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like it's 4060 for 1500$ kinda thing
if u just order online its not that bad
ive helped people with stuff in canada recently and doesnt seem any worse than the last 3 years
goes for everywhere tho
It is marketly worse
with our dollar
waffle I live here lol
I work with people on a daily basis about this
i mean the wage difference puts it about the same as the UK
even with how weak t he currency is
Fuck why am I even arguing I'm so tired lol
pretty much every country looks bad if compared to the US market rn
but within most of western europe/canada its all just ass like usual
Sarah are you french canadian?
sarah is french???????????????????????
tell me your favortie isn't asus please lol
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then again outside of msi and asus. who would you even get motherboards from
Atl when MSI fucks up u might get a replacement lmao
asrock is like asus' distant cousin
meanwhile a denied warranty claim from asus with a picture showing a hammer sized dent š
or like
pictures of microoscopic nose hair on a random pci slot
Asrock and gigabyte
gigabyte is solid
Gigabyte has some of the best value stuff on the new platforms by a long way now
Asrock is up there and bios issues with the 9800x3d seem to be solved too
Iād buy from MSI if the price was right but when has that ever happened, asus Iād basically avoid unless theyāre selling it for pennies like when I got mine
gigashart is my go too lol
it was cheaper than the asus board
i don't remember what the gigabyte equivalent cost at the time i bought this
all of my personal are used ones from the customers though
cuz I don't want to throw them away
My £160 or whatever idk anymore x670e
Idc if itās asus at that point
Iām pretty sure someone put the wrong price on the site or something
I think 90% of what I recommend to people now includes a gigabyte motherboard tho lol
This time last year it was asrock
gigabyte just makes mid tier stuff that just be working
Not sure who Iād go with next time since it changes so quickly now
asrock doesn't charge much of a premium for their cooler looking shit
hell sometimes it's cheap
like the steel legend 9070xt is one of the cheapest 9070xts
Idk they have some of the best high end stuff just nothing like the $1000 ones asus MSI and asrock have
and it has rgb fans, which none of the other cards have :3
and it's white/grey, which you usually have to pay extra for
Iād still call their $200-300 high end stuff some of the best
then they have stuff like the livewire boards and the sonic board :3
they got expensive stuff but I usually only see them in mid end builds
cause it just worksā¢
Thatās bc people with lots of money are stupif and buy overpriced rog garbage
still love these
true factuals
yea i hate rog
Donāt ask whatās in my pc rn then
gigabyte has their AORUS equivalent which is... just a little less cringe
Aorus is way cooler and better tbh
-hangs the do not disturb ROG eye tag on waffle's door-
I have an ROG B550-F
Aorus comes across more high end luxury while rog is flashy gamer slop
cause it was on sale and had all the expansion stuff I wanted
relevant
To me
I have the x670e-a for the same reason
I can add another NVME SSD!
20 usb ports hell yeah
I have 4 m.2 as well
holy
lol
No I got a keychain I think
honestly razer is not as cringe
And a sticker
I can probably find it somewhere lol
but it's funny af when people go full rog
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
and get the matching ikea furniture
have good storage forever
honest to god I am surprised my seagates havent blown up yet
50 dollar HDD's 
Looks awful
ikea furniture in general :\
Aorus or asrock taichi are a way better choice
maybe its cause they are my game overflow drives and so I only play games on them once in a blue moon
Even asus proart is atl kind of nice
so they barely have any sustained read or write... ever
I need another nvme and Iām debating Ā£85 for a UD90 but the P41 platinum is only like Ā£110 lol
I donāt need it but
are 5700X3D's out of production now?
Yea
no wonder they went up
The 5500x3d is the only new one still going bc itās a continuation of the 5600 being stopped
And only Latin America ?
And maybe SEA
Forgot
Still pretty ok on AliExpress as always
The prices of am5 are so cheap now too tho
the aliexpress CPU
5700X3D is 250 bucks on amazon holy
they go to 200 sometimes
lol
theyre £200 here rn bc sales
usually £250+
from UK retailers
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
like AliExpress, but it's OttoExpress
Does the 16 Pro have better cooling than my base 14?
My 14 gets really warm, even when Iām just listening to Youtube Music.
