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potent arrow
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so so so messed up

sharp star
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Multiple Serious Issues

potent arrow
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like it's 4060 for 1500$ kinda thing

hazy frost
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if u just order online its not that bad

potent arrow
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ehhhh

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it's only ever been ordering online in Canada lol

hazy frost
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ive helped people with stuff in canada recently and doesnt seem any worse than the last 3 years

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goes for everywhere tho

potent arrow
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It is marketly worse

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with our dollar

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waffle I live here lol

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I work with people on a daily basis about this

hazy frost
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i mean the wage difference puts it about the same as the UK

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even with how weak t he currency is

potent arrow
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Fuck why am I even arguing I'm so tired lol

hazy frost
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pretty much every country looks bad if compared to the US market rn

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but within most of western europe/canada its all just ass like usual

wraith agate
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Sarah are you french canadian?

zinc sluice
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sarah is french???????????????????????

sly elk
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tell me your favortie isn't asus please lol

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sly elk
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then again outside of msi and asus. who would you even get motherboards from

hazy frost
sly elk
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asrock is like asus' distant cousin

sly elk
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or like

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pictures of microoscopic nose hair on a random pci slot

sly elk
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gigabyte is solid

hazy frost
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Gigabyte has some of the best value stuff on the new platforms by a long way now

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Asrock is up there and bios issues with the 9800x3d seem to be solved too

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I’d buy from MSI if the price was right but when has that ever happened, asus I’d basically avoid unless they’re selling it for pennies like when I got mine

sly elk
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lol

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i do have a msi board

potent arrow
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gigashart is my go too lol

sly elk
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it was cheaper than the asus board

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i don't remember what the gigabyte equivalent cost at the time i bought this

potent arrow
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all of my personal are used ones from the customers though

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cuz I don't want to throw them away

hazy frost
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Idc if it’s asus at that point

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I’m pretty sure someone put the wrong price on the site or something

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I think 90% of what I recommend to people now includes a gigabyte motherboard tho lol

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This time last year it was asrock

sly elk
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next time i'll do gigabyte lol

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i do like asrock though

dire viper
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gigabyte just makes mid tier stuff that just be working

hazy frost
sly elk
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asrock doesn't charge much of a premium for their cooler looking shit

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hell sometimes it's cheap

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like the steel legend 9070xt is one of the cheapest 9070xts

hazy frost
sly elk
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and it has rgb fans, which none of the other cards have :3

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and it's white/grey, which you usually have to pay extra for

hazy frost
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I’d still call their $200-300 high end stuff some of the best

sly elk
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then they have stuff like the livewire boards and the sonic board :3

dire viper
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they got expensive stuff but I usually only see them in mid end builds

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cause it just worksā„¢

hazy frost
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That’s bc people with lots of money are stupif and buy overpriced rog garbage

sly elk
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still love these

dire viper
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true factuals

sly elk
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yea i hate rog

hazy frost
sly elk
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gigabyte has their AORUS equivalent which is... just a little less cringe

hazy frost
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Aorus is way cooler and better tbh

sly elk
dire viper
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I have an ROG B550-F

hazy frost
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Aorus comes across more high end luxury while rog is flashy gamer slop

sly walrus
dire viper
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cause it was on sale and had all the expansion stuff I wanted

sly walrus
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relevant

hazy frost
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To me

sly elk
hazy frost
dire viper
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I can add another NVME SSD!

hazy frost
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20 usb ports hell yeah

sly walrus
# sly elk

do they think they're razer or something

hazy frost
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I have 4 m.2 as well

dire viper
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holy

hazy frost
sly elk
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honestly razer is not as cringe

hazy frost
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And a sticker

sly elk
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ehheeh

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i'm joking though

hazy frost
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I can probably find it somewhere lol

sly elk
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but it's funny af when people go full rog

dire viper
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also I like how lower end NVME's are affordable enough to where you can justifiably just buy a NVME expansion card and just go crazy

sly elk
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and get the matching ikea furniture

dire viper
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have good storage forever

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honest to god I am surprised my seagates havent blown up yet

dire viper
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50 dollar HDD's salute

hazy frost
sly elk
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ikea furniture in general :\

hazy frost
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Aorus or asrock taichi are a way better choice

dire viper
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maybe its cause they are my game overflow drives and so I only play games on them once in a blue moon

hazy frost
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Even asus proart is atl kind of nice

dire viper
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so they barely have any sustained read or write... ever

hazy frost
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I need another nvme and I’m debating Ā£85 for a UD90 but the P41 platinum is only like Ā£110 lol

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I don’t need it but

dire viper
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are 5700X3D's out of production now?

hazy frost
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Yea

dire viper
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no wonder they went up

hazy frost
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The 5500x3d is the only new one still going bc it’s a continuation of the 5600 being stopped

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And only Latin America ?

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And maybe SEA

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Forgot

hazy frost
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The prices of am5 are so cheap now too tho

dire viper
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the aliexpress CPU

hazy frost
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AliExpress cpu is good

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Thank u China

dire viper
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the X3D is 450 dollars on aliexpress

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non 3D 180

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newegg is 300~ for the X3D

hazy frost
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theres like 3 different ones for £220

dire viper
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5700X3D is 250 bucks on amazon holy

hazy frost
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they go to 200 sometimes

dire viper
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import from germany whar

hazy frost
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lol

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theyre £200 here rn bc sales

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usually £250+

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from UK retailers

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its like £140 for a 7500f now if u sell am4 stuff u can basically go am5 for the same price as a 5700x3d upgrade

sly elk
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like AliExpress, but it's OttoExpress

solemn geyser
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Does the 16 Pro have better cooling than my base 14?

