I want a better smartphone via less abusive engineering practices. We could do a lot better than we do with current technology.
Oddly enough, they’ve recently developed something that would allow your dog to live longer. That’s why they’ve moved on to putting AI in everything.
Gimme my cat back :(
As someone whose dog has been having health problems for the past year, I agree with this statement.
I’m sorry to hear about your dog, I hope their health gets better!
Thank you.
Science is just the method by which technological advancements are achieved, it doesn’t decide the priorities. That privilege falls to capital, and by extension, capitalists.
I appreciate you are setting up a sort of platonic ideal of what science is but I think its important to deal with the real people and processes that science is performed by and we would be doing ourselves a disservice if we fail to acknowledge how those people and processes have often worked hand in hand with capitalist and colonial projects. We need to be introspective about how those choices have influenced the science (and the methods!) that’s been done. We, as scientists, engineers and science appreciators need to do this work so we can make different and better choices.
First and foremost, priorities are set by reality.
Extending a dog’s lifespan by 60 years would be a very high demand product and could be sold for much more than what smartphones cost. If it was feasible, it would have already been done.
Flying would be a very high demand service and could be sold for much more than what a train ticket costs. If it was feasible, it would have already been done.
- someone 150 years ago
2200 news: First military Corvette fleet in orbit around sol. Means to reach alpha centauri in a few months discovered. Dog and cat lifespan increased tenfold. Human lifespan increased tenfold
(RIP)
Humans starting with the Venerable trait is OP.
Wasteful best trait.
Sorry, we are busy with real problems like climate change mitigation.
This comment would be more effective without the .de domain.
I’m not familiar with specific instances. Why does that matter?
He’s german and germany has been increasing fossil fuel use while dismantling nuclear powerplants.
Wrong. Fossil energy sources have been receding, especially since nuclear power has been phased out. Check it out:
https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&year=2024
Also my comment was not about energy production but (like OP’s post) about science.
Hopefully you’re aware that people don’t necessarily have the same views as their state.
The euros act like that about americans so I’ll act like that about them.
Are you saying all Europeans stereotype all Americans?
It’s stereotypes all the way down.
Nobody in Germany wants fossil fuels. It’s just that the governments in the past 15 years fucked up big time and didn’t invest in renewables enough while still holding on the plans to shut down all nuclear power plants. So they shut them down before the renewables were ready and now we are fucked. Btw although they should just have the existing power plants leave running (especially because they probably were the safest in all of Europe if not the whole world) nuclear energy is NOT the answer. If you think it is then you either were manipulated by all the nuclear power shills on Lemmy or you are a shill yourself.
I’m very sorry for supporting a clean safe energy source uwu won’t happen again sir uwu
Lets not condemn people for the wrongs of their government. Otherwise we would have to exterminate the English, which is totally unacceptable you may get someone who is Cornish, Welsh, or Scottish.
I don’t consider them English. It feels rude to.
Neither do I, doesnt mean there arent any who live in the damned Anglo-Saxon lands.
sacrifices must unfortunately be made.
So you’re from Estonia?
I just want a phone with 24 hour screen-on time. Is that so much to ask for in the day and age of self driving cars?
Why? I have no reason for my phone screen to be on while it’s in my pocket
I’m terminally online and ADHD
AOD is a thing yk
I know, my phone has this feature and I think it’s pointless. Why do I need my screen to be on if I’m not using my phone?
So that you have a clock on your desk
Google: Did you say permanent advertising display?
My AOD doesn’t show notifications if that’s related to what you’re thinking
Sorry, I’m sure there are other features that you like for this, but just the ones in this thread; long life, always on display, shows the time, sits on a desk, no notifications. That’s a clock. Like, a clock clock. Put a clock on your desk.
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allows quickly checking time, battery levels and music info by just glancing at the phone and provides a superior alternative to notification led, you actually see which apps sent you notifications specifically.
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it makes it easier to find the fingerprint sensor (although there’s usually an option to show only the sensor without all the other stuff + it shows automatically when you tap the screen + muscle memory)
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Could get that with eInk pretty easily. Refresh times are still pretty awful though. I had a dumb phone years back that had an eInk display and it would easily last a month between charges.
I think they’ve improved a lot on the refresh times but I doubt it’d ever be useful for videos or gaming
They really have, yes. But, currently, I find them best for notebook/journal replacement tablets. I agree that, based upon the the mechanism used (physically moving pigment capsules in fluid), it’s very unlikely to be useful for gaming. Physical displays can only refresh so quickly.
I feel like we’ve already been going backwards on smartphones: Bring back replaceable batteries, keyboards, headphone ports, and IR blasters!
Nah, keyboards can suck it. Touch keyboards work well enough and aren’t bulky.
Gonna go ahead and disagree with you there: Being able to type without looking is fucking great!
That depends on how good you are on touch keyboards. I can type pretty well without looking.
You can’t use swipe typing on a physical keyboard 👎
I don’t use swipe typing on a capacitive screen so nothing’s lost anyway
Actually, a while back, BlackBerry unveiled a phone with a physical keyboard that was also a capacitive touch sensor so you could swipe type on it. Idk how well it worked though.
This has been brewing in my mind for a while
But I really want a like Phone ds hybrid
So I can do some decent gaming in it but it’s also small and a phone with a cool stylus so I can play pictocross or sudoku easier
*I recently homebrewed a ds and I found after a month I started only using it for that
I’d like for there to be phones with keyboards available for the people who want them though, even if I personally share your opinion. I feel like the overall array of smartphones are all very bland and samey, and I wish that the people with weird, idiosyncratic preferences could live their best life.