If you want a real answer I'd check Jerry rig everything teardown of it
The answer is most likely it has better cooling but also like phones these days do just get hot especially in confined spaces
Graphene
Boy oh boy Apple with buzzwords
The difference is likely not noticeable, cooling improved, much more powerful chip used in the 16 pro to compensate
Your 14 probably shouldnāt be getting that hot either tho
I have a 14 pro and rarely have it get warm enough to think about it unless Iām running somewhat intensive games
I was playing ZZZ which doesnāt help.
You know what I do? I just have a fan blowing on me when gaming
Put phone in front of fab
Fan
Cool
š¤
That will get anything hot
Games make phone with passive cooling hot usually
We're dangerously close to the thermal limits of mobile devices and it scares me
Well we should probably just focus on making things more efficient instead of performance gains realistically
Apple kind of do a pretty good job year on year but we donāt need the extra performance and more should go into making it not become a space heater
Fallout style
Hopefully we donāt have another Note 7.
Also hoyo games in general make phones get weirdly hot
Idk whatās going on with them
I played wuwa for like 2 hours before getting to the same level zzz or HSR made my phone feel in 20 mins
Unless thatās changed recently
Might just switch to PC.
Bloons on mobile makes my phone go brrrr
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.
Uma mentioned
Yeah itās a mystery I havenāt solved yet and had the same issue
Iāve played AL, wuwa, arknights, alchemy stars, whatever else on it without a problem
But god forbid I open HSR it feels like Iām holding the sun
Am I weird for having 2 phones?
Yes
Neat
I do have one I actively use besides my main one
Oh
But itās just for random stuff not necessarily daily
I have 2 numbers as well
I do not have that
I have a work issued Pixel 8A and my personal 16 Pro.
I have an old phone i daily drive like I am using rn then a nice newer one I use at home
Iāll probably trade my 14 in for the new pixel or something tho
There's an actual Google store by me
Crazy
I went there a few weeks ago
Thereās no stores near me
I think Samsung have one like a 25 min drive away
Probably next phone for me
Iām waiting for the 10
Finally new TSMC processor that wonāt suck (maybe)
I was checking out the 9 pro and the new fold
I find it hilarious that the pixel 9 pro is equal to like an iPhone 13 in processing power
For £1000
Camera is great, their OS is decent, and I like the physical design
But they gotta get on top of the performance badly
True
I still kind of want a xiaomi 15 but itās too big
The 8A is better than the XCover Pros we had.
I don't need to see my aging thanjs
Iām not falling for resolution = quality propaganda
It has done irreparable damage to peopleās perception of mobile device cameras
Google's camera software is great tho
āLook this Android entry level phone has 30000mp surely itās goodā and everything else about it is terrible so it looks like itās from a 2016 flagship
Wait till they find out my DSLR is like 40mp
I've never owned an iPhone
they're good now
they're basically all very good now
they fixed iOS issues
things that bothered Android users before
Good camera, good display, good battery life, and their pro is only 6.3ā not 6.8ā
Peak
When half of stock Android versions are iOS ripoffs people care less it seems
I have a OnePlus 8t and an s24 ultra
Oneplus and Google arenāt that dissimilar
I use Spigen cases
Still my favourite design in the last 5 years
I don't even look at other cases anymore I'm done with my poor college student Spigen era
lol
Spigen better
NOPE
Yes
Aye
I liked Spigen for slimness
Iāve had several otter box things that cost 3-4x as much break or break my phone
I still buy it for others
Spigen stuff has never
Otterbox is also the same price as like mous stuff which is now better tbh
Both are overpriced
Years ago it was worth it
There's plenty of phones I want like redmagic or xiaomei but unfortunately they're illegal in America

They mostly suffer from my big annoyance of pro models are 6.8ā
Which I struggle to use
Only Google and Apple make 6.3ā ones
Whatever the s24 ultra is is the size I am most comfy with
That's what she said 
Sigh
Mentally Iām still 13 as well
Based
I live with an actual child still so I knew as soon as I said that a joke was coming
Upside is itās not mine at least I only have to deal with it on occasion
About as easy as any 12/13 year old is
Forgot how old he is tbh
help im getting rizzed by the idea of getting a standing desk
Standing desks are insanely nice, especially if you get one of those walkers for it too
We have them at work, if they werenāt so expensive Iād have one in my office
ok get a hydraulic one that goes up n down
that way it unstands
or stands to specific height
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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?