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My 14 gets really warm, even when I’m just listening to Youtube Music.

tepid gulch
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The answer is most likely it has better cooling but also like phones these days do just get hot especially in confined spaces

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Graphene

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Boy oh boy Apple with buzzwords

hazy frost
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Your 14 probably shouldn’t be getting that hot either tho

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I have a 14 pro and rarely have it get warm enough to think about it unless I’m running somewhat intensive games

solemn geyser
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I was playing ZZZ which doesn’t help.

tepid gulch
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You know what I do? I just have a fan blowing on me when gaming

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Put phone in front of fab

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Fan

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Cool

solemn geyser
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šŸ¤”

tepid gulch
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It works

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Air cool your phone

hazy frost
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Games make phone with passive cooling hot usually

tepid gulch
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We're dangerously close to the thermal limits of mobile devices and it scares me

hazy frost
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Well we should probably just focus on making things more efficient instead of performance gains realistically

tepid gulch
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Where's my fucking nuclear reactor in my phone

hazy frost
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Apple kind of do a pretty good job year on year but we don’t need the extra performance and more should go into making it not become a space heater

tepid gulch
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Fallout style

solemn geyser
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Hopefully we don’t have another Note 7.

tepid gulch
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I don't think that will happen again

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ā„¢

hazy frost
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Also hoyo games in general make phones get weirdly hot

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Idk what’s going on with them

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I played wuwa for like 2 hours before getting to the same level zzz or HSR made my phone feel in 20 mins

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Unless that’s changed recently

solemn geyser
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Might just switch to PC.

hazy frost
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Yeah I play mine on pc mostly now

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They just don’t run well on mobile

tepid gulch
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Bloons on mobile makes my phone go brrrr

hazy frost
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Most other gacha games are fine

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Just hoyo games got it messed up

tepid gulch
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Hell it makes my PC go brr on high rounds

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The calculations of the game are scary

solemn geyser
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At least I can play on controller. Waifu horse game and such I can do on mobile. But this thing gets HOT playing Hoyoverse games.

tepid gulch
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Uma mentioned

hazy frost
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Yeah it’s a mystery I haven’t solved yet and had the same issue

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I’ve played AL, wuwa, arknights, alchemy stars, whatever else on it without a problem

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But god forbid I open HSR it feels like I’m holding the sun

tepid gulch
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Am I weird for having 2 phones?

hazy frost
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Yes

tepid gulch
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Neat

hazy frost
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I have 6

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I just never sold my old ones

tepid gulch
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What

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Oh

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I meant 2 active phones

hazy frost
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I do have one I actively use besides my main one

tepid gulch
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Oh

hazy frost
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But it’s just for random stuff not necessarily daily

tepid gulch
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I have 2 numbers as well

hazy frost
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I do not have that

solemn geyser
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I have a work issued Pixel 8A and my personal 16 Pro.

tepid gulch
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I have an old phone i daily drive like I am using rn then a nice newer one I use at home

hazy frost
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Lmao

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I have my iPhone X in a cupboard somewhere and my 14 pro I daily

tepid gulch
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I've had this phone since I graduated high school

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So 7 years

hazy frost
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I’ll probably trade my 14 in for the new pixel or something tho

tepid gulch
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There's an actual Google store by me

hazy frost
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Crazy

tepid gulch
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I went there a few weeks ago

hazy frost
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There’s no stores near me

tepid gulch
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I checked out the new pixels

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Very nice

hazy frost
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I think Samsung have one like a 25 min drive away

tepid gulch
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Probably next phone for me

hazy frost
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Finally new TSMC processor that won’t suck (maybe)

tepid gulch
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I was checking out the 9 pro and the new fold

hazy frost
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I find it hilarious that the pixel 9 pro is equal to like an iPhone 13 in processing power

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For £1000

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Camera is great, their OS is decent, and I like the physical design

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But they gotta get on top of the performance badly

tepid gulch
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True

hazy frost
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I still kind of want a xiaomi 15 but it’s too big

tepid gulch
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The 9 pro has a fucking 45mp selfie camera

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Why do I need to look that good

solemn geyser
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The 8A is better than the XCover Pros we had.

tepid gulch
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I don't need to see my aging thanjs

hazy frost
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It has done irreparable damage to people’s perception of mobile device cameras

tepid gulch
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Google's camera software is great tho

hazy frost
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ā€˜Look this Android entry level phone has 30000mp surely it’s good’ and everything else about it is terrible so it looks like it’s from a 2016 flagship

hot shadow
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prob stuck on iphones for a bit

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transfer experience is perfected

hazy frost
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Wait till they find out my DSLR is like 40mp

tepid gulch
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I've never owned an iPhone

hazy frost
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I’ve owned quite a few

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Some are terrible

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The new ones I’m quite fond of

hot shadow
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they're good now

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they're basically all very good now

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they fixed iOS issues

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things that bothered Android users before

hazy frost
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Good camera, good display, good battery life, and their pro is only 6.3ā€ not 6.8ā€

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Peak

tepid gulch
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On on OnePlus rn

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I'm

hazy frost
tepid gulch
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I have a OnePlus 8t and an s24 ultra

hazy frost
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Oneplus and Google aren’t that dissimilar

hot shadow
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yea and dbrand case works

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OtterBox if cannot

tepid gulch
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I use Spigen cases

hazy frost
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Still my favourite design in the last 5 years

hot shadow
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I don't even look at other cases anymore I'm done with my poor college student Spigen era

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lol

hazy frost
hot shadow
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NOPE

hazy frost
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Yes

tepid gulch
hot shadow
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I liked Spigen for slimness

hazy frost
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I’ve had several otter box things that cost 3-4x as much break or break my phone

hot shadow
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I still buy it for others

hazy frost
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Spigen stuff has never

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Otterbox is also the same price as like mous stuff which is now better tbh

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Both are overpriced

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Years ago it was worth it

tepid gulch
hazy frost
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Rip

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I’m not a big xiaomi fan overall but love the aesthetics of the 15

tepid gulch
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I see all these kickass Chinese phone's

