The PS3 is such a nice console. There is something special about using a device with such unorthodox CPU (Cell BE), especially when you see it running graphics intensive games in (relatively) high fidelity, like The Last Of Us. The console only has 512Mb RAM and 256Mb VRAM, and the GPU equivalent of the 8600GT! But due to the architecture of the Cell BE, a lot of the graphics processing was performed on the SPEs, so basically on the CPU instead of the GPU.
NTFS has that exact feature too, a log of file operations on the disk. They’ve had it long before Recall was a thing.
There’s also this shim in case you have GMS installed but no GPhotos, it allows using any gallery app with GCam:
Not to deny your point, but I remember being disgusted by Instagram suggesting me blue hearts as emojis (blue for AfD, unsurprisingly) on a post that was relevant to German politics. Not sure what exactly the post was about, but I think something that had to do with migrants and/or greens.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the international TikTok (as opposed to Douyin, the Chinese version) has, to put it in an oversimplified way, a lot of American control over it, as that was the demand of the USA in exchange for not banning the app. Knowing the US-Russia relations, I’d say this makes a lot more sense than China meddling with elections. AfD is pro-russian first and foremost, we’ve seen Musk openly advocating for them. I strongly believe that it’s the US+Russia combo that presents the most danger to the European democracy at the present moment.
As bad as TikTok is, I think Meta with its nonexistent content moderation is even worse. TikTok is at least decent at ensuring you don’t see random gore in your feed like the one where a man was trampled by an elephant and which got recommended to half of the Instagram userbase.
Plus Meta owns Facebook AND Instagram for maximum control over all age groups: boomers and GenX on Facebook, millenials and zoomers on Instagram. It’s far bigger a threat just by its “reach”.
I also think it’s often harder to give up Instagram (like Facebook!) because it’s a tool for keeping contact with friends/acquaintances, unlike TikTok, which is, in my opinion, just a content consumption farm.
Having seen the absolute chaos and legitimate panic that happened in the US when TikTok was banned (for less than 24h or so, wasn’t it?), I’m convinced a scary amount of people will figuratively explode if their toy is taken away.
I had a 6.3" phone and thought I wanted something smaller, got a 6.1" Pixel 6a and found it to be too small for my liking, now I’m using a 6.8" Pixel 8 Pro and honestly, I think I could have managed another 0.2" for a nice round number of 7", but there are no phones like this :D