Oh, and the author is a Turk. Why was it crucial for misinformation to spread?
Well, people who live in EU know that anything as drastic doesn't become actual and enforced law that comes unnoticed by everyone. Bottle caps might've caught some off-guard, but anything happening in tech is closely followed by any relevant community projects.

As being a writer usually requires a bit larger research and background than being a consumer, it's no surprise that actual EU citizens fall for something an actual EU citizen wouldn't write. It's trust.

Inb4 bigotry, the author may be living in EU and still be uninformed. Doubt. It's easy to notice even as a fresh immigrant that things take more time to happen here. We're bureaucratic, but this bureaucracy slows down the time it takes to implement both life regressions and improvements, making it easy to find the proposals years ahead.

The irony in this is that a random Turk at an AI slop site can actually cause an OEM lawyer to get scared simply because this post may pop up in search. Hopefully they're smarter than this.

Again: this wasn't a topic anytime before, an AI slop page is the first occurrence of this interpretation, the law would come peacefully into reality and the only difference you'd notice would be an increase of EU-specific routers with firmware limitations for radio operation.

Bonus part: people living in Turkey know a part of this story first hand too. A crazy tax on smartphones created a popularity of IMEI changing. The problem? Most OEMs use a server to sign EFS so that an end user can't change it without bribery. Yes, exactly what the spirit of EU law in question wants to be the norm.

It's not personal, I know they won't allow you to delete it nor correct it. I've been a writer at a commercial page at some point too, and came up with misinfo that a certain Xiaomi couldn't support 12GB RAM because Qualcomm's public spec said it's up to 8. Been there, done that.

(okay, it is a little personal, I lurk random groups and get pissed off every time I see it, but at the same time get that it is too late when the site's incentives are way off)

I know it's a long thread of messages, but there's something I giggle about inside:
Some time in the future, a frustrated user of a HMD Global phone will ask their support agent why tf the bootloader is permalocked. There's now a very significant chance that such an outsourced human agent will literally cite that post as the reason after copying the question into an LLM. A post itself coming from a conclusion made by LLM.
Tldr, AI already rules, we're cooked.

Okay, I've been pinged that there are edits going on in the original post, good to see.

The vibe loss can't be corrected tho, Google caused a lot of trouble, so people expect a cascade, let's not hasten it.

This is the last message about that post.

Remember the Android's lock screen album covers? Apple done that too and is using separate image files to avoid stretching a square to a long portrait screen.

Meanwhile an informative post about just a fraction of what a camera system has to take into account:
https://commonlands.com/blogs/technical/lens-chief-ray-angle-and-mismatch

Now also SamMobile, late to the party. Well, at least you can see how untrustworthy they are. I think they used to be better 10 years ago.

European Union law specialist.

I came across a video of cool looking phenomenon from a boomer channel on tg (flat earthers this time). It was atmospheric turbulence which they obviously interpreted as stars being fake. The worst thing is that no video I found elsewhere looks as good as theirs. Guess they were the only ones to care to magnify it or the only ones to think of Nikon P1000 as a good telescope (otherwise it's a great camera for its original purpose).

After ~10 minutes of searching for a comparable video I found just one:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ooeRUOZ0Gi4

Imagine it at a much higher res, slowed down and used as an animated wallpaper. That would be something. Subpar optics can often be unexpectedly fascinating, and same goes also for sensors. Every artifact can be recreated in post, but for artistic purposes it's always best to pick the real thing.

To state it once and for all:
THIS ISN'T DPI.

Smallest width setting sets your shorter display side length in dp units. The goal of this setting is to simulate same display size on various screens, no matter their resolution and actual size, as long as the smallest width value set by you is the same.

This means that setting your smallest width to round values is incorrect and counterproductive. It'll cause your dpi (which is what you can look up by wm density) to move away from the values the rasterized app assets were shipped for, resulting in unnecessary scaling.

Back when smallest width wasn't present in dev settings, CyanogenMod used to have a setting for actual dpi, equal to setting it in wm density.
What smallest width actually is is:
px / (dpi / 160)

So for example, the classic:
1080 / (480 / 160) = 360

So, what are the recommended actual dpi values if what you care about is for no assets to be additionally scaled?
120, 140, 160, 180, 200, 220, 240, 280, 320, 360, 400, 420, 480, 560 and 640.

Spread the awareness 🥺

https://github.com/Mr-Morat/Black-Peler/commits/AOSP/

There's a guy ready to fry your Redmi with AI slop kernel.¹²³
¹ If it even compiles
² If it even boots up far enough to take over charging
³ If you're gullible enough to flash it

ZTE revealed Leica router.

I'm breaking my promise, but fr, they actually pushed an additional post to milk it further instead of editing, at the time I was writing this. They know exactly what they're doing, I overcredited the page and the author. Gotta get these liras.

But to be a little more detailed than salty (initial channel audience would already be aware of it), a reminder:
Secure boot off phones are exceptionally rare, unlockable bootloader is a bit of an ugly artifact, in a better world you'd be able to choose your own bootloader despite (and in compatibility with) secure boot, just like it is the case on desktops. The regulation refers to modems.

If some day in a better world the EU law actually starts demanding smartphone vendors to give you the same flexibility as proper laptops do, we'd be in a much better world. It wouldn't solve all of the anticompetitive measures that we're seeing, but at least you could do something you can on desktop: dual boot.

You can enable secure boot and still natively run Linux and Windows. To run anything that isn't stock Android on smartphones, you have to knowingly resign from the "perks" given to you by compliance of the stock ROM.

Yes, it'd be quite frustrating to reboot your phone every time you need to use a bank app, but honestly, it'd be a much better position than we are in right now.

And no, Snapdragon laptops with integrated modem won't force secure boot on you, they'll still be better than phones. If not for the panic, even a theoretically hostile EU stance would stop whenever the desktop equivalence is boldly pointed out. Smartphones are mini PCs.