I don’t get why people who aren’t already running Ryzen 9s, i9s or 4090s are buying anything besides the cheapest option. On my last 3 builds I always sorted by price and picket the cheapest option for the CPU Socket, payed at most 70$ and never had any issues. If you need to get the last 5% of performance by overclocking I get it, but for anyone else this is a giant waste of money.
How does nobody of these morons understand that phones are in reality at least 80% pocket entertainment and content consumption machines. Yeah you can text, call and browse the web for answers I guess, but I bet that tiktok, instagram and youtube eclipse anything else in terms of time spent in these apps. Its not surprising that our phones are 6"+ pocket screens.
Just happened to me the other day at THE worst possible moment. I bought a new mainboard which needed a BIOS update to work with my new CPU.
Me of course being a cheapskate I bought the cheapest one with no Bios flashback. So I put the files on a cheap USB, start the upate and compleatly bricked the mainboard.
After that I plugged the USB back into my PC and the fking USB corrupted the files.
Luckily I managed to save the BIOS but absolutley lost it in that moment.
Very mixed on this. If the compiler is for example using stuff like constexpr in C++ to do major calculations at compile time instead of at runtime then yeah its cheating.
But on the other hand if its doing some Microarchitecture specific optmizations like reordering instructions or replacing certain instructions with others - as long as these are available to the public its fair game i.m.o…
I went to school right at the time where Smartphones become popular and at the beginning most either had no phone or a basic featurephone and in the end almost everyone had a smartphone. And I think the impact was very minimal. School sucked regardless. People were bullied regardless. Some had really short attention spans regardless.
I think this sentiment that “guys, we reached peak smartphone - there is nothing we can do” is pure nonsense.
Over the last couple years there were plenty of usfull new features that haven’t caught on with mainstream devices but that would benefit lots of people.
LG’s second display case, variable Zoom cameras from Sony, ways to use the main camera for selfies like Asus’ camera swivel system or Xiaomi’s small rear display, toolless sim slots like in older Sony phones, active Stylus support, … .
Not at all, but its just agonizing watching this once trailblazing company release esentially the same phone for the 4th time now.
Apple at least fixed two of their dumbest past decisions this generation (lightning and flat sides which make the phone unergonomic).
Which obviously is doesn’t make them amazing but at least they improved something.
Samsung could easily do the same, bring back 1440p one the base model, SD Card Slot, IR Blaster, Headphone Jack, IR Blaster, …
Still this much? Damn dude cooled off