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DDG started to ignore the country preference (the slide button) I set.

I keep it in the off position, that should mean "all countries" but it still shows me results in Italian language, even if I search in English.

Google started doing that years ago, and it's quite annoying since I usually want international results.


I'm genuinely curious about who uses the Raspberry Pi distro on a x86 computer.

Does it exist only related to the development of the Raspberry Pi OS for aarch64 and armhf or there are people out there that choose Raspberry Pi Desktop as their main distro for their PC/Mac?


IMHO it's a feature that instant photography users are not interested at all.


I know but this is a huge amount of money for a niche product. I'm not sure they're equipped to run their business like Teenage Engineering or another niche thing targeting the very wealthy


Anybody who can afford the film can afford this camera. And it’s already the top seller in its category at B&H.


They have a 'regular' one that's $120. Maybe this is the Teenage Engineering model.


Teenage Engineering stuff seems completely impractical. Is that the appeal?

Take the record player. It looks cool. But only plays 7" records. Through built in speakers. You can use external speaker, but through a 3.5mm plug?

What's the use of something like that? Maybe the idea is to use it as decoration? I don't get it.

All their products are like that.


> Take the record player. It looks cool.

It's not even their product, it's just a white labelled version of an existing Japanese toy!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234642185324


Woah! Wait, do they do the same thing for other products as well?


Maybe the idea is to use it as decoration?

Basically. If you look at Teenage Engineering as a high end fashion brand, it makes a lot more sense.


The I-1, the model previous to this was designed by teenage engineering. They know what they’re doing.


Oh no kidding? That's super cool, I didn't know that. And agreed!--


Don't bet against nostalgia though. There are loads of 30-somethings that grew up with this, have a family of their own now, and can afford this.


It's like someone asking for a gasoline version of Tesla.


Everything old is new again, nostalgic for those old enough and exciting and hip for the (cool) kids who never knew Polaroid before digital.


You could probably say the same about a certain brand of personal computer too. It costs an absolute fortune, then misses some of the basic features "computers do". Upgrade the RAM? No. "people don't want that". Play video games? Nah (or maybe). Have an all around dumbed down garbage UX that literally does things opposite "just because"? Yep.


It's still not clear if the lens is made of glass like the SX-70 or the SLR-680.


Plastic according to Kai’s video on it: https://youtu.be/qCi9NSk7IZQ?feature=shared


I have tens of files open in ST right now and it's using 16 MB of RAM. I'd suggest some tests without the plugins you are describing.


>I'd suggest some tests without the plugins you are describing.

How is this useful if you want to use those plugins?


Despite common knowledge you should not shake a Polaroid picture while it's developing.

It's a heritage from the pack film era during the 60s.


IMHO it’s a bad idea.

Market for bluetooth speakers and music streaming apps is saturated.

Their users base didn’t ask for this and they are unimpressed at best or even hangry.

The Polaroid company of today is a small company. I understand they are trying to diversifying their business and monetize their worthy brand but they are probably just wasting resources and damaging their brand: Polaroid should be all about instant photography not branding some lifestyle electronics from some OEM in China.

They are repeating errors from the past, they already failed two times trying this move.


Probably the latter


When talking about hi-end monitor I'm always surprised that nearly nobody list Eizo monitors among the choices.

https://www.eizoglobal.com/


I think it's not the main point discussed here...


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