Metallibus @ Metallibus @lemmy.world

Posts

0

Comments

67

Joined

2 yr. ago

Literally from the "debunking" article you posted:

The only thing they may be good for is that studies have shown the blue light can interfere with our bodies' light cycle

It's closer to the hardware. Generally harder to update. It's less frequently updated. And it's less fault tolerant.

Idk, sure, it's technically software. But it's pretty clearly at least a distinct subsection that deserves it's own moniker.

OK, now point me to the place I can give money for the food that doesn't pollute/throw it all away.

with newer, faster, better tech being available year after year

Let's be real here - this hasn't been the case for smartphones like 5 years at this point. Barely anything has changed in that time frame besides like a "telephoto" lens and foldables.

People are just sold on the idea that things are changing.

Your battery doesn't drop from 80 to zero instantly. If you're going to be "playing a game" or "watching a video" for over an hour and your battery is already at like 40 percent, you can just swap it before you start. If you're burning through a full battery and can't be interrupted...

The reboot takes like 20. Swapping the battery with a full door does literally take 15. So yeah, maybe like 45 seconds? Is that really such an inconvenience?

And sure, a spare battery is a box. But a charging brick is a bigger box. And it needs a cable.

Apple: Your honor, everyone has an iScrew and a MagicHeat and an iOpener and a MagicPryer. And if they don't, we even offer a full bundle for only $300! These are very common tools.

I would much prefer having smaller/fewer things to carry and not having to keep my phone tethered to an extra box over having to wait like 15 seconds. How is 15 seconds without a phone a problem?

As mentioned in other comments, tracking logic is going to be so negligible at those sizes that it's not even worth talking about - it'd be like 100kb at worst.

The problem is Meta is extremely inefficient in writing mobile apps. They solve many problems by just chucking libraries at them, but those libraries are "jack of all trades" type libraries. They use React which is abysmally large, and tons of their own monolithic garbage.

When you write an app from scratch, you only use the pieces you need. Meta is an absolute monolith with years and years of code that's been added over time and it's easier to just "copy/paste" most stuff they've ever written than to start over.

I'm genuinely curious - what do people find confusing about Mastodon? What could be improved?

I was a little confused by Lemmy at first, but downloading and setting up the Mastodon app seemed super simple and straightforward. I've never been interested in short form text content like this, and couldn't find anything I thought was interesting on the platform, but I didn't feel confused.

Would love to hear what people find annoying/confusing as I'd love to be able to help create content etc for anything that's holding people up. Twitter owns too much social/mental weight for people and Meta is no better - would love to find a way to help move people towards something like the Fediverse.

People who don't even use tiktok are scared of it? Goodness gracious.

I mean.... If you're scared of something, why would you use it?

And outsourcing this solves the problem how? You're just making someone else deal with your locality's problem.

I don't understand how people overlook this so easily.

People acknowledge the amount of work and labor required to produce food and insist food shouldn't be cheap/free... But then just ignore the fact that we're paying less money to also move that shit across the globe on giant machinery that had to be produced and burning fuels that had to be extracted and refined.

Most of them you don't have a choice. There are fans that light up when the fan has any power at all. Motherboards have integrated lights. GPUs have internal LEDs...

Sure, you could desolder some of them, but that's harder.

Googles already been doing this for years.

Pretty sure this is root only. Normal apps don't have access to the charge controller and I've never seen an app that claims to do this without root.

I don't know why Google hasn't put this feature directly into Android. It's honestly one of the biggest pushes away from Pixel devices for me and it's absolutely silly.

Honestly, this is more bad "charging hygiene" than anything else. I thought this was the case too until like 10 years ago when I learned how Li-on batteries worked, and since then, I've had negligible battery deterioration after 3+ year old devices.

The TLDR is don't charge your phone past ~80% except on rare days you need the extra juice, and by extension, definitely don't leave your phone on the charger overnight. Most people do exactly that and it absolutely murders your battery health.

If you're on Android, AccuBattery is helpful with charge alarms and detailed info if you want to learn about it.

If you have a Samsung with the "protect battery" quick option, it's a god send and makes this all super easy.

Foldables are the only interesting thing to have happened to smartphones in the past like 6-8 years. It's kind of sad.

I disagree with most of the other bits too. They seem to be tendencies of cats people don't take the proper care of.

I've owned two cats for over ten years. They've destroyed a couple things. My parents have had 5 cats for about ten years and they've barely had anything destroyed. My neighbor who has had a dog for about a year and a half has had multiple pieces of furniture ripped, and many things around her house ruined/destroyed.

Cats are solitary predators and not pack animals, so they are motivated more by their own needs and desires, but saying "don't care about you whatsoever" just sounds like someone who's never had a real relationship with a cat or doesn't understand the way they exhibit their care.

I've trained like 5 different cats to fetch, multiple cats not to go in certain areas of the house, not to chew certain things, etc. Most people try to train cats like they would train a dog - through showing disapproval towards behavior etc, which, as mentioned above, is just not what motivates a cat.

people seem blinded by their cuteness even when every other personality trait is negative

Yeah, that's not just a preference.