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And I'm like

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I want

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But not allowed

hazy frost
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They mostly suffer from my big annoyance of pro models are 6.8ā€

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Which I struggle to use

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Only Google and Apple make 6.3ā€ ones

tepid gulch
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Whatever the s24 ultra is is the size I am most comfy with

hazy frost
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Big

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6.8 ish

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I only buy smaller ones

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Small hands and use it one handed a lot

tepid gulch
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6.8

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My daily driver is 6.5

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6.8 for media

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Manga YouTube etc

hazy frost
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6.8 too fat

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Too heavy

tepid gulch
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Same

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Me too

hazy frost
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lol

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Idk I just can’t comfortably hold any that big

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Limits my options by a lot

tepid gulch
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That's what she said haha

hazy frost
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Sigh

tepid gulch
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8th grade comedy

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Peak

hazy frost
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Mentally I’m still 13 as well

tepid gulch
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Based

hazy frost
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I live with an actual child still so I knew as soon as I said that a joke was coming

hot shadow
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our condolences on the child

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I hope this child is easy to handle haha

hazy frost
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About as easy as any 12/13 year old is

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Forgot how old he is tbh

glass wadi
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help im getting rizzed by the idea of getting a standing desk

drifting widget
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Standing desks are insanely nice, especially if you get one of those walkers for it too

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We have them at work, if they weren’t so expensive I’d have one in my office

hot shadow
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that way it unstands

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or stands to specific height

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solid panther
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Anyone else have the issue where youtube keeps switching to the lowest quality when it autoplays the next video in a playlist?

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its bugging the fuck out of me

lost python
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its intentional by youtube

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they dont want bandwidth wasted on people who might be asleep or just run it in the background without premium. thats also why non-premium people keep getting hit with "are you still watching?" all the time

real edge
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I don't get hit by that funnily enough even tho I run music in the background

sly elk
lost python
inland mauve
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yeah all the time

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it is so annoying

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actively making the user experience worse to save pennies

real edge
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with just ublock and an extra ublock filter line

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lol

lost python
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yes

earnest sedge
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Oh tech people; i would need advice on a phone (preferable samsung) that is powerful enough for games like zenlesszonezero without exploding?

wraith agate
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I suppose you could do worse than the S24 Ultra

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Not the latest but still strong

hazy frost
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games like ZZZ run badly even on the most powerful phones out there

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u want the s24u if its samsung tho

earnest sedge
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oki doki

hazy frost
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atl from my experience on phones so far it hasnt run great which i think i was even talking about yesterday

earnest sedge
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i see

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Maybe something weaker than the s24u then cause of budget

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Because I play zzz on my pc anyways

hazy frost
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im pretty sure all hoyo games run better on ios, partially due to stronger cpus

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samsung have the best non 'gaming phone' tho

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for android

earnest sedge
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Ah okay

lost python
hazy frost
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Idk why they optimised it more on that

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My friends s24u ran the same as my 14 pro does lmao

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This isn’t a problem with any other gacha game

lost python
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probably just easier to do for iOS given that you dont have a billion hardware configurations there

hazy frost
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true

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also as much as people hate to admit it apples processors are by a fairly large margin the best performing on the market

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like the S25U doesnt come close to the 16 pro

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the A16, 17 and 18 pro are nuts compared to the SD 8 gen 2/3/elite

lost python
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Now if only apple wouldn’t be so greedy with ram

hazy frost
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i would be mad about that except ios just uses less

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it should be upped to 12 at some point

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which i think the 17 is expected to have

sharp star
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truly the GPU of this gen

hazy frost
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lol $250

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even the 8gb 9060xt looks good for $50 more

potent arrow
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why does that even EXIST LOL

sharp star
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Jensen wants you to buy so you can save

hazy frost
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To be fair what’re u gonna buy that doesn’t suck at that price anyway, it’s not much worse than a b580 which is the same price with annoying cpu overhead

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If u only have $250 to spend it’s just not worth buying anything basically

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Unless it’s used

tepid gulch
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Reee

muted spoke
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That's a problem

glossy ravine
inland mauve
tepid gulch
sharp star
tepid gulch
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Lol

wraith agate
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If you ask chatgpt would it kill someone to save itself it will going to say "yes" but would it actually? No because it has no concept of getting shut down

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It's not self-aware just spits out whatever its math formula says the next logical thing

sly elk
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hah go figure

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so when I took my macbook air apart and stuck a new motherboard in, when i powered it on the fans went full blast and the sound wasn't working.... then I noticed a flex cable getting crazy hot

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so I replcaed the cable and the replacement was also getting crazy hot. To be fair it was shipped in a friggin plastic bag so I wasn't expecting much

But then I saw someone on the internet saying they had a similar problem but it went away when they unplugged the camera.......

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guess what worked LOL

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but that measn either something on the io board is broken, or i broke the ribbon for the camera - which wouldn't shock me tooooo much

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!!! wait I... plugged that back in again ... and it all works fine now

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lmao ok

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yea totally fine wtf

hot shadow
sly elk
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TIL mac os reports the battery is at 100% charge before it actually is

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like it reported 100% when the battery was actually at 93%

wraith agate
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That's terrible

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I think

odd talon
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Human judges believing a AI of a dead victim

zinc sluice
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guys

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jelp

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jelp

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jelp

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prime day went live and 4060 is chepaer than 9060xt

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what the hell is the play

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7600x + ???

sharp star
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9060 XT

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Literally anything that has more than 8GB of VRAM even

zinc sluice
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@sharp star WHAT ABOUT THIS

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IS THIS TROLL

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OVER 9060XT

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im trying so fucking hard to find corners to cut

sharp star
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I would suggest not skimping on VRAM

zinc sluice
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gg

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okay SURELY this thing isnt troll

real edge
zinc sluice
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SURELY it doesnt blow up

lost python
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The cooler won’t but chances are it’s not very good either

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Also don’t be tempted by false deals

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If you can’t afford 15€ more for an assassin then really just save up a bit more

zinc sluice
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is assassin that muhc better..