its bugging the fuck out of me
its intentional by youtube
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
I don't get hit by that funnily enough even tho I run music in the background
right?!
because you are in a low-priority country, as weird as that sounds. yall arent a priority when it comes to changes like that, its sometimes even not worth it at all.
here in germany they do that stuff for example. netherlands is getting that too
yeah all the time
it is so annoying
actively making the user experience worse to save pennies
is that also why I do not see any ads on youtube or twitch
with just ublock and an extra ublock filter line
lol
yes
Oh tech people; i would need advice on a phone (preferable samsung) that is powerful enough for games like zenlesszonezero without exploding?
games like ZZZ run badly even on the most powerful phones out there
u want the s24u if its samsung tho
oki doki
atl from my experience on phones so far it hasnt run great which i think i was even talking about yesterday
i see
Maybe something weaker than the s24u then cause of budget
Because I play zzz on my pc anyways
im pretty sure all hoyo games run better on ios, partially due to stronger cpus
samsung have the best non 'gaming phone' tho
for android
Ah okay
can confirm that ZZZ runs well on my pro max 16 and doesnt immediately drain the battery within 15min
Idk why they optimised it more on that
My friends s24u ran the same as my 14 pro does lmao
This isnāt a problem with any other gacha game
probably just easier to do for iOS given that you dont have a billion hardware configurations there
true
also as much as people hate to admit it apples processors are by a fairly large margin the best performing on the market
like the S25U doesnt come close to the 16 pro
the A16, 17 and 18 pro are nuts compared to the SD 8 gen 2/3/elite
Now if only apple wouldnāt be so greedy with ram
i would be mad about that except ios just uses less
it should be upped to 12 at some point
which i think the 17 is expected to have
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truly the GPU of this gen
why does that even EXIST LOL
Jensen wants you to buy so you can save
To be fair whatāre u gonna buy that doesnāt suck at that price anyway, itās not much worse than a b580 which is the same price with annoying cpu overhead
If u only have $250 to spend itās just not worth buying anything basically
Unless itās used
Reee
That's a problem
This... is how we get skynet.

Lol
Dexerto
I'm gonna take this with a massive grain of salt
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
It's not self-aware just spits out whatever its math formula says the next logical thing
hah go figure
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
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.......
guess what worked LOL
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
!!! wait I... plugged that back in again ... and it all works fine now
lmao ok
yea totally fine wtf
it makes it funnier knowing that human judges can fail an actual real human pretending to be a machine for the Turing test
TIL mac os reports the battery is at 100% charge before it actually is
like it reported 100% when the battery was actually at 93%
Human judges believing a AI of a dead victim
guys
jelp
jelp
jelp
prime day went live and 4060 is chepaer than 9060xt
what the hell is the play
7600x + ???
@sharp star WHAT ABOUT THIS
IS THIS TROLL
OVER 9060XT
im trying so fucking hard to find corners to cut
I would suggest not skimping on VRAM
ive never heard of that brand before
SURELY it doesnt blow up
The cooler wonāt but chances are itās not very good either
Also donāt be tempted by false deals
If you canāt afford 15⬠more for an assassin then really just save up a bit more
Hard to tell how good this noname brand is but itās one of THE coolers to get because of how well it performs
And itās still cheap
aight. which one for 7600x
Yeah lol itās way slower even if it had the same amount of vram
The 9060xt is faster than the 5060ti rn
OKAY
@lost python this thing looks like a MS Zeta reject
lol
Phantom spirit is good too but the assassin is right there and 2⬠cheaper lol
OKAYH
I mean itās ā¬2 for the best 120mm cooler they make rn ix just do it
Well they make better ones but hard to find it for sale and only like 2 others
I feel like the only good stuff during Amazon sales is storage usually ngl
das from mindfactory
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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Get a...
