/have asks.


Curious what level of thinking you have been using as well. Found that lowering it actually gets me better results.


I'm just using the defaults.


I always remembered this anecdote. Was he a fan of retyping books? Or writing long hand?


For the sake of argument if you build on AWS is that any more of a solid foundation? You're beholden to Amazon, unless you have the bandwidth to be able to DR immediately to another provider.


That is indeed a similar problem. Europe is now aware of this problem and starting to mitigate it, to reduce dependencies on big tech - how hard that may be.


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.


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