Replaceable batteries are coming to the EU in 2027.
Though aging is a lot more complex than shrinking cpu transistors.
One idea I’ve heard is that telomeres gain increasing stress and damage after years of DNA replication, from the torsional strain of the spiral of DNA as it splits and reforms in the replication process. How in the world could you fix that? DNA lube?
I thought telomeres just get shortened during replication but not in stem cells or something like that? A while ago since i was in that rabbit hole.
I think my conclusion was, we would have to fix programmed cell death vs. immune system & cancerous behavior, add 4x replication for dna-repair like some algae do it, and fix something in ribosomes (which i forgot).
Then again, we probably don’t have to meddle with programmed cell death at all?
Would that I could, I’d trade years of my life to get some extra years for my dog. It’s insane to think he’s a third of the way through his lifespan already.
That is the real tragedy of having a pet. You usually outlive them. But I would suggest the alternative of them outliving you has the potential to be worse, because who knows where they might end up?
In my opinion I think it’s important to always have a plan for your pet in case you die, as you never know. I personally have a beneficiary for a portion of my 401k that will get $20k of it and my dog(s) upon my death if my husband isn’t alive at the time. It’s a person I trust and has agreed to take on the responsibility, and care for them the way I would. I know not everyone is able to leave funds for the care of their pet, but having the conversation with friends and loved ones ahead of time to see who could and would take them is important.
My mother is in her 80s and has a dog, but she also had a plan for it before she got it. I still don’t love that she got it, but at least she did that.
Dogs can offer fantastic companionship and help keep the elderly active longer. At 80, your mother could still potentially outlive the dog depending on the age/breed and both of their health! I do hope that I live to be 80 and still have a dog. Dogs, like humans, are pretty resilient. They can bounce back from grief and change. Sounds like the dog’s welfare is planned for, so I personally think it’s great! That dog might help give her more years herself!
That’s a fair point, but there are a couple of other reasons- it’s a purebread and she is one of those furbaby people who never let their dog have fun and get worked up over the tiniest thing. I once accidentally stepped on her dog’s paw and it made her do a very quick yelp and my mother literally spent five minutes checking every single leg over and over to make sure nothing is broken.
Somewhat related, there is a vaccine for cats in the works meant to prevent feline chronic kidney disease. If successful it could massively increase the lifespan of domestic cats.
If successful it could
Wanna bet what capitalism is going to say about that?
That would be amazing. They can already live so long. To think, you might be able to have a cat with you for most of your adult life.
That killed my childhood cat. Would be awesome for future kids to not experience what I did.
Kind of seems like losing a pet is an important part of growing up tbh.
Accepting death is an important part of growing up, but no animal deserves to die just to be a goddamn teachable moment
Kind of doesn’t.
I dunno accepting death as an inevitability seems important since since we otherwise struggle hard to ignore it in western culture and by extension can create a lot of suffering.
A pet doesn’t need to die for that. If you look around… Death is everywhere!
[Starts singing and dancing a musical number down the street]
What a heartless thing to say.
Unpopular opinion: There are already way too many domestic cats and they are responsible for the extinction of various species, mostly birds. They are amongst the most problematic invasive species in the world. Its probably not a good idea to increase their lifespan…
Popular opinion: I love cats
In your country perhaps, cats aren’t a problem everywhere. Even the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds maintain that cats are not a major cause of bird decline (in Britain).
I’m not only talking about my country, but you’re right: The location matters. It’s a fact that cats have a noticeable impact on global biodiversity. There is an interesting article on the matter here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42766-6
Forgive me if I don’t treat Britain as an expert on biodiversity, given their history of hunting most of their wildlife to extinction.
Well the RSPB shockingly are quite against hunting animals, who’d have thought it? And careful throwing stones from your glass house, didn’t your lot hunt the bison almost to extinction the moment they landed?
You can get them fixed.
The reason birds are going extinct is humans. Hunting, habitat loss, and climate change are far, far more impactful than cats. As much as they kill, cats shouldn’t even be making a dent in bird populations in most of the world (yes, there are islands and a few microbiomes where they have an outsized impact, and that is an issue that needs to be addressed).
Cats only have such a big impact because we drove those species of birds to the edge of extinction already.
One of my family cats is currently at the end of her life due to kidney disease. It really sucks, glad they’re doing something about it. Now if only they could do the same for dogs.
This makes me very happy, thank you for sharing!
I’m literally having my 19 year old cat put down tomorrow due to kidney disease and I very much wish for him to feel young and healthy again. It sucks.
Sorry for your loss mate
What if, just hear me out, here, what if the smartphone makes your dog and cat live longer?
i dunno, 60 years would put me past being able to get a dog as i wouldn’t want to die and leave them.
I agree. As much as I hate losing a dog, they would probably be far more hurt by losing me.
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Considering they acted like their prayers had been answered and I was resurrected when I came back from being gone a couple of weeks last month, I don’t know about that.
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As long as people are more willing to pay large amounts of money to get a new smartphone as a status symbol than they pay to extend their pets lives, that’s not going to happen.
Bruh if I could extend my dog’s life by my smartphone’s lifespan for the same cost I of course would. Everybody I know would
If there was a choice to make, I would give up smartphones entirely without a thought