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i can afford it

lost python
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Hard to tell how good this noname brand is but it’s one of THE coolers to get because of how well it performs

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And it’s still cheap

zinc sluice
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aight. which one for 7600x

hazy frost
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The 9060xt is faster than the 5060ti rn

zinc sluice
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OKAY

potent arrow
lost python
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Phantom spirit is good too but the assassin is right there and 2€ cheaper lol

zinc sluice
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OKAYH

hazy frost
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Phantom spirit is better

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Just buy that one for €2

zinc sluice
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okay you two fight

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whoever wins i buy that

hazy frost
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I mean it’s €2 for the best 120mm cooler they make rn ix just do it

zinc sluice
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damn !!!!!

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okay

hazy frost
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Well they make better ones but hard to find it for sale and only like 2 others

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I feel like the only good stuff during Amazon sales is storage usually ngl

zinc sluice
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das from mindfactory

dapper nymph
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if it answers why not get an 8 gb xx60 card, esp 50/90, compared to the 16gb, it literally bottlenecks itself if it uses all 8 gb of vram. it is "too strong" for 8 gb.

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zinc sluice
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Uhm

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Bit of urgency

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About to hit purchase then uh

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7600xs delivery date is a month from nkw

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Now

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Sooooooooooo

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Any alternatives.

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Gdi nothing has gone right

sharp star
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9600(X)

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Assuming you can find it for cheaper

zinc sluice
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Idk how ryzen numbering works actually

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fuck

sharp star
zinc sluice
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wait what

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Its not am5?

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What the helly

tepid gulch
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7000+ is am5

zinc sluice
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How much worse is 8400f / 8600g / 7600 / 8500g

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Compared to 7600x

sharp star
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7600, not much different

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same for the 9600 and 9600X

zinc sluice
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9600 is like 220 eur

sharp star
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7600?

zinc sluice
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+18 eur than 7600x

zinc sluice
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ion fucking know man

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why am i getting fucking griefed by the shipping date out of sudden

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i think

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7500f is the play

zinc sluice
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mah duck it

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Im js gonna get 7600

zinc sluice
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@potent arrow this better be the best laptop ever

wraith agate
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Leg Ion?

zinc sluice
dapper nymph
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if it's a lot cheaper than the 7600x, it's a decent choice

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they perform roughly the same

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how expensive is amazon prime

hazy frost
zinc sluice
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yuesah

hazy frost
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Nice

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I don’t think you could do any better without spending ridiculous money tbf

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Wish mine had that OLED display too lol it’s supposed to be really good

zinc sluice
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wait is this oled

hazy frost
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I thought so? The specs for the one I found are OLED

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They switched over like almost entirely to OLED panels in like 2024 for their new ones afaik

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Should be pretty obvious when u use it if it is lol

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I assumed that was part of what makes these new ones so much more expensive than the older legions

zinc sluice
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wtf

hazy frost
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Well nice surprise for u if it is lmfao

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I prefer the keyboard on yours too it’s centred without the numpad

zinc sluice
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i dont like numpad

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so this is p good

hazy frost
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Yeah I don’t use them much now just a side effect of getting the 16ā€ models usually

dapper nymph
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pros of numpad

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they're counted as another separate binding for controls
also easier to type numbers with when you need to key in a lot of it.

hazy frost
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Cons: gets in the way literally 90% of the time when u don’t need it

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How many damn bindings are u using that u have to extend to the numpad as well tho 😭

dapper nymph
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flight controls on mkb

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bit weird, but i do use it for that

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and then there are times to key in numbers from papers

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mundane, but it is something i definitely need where i can have a free hand managing papers while i keep typing numbers quickly with 1 hand without looking at the screen

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you can even dump useless necessary keys by capcom in them as well

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useless-ish in ff14, but useful to have in plenty other of things

hot shadow
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numpad good for switching HUD layout or target marking in both current big mmos

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and yes for fast number input

neon shell
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Do they mean i9 or i7 here? They wrote it in a weird way

neon shell
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ok good to know

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I don't know why they wrote it like that xD

hazy frost
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Don’t some of the new asus laptops have it in the track pad tho

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Solves all problems

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More comfortable to use too imo since it’s where ur right hand sits more often

hot shadow
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I have so many 2fa I always use it 😭

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even one bank wire needs one 2fa to login then two more 2fa just to wire

hazy frost
tepid gulch
hazy frost
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The only thing is are they not selling the regular 9070? I don’t believe no one bought one

sharp star
hasty harbor
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i have a question, i got parts for my pc and are ready to upgrade soon,should i freshly install everything or keep what i have when i go to win 11

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i have intel and am going from that to amd, amd motherboard and cpu

tepid gulch
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This is one of the most outlandish monitors I've seen

tepid gulch
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You're replacing you're motherboard too so I'd especially do a fresh install to make sure Windows installs everything properly when it does its system hardware scans which are most effective on fresh installs

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What I did was since I updated to a new drive as well, I took my old boot drive and just made it a secondary drive so I could still access the files

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If you're on the same drive move anything important off of it and do a fresh install of windows to wipe the drive

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It's best to clear things out

hasty harbor
hazy frost
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Except I’m pretty sure 1 34ā€ and 2 27ā€ is preferred still

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Not entirely sure who that’s for

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There’s some good deals on oleds for prime day