Uhm
Bit of urgency
About to hit purchase then uh
7600xs delivery date is a month from nkw
Now
Sooooooooooo
Any alternatives.
Gdi nothing has gone right
Different socket so no
7000+ is am5
9600 is like 220 eur
7600?
ion fucking know man
why am i getting fucking griefed by the shipping date out of sudden
i think
7500f is the play
@potent arrow this better be the best laptop ever
Leg Ion?
7500f is effectively a budget entry into am5
if it's a lot cheaper than the 7600x, it's a decent choice
they perform roughly the same
how expensive is amazon prime
Did u get that slim one in the end
yuesah
Nice
I donāt think you could do any better without spending ridiculous money tbf
Wish mine had that OLED display too lol itās supposed to be really good
wait is this oled
I thought so? The specs for the one I found are OLED
They switched over like almost entirely to OLED panels in like 2024 for their new ones afaik
Should be pretty obvious when u use it if it is lol
I assumed that was part of what makes these new ones so much more expensive than the older legions
wtf
Well nice surprise for u if it is lmfao
I prefer the keyboard on yours too itās centred without the numpad
Yeah I donāt use them much now just a side effect of getting the 16ā models usually
pros of numpad
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.
Cons: gets in the way literally 90% of the time when u donāt need it
How many damn bindings are u using that u have to extend to the numpad as well tho š
flight controls on mkb
bit weird, but i do use it for that
and then there are times to key in numbers from papers
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
you can even dump useless necessary keys by capcom in them as well
useless-ish in ff14, but useful to have in plenty other of things
numpad good for switching HUD layout or target marking in both current big mmos
and yes for fast number input
Do they mean i9 or i7 here? They wrote it in a weird way
i7 lmao
I havenāt had to do that in a while I get why some people use it I just wish more didnāt have it
Donāt some of the new asus laptops have it in the track pad tho
Solves all problems
More comfortable to use too imo since itās where ur right hand sits more often
I have so many 2fa I always use it š
even one bank wire needs one 2fa to login then two more 2fa just to wire

The only thing is are they not selling the regular 9070? I donāt believe no one bought one
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
i have intel and am going from that to amd, amd motherboard and cpu
This is one of the most outlandish monitors I've seen
My honest opinion is to always do fresh installs on new PCs
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
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
If you're on the same drive move anything important off of it and do a fresh install of windows to wipe the drive
It's best to clear things out

Racing sim monitor
Except Iām pretty sure 1 34ā and 2 27ā is preferred still
Not entirely sure who thatās for
Thereās some good deals on oleds for prime day
Ā£390 for the new AOC one
Take advantage of deals
It would be a dumb purchase for me rn I returned one already and got annoyed with the idea of more
But 87 monitors
And Iām not paying Ā£300 for a mini led va when OLED is Ā£390
need a stronger curve to make it worthwhile, otherwise its just better to go VR or triple screens
Yeah people do 34ā main and 2x 27ā for side as far as Iāve seen
Thereās not a 49ā with a super aggressive curve that doesnāt make the fov kind of wack by default afaik
Same
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I wanna get my hands on a Yeston card for giggles
i want one bc its been the exact colour scheme i need for years
theyre always unreasonably expensive tho
that very often works both ways though
I mean
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"
and/or make it look/work like an older version of windows
and they have their laundry list of registry hacks and powershell scripts to work around windows jank
(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)
Thatās far fewer windows users than the Linux users in question tho too
Itās also the fact people will swear up and down Linux is better and then you canāt do anything on it for half of peopleās hobbies/professions
If u want an OS that just works for everything idk why youād use anything but windows besides macOS only software
well, imagine it this way. "I want a vehicle that just works for everything"
grats here's your daily driver
probably also why the damn things are so popular
"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?!)
right it wn't work for an italian city
Iād call something that works for everything like any normal hatchback or estate car
Anything that needs more than that is then not a regular use case
lol say that to an american
Yeah Iāve made it clear I think Americans are insane
Idk why they keep buying these things
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
idk what you brits call em
^ the rav4 is basically that but taller and with more ugly black plastic
or what a bmw x3/x5
idk which
it's just an uglier version of the car :\
The one I sent is a 3 series
right
Which has a 500L capacity in the rear
i feel like those suvs are like
RAV4 has like 550 or smth
wearing crocs
And itās so much bigger
And same amount of seats and similar leg room
then again i'm not sure people in the uk would be caught dead wearing crocs
it's not status?
