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Comment on iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F

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!

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Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It only gives YOU a quicker idea because you are used to it.

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- locuester@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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.
  
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rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- locuester@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - Sinnz@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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    locuester@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m not saying it’s impossible to describe the difference in Celsius. What I’m saying is that the resolution is finer, and with the scale of 0 to 100 is quick to understand.
    
    The fact is we like to have a scale between zero and 100 for things. That’s what Fahrenheit is for weather. I understand you don’t agree, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is. I use both C and F. I prefer F for weather.
    
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    Getawombatupya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    40 degrees.
    
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  - Jaccident@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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    locuester@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes, familiarity with the scale definitely helps. But 50 degrees is halfway between burning up and freezing your ass off. Aka, light jacket weather.
    
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