🔌│tech

[thick elk]

I plan to 3d print something someday...

[final flame]

I use Legos for mine

[gusty kiln]

That's a nice amount of usb ports on the live mixer

[final flame]

ignore the dust

[gusty kiln]

I would only jump to the B650E taichi if I wanted to go the extra mile

Only issue is killer wifi instead of intel

[thick elk]

I think I may have improved sag a bit, also camera angle made it seem worse

[gusty kiln]

Unless killer wifi/nic have improved?

[final flame]

should use a level for checking the sag

[thick elk]

Well you can buy an intel wifi nic for cheap

[gusty kiln]

Wtf, even the 670E taichi used killer

[thick elk]

Fine, still some sag but not too bad imo

[gusty kiln]

6800xt?

[thick elk]

7900 xt

[gusty kiln]

Oh nice

[thick elk]

Price I paid for it not so much looking at current pricing, but hey you can't keep waiting forever

Just like the price of the cpu will probably go down as well at some point (7800x3d

Ever mind it already did in the meantime, oh well.

[gusty kiln]

Oof full 900 for it?

[thick elk]

Tiny bit less converted to euro's ex vat. but still was the best option at the time

[gusty kiln]

Tempted to try the asrock 7900xt 780 from microcenter

Ah

[thick elk]

Euro also increased in value compared to the dollar inbetween so that also impacts things a bit

When I bought it the euro was quite low

Never mind about that last bit

[gusty kiln]

How's the idle power draw?

[thick elk]

Not great, 3x 1440@144-165hz does that

[gusty kiln]

Kek

[thick elk]

also linux if I were to only connect 2 monitors to the gpu

Idles at around 80w

but really having many monitor systems It is kind of inevitable

My hd7950 had high idle power draw, my gtx1080 had high idle power draw and the 7900xt has it too.

At least unlike the 1080 it doesn't have fans that constantly stop and start

[gusty kiln]

Yeah i just install afterburner and set fan min to 20

My 2080 idles at 40w with 1440p240hz and 2 1080p60hz

[thick elk]

Fan speed control was kind of akward on linux

I mostly solved it at some point by starting greenwithenvy on boot.

[ashen spindle]

nah I think 250 or 300

[astral haven]

🤷 singapoor electronics are v expensive

[ashen spindle]

yeah they get fucked

also N33 is only on N6 so chip isnt that expensive

[astral haven]

🤷 amds bestsellers have always been pretty solidly undercutting the nvidia offering

and that was when they nearly had feature parity

no i mean actual competition not the named competition

yep

tho "old"

[gusty kiln]

Dlss 3 tax on every nvidia gpu

[astral haven]

a 1070 is still a pretty solid hit nowdays

[gusty kiln]

Av1

[astral haven]

not yet

you get lower power usage at performance parity

[gusty kiln]

Did they confirm fsr 3.0 support for any older gpu?

[astral haven]

cpu av1 is actually pain

regardless nvidias gating of dlss3 behind 40 series despite 30 having the hardware ended up being the move

its run on tensor on 20 series

30 series has the motion vector hardware

https://docs.nvidia.com/video-technologies/optical-flow-sdk/nvofa-application-note/index.html

[ashen spindle]

nah based on what nvidia said and we know, it should run on 30 series maybe not as well but still to similar extents

[astral haven]

like according to nvidia, both ampere and ada have the hardware

locking it away from turing makes sense since it doesnt have hardware

[ashen spindle]

turing even has some parts, we dont really know which parts FG uses so that could be valid to have it not run on 20 seires

[astral haven]

ye but no dedicated hardware

[ashen spindle]

yeah but we also dont know how heavy that gets used, if it would still be enough to have it bring benefits or not

[astral haven]

🤷 whatever, its fair to lock away a feature thanks to the lack of having the hardware to support it

[ashen spindle]

yea

[astral haven]

but nvidia themselves say its the same

so either update the table why its not the same or make it work

or dont and just print money from 40 sales

[ashen spindle]

yeah I make sure it is disabled when I know a game supports it lmfao

[astral haven]

i dont have to make sure bc i dont have a 40 series gpu

[ashen spindle]

[cursive summit]

What does the frame generation utilize hardware wise that RTX 3000 doesn't have?

