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[RadtheCad]

There's no safety from the paperclip maximizer.

Just build a paperclip minimiser and put them in a room with each other and some wire.  It's like you people have no imagination or something.

Build some replicating lifebots to counter the replicating deathbots, while we're at it.

[wierd]

So uhm... there's a new phone coming out this year...

https://www.gsmarena.com/energizer_power_max_p18k_pop-9573.php

It's uhm.... Different. (look at the thickness. No, 30mm is not a typo.)

[methylatedspirit]

3 goddamned centimeters. 3. With an already-large 6.2" screen. Just hope the batteries don't have a tendency to explode.
Also, WTF? Energizer's getting into the phone business now? I thought Nokia making a comeback was strange enough.

[IcyTea31]

Hey, smartphones are becoming more and more versatile with each passing year: phone, internet browser, calendar, alarm clock, cudgel...

[methylatedspirit]

...improvised explosive...

[Reelya]

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/26/18241117/energizer-power-max-p18k-pop-huge-battery-phone-mwc-2019

"This 18,000mAh battery has a phone in it".

However, this article says it's 18 mm think. This has clear use-cases however. The company says the battery will last a week. Heck, they say it can playback video for 48 hours on one charge.

[wierd]

https://www.phonearena.com/news/phone-with-biggest-battery-in-the-world-energizer_id114065

No, totally 30mm thick.  They have pictures.


Also, this mod needs updating now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GhODn4FRoE

[methylatedspirit]

So a better way to think about this, is to think of this as the final evolution of taping a power bank to your phone?

[Starver]

It doesn't have an audio jack. I've lost interest.

[Max™]

I care about phones to the extent of how awesome their camera is, I've now played around with a modern enough phone to appreciate shit like depth sensors, ToF wizardry, and mixtures of telephoto/variable aperture doodads under a spookily intelligent layer of glass.

If I'm carrying a brick like that around I expect it to have a fucking hammerspace DSLR type lens setup emerge at a flick of the wrist.

Flicking my wrist to activate the camera, btw, is like the least mentioned awesome feature of recent phones, chop twice for a flashlight, twisttwist for camera, no clue if there is more because those two cover what I need 99% of the time so far.

[MrRoboto75]

It doesn't have an audio jack. I've lost interest.

Its 3cm thick and they still couldn't fit a jack.

[wierd]

Well YEAH-- its ALL BATTERY in there.

[MrRoboto75]

Well YEAH-- its ALL BATTERY in there.

The battery certainly can't power my headphones now can it.

[IcyTea31]

And yet, they somehow managed to fit a side-mounted fingerprint reader on it.

[scourge728]

I care about phones to the extent of how awesome their camera is

you're one of those people...