A lot of people drive estates or sedans here
Thereās no other reason to get an SUV over estate cars besides itās bigger and makes u look like u have more money/following current trends
I like sedans
Theyāre functionally the same
I don't really understand the big deal about wagon vs suv
they really don't look that different
the suvs are uglier than the wagons for sure
but design-wise the 3 and the x3 look exactly the same
One is much less safe for pedestrians, causes issues with parking and too big for roads especially in this country
they have the same ugly hatch with the same ugly hatch spoiler
but i think a 3/x3 are the same width/length?
the hood height is an issue, sure
but especially the x3... we're talking about like
2"? 3" at most?
on an x5 or x7 sure i imagine it's a bit taller
Wider taller heavier
Length wise the same yeah
i'd rather have the sedan :3
Iād take either over the suv
The x3 isnāt egregious size yet but itās still pointless over the estate bc the height and weight makes it more dangerous to people
The plague of land rovers is worse
Or the new Hyundai things
Every time Iāve almost been hit by someone recently itās an older person driving an SUV
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
hmm it was brought to my attention via youtuber yesterday that you can get a 3 year old EQS for <$40k
I... would be tempted to buy one of those lol š
how do people in the uk afford those
i was under the impression the average person there makes like £30k/year
Donāt they have a load of electrical issues
Theyāre cool tho
idk?
i imagine it's like any other full size euro car: the air suspension is the one big problem
I mean older land rovers exist but also 500% interest 180 month deals
Mostly
idgaf if like, the vibrating seats stop working after a few years
Some people are just wealthier especially round where I live
oof lol
yea out here you see the evoque plenty enough
the defender seems to have flopped
People make stupid financial decisions across the globe to try and look rich
This country has plenty of those
Most cars are like 2010-2020 hatchbacks or a sedan/estate
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
I parked on the other side of the road not opposite their driveway but they own cars too big to reverse properly without swinging out a huge amount lmao
Neighbours before had a normal size car so it wasnāt an issue
I have what Americans would consider a tiny car too tbf
so one time i lived in a tiny neighborhood where we all had a 1 car garage and a 'driveway' just wide enough to fit a car
in my case the driveway ended at a 90 degree angle and there was a big community mailbox next to it
so like
Yeah Iād get it if it was actually an awkward position
you didn't have much freedom to enter the driveway from an angle
my across the street neighbor had a f350
But their driveway is wide enough that two small cars could fit through at the same time
that ugly giant truck i posted earlier
he couldn't fit it in his driveway so it was always sticking out
Lmao
and i was always complaining to him to move it so I could move my car
It just drives me insane how much it affects me that other people wanna drive these things too
well he also had his toys
like a boat and a trailer
and he took up ALL the community parking spaces with it
I used to make their lives easier by moving back more but then they started parking right on my front bumper and vans blocking me in when they had garden work done
(like, where guests would park, or where we'd put our garbage cans for the truck to pick up)
So I started parking where I used to again
so everyone hated him lmao
Lmao
like everyone hates people who drive those big trucks
Can afford a boat giant truck and trailer but not storage for it
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
you don't WANT a neighbor that uses a truck for truck stuff
When u look at American roads vs UK ones tho that truck is what an SUV is here
like you DO NOT WANT it
they'll park their shit everywhere and wake up at 6am saturday to tune their boat engines
why those people don't buy a ranch house in the middle of nowhere is beyond me
Truck owners are uncivilised
i mean most do
U want van owners
well thats' the other thing right
people who haul shit for work
drive vans
like you hire a plumber or an electrician
From my experience people with vans are more normal here lmao
they're driving a transit or a chevy express lol
Yeah
They donāt have a boat and trailer and parking in ridiculous places most of the time
Unless itās a delivery van
lol
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 heās out and Iām just like god damn
Makes where I live look like it was made for dwarves or something
ye olde amazon van
Atl Amazon couriers are nice but they will park anywhere
DPD is worse
Iāve been blocked in several times by Amazon vans
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
BOO
the fold 7 doesn't have s-pen support
or the under display camera