[ashen spindle]

nothing based on what we know

[astral haven]

reread the convo lel

[cursive summit]

Or is it just an artificial barrier to boost sales

[astral haven]

that table i showed you is from their documentation about the feature

[astral haven]

spot the difference

thats pretty funny

no use reengineering what nvidia already has done tbh

[astral haven]

meh, give me an aptera

interesting
taycan for 335 per day 🤔

oh 200 mile per day max? rude

hmm so if i wanted to go to canada and back id need to rent it for at least a 10 days

3.5k just for the car, + probably another 300 for charging

near 4k

p expensive

cheaper than buying one tho ofc lmao

[vagrant pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFNi3YNJXbY

[gusty kiln]

lol Steve literally called Asus scumbag

[vagrant pagoda]

https://youtu.be/S_3MT7zbZs0

[fluid gazelle]

Taycan turbo S is pretty fast

But ye i’d rather have a GT2/3RS MR for that money 😁

[cursive summit]

https://www.techspot.com/news/98617-philips-created-1440p-monitor-attached-e-ink-display.html

[severe phoenix]

Wild...

Oh i thought it was a 1440p e-ink display for some reason

lol

[halcyon moss]

i always wonder with these.. why

[crimson wigeon]

Why not?

[halcyon moss]

do the expect to sell more than.. 2?

[old marlin]

I mean it's cool

but like

why

[frozen ingot]

cheaper than a proper lcd if you mostly use your second monitor for text stuff

[halcyon moss]

yeah, but the screen itself is not cheap

[severe phoenix]

https://www.techspot.com/news/98622-happening-ai-chatbot-replace-human-order-takers-wendy.html

[reef patrol]

inb4 it tries to place orders of 99 packets of ketchup and a cheese burger minus all items, causing massive overflow errors.

[cursive summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFNi3YNJXbY

[latent mural]

Does the Wooting Two HE have the same specs as the Wooting 60HE?

I'm a bit confused when they say Esport grade for wooting 60HE.

[reef patrol]

Same tech and components - There's just more of them on the 2HE. Which leads to a difference in latency of a fraction of a second longer than the 60HE.

[ashen spindle]

asterisk, the latest beta improves that as well

[reef patrol]

Sure - but it improves it for both, leading to an identical 1:1 ratio as before. 😄

[latent mural]

So it's only the size difference?

I'm I correct?

[ashen spindle]

basically yes

[reef patrol]

The 60HE is also designed using a common, broad standard of PCBs that allows you to change the case to something else. Like wood or aluminium.

[ashen spindle]

^

[latent mural]

ok Thanks you very much both of you 🙂

[wheat plume]

github seems to have some issues with my wifi

[halcyon moss]

dont scare me like that Lana :p

are you spamming github?

[wheat plume]

nnu

im just going through the same repo cause they make ports of the theme for a lot of apps I want to use it on

[reef patrol]

You're on a cellphone network. They may have IP range banned it.

[wheat plume]

maybe...

time to get into airplane mode for a minute or so and hope I get a new IP

it worked for a few minutes

[latent mural]

Is Wooting Two HE/60HE limited? Such as Final mouse

[severe phoenix]

It is limited in the sense that one day it will no longer exist

[ashen spindle]

no

just pre orders bc stock is getting bought so fast

[solemn remnant]

it's the final wootdown

[severe phoenix]

The CEO of Logitech is buying the Wootings to keep them from the general supply, all the while using one himself.

[wheat plume]

Nah, its the CEO of Steelseries and pushing shills to say that Steelseries is the first board to have analog switches

[solemn remnant]

nah it's the CEO of Razer who's buying them and distributing them to their magnets what are they department

[wheat plume]

I cant find that video again but I saw a video that showed off analog on a steelseries board and saying it was the first and only board that can do this

[cursive summit]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/05/08/intel-layoff-2023-tech-layoffs/70197173007/

Oi, oi

[wheat plume]

Razer knows what magnets are, they use them to attach those shitty pieces of plastic they call a wristrest to their keyboards

[solemn remnant]

different department

they can't communicate between departments because they haven't invented the razerphone yet

[severe phoenix]

Razerphone exists

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/reviews/razer-phone-2-review-1202988133/

[cursive summit]

Lol what

[solemn remnant]

le mao

[cursive summit]

That looks ass

Well, whatever

Best phone company releases a new phone tomorrow

[wheat plume]

