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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is Java, so you can even turn those ints into Integers and doubles into Doubles if you want to maximize the objects in that part of the code. In all seriousness, though, it looks perfectly fine to me.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I understand the reason for this, but if this is what they've decided to do they should also provide a trusted HSBC keyboard that can only be used with their banking application.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why seek the approval of strangers if what you wish to do is behave poorly on the internet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for pointing that out. I don't use it for anything critical, and it's been very useful because Kagi's summarizer works on things like YouTube videos friends link which I don't care enough to watch. I speak the language pair I use DeepL on, but DeepL often writes more natively than I can. In my anecdotal experience, LLMs have greatly improved the quality of machine translation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The services I use, Kagi's autosummarizer and DeepL, haven't done that when I've checked. The downside of the summarizer is that it might remove some subtle things sometimes that I'd have liked it to keep. I imagine that would occur if I had a human summarize too, though. DeepL has been very accurate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

It's great at summarization and translations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

NOT ONLY WOULD I DOWNLOAD A CAR, I WOULD THEN WORK ON A WAY TO LET EVERYONE DOWNLOAD CARS

[–] [email protected] 108 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The DMCA is a curse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully Servo gets a good UI soon.

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

I've found it remarkably difficult to replace a battery in a modern smartphone, even as someone who's quite handy with electronics. Any improvement is greatly welcome, and I wish we'd do more to make it easier.

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

It's about usage patterns. If you know you only need 60% of the battery, charging it to 100% will degrade it more, for little utility. The newer Google phones get 7 years of updates, but without due care the battery will reach 80% of its capacity before that. On an aside, a battery is considered to have reached its end of life at a capacity reduction of 20%, and not 40%.

If you 100-0 the battery every day, then there's not much you can do. But if you're a lighter user, then using the 20-80% (or 40-60) part instead of the 40-100% part of the battery makes it last longer. And that's good in terms of environmental sustainability, reduction of e-waste, and you can use the phone for longer, too.

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