Eiri

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I loved my Samsung Galaxy Q. But now that I'm used to gesture typing, I wouldn't go back. It's much faster than hitting keys individually with my thumbs.

One thing I do miss though is how quick it was to select/copy/paste.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I started dating someone and then realized pretty fast I didn't like him that way.

The dude was already pretty depressed as a baseline, and I feel like giving him hope and then taking it away like that has dropped him pretty deep into negativity.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago

It's got RGB. Man, it must do so much FPS (fabric per second).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I'm a big fan of fake brands/products in anime. I don't know why, but they bring me joy.

Marvelsoft Macindows

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Interesting! I didn't know there was a movie. The version I saw on stage was even more over-the-top (very stereotypical gay coded)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't mind them if they didn't BREAK MY REMOTE'S PLAY BUTTON.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Depending on the internal design of the phone, maybe.

But batteries are rectangular and they can't put them EVERYWHERE. There are places (such as near the USB port) where you can't really put battery no matter what because there have to be things that would interfere with the rectangular battery.

So it might have an effect, but not necessarily, depending on design, and it might be smaller than you'd think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Reviewers were really happy they swapped the optical one for an ultrasonic one on the latest Pixel.

Cheering because they gave us the slightly less bad version of something terrible.

No one asked for this, you dimwits!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'd have expected ad providers to catch on pretty quickly that there's cheating involved, no?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My TV is the LG CX. It's cool in some ways, but overall I'm not too impressed. Some days I think maybe I should've splurged and gotten a Sony.

Hmm, then the issue I could see if going by EQ is if there are several voices at the same time (say, background characters taking indistinctly behind a conversation), depending on how crap the mix is, trying to enhance voices might enhance the background ones as well.

That's an edge case, but a more common one is when there's music with sounds in the same frequency range as human voices over a scene and the music competes with the voices. Then playing with the EQ might distort the music in such a way that it still kills the voices while making the music inaccurate.

That's why I really wish we had several channels whose volumes can be individually changed like in video games. That would be the ultimate tool to adjust things. Even if you don't know anything about what the hell "hertz" means and equalizers confuse you, you could do a lot without distorting anything. And if you do understand how equalizers work, you could combine both to get a really fine-tuned experience.

The music tip isn't bad, but on my TV the answer is "you can't really do that" lol. There are various ways to distort a piece with sound profiles, but none that I know of to keep it accurate.

What I usually do is always use subtitles, and switch between "OLED Surround Pro", "Standard" and "Game" to see which sounds the best. Then if a movie/show stands out as having incredibly bad sound (ahem Christopher Nolan ahem) I either bust out the French dub or "enjoy" the tinny sounds of "Clear Voice IV".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I think that's right for a website where you accidentally clicked an ad and now it's trying to convince you you have a virus and you need to download their virus to remove it. Or maybe for an ad pop-up where annoying you might increase the chances that the content makes it into your brain.

But for a news website i have trouble seeing the logic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well you don't say it draws 2 kWh at idle. You say it draws 2 kW at idle. While that is incredibly inefficient, it means that for every hour the device is idle, it draws 2 kWh of energy.

Oh yeah battery size isn't sufficient to fully gauge battery life. You need to know power draw to calculate that. And it's good to get battery life ratings from reviews. Great. It helps a lot.

But it doesn't mean we shouldn't get good, comparable physical specs.

Kinda like processors. Gigahertz and core counts are far from telling you everything, but it doesn't mean it should be abstracted into some weird unit.

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