YALL NEVER HEARD ABOUT THE RAZER PHONE???

xd

[cursive summit]

My brain tends to filter out the trash

[wheat plume]

fair

[cursive summit]

... prolly why I don't recall what lanaposting you did yesterday or today even

[old marlin]

was one of the phones of all time

tbh

[wheat plume]

it was a rebrand of the nextbit robin

a phone with only enough storage to contain the OS on the idea that you pay for cloud storage for all your files instead

[old marlin]

if they marketed it better for chinese market it might have done well

[cursive summit]

15 hours boys https://youtu.be/UOo9szWkl-o

Also the pricing got leaked

It got a price cut

[old marlin]

it wasn't though

[cursive summit]

From 1599$ it's like 1199$ this generation

Man I only care about 2 things

[old marlin]

like they looked similar

[cursive summit]

Is the design the same, so headphone jack, expandable storage, etc

[old marlin]

but they were completely different phones

[cursive summit]

2. Are they bundling XM5's as a gift

[old marlin]

not even the same size

[thick elk]

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PCIe5-NVMe-SSD-Fail-3-Minutes
This is some pretty terrible behavior for an ssd.

I would even say catastrophic, if cooling is insufficient.

[old marlin]

not to mention internals and build quality

the razer phone was pretty overbuilt

while the nextbit robin basically only made for a funny "bend test" at jerryrig everything

[old marlin]

still wasn't good for the bend test due to some design issues

at least excusable ones

https://youtu.be/KrxDhokzEv4?t=264

like it is a fail in that test

https://youtu.be/EU6Tv-OfXk0?t=152

but this is more than that

similar issues though

[latent mural]

One last question about the Wooting Two HE/60 warranty. For example, if I live in Thailand and my keyboard has a problem. How do I send my keyboard in for warranty?

[reef patrol]

You send us an email and we go through a troubleshooting and warranty process. If your board is found to be defective under warranty, we help you with a shipping label, and then you ship the board back to us

[latent mural]

Do I have to send it to the US?

[reef patrol]

Netherlands.

[wheat plume]

I like this color palette

[pale sigil]

As a colourblind person

Fuck you

XD

[wheat plume]

the way betacam works was insane

time mutlitplexing on the fly on both ends recording and playback

to get 2 bands of info onto only one band

[final flame]

The shipping label they send you covers all the location info

[wheat plume]

The noise this machine makes when starting to play a Betacam S tape is horrific

its a very unsettling high pitch screech

https://youtu.be/hGVVAQVdEOs

M II

what a name

[wheat plume]

I really want this laptop...

betting its like 2 grand though ;-;

[severe phoenix]

That's no laptop

That's a tablet

[cursive summit]

That is a laptop

[wheat plume]

that is a laptop

[cursive summit]

What's the brand of it?

[wheat plume]

Lenovo Yogabook 9i

[cursive summit]

Typically Lenovo are cheap

[wheat plume]

I love the little keyboard you get with it that snaps on with mangets to the bottom display to get a physical keybaord

[reef patrol]

How does that even stay upright.

[cursive summit]

"The Yoga Book 9i (13”, 8) will start at $2,099.99 and is expected to be available starting June 2023"

[wheat plume]

The problem with this, you basically need to use Windows on it :/ Cause they have not setup the displays to do the touch keyboard thing when you tap with 8 fingers on Linux

[reef patrol]

And I agre with Mr. Bride. That is definitely more of a tablet than a laptop.

[cursive summit]

It's a laptop

[reef patrol]

Put that fucker on your lap, I dare you 😄

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/NDUPymw7bjg

[cursive summit]

Meh, it's boring anyways

[wheat plume]

yeah
Like a normal laptop

[severe phoenix]

Probably got weak ass hardware

😛

[cursive summit]

Best dual screen will remain as Zenbook Duo

Man I want one

[wheat plume]

OOOOO DEDICATED WEBCAM TOGGLE SWITCH ON THE SIDE

<3

[cursive summit]

Now this

[wheat plume]

EVERY LAPTOP / PHONE NEEDS THOSE

[cursive summit]

This is a productivity laptop

[severe phoenix]

This is a camgirl tablet

[cursive summit]

You calling a zenbook a tablet?

Lol

[wheat plume]

laptop

[severe phoenix]

That's two tablets having intercourse.

[wheat plume]

i7 13th gen

so no, not weak hardware!