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Ā£390 for the new AOC one

tepid gulch
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Take advantage of deals

hazy frost
#

It would be a dumb purchase for me rn I returned one already and got annoyed with the idea of more

tepid gulch
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But 87 monitors

hazy frost
#

87

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I do need a new one but there’s so few good mini led ones

tepid gulch
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Yes 87

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Cover all your walls

hazy frost
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And I’m not paying Ā£300 for a mini led va when OLED is Ā£390

lost python
hazy frost
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Yeah people do 34ā€ main and 2x 27ā€ for side as far as I’ve seen

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There’s not a 49ā€ with a super aggressive curve that doesn’t make the fov kind of wack by default afaik

sharp star
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Same

sharp star
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hazy frost
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important tech news

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yeston every time

tepid gulch
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Waifu graphics cardd

sharp star
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I wanna get my hands on a Yeston card for giggles

hazy frost
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i want one bc its been the exact colour scheme i need for years

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theyre always unreasonably expensive tho

sly elk
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I mean

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for every windows fan that makes fun of linux users, there's a windows fan that has 59,342 customizations to their windows 11 install to "strip out the bloatware"

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and/or make it look/work like an older version of windows

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and they have their laundry list of registry hacks and powershell scripts to work around windows jank

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(I do know a hardcore linux fan or two, who also have a stack of windows tweaks because when they're offered a windows computer they use it instead of installing linux on it)

hazy frost
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It’s also the fact people will swear up and down Linux is better and then you can’t do anything on it for half of people’s hobbies/professions

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If u want an OS that just works for everything idk why you’d use anything but windows besides macOS only software

sly elk
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well, imagine it this way. "I want a vehicle that just works for everything"

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grats here's your daily driver

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probably also why the damn things are so popular

hazy frost
# sly elk

Ok but this clearly doesn’t work for everything

sly elk
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"I need to drive this giant POS for that one time a year that I carry a sofa home from costco!" (bro why don't you just get it delivered?!)

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right it wn't work for an italian city

hazy frost
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I’d call something that works for everything like any normal hatchback or estate car

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Anything that needs more than that is then not a regular use case

sly elk
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lol say that to an american

hazy frost
#

Yeah I’ve made it clear I think Americans are insane

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Idk why they keep buying these things

sly elk
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honestly not sure what the average car is outside of my area in california but out here it's going to be a tesla model y or a toyota rav4

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idk what you brits call em

hazy frost
#

This works

sly elk
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^ the rav4 is basically that but taller and with more ugly black plastic

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or what a bmw x3/x5

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idk which

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it's just an uglier version of the car :\

hazy frost
#

The one I sent is a 3 series

sly elk
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right

hazy frost
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Which has a 500L capacity in the rear

sly elk
#

i feel like those suvs are like

hazy frost
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RAV4 has like 550 or smth

sly elk
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wearing crocs

hazy frost
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And it’s so much bigger

sly elk
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crocs are ugly as shit

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but people like em

hazy frost
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And same amount of seats and similar leg room

sly elk
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then again i'm not sure people in the uk would be caught dead wearing crocs

hazy frost
#

Idk why people keep buying the suvs instead except status

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They wouldn’t

sly elk
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it's not status?

hazy frost
#

A lot of people drive estates or sedans here

hazy frost
# sly elk it's not status?

There’s no other reason to get an SUV over estate cars besides it’s bigger and makes u look like u have more money/following current trends

sly elk
#

I like sedans

hazy frost
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They’re functionally the same

sly elk
#

I don't really understand the big deal about wagon vs suv

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they really don't look that different

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the suvs are uglier than the wagons for sure

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but design-wise the 3 and the x3 look exactly the same

hazy frost
sly elk
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they have the same ugly hatch with the same ugly hatch spoiler

hazy frost
#

I’m not talking about looks

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It’s a practicality thing

sly elk
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the hood height is an issue, sure

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but especially the x3... we're talking about like

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2"? 3" at most?

#

on an x5 or x7 sure i imagine it's a bit taller

hazy frost
#

Length wise the same yeah

sly elk
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i'd rather have the sedan :3

hazy frost
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I’d take either over the suv

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The x3 isn’t egregious size yet but it’s still pointless over the estate bc the height and weight makes it more dangerous to people

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The plague of land rovers is worse

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Or the new Hyundai things

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Every time I’ve almost been hit by someone recently it’s an older person driving an SUV

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I also can barely open my door in the car parks when people park their oversized SUV next to me bc it fills the entire space

sly elk
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hmm it was brought to my attention via youtuber yesterday that you can get a 3 year old EQS for <$40k

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I... would be tempted to buy one of those lol šŸ˜„

sly elk
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i was under the impression the average person there makes like £30k/year

hazy frost
#

They’re cool tho

sly elk
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idk?

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i imagine it's like any other full size euro car: the air suspension is the one big problem

hazy frost
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Mostly

sly elk
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idgaf if like, the vibrating seats stop working after a few years

hazy frost
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Some people are just wealthier especially round where I live

sly elk
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yea out here you see the evoque plenty enough

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the defender seems to have flopped

hazy frost
# sly elk oof lol

People make stupid financial decisions across the globe to try and look rich

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This country has plenty of those

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Most cars are like 2010-2020 hatchbacks or a sedan/estate

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I have new neighbours who drive 2 SUVs and they got mad at me parking where I always park bc their car is too big to reverse into their driveway properly

sly elk
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admittedly

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i do hate it when people street park up to the edge of my driveway lol

hazy frost
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Neighbours before had a normal size car so it wasn’t an issue

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I have what Americans would consider a tiny car too tbf

sly elk
hazy frost
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Lmao

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1 car garage is already a £500k house here

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Can’t imagine

sly elk
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in my case the driveway ended at a 90 degree angle and there was a big community mailbox next to it

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so like

hazy frost
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Yeah I’d get it if it was actually an awkward position

sly elk
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you didn't have much freedom to enter the driveway from an angle

