Comment on iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 year ago
46.6˚C in normal units.
F makes more sense for this. It’s 0-100 on a scale of a human feeling too cold to too hot.
In situations where what’s being discussed is touching human skin: weather, a hot phone, water temp, etc… F does give you a quicker idea of things.
That said, downvote me away!
It only gives YOU a quicker idea because you are used to it.
I don’t deny that. But it’s also a well suited 0-100 scale for weather. It’s rare for a native C person to agree. I accept and expect the downvotes because hurr durr usa is dumb. To be clear, C is way better for anything other than things that touch my skin.
No need to downvote, I can handle someone having a different opinion.
Fahrenheit doesn’t give a shit about human temperature, he based it on some obscure things (which I can’t remember right now). It doesn’t even fit with human temperature, I think human temperature is like 97 or 98 °F or something like that. The argument was made only to have some argument, it’s not a property of Fahrenheit.
It does make exactly as much sense as Celsius with one important distinction - Celsius plays nicely with other SI units.
Seriously, the only correct answer to how many foot-pounds does it take to heat 1 fl oz of water by 1° F is fuck you.
I don’t mean it’s body temperature. I mean it’s good for describing temperature felt by a human. The weather is a scale of 0 being too cold to 100 being too hot. The typical person never sees temperature outside this range in their weather, but a good bit of the full range.
When describing weather, you don’t care about 213 being boiling temp and converting to SI. In all Other uses, yes, C is better.
That’s just you being used to the imperial system. I have no problem describing the difference between 0°C, 20°C and 40°C.
Honestly, I get your point, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a property of the scale, rather your increased familiarity with it. When someone says 68F I don’t have a mechanism to understand that, it’s not part of my experience. Saying 68% of too hot doesn’t help much at all. Whereas I can tell you exactly what I 40C feels like; and how that compares to anything from -15C to 45C, because of my familiarity with the scale.
Stupid us units had me thinking there would be fires everywhere for a moment.
qooqie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And if anyone’s wondering that’s 116°F in more normaler units
TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Nearly 320K in the normalest units.
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 year ago
It’s exactly 1 in a new unit I just invented, it’s called 46.6˚C. So it’s 1 46.6˚C. And currently it’s nice 0.3 46.6˚C here.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You taking about 0.028 eV?
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s 576R in a unit the Jedi wouldn’t tell you.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
German actually.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
YOU SHUT UP! FAHRENHEIT WAS AN AMERICAN! LIKE GALILEO!
Cornpop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I loled. Fuck the haters
StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought it was funny. Also my upvote got you to -69
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lemmy can be pretty hostile to non-European standards. It’s weird… I wonder if Europeans are just using more accounts than Americans, and stacking votes.
If not… Then yikes, if Lemmy is losing the American audience, that’s bad news, friends.
coin@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Celsius and Fahrenheit are both European standards. It’s just that Fahrenheit is used by less than 5% of the world’s population, so it’s completely reasonable to expect a post title on an international website like this to use Celsius.
ledtasso@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair, the Fahrenheit measurement should be pretty intuitive here. Fahrenheit is easy because 0 degrees is “really fucking cold” and 100 degrees is “really fucking hot.” So anything triple-digits should be easily recognizable as “yeah that’s way too fucking hot for a phone.”
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why are Americans so bad at geography 🤦
You do know there’s a world outside of the US and Europe, you know? And guess what, they all use Celsius.
This isn’t a Europe Vs US thing. This is a US Vs the world thing. Don’t be surprised when people want to use the actual standard.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s an incredibly euro-centric view to think that the rest of the world uses the metric system. Heck, even the UK mixes and matches units contextually. Plenty of global industries apply their own standards.
I’ve never seen an American on the Internet suggest China move from Chi to Feet, for example. Europeans just assume that they use Meters because they’re polite enough to just do the conversion on their end for international trade.
Johanno@feddit.de 1 year ago
Are you stupid? Lemmy isn’t hostile to the US. We are hostile to idiots who do not recognize standards. That this includes most of the US is just a coincidence.
ledtasso@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hate to break it to you but Fahrenheit is also a standard.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You sure are worked up about this. Why? Calm down, bud.
Exec@pawb.social 1 year ago
We’ve had enough of USdefaultism over there on reddit.
Blizzard@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yes, every European has at least 3 lemmy accounts, as required by the European constitution.
DarienGS@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are a lot more Europeans online than Americans (not to mention a few billion internet users on other continents), so when Americans post temperatures exclusively in Fahrenheit it comes off as kinda thoughtlessly parochial.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t believe this at all lol
The audience for this is English speakers. While much of the world reads English non-natively, those people often turn to news source in their native languages. If this article were in French, using Fahrenheit would be silly.
Most iPhone users are American. This data shows that just a few years ago 43% of iPhones were sold in the US, with Japan in 2nd at 14% and China at 13%. Even adding up the UK, France, Germany, and Australia they combine for 20%, though once again I’d expect French and German articles fod those audiences.
Europeans just can’t handle the fact that colonization is over lol.
Gamey@feddit.de 1 year ago
America is just stupid to rwfuse standards here…
Weslee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol, second comment this morning I’ve seen someone complaining about their fundamentally incorrect statement is recieving “unfair” hostility…
No, you’re just wrong and people downvoted you because of it
AdamantRatPuncher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know if my phone suddenly reached 116 Celsius I’d have bigger problem that those.
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
115C is a 600W GPU’s throttle temp. I would love to see an iPhone pull off 600W with a battery.