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OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by inigyou »

annzabelle wrote: post #322
jamesfinlayson wrote: post #321

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> That sounds pretty corrupt. I live in Australia and Australia is not New Zealand... but this sounds exactly like what would happen in rural Australia - people in small towns still do handshake deals because you know and trust most people in town. Not related to business deals but a family member was flying rurally in Australia maybe 15 years ago and joked about stabbing the pilot with a 4cm nail file. The airport s…

I met someone who told me they flew domestically with a licensed hunting rifle in NZ about 10 years ago and they were told to open carry the rifle onto the plane where the flight attendant locked it up. Unrelated but Finnair's requirements for flying with doctoral swords are wonderful.

Big city or small town flight? Like anywhere, density changes everything. Certainly Auckland and Christchurch and Wellington have proper security procedures and facilities.

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Post by whall6 »

diegof79 wrote: post #340
whall6 wrote: post #323

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Hard work is invigorating? Especially when working on something cool?

A healthy life is more invigorating. You can sustain a month of 996 if your project is under fire (it may happen in a startup). But more than that is unsustainable: you have less social life and get more tired. Which means that you get more irritable, make more mistakes, eat more calories, and have more chances of depression or burnout. There is nothing heroic or productive about 996

You’re speaking with authority but have no sources. What can you point me to that says working for longer than a month at 72 hrs/wk is unsustainable? Sure everything you say can happen. But also you can feel invigorated and it can be extremely healthy to feel like you have a purpose. It’s up to the person who is signing up to work to decide. And guess what? Nobody is forcing you to work 72 hrs/wk. There are plenty of other jobs out there.

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Post by whall6 »

ulfw wrote: post #355
whall6 wrote: post #323

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Hard work is invigorating? Especially when working on something cool?

Managing an Amazon sales account is 'cool' now?

I don’t look down upon people based on what they think is cool and I don’t think you should either.

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Post by dielll »

My first OnePlus was 12R when it came out. Used it till last month when I got 15 because work was paying for it. In terms of performance, I dont see a difference, guess flagships have matured. However the 15 is a beat when it comes to battery life. I literally get 2-3 days of battery life. Never worry about battery life when going out or at anytime. Pkus it's the flagship Snapdragon soc so it runs anything. Money well spent. Too sad that they are closing shop

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Post by inigyou »

denkmoon wrote: post #329
inigyou wrote: post #311

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> the main idiosyncrasy is that in New Zealand we can just call people up on the phone or via email and arrange contracts, That sounds pretty corrupt. I've recently commented that countries with lower corruption perceptions probably have more corruption, and New Zealand is one of the lowest. Unless you're some kind of competitively approved supplier that's chosen by default because you consistently do good work. Why…

How the hell else do you arrange a contract? Lawyers at 10 paces? What's so corrupt about directly communicating with someone gain agreement? This is confusing.

A competitive bidding process, which the government is usually required to do because everything else is corruption.

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Post by gck1 »

freedomben wrote: post #158

OnePlus is one of the saddest stories out there. It was the hacker's choice for a while. It was originally the "Never Settle" phone that ran mostly stock android, had specs maxxed out, price was great, and bootloader was unlocked plus they provided factory images. Those were all reasons I bought a lot of OnePlus phones in the early years. Then they flushed nearly all of it down the toilet. The day they stopped postin…

And they had actual community! Never have I been frequent on any manufacture's discussion forum, but with OnePlus, I was. It was wild to see a manufacturer helping you with rooting their device.

Then I saw the announcement that they'll be merging the bloatware Chinese version of their OS and that was the last day I held my OnePlus phone.

Had they not taken that path, I'd likely have bought at least 3 of their phones since then.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

cromka wrote: post #365
Dylan16807 wrote: post #337

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Maybe it's not technically a "swap system" but I'll be shocked if they're not doing effectively the same thing. How could you avoid having active uncompressed pages and inactive compressed pages? The amount of tracking you'd need to do to use compressed pages directly seems like an impossible amount of overhead.

There are good articles that explain that and OP is right.

Can you link one? A quick search just showed me information about compressing inactive apps and that requires very bulky actions with a lot of overhead, much more than going per page. Plus information about compressing inactive pages in a way that's basically the same as swap. Is there a third method I'm not aware of?

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Post by ulfw »

whall6 wrote: post #374
ulfw wrote: post #355

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Managing an Amazon sales account is 'cool' now?

I don’t look down upon people based on what they think is cool and I don’t think you should either.

How am I looking down on someone?

Someone had an opinion calling something cool and I am not allowed to have an opinion questioning said coolness?

You do realise this is a discussion board right?

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Post by antisthenes »

freedomben wrote: post #158

OnePlus is one of the saddest stories out there. It was the hacker's choice for a while. It was originally the "Never Settle" phone that ran mostly stock android, had specs maxxed out, price was great, and bootloader was unlocked plus they provided factory images. Those were all reasons I bought a lot of OnePlus phones in the early years. Then they flushed nearly all of it down the toilet. The day they stopped postin…

Sounds like the story of Mozilla/Firefox on the software side.

25% and rising market share, wonderful extension ecosystem.

Nope, gotta copy Chrome. With expected results.

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