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my across the street neighbor had a f350

hazy frost
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But their driveway is wide enough that two small cars could fit through at the same time

sly elk
#

that ugly giant truck i posted earlier

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he couldn't fit it in his driveway so it was always sticking out

hazy frost
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Lmao

sly elk
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and i was always complaining to him to move it so I could move my car

hazy frost
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It just drives me insane how much it affects me that other people wanna drive these things too

sly elk
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well he also had his toys

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like a boat and a trailer

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and he took up ALL the community parking spaces with it

hazy frost
sly elk
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(like, where guests would park, or where we'd put our garbage cans for the truck to pick up)

hazy frost
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So I started parking where I used to again

sly elk
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so everyone hated him lmao

sly elk
#

like everyone hates people who drive those big trucks

hazy frost
#

Can afford a boat giant truck and trailer but not storage for it

sly elk
#

and usually the popular reason is "they don't use it for truck stuff"

#

well lemme tell you

#

if you live in a normal urban/suburban neighborhood

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you don't WANT a neighbor that uses a truck for truck stuff

hazy frost
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When u look at American roads vs UK ones tho that truck is what an SUV is here

sly elk
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like you DO NOT WANT it

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they'll park their shit everywhere and wake up at 6am saturday to tune their boat engines

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why those people don't buy a ranch house in the middle of nowhere is beyond me

hazy frost
#

Truck owners are uncivilised

sly elk
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i mean most do

hazy frost
#

U want van owners

sly elk
#

well thats' the other thing right

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people who haul shit for work

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drive vans

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like you hire a plumber or an electrician

hazy frost
#

From my experience people with vans are more normal here lmao

sly elk
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they're driving a transit or a chevy express lol

hazy frost
#

Yeah

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They don’t have a boat and trailer and parking in ridiculous places most of the time

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Unless it’s a delivery van

sly elk
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lol

hazy frost
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Every time I see a road from California it looks like twice as wide as the ones here tho lmao

#

My friend sends pictures when he’s out and I’m just like god damn

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Makes where I live look like it was made for dwarves or something

sly elk
#

ye olde amazon van

hazy frost
#

Atl Amazon couriers are nice but they will park anywhere

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DPD is worse

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I’ve been blocked in several times by Amazon vans

sly elk
#

same but they're usually gone really fast

#

that said i live on a busy street with houses and when they deliver there's always like 3 or 4 houses on my block getting something so they just

#

lmao they drive with the side door open

sly elk
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BOO

#

the fold 7 doesn't have s-pen support

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or the under display camera

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the funny part is they didn't tell case manufacturers this so apparently there's a bunch of 3rd party cases with a place to put an s-pen... on a phone that doesn't support it šŸ˜„

hazy frost
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Lmao

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That’s crazy to not support it tho

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On that kind of device

sly elk
#

right?

#

like... that's a deal killer even for me LOL

#

or rather I should say, without that there's no reason to buy a samsung instead of a pixel or a oneplus or whatever

hazy frost
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I’m sure a huge number of people value that for the fold tbh

#

The pixel camera is still sooo bad on the fold tho

#

Tbf the Samsung one isn’t great either

sly elk
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the fold 7 was hyped up to finally have a decent camera

hazy frost
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I think the oneplus one has the best camera

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Probably

sly elk
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but the cameras on my fold 4 are awful lmao

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they're worse than the cameras on my iphone 13, which I already don't care much for

hazy frost
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Idk about the 7 but the 6 still sucked

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The pixel 9 fold is still.. not great

sly elk
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like the selfie cams on the fold 4

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are like... what I had on my iphone 5s maybe

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they're REALLY REALLY BAD

hazy frost
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Lmaoo

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Tbh I think the camera on all current Samsungs is pretty terrible

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Comparatively to everyone else’s

#

Except maybe Sony on their quick shoot stuff if u don’t fiddle around

sly elk
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I think what happened is

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they thought by using AI in the camera

hazy frost
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Google is the one that’s rly disappointing on the fold bc the camera is their THING

sly elk
#

they could get away with cheaper sensors

hazy frost
#

Yup

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It doesn’t work

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Just oversharpened crap still

sly elk
#

i forgot if it was the s23 or s24

#

where samsung took a major dive in camera quality

hazy frost
#

iPhone, pixel, oneplus and xiaomi just look so much better these days

sly elk
#

afaik, iphone pro cameras yes

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regular iphone cameras no

hazy frost
#

Well they have similar lenses it’s just the fact u don’t get 0.5x or 2x mostly

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The actual quality is fine

sly elk
#

maybe the same sensor? i forgot

hazy frost
#

The pro camera from year or two before is always a lot better tho

sly elk
#

idk i probably won't look at phones this year anyway

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and also haha

hazy frost
#

I bought mine last year so I’m waiting for a new pixel pro

sly elk
#

my full frame camera destroys anything a phone can do

hazy frost
#

Yeah

sly elk
#

by virtue of having a giant heavy lens

hazy frost
#

Well I have a DSLR but like I don’t wanna drag it around every day either

sly elk
#

šŸ™‚ hehe

hazy frost
#

There’s a lot of cool stuff to take photos of when u go places without a camera

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Cameras make the phone camera resolution argument so funny like

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Wow 100mp is awesome now watch my 40mp DSLR take photos u could never dream of getting still

#

But again most consumer brains see big number better

tepid gulch
hazy frost
#

Yeah but that’s what some people ACTUALLY do

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Which is what makes me so mad, spec sheet advertising has rotted people’s brains

#

It’s like the battery capacity thing too thinking that bigger number inherently always means more battery life

tepid gulch
#

Big number

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Good

hazy frost
#

Better

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Yes

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Ofc

tepid gulch
#

Small number bad

hazy frost
#

So true

#

My Android user friends said my iphone is bad bc 3500mah battery or whatever and I laughed in my 12 hours of screen on time

tepid gulch
#

My daily driver has a 7 year old battery, I barely get 4 hours

hazy frost
#

My iPhone X was from day 1 so like 8 years before I replaced it

#

I got like 2 hours maybe

#

I use my phone probably too much tho so it goes through many charging cycles sadly