[severe phoenix]

What GPU

[wheat plume]

whatever TF that CPU has built in

[severe phoenix]

lmao you could get a 4090 laptop for that price

[wheat plume]

IrisXe?

maybe idk

[wheat plume]

yeah with 2 hours battery life and big and bulky and loud

this laptop is meant to be portable xd

[severe phoenix]

lol

[cursive summit]

Mklibrdde fails to understand that certain laptops are for different audiences

This is for business

[ashen spindle]

please lana you should know that alone does not mean anything, thats not the name of a cpu

[cursive summit]

4090s are bulk af

[cursive summit]

Could be unspecified which one

[latent mural]

And is there a delivery fee?

[ashen spindle]

in which case we still dont know if its weak hardware or not

[wheat plume]

thats all I know

"the latest core i7"

[ashen spindle]

then we dont know how strong the hardware is still

[wheat plume]

its at least 13th gen so its pretty damn decent for most people

and enough to power both screens

[ashen spindle]

doesnt mean anything because laptop chips are often power restricted

all it means is that most likely it wont have issues running the screens, but thats not big feat

[cursive summit]

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/Yoga/Yoga_Book_9_13IRU8

Up to 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1355U

That is not great

Always look for official parameters

[severe phoenix]

Are the screens at lesat OLED?

[wheat plume]

yes

[cursive summit]

So it has i5-1335U for lower end model and i7-1355U for higher

[severe phoenix]

Well, there's that.

[wheat plume]

They are OLED

[cursive summit]

Display: 2x 13.3" 2.8K (2880x1800) Multi-touch OLED 400 nits Glossy, Anti-fingerprint 16:10 100000:1 100% DCI-P3 85°/85°/85°/85° Refresh rate 60Hz, VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500, Eyesafe Certified 2.0, Dolby Vision

[wheat plume]

glossy :'(

[cursive summit]

60Hz

[wheat plume]

my laptop is matte AND I LOVE IT

[cursive summit]

Eh

[severe phoenix]

You said this is a work tablet?

It's glossy.

For work, especially at only 400 nits, I'd say Matte a requirement :p

[wheat plume]

Matte does wash out the colors a little, so thats understadable

Nah, it washes out the colors

[severe phoenix]

Mhm

[wheat plume]

less accurate

[severe phoenix]

But this is a work tablet

So that doesn't matter

[wheat plume]

yeah

[cursive summit]

Hey it's built well though
Surface Treatment
Aluminium CNC (anodized with sandblasting)
Case Material
Aluminium (top), aluminium (bottom)

[wheat plume]

work as in video / photo editing and what not

[severe phoenix]

You wouldn't use this for that lol

[cursive summit]

i7-1355U is borderline pathetic though

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i7-1355U-Processor-Benchmarks-and-Specs.678466.0.html

[severe phoenix]

Should've at least been a i7 13700K desktop

[cursive summit]

Jesus it succs

Wait

[severe phoenix]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Tiger-Lake-U-Xe-Graphics-G7-96EUs-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.462145.0.html

[cursive summit]

How is it losing against last gen ultralight processors? https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i7-1260P-Processor-Benchmarks-and-Specs.589539.0.html

This thing is faster than it

I guess cause it's 15W

[ashen spindle]

because you are comparing a 28W vs a 15W part

[severe phoenix]

Starting at 2100$, and then you drop it once and the screens break apart and it's done

[cursive summit]

Xe with 96EU's is good enough though

That processor is meh but should do most basic shit

It's a work laptop, what else

[severe phoenix]

It should be fine for viewing youtube, aye

[cursive summit]

Office?

Conferences?

It's simply for work

[wheat plume]

this would be so nice for dev

Browser on top screen for notes and docs
Code on the bottom

hek ye

[cursive summit]

Will take a while to compile anything meaningful

[wheat plume]

I really hate this video title .-.

