potustheplant
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- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve also had to replace phones for broken USB ports which in the grand scale is probably more wasteful than the extra power use.
On one hand, yes, your port can break at some point. On the other, why would you throw away the whole phone if the usb port can be replaced? Going even further, you could always use your usb port for charging until it breaks and after that you could start using wireless charging. For data transfer there are plenty of apps and ways to wirelessly transfer data so that wouldn’t be a problem either. At the end of the day, you’re barely using your usb port and you’re also wasting twice as much (or more) energy that you would if you used a wired charger.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 weeks ago:
Wired turbo chargers are bad as well. However, although I don’t know about iOS, Android lets you plan your charge cycle. That makes my phone take about 8 hours to charge while I’m asleep.
Or you could just not use a fast charger and not worry about that. Either way, you’re moving the goalpost. Not all phones support fast charging and not everyone has a fast charger. I’d wager most people charge their phones with lower power (15/20w more or less).
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 weeks ago:
I’d be interested to see how you measure that. It’s also not really a matter of opinion. Even though you may not notice a wild difference, your battery did degrade more than it would’ve, if you’d used a wired charger.
Also, the inefficiency is bad enough for me to rule it out. You literally waste at least twice as much power compared to a wired charger (source). Although we’re not talking about a crazy amount of power, it’s pretty selfish to waste it just because you don’t want to plug in a charger.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 weeks ago:
You do realize that wireless charging is also very inefficent and reduces your battery lifespan, right? It’s also kinda weird that your port goes bad after such a short time. Maybe you should clean it more often and make sure not to put any tension on it when you use it. I even have a 10 year old phone and the port (micro usb) still works perfectly fine.
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 1 month ago:
It’s a very simple film without much depth to be honest. Memoir of a snail was far better.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Who said that? That’s not the limiting factor. Also, smartwatches have crappy processors.
Supposedly, what’s hard is making a phone with good performance and battery life that’s also small.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
Well then maybe you should read the comment you replied to again? They did not talk about how much data the cable would need. They even hypothesized that the cable format might even change. The meme talks about defining hd and they commented that 8k would be enough. Human eyes will not magically get more resolving so yeah, your analogy is still bad.
I do disagree on the Hz though. It would indeed be nice if we got 8k@360hz at some point in the future but that’s not resolution so I’ll let it slide.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
You think that’s a clever analogy but it’s not even close.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 2 months ago:
Spoiler
You’ve been watching too much Mr. Robot.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 months ago:
K. Keep using a service you hate then, I guess.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 months ago:
Dude, if you dislike it that much you could just like… not use it?
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 months ago:
Afaik, business units are individual. Their products don’t finance each other.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 months ago:
If you see 0 ads and don’t pay anyone, I’m not sure how the service could be sustainable. I’m also against ads but only if you’re actually paying. That’s why I do pay for a yt family plan but also use adblock+sponsorblock.
- Comment on Gottem. :) 2 months ago:
The moon also doesn’t emit it’s own light. It would take longer for the moon to “disappear” than it would for the sun but it wouldn’t be the whole night.
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 5 months ago:
How would that solve the issue presented in the paper the video mentions?
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 5 months ago:
It won’t. That’s simply not possible for an organism as large and complex as a human being. You can watch this for a more detailed explanation.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 5 months ago:
That would’ve generated fewer clicks. Sensationalism is always more profitable.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 6 months ago:
You can’t “dmca” the fork that was created while it was still open source. They could only prevent it from getting future updates (directly from them).