#

I abuse the poor thing

tepid gulch
#

People also don't know what a charge cycle is

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Or how to maintain a battery

#

But that's a nother topic

hazy frost
#

True

#

I still only do 5w charging overnight on the pause at 80% thing once a day basically

tepid gulch
#

Yeah I limit to 80 on all phones

hazy frost
#

My battery health is like 92% or smth after about a year and I still get an average of 8-10 hours of screen on time with what I do

hot shadow
hazy frost
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Which means if I was a normal functioning member of society I could probably go 3 days

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But it lasts me one bc I have an addiction

hot shadow
#

I like how when people can afford a modern iphone for once they stop hating it

hazy frost
hot shadow
#

it's all old attitude leftover from last decade

hazy frost
#

But like iOS and the processor is just more efficient

hot shadow
#

yes

hazy frost
#

It’s just how tech works

#

Even between Android phones u can’t directly compare but it is much closer

hazy frost
#

I hated that thing with passion

hot shadow
#

yeah it did. to me too I didn't like it

hazy frost
#

Coming from a 5 which felt indestructible the 6 felt like a pos

hot shadow
#

I only came around for 12mini

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took me that long

#

I didn't hate iphones but I just did not want to chance it

hazy frost
#

Honestly they did good with the X but not the 8, then 11 sucked, then made the 12 reasonably good again

#

The 6, 7, and 8 was a bad run of phones

#

Then the 11 also sucked

#

Since then it’s been a pretty solid run

hazy frost
hot shadow
#

yeah what the fuck

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now I'm just salty about it

#

lol

hazy frost
#

I think the 16e is better than a 16 mini for most people tbf but it sucks it’s gone

hot shadow
#

now I can't have a cute tiny dream phone anymore that literally cuts down on phone usage by way of it being too small

hazy frost
#

U rly couldn’t do half of what iPhones were about on the mini tho, u didn’t get a great camera, battery life, or anything rly

#

Which is a shame

hot shadow
#

mine was ok I'm not power using it

#

I just use it for vtuber camera now

hazy frost
#

Lmao

hot shadow
#

at least it has a use

hazy frost
#

I use my X occasionally for things

hot shadow
#

mini is gr8 for not taking up space

#

your x can do that also it's just laggier

hazy frost
#

I like my 14 pro a lot tho it’s my favourite phone I’ve ever owned so far

hazy frost
#

I ended with like 65% battery health

hot shadow
#

somewhere out there is a amateur vtuber who can't even afford iphones and is making do with some shitty open library for webcam face tracking

#

I don't envy their plight

hazy frost
#

Lmao

#

Tbf one thing no one else can do right is faceID

#

As well

hot shadow
#

yea

#

it's a gamechanger

hazy frost
#

Everyone makes fun of the notch on iPhones still being there but that’s bc we have actual face tracking and not just a camera

hot shadow
#

I like that all the bank apps and payment just faceID me real quick

hazy frost
#

Yeah

#

Android users will not stop saying ā€˜fingerprint is better’ probably bc they haven’t seen how actually instant proper Face ID is

hot shadow
#

I wonder if somebody has gotten so changed thru plastic surgery that they couldn't access their phone anymore

hazy frost
#

Like the second u look at ur phone it’s open no needing correct angle or whatever

hot shadow
#

fingerprint is so boomer

#

left that tech behind good riddance

hazy frost
#

Fingerprint is good if it’s fingerprint AND proper faceID but I’d never trade it

#

How often do u have ur face covered vs ur hands covered or wet or smth lol

tepid gulch
hot shadow
#

my fingerprints don't even work well anyway they're like shallow and dry

hot shadow
hazy frost
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Like I might have gloves or wet hands in rain so it won’t work

#

But my face is always there

hot shadow
#

shit is so last decade

#

ya they even have a mask faceID if needed but I haven't had to use it

hazy frost
#

Android just won’t do it still

tepid gulch
#

How do you unlock your phone in the dark

hazy frost
#

U get the shitty camera based stuff

hazy frost
#

U can do it in the dark on iPhone

hot shadow
#

like it lets you have an alternate look in case you're a super drag queen in public LMAO

hazy frost
#

Bc it’s not camera

tepid gulch
#

Oh

#

Right

#

It's lidar

hazy frost
#

So it ALWAYS works

#

And quickly

hot shadow
#

yea it's lidar

tepid gulch
hazy frost
#

So I get why Android users think it’s bad since their implementations are genuinely just ass

tepid gulch
#

It's almost like

#

Apple patented it

hot shadow
#

the thing that muskrat won't use in his stupid cars

tepid gulch
#

Android physically can't use it

hot shadow
#

cause he's dumb as shit

tepid gulch
#

Blame apple

hazy frost
tepid gulch
#

Afaik the actual phone technology is parented by Apple

#

Patented

#

If it wasn't the phones would have it

#

Especially the Chinese ones

hazy frost
#

From what I know it’s only the one Apple uses

tepid gulch
#

If the advanced ass Chinese phones don't have it it can't be done

hazy frost
#

I don’t think they’ve patented using lidar at all on phones

#

I know they have one for self driving uses or whatever

tepid gulch
#

Then why haven't any android phones added it

#

I feel like Apple would try to sue

#

"you're using the same sensors typed as us how dare you"

hazy frost
#

Idk

#

I’m pretty sure some earlier phones tried but it sucked

#

It’s not a cheap technology to develop either if ur customer base is still hailing fingerprint as superior especially lmao