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 š
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
Iām 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 isnāt great either
the fold 7 was hyped up to finally have a decent camera
but the cameras on my fold 4 are awful lmao
they're worse than the cameras on my iphone 13, which I already don't care much for
like the selfie cams on the fold 4
are like... what I had on my iphone 5s maybe
they're REALLY REALLY BAD
Lmaoo
Tbh I think the camera on all current Samsungs is pretty terrible
Comparatively to everyone elseās
Except maybe Sony on their quick shoot stuff if u donāt fiddle around
Google is the one thatās rly disappointing on the fold bc the camera is their THING
they could get away with cheaper sensors
iPhone, pixel, oneplus and xiaomi just look so much better these days
Well they have similar lenses itās just the fact u donāt get 0.5x or 2x mostly
The actual quality is fine
maybe the same sensor? i forgot
The pro camera from year or two before is always a lot better tho
I bought mine last year so Iām waiting for a new pixel pro
my full frame camera destroys anything a phone can do
Yeah
by virtue of having a giant heavy lens
Well I have a DSLR but like I donāt wanna drag it around every day either
š hehe
Thereās a lot of cool stuff to take photos of when u go places without a camera
Cameras make the phone camera resolution argument so funny like
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
Comparing a phone camera to an actual camera isn't fair

Yeah but thatās what some people ACTUALLY do
Which is what makes me so mad, spec sheet advertising has rotted peopleās brains
Itās like the battery capacity thing too thinking that bigger number inherently always means more battery life
Small number bad
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
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
People also don't know what a charge cycle is
Or how to maintain a battery
But that's a nother topic
True
I still only do 5w charging overnight on the pause at 80% thing once a day basically
Yeah I limit to 80 on all phones
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
das a weird thing for them to latch onto
Which means if I was a normal functioning member of society I could probably go 3 days
But it lasts me one bc I have an addiction
I like how when people can afford a modern iphone for once they stop hating it
Yeah people say iPhone battery small so look bad a lot
it's all old attitude leftover from last decade
But like iOS and the processor is just more efficient
yes
Itās just how tech works
Even between Android phones u canāt directly compare but it is much closer
iPhone 6 did irreparable damage to even my view on them for ages lmao
I hated that thing with passion
yeah it did. to me too I didn't like it
Coming from a 5 which felt indestructible the 6 felt like a pos
I only came around for 12mini
took me that long
I didn't hate iphones but I just did not want to chance it
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 itās been a pretty solid run
And now they donāt make a mini LOL
I think the 16e is better than a 16 mini for most people tbf but it sucks itās gone
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

U rly couldnāt do half of what iPhones were about on the mini tho, u didnāt get a great camera, battery life, or anything rly
Which is a shame
Lmao
at least it has a use
I use my X occasionally for things
I like my 14 pro a lot tho itās my favourite phone Iāve ever owned so far
It would probably explode if I asked it to live any longer
I ended with like 65% battery health
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
Everyone makes fun of the notch on iPhones still being there but thatās bc we have actual face tracking and not just a camera
I like that all the bank apps and payment just faceID me real quick
Yeah
Android users will not stop saying āfingerprint is betterā probably bc they havenāt seen how actually instant proper Face ID is
I wonder if somebody has gotten so changed thru plastic surgery that they couldn't access their phone anymore

Like the second u look at ur phone itās open no needing correct angle or whatever
Me when Iām not broke
Fingerprint is good if itās fingerprint AND proper faceID but Iād never trade it
How often do u have ur face covered vs ur hands covered or wet or smth lol

my fingerprints don't even work well anyway they're like shallow and dry
it is
Like I might have gloves or wet hands in rain so it wonāt work
But my face is always there
shit is so last decade
ya they even have a mask faceID if needed but I haven't had to use it
Android just wonāt do it still
How do you unlock your phone in the dark
U get the shitty camera based stuff
See this is what I mean
U can do it in the dark on iPhone
like it lets you have an alternate look in case you're a super drag queen in public LMAO
Bc itās not camera
yea it's lidar
Won't is funny wording
