“I don’t share your use case, therefore your preference is invalid and only mine is correct.”

Yeah, I know that one very well.

It never has been, and if it ever were we wouldn’t have needed all those statues of the chick with the scales and the blindfold as propaganda.

They carry batons here, too. And Tasers, and pepper spray, and lots of other weapons that are not guns.

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Matthew 24:36.

RTFM, noob.

The retracting clip is noted in the marketing literature. You can feel it as well, if you have your finger on it and you’re paying attention when you deploy the point. But the change is subtle, so maybe it’d be tough to notice visually.

I have not gotten the twist mechanism out of mine yet, but I have a hunch that the clip dropping into its home is actually part of the detent mechanism as well.

What? I don’t have to “imagine” anything. I literally owned one, for two years. Nothing was “sacrificed” on the Priv. It was in all aspects a completely modern phone, even managing to include a headphone jack and memory card slot, a curved edge display, wireless charging, and a 3400 mAh battery. And don’t try to come at me about battery capacity, either. Just to name an example, its contemporary in the Galaxy S7 had a 3000 mAh battery, was the flagship phone of its time, and sold bucketloads of units.

Your argument is bullshit. Slider phones aren’t made because manufacturers don’t want to make them – be that for low projected sales reasons or whatever else – not because there is any physical reason they can’t.

The Priv wasn’t. Read the entire post. The Priv from Blackberry/TCL had a slider keyboard and altogether was 9.5mm thick. My current Moto G Power 5G is 8.5. An iPhone 16 is 8.25. This is not an appreciable difference.

Obviously there’s not any technical reason anyone couldn’t make a modern slider as thin as current slates, it’s just that with the discontinuation of the Priv nobody does. And that’s not even getting into fixed keyboard designs.

I had one of those for a while. That was the best worst phone I ever owned. It was awesome at absolutely everything except being a phone…

Unihertz makes a couple of modern keyboard phones but none of them are sliders.

People who want a keyboard, that’s who.

I don’t get why people go around acting like these phones did not physically exist in the past in significant numbers, and both the “expense” and thickness problems were not, in fact, problems.

My old Galaxy S Relay 4G was not appreciably any thicker than my current phone is with its case on it. And the Blackberry Priv I had after that was still exactly as thin as current modern phones.

From what I recall this model had some exposed test pads or something on the board under the cover that were connected to the USB port. The wireless charging adapter had a little pigtail that you kind of wedged in there on top of the pads and that did the trick.

My most fondly remembered phone is easily the Galaxy S Relay 4G I had for ages:

In its time, this motherfucker was pimp. It was essentially a Galaxy S5, but with a slightly smaller footprint and a sliding five row QWERTY keyboard – with arrow keys and dedicated number row. It was the bossest thing ever for remoting into systems via SSH or RDP to administer servers at work and so forth. It supported NFC, MHL video out, USB on the go (which was not necessarily a given at the time), and I wedged one of those wireless charging stickers into it under its battery cover. Of course it had a memory card slot, a headphone jack, and a swappable battery.

Well, maybe. But the thing of it is, much of everything else sold on that site is more rebranded Chinese OEM stuff. They have a pile of ElitEdge stuff for sale, for instance. Remember them? They also have an assortment of Jin Jun Lang knives, Ganzo, S-Tec, and a whole avalanche of brandless Chinese nonsense. So it’s hard to say whose design this actually is versus who is just having it made OEM at that factory in China and sticking their brand name on it. I’m pretty sure these guys are just resellers, and so it is on and on everywhere else I found something similar to this.

Usually when a knife has been knocked off it’s fairly evident once you find the original version because some changes (cheapifications, usually) are always visible between that and the knockoff product. But other than having different “brands” lasered into them, all of these seem the same.

“What the hell? These pictures are all watermarked!”

Yeah, they are. You can play Spot The Penguin following along at home if you need some extra amusement in your life.

I noticed an interesting trend of my little old knife pics posted to our dinkum Lemmy community unexpectedly scoring really high on Google image search results lately. Especially considering the subject matter, I figure it’s only a matter of time before I start seeing them reposted all over AI generated blogspam or some such similar nonsense. We’ll see how everyone feels on the matter – If it turns out to be obnoxious, I can stop doing it.

Yeah, apparently he decided to go hard alt-right at some point. Apparently with nothing better to do now that he’s retired from Minecraft development, he amuses himself by posting racist, anti-LGBT, and QAnon horseshit.

So much so that Microsoft actually removed him from the credits.

Well, “Minecraft 2” was arguably Minecraft: Dungeons which as we all know categorically failed to set the world on fire.

Seems to be missing “hole,” “canoe,” and “whistle.”

Terraia and No Man’s Sky certainly leap to mind.

If you stick a penny in the back will it do a wheelie, too?

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