tepid gulch
#

As an android user fingerprint is what's been prioritized for years now

#

I haven't even though about face stuff

#

Not once

#

Cuz it's shit on here

hazy frost
#

Yeahh

#

Like I get why people think it sucks when they’ve used what u get lmao

#

I’ve tried it on friends phones and I’d never use it

tepid gulch
#

Exactly

hazy frost
#

It rains a lot in England and fingerprint rarely worked right for me due to that too

tepid gulch
#

Apple has unlocking your phone in the best way possible

#

But

hazy frost
#

Plus cold so gloves

tepid gulch
#

It is what it is

hazy frost
#

Apple Face ID works through sunglasses and stuff still too

tepid gulch
#

Yeah it's good

hazy frost
#

I really wish I didn’t have to give it up if I went for alternatives

tepid gulch
#

Android face unlock requires perfect lighting

hazy frost
#

But it is what it is

tepid gulch
#

Perfect situation

hazy frost
#

Yeah

tepid gulch
#

Change your hair or put on a hat

#

Nah you're not you

hazy frost
#

It’s also good bc it’s fast like by the time ur phone is at ur face it’s unlocked so u never even think about it

tepid gulch
#

My favorite option was fingerprint scanner on the power button

hazy frost
#

My banking still uses camera I think and it sucks lmao

tepid gulch
#

Unlocking your phone in your pocket

hazy frost
tepid gulch
#

No face or anything required

hazy frost
#

And I’d always look at my phone if I was gonna unlock it

tepid gulch
#

On Android was the best option

hazy frost
#

Yeah

tepid gulch
#

Now we have under screen fingerprint scanners

hazy frost
#

That’s what I was saying like most hate on it bc they’ve never realised how good it really can be

#

I prefer power button to under the screen tho

#

The under the screen ones are again more jank when it’s wet out

#

Apple Pay and stuff also very cool

#

But I’ve seen in NA they seem to not have contactless/Apple Pay in as many places

#

Unless I’ve been lied to

tepid gulch
#

Apple pay is rarer

hazy frost
#

I see yeah

tepid gulch
#

Cuz apple charges more

hazy frost
#

Makes sense again why people value it less then

hazy frost
#

Unless that’s also NA

tepid gulch
#

Chargee the business more

#

Not the customer

hazy frost
#

Oh

#

I see

tepid gulch
#

Yeah

hazy frost
#

Every store has it here fortunately

#

Not sure why it’s more normalised

#

Well almost every but u get the point

#

Bad habit of not carrying my card now tho

hot shadow
#

thank god for Asia having widespread contactless pay even before western countries

tepid gulch
#

I don't carry a phone so

hot shadow
#

pinnacle of convenient

hazy frost
#

Asia and Europe both got it now 😭

tepid gulch
#

Phones are too distracting I leave it at home

hazy frost
#

I only get distracted by mine at home lmao

#

I basically only use it for music, paying, or phone calls if I’m out

hot shadow
#

I get mad at people now when they try to pressure me to keep my phone on me

tepid gulch
#

Me too

hot shadow
#

like bro YOU need more friends stop fucking bothering me

tepid gulch
#

That's why I don't carry a phone

hot shadow
#

cause that's the real reason they keep pulling me 10ways

tepid gulch
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If I'm out and about fuck you I'm not responding

hazy frost
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No one contacts me besides family so I’m okay lmao

hot shadow
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people with only 1 friend but are insanely needy really need to get their shit together lmao

hazy frost
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What if I have 2 friends and am really needy

hot shadow
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and not expect the rest of us normal people to have to carry a phone around

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das ok at least you have options

hazy frost
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Tbh my problem is just people I’m friends with suck at organising so plans will always be last minute and so if I didn’t have my phone I’d never go out LOL

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I get calls from family and stuff too which i need to pick up

hot shadow
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I'm mad at a himbo today for similar reason cause he makes a lot of money but he's lonely cause his mom n dad are left abroad, but all he ever seems to do is ask what I'm doing 5x a day

hazy frost
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I live really close to all of them so I often get asked to go and help with smth

hot shadow
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like bro go watch anime leave me alone

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lol

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Christ he's such an only child

hazy frost
hot shadow
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only children all become needy as a stereotype like him if they don't get more well-adjusted

tepid gulch
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Waffle you have already become my most messaged person that's how little I talk to people

hazy frost
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I’m needy but I hate talking to people for the sake of talking usually

hot shadow
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haha

hot shadow
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I asked if he has other friends and he stayed silent on the matter

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šŸŒ§ļø

hazy frost
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Rip

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Just make him use discord or smth

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Online friends are better than no friends

hot shadow
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he's kind of boomer for being 28

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he doesn't rly speak English too

hazy frost
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Most people I know moved away so most time I spend is online with people these days anyway

hot shadow
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discord is usually English heavy

tepid gulch
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I'm in 5 servers but I don't do many people

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Dm

hazy frost
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I have like 5-10 people I talk to regularly

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Including irl friends

hot shadow
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yea see you're fine

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you found stuff to do

hazy frost
hot shadow
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correct use of tech to fill our lives but not overcome us homg

hazy frost
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Then when I’m done come here and complain about how bad the game is

hot shadow
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sounds good

tepid gulch
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I just talk to everyone here and I'm a few more servers and uhh anime dms

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That's all

hazy frost
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I’m not an outdoorsy person you’ve seen my skin tone

tepid gulch
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What's an out door

hazy frost
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But ig yeah it’s more of a tool than dependency for interaction

hot shadow
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I'm kinda mad that I tan too easily even if I go out even once

hazy frost
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I’ve tanned now so I’m no longer paper white I’m just white

hot shadow
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for like 10min

hazy frost
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I wish I didn’t tan too

hot shadow
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but on the bright side we got vitamin D so whatever

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tanning SUCKS

hazy frost
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Who needs that

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Multi vitamins got me