So I get why Android users think itās bad since their implementations are genuinely just ass
the thing that muskrat won't use in his stupid cars
Android physically can't use it
cause he's dumb as shit
Blame apple
They cant use the same system but they can use a similar version of it that isnāt just selfie camera
Afaik the actual phone technology is parented by Apple
Patented
If it wasn't the phones would have it
Especially the Chinese ones
From what I know itās only the one Apple uses
If the advanced ass Chinese phones don't have it it can't be done
I donāt think theyāve patented using lidar at all on phones
I know they have one for self driving uses or whatever
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"
Idk
Iām pretty sure some earlier phones tried but it sucked
Itās not a cheap technology to develop either if ur customer base is still hailing fingerprint as superior especially lmao
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

Yeahh
Like I get why people think it sucks when theyāve used what u get lmao
Iāve tried it on friends phones and Iād never use it
Exactly
It rains a lot in England and fingerprint rarely worked right for me due to that too
Plus cold so gloves
It is what it is
Apple Face ID works through sunglasses and stuff still too
Yeah it's good
I really wish I didnāt have to give it up if I went for alternatives
Android face unlock requires perfect lighting
But it is what it is
Perfect situation
Yeah
Itās also good bc itās fast like by the time ur phone is at ur face itās unlocked so u never even think about it
My favorite option was fingerprint scanner on the power button
My banking still uses camera I think and it sucks lmao
Unlocking your phone in your pocket
That was the best option
No face or anything required
I never got this bc of how fast Face ID is Iāve never needed to like pre unlock it
And Iād always look at my phone if I was gonna unlock it
On Android was the best option
Yeah
Now we have under screen fingerprint scanners
Thatās what I was saying like most hate on it bc theyāve 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 itās wet out
Apple Pay and stuff also very cool
But Iāve seen in NA they seem to not have contactless/Apple Pay in as many places
Unless Iāve been lied to
Most places have contact less pay
Apple pay is rarer
I see yeah
Cuz apple charges more
Makes sense again why people value it less then
I donāt think thereās a fee for it
Unless thatās also NA
Yeah
Every store has it here fortunately
Not sure why itās more normalised
Well almost every but u get the point
Bad habit of not carrying my card now tho
thank god for Asia having widespread contactless pay even before western countries
I don't carry a phone so
pinnacle of convenient
NA living in the Stone Age
Asia and Europe both got it now š
Phones are too distracting I leave it at home
I only get distracted by mine at home lmao
I basically only use it for music, paying, or phone calls if Iām out
I get mad at people now when they try to pressure me to keep my phone on me
Me too
like bro YOU need more friends stop fucking bothering me
That's why I don't carry a phone
cause that's the real reason they keep pulling me 10ways
If I'm out and about fuck you I'm not responding
No one contacts me besides family so Iām okay lmao
people with only 1 friend but are insanely needy really need to get their shit together lmao
What if I have 2 friends and am really needy
and not expect the rest of us normal people to have to carry a phone around
das ok at least you have options
Tbh my problem is just people Iām friends with suck at organising so plans will always be last minute and so if I didnāt have my phone Iād never go out LOL
I get calls from family and stuff too which i need to pick up
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
I live really close to all of them so I often get asked to go and help with smth
I used to be like that but I mean u can find stuff to do pretty easily
only children all become needy as a stereotype like him if they don't get more well-adjusted
Waffle you have already become my most messaged person that's how little I talk to people

Iām needy but I hate talking to people for the sake of talking usually
haha
Thatās impressive
Most people I know moved away so most time I spend is online with people these days anyway
discord is usually English heavy
Play monster hunter 8 hours a day
correct use of tech to fill our lives but not overcome us 
Then when Iām done come here and complain about how bad the game is
sounds good
I just talk to everyone here and I'm a few more servers and uhh anime dms
That's all
Just happened that all my hobbies involved tech eventually
Iām not an outdoorsy person youāve seen my skin tone
What's an out door
But ig yeah itās more of a tool than dependency for interaction
I'm kinda mad that I tan too easily even if I go out even once
Iāve tanned now so Iām no longer paper white Iām just white
for like 10min
I wish I didnāt tan too