[cursive summit]

https://tenor.com/view/who-asked-me-trying-to-find-who-asked-spongebob-spunch-bob-gif-22526294

[wheat plume]

"Hidden smartphone tricks everyone must know"

[pale sigil]

Fuck off vex

[wheat plume]

but they only apply to samsung phones

[cursive summit]

Fuck off [e-mail]

[pale sigil]

Send me a complaint you hoe

[reef patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/printer-shredder-fax-machine-spam-customer-service-gif-25361577

[cursive summit]

I don't bother with scoom

[pale sigil]

All the complaints from discord about me in a nutshell

Nazi mod

[cursive summit]

Deserved, anyways

[pale sigil]

Best title I've ever earned

[severe phoenix]

Kotaku: "Former Wooting personnel admit to being Nazis"

[wheat plume]

xd

[cursive summit]

Well he didn't deny it

[reef patrol]

Knowing Kotaku, they misidentify Tony as Pleasant, because he's German.

[pale sigil]

Kek

Living up to his relatives

[cursive summit]

Right, that's uncalled for

[thick elk]

considering the reliability of printers and the reliability of shredders, the odds of this actually working is rather low

[severe phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/steve-carell-the-office-yikes-this-is-the-worst-cringe-gif-21219465

[pale sigil]

Ha, if you think that's bad you should see how I am with my other German friend

[wheat plume]

also the speed at which a printer shoots out the paper is different depending if there is stuff to print at the bottom of the page or not xd

[pale sigil]

Especially when he charged into an attic in game one time

[reef patrol]

NOT HELPING

[cursive summit]

Lol Pleasant on his way to oust the wooting team as ultranationalists

Go on, child

[severe phoenix]

Kotaku furiously writing article "The Dark Truth About the Wooting Keyboard you've Heard so Much About"

[pale sigil]

Nah, everyone is tame in Wooting

[severe phoenix]

As long as they take their happy pills

[pale sigil]

Which I haven't got a Day

[severe phoenix]

Zyklon-B2.

[cursive summit]

Yall need to chill at this point, it's #🔌│tech

[pale sigil]

May as well be general to me since I only have 4 channels not hidden

[summer ether]

Outside of keyboard size is there a competitive advantage in the he60 over the one?

[pale sigil]

Speaking of tech

https://tenor.com/view/waiting-gif-23395435

[severe phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/rudol-von-stroheim-stroheim-jojos-bizarre-adventure-jojo-battle-tendency-gif-13994621

[pale sigil]

Waiting for Google io

[cursive summit]

Wooting One, the TKL one?

Wooting One is on inferior hardware

[pale sigil]

Fu

But not wrong

[cursive summit]

I meant to tag them

@pale sigilGet your preggo pills, you acting like you're on your period

[pale sigil]

People seem to love rapid trigger and tachyon mode

Especially the former

[cursive summit]

Tachyon is on flaretech...

[severe phoenix]

I wonder how Starcraft players would react to Rapid Trigger

[summer ether]

Are they only available on the He60?

[pale sigil]

tbf

[cursive summit]

Rapid Trigger is, tachyon is for all keyboards

[severe phoenix]

Hah, weird.

https://next.wooting.io/post/why-you-should-buy-a-mechanical-keyboard

[pale sigil]

The main reason I say this is because of the switch tech, flaretech was quite limited with range.

[severe phoenix]

Rapid trigger is also on the Wooting Two HE :p

[pale sigil]

Both of these features are quite a bit better on lekker

[cursive summit]

Yes, that's why it has the "HE" branding

[summer ether]

Is Rapid trigger relevant for anything outside of Osu!?

[cursive summit]

Yes

[wheat plume]

Yes

[cursive summit]

Competitive gaming where you need speed is where RapidTrigger shines

[wheat plume]

any rhythm game.. xd

FPS could be useful

[pale sigil]

If you're comfortable with your Wooting One it isn't necessary imo

[cursive summit]

Ever heard of FPS?

CS:GO takes advantage quite well of RT

[severe phoenix]

Nah

[pale sigil]

If you want an overall upgrade including switch feel and sound alongside firmware features then go for it.

[cursive summit]

Zywoo has been even faster than usual since he got a Wooting60

[wheat plume]

Does Wootility V4 now support the Flaretech Two?

[cursive summit]

V4 supports all flaretechs, no?

[pale sigil]

Le sad as I'm reminded my own post got yeeted after so long.

I worked so hard

[wheat plume]

no, it didnt last time I looked

[thick elk]

Ananlog on the wooting one was still nice to have at times, but I lately have not played a lot of games that benefit from it

[pale sigil]

It's in beta still @wheat plume

[wheat plume]

aah

[pale sigil]

Analog is so damn nice on lekker

Vs flaretech

[severe phoenix]

LEKKER

https://tenor.com/view/resident-evil-remusicals-shadowleggy-re2-resident-evil2-gif-14528500

[thick elk]

Well, I may see when I can get lekkers in my prefered formfactor and switch weight.

In other words probably not for a very long time

[severe phoenix]

The Wooting 0% will be the real seller.

[pale sigil]

What I'm trying to say is if you're wanting to upgrade for an advantage then sure, but I don't think it'll make you much better for FPS games but that's a personal opinion and a lot of features are still on the Wooting One.

[thick elk]

Because the uwu really is not going to be used for analog imo

[severe phoenix]

I mean we've gone from 100% to 80% to 75%, to 65, then 60, then 40. 0% is the natural evoluton

[pale sigil]

Rip my commission on keyboards

[final flame]

Interesting, I wonder how good their tech support is

[reef patrol]

[cursive summit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/13cfdbi/apparently_ad_blockers_are_not_allowed_on_youtube/

So they finally cracking down?

[final flame]

Maybe I should start up a chat just to see if they can guide me how to install a ram stick properly

[reef patrol]

They're welcome to try. I won't miss YouTube if that becomes a thing.

[pale sigil]

I've not had YouTube premium for 24 hours or so

Can't cope

[cursive summit]

I've had YouTube premium my whole life

In the form of an ad blocker

[final flame]

[pale sigil]

I got premium because of my iPad back in 2021

Can't go back

[cursive summit]

Where did you find that thread?

I don't see anything like that

[pale sigil]

And my TV

[final flame]

It's in the comments for the post you just sent

[cursive summit]

I am scrolling those

I don't see removed threads

[reef patrol]

It's simple. Either they force this through and ban ALL in video adverts (or force them to be encoded and auto skippable with premium) or the platform is going to burn.

[final flame]

Although it's mimimized by default on mobile, idk about desktop

[cursive summit]

I don't see a single removed comment on that post

Weird

[thick elk]

I personally got premium lite, kind of feel like with me skipping all the ads and a decent portion of the revenue going to content creators it's kind of fair that I pay something

[cursive summit]

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/05/10/dells-new-monitor-boasts-6k-resolution-ips-black-display-technology

AppleInsider
Dell

[final flame]

Cool

[cursive summit]

Do Dell in any way cooperate with Apple?

Manufacture their displays, keyboards.. anything?

[final flame]

I mean it wouldn't be the first time apple had someone else make their displays

LG made the ultrafine 5k display

[cursive summit]

$3,199.99 though

[ashen spindle]

or just you know, the website writes about more than just apple

[cursive summit]

I don't see why you would need one if not for cinema production

[final flame]

I want to know why it has a top bezel

[cursive summit]

Or ultra high end photography

[cursive summit]

There's a 4K camera it seems

Integrated

[final flame]

Any kind of design job would be great for it, something that has high ppi and color accuracy

[cursive summit]

Ohhh

I think those are the speakers

So the top bezel is speakers and the 4K HDR camera

[final flame]

Hmm

At that point just get a capture card and DSLR camera, although I guess those are solutions the average person won't use

Still a 4k webcam seems wasteful anyways for video conferencing

[cursive summit]

I dunno why you'd need a 4K webcam

Like, it's a webcam?

[thick elk]

Cropping could be a benefit

[cursive summit]

Camgirls I guess

[thick elk]

if the quality is decent

[cursive summit]

Seems to be a good camera, 4K HDR

[final flame]

Well what would you crop, it's not like you're filming much anyways

[gusty kiln]

fortunately I'm one of the weirdos who have youtube premium

[final flame]

Webcams capture stuff up close, not a wide pov you're not going to be able to crop much anyways without cropping yourself

[astral haven]

actually alot of webcams are rather wide angle

[final flame]

Personally I'm just waiting on LGs new OLED displays

[astral haven]

the wider the more nescessary it may be to crop in

[final flame]

Even still, if you're the kind of person to crop your camera, you're not the intended person for this

[cursive summit]

I am struggling to comprehend who is the intended audience for a 4K webcam

[astral haven]

nah autoframe is a thing

[final flame]

This looks more to be for the average office worker who's working in a design firm or photography company

[astral haven]

Also I just had to open my big fat mouth

1 week ago:(

[severe phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/hot-tub-bath-sexy-kