ColeSloth
@ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 week ago:
Well there’s your shady gray bit right in the definition. Is it unlawful to lie about your birthday?
- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
Some stairs don’t have different looking risers, but you’re still correct because you can see wear marks from steps on the carpet.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 1 week ago:
It kind of isn’t. The EU is giving the cell companies guidelines on how they should test their batteries, and then report their numbers back to the EU. So “Apple” are testing their apple phones and then telling the EU their alleged numbers.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 1 week ago:
Doesn’t mean they use the same chemistry. There’s a lot of different lithium batteries.
Samsung isn’t even using the latest\greatest tech in cell phone batteries. The Redmagic 10 pro uses a silicon-carbon anode based battery in a dual cell form. It means fast charging is split between 2 batteries so there’s less battery damage on a recharge, and the chemistry is more energy dense.
Also, it seems the cell phone companies self assess the tests and report them to the EU, so take the whole thing with a grain of salt.
- Comment on Guaranteed NO ONE ever used this on their face 1 week ago:
Yeah, but when I was a kid back in the 80’s and saw them in the mail order catalogs, I completely believed they were just head and neck massagers.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 1 week ago:
All your examples are of things that were stopped while at school, so your argument doesn’t really carry over. You still had your pokemon cards everywhere else.
- Comment on $219 Springer Nature book on machine learning was written with a chatbot 1 week ago:
Doesn’t that mean there’s no ownership and it can be freely taken?
- Comment on Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want 1 week ago:
Sony and microsoft have also done that for like a decade+. 2nd hand market was filled to the brim with people selling bricked consoles that couldn’t go online. Walmarts warranty changed over xbox’ because people would but a new 360, swap out the internals with their bricked consoles or broken consoles, and then return the “new” console back to Wal Mart.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 2 weeks ago:
They will cut off electricity if you do something illegal with it…
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 weeks ago:
Too bad LG got out of the phone biz. They had the best dacs and some good phones.
- Comment on I know you degenerates want it 2 weeks ago:
Japan is open about all the weird shit people should keep private, and private about a lot of things the rest of the world would talk to a stranger about.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 weeks ago:
That means the audio still goes through another DAC, lowering the sound quality, compared to an analog 3.5 jack. Also, who wants to further risk wearing out\vreaking their charge port, jack inputs almost seem like they can’t break.
- Comment on Don't cry 3 weeks ago:
Bro; Kudos for choosing a year where it could have legit been Henry the 8ths milk.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t read so well, do ya?
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I still feel like the majority of people are stupid. That’s kind of how apple got such a huge market share to begin with. People just happily locked themselves in to a closed garden with shit for options.
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 4 weeks ago:
No. If you’re lucky, you could take the phone apart and reconnect the ribbon connector that goes from the display to the board and it will be fixed. More likely the display is damaged and would need replaced. No chance a lighter will fix it.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 4 weeks ago:
The article pointedly says that non violent protests were more successful because a lot more people were involved than in the violent protests.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 4 weeks ago:
“This was partly the result of strength in numbers. Chenoweth argues that nonviolent campaigns are more likely to succeed because they can recruit many more participants from a much broader demographic, which can cause severe disruption that paralyses normal urban life and the functioning of society.”
In other words, violent protests work better, but they lack the amount of people.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 4 weeks ago:
Rocks?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s a skill that most people will need to use often in their lives if you live in the US, at least. Unless you live in a place like New York city and don’t ever plan on leaving, you’ll probably be better off knowing how to drive. There’s a dozen reasons why that are all pretty obvious to most people.
But if you’re only 19, never got a license before that, and are dating a guy that’s a fair amount older than you are, I’m guessing you just want other people making all of your decisions for you.
- Comment on just beat it 4 weeks ago:
Was doing this with my car fob for a while before I finally broke down and re-soldered the battery contact terminal to the board yesterday.
Also doing it to my cars blower fan for the AC. I have the replacement fan motor, but it hasn’t been annoying enough yet to mess with replacing.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
When you’re living in it, you don’t know what the future will have. I like my information and tech, but growing up as a kid before all that was pretty sweet. You weren’t always after knowing or researching or finding out everything. You lived more in the moment.
There was also a freedom that will never return for anyone. Imagine going places and doing things that at best will only be a story people could tell. No pictures or videos that keep or prove anything forever digitally around. It’s something you subconsciously think about now all the time. It didn’t used to exist. Also the freedom of being a kid and wanting to go hang out wondering around with friends all day completely untethered or tracked. Just a “be home before the streetlights come on” and beyond that your parents have no idea where you are and can’t call you. Getting lost was an adventure.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 5 weeks ago:
Plan b: Can you still reach the bottle of shampoo?
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 5 weeks ago:
The better software part is pretty debatable, but dex is cool for the people who use it.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 5 weeks ago:
Stfu
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 5 weeks ago:
Our law enforcement is a huge joke and the meh pay, high turnover rate, and low bar of entry attracts the type of people you wouldn’t want to be associated with to begin with.
But also, why are small framed 5’3 women allowed to be police?
Fact is, most cops can’t outrun or overpower a lot of criminals who chose to resist or flee. In actuality that’s a pretty tiny part of the job. The rest is tickets, reports, paperwork, arrests with no resistance, investigations, etc. you don’t have to be an athlete or even very physically fit to do any of that. Id rather deal with a fat cop that isn’t a dick more than a slim one who’s a dumbass.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I’m not paying an extra $500 for a stylus. Either way I think I’ll have at least another year out of this thing.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 5 weeks ago:
I meant redmagic 10 pro plus. My bad.
As for the samsungs:
Because it’s priced higher than it should be, it has a slightly lower performance chip, a much lower capacity battery, and older battery tech that will degrade faster and charges slower. The best redmagic out specs the samsungs in every way but picture quality and does it for $500 less.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. Id pick up a redmi 10+ pro if it had a pen and sacrifice away the SD card slot. Id at least have a huge battery and awesome cooling.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I still really like my micro SD card slot and pen on my note 20 ultra. Dunno what I’ll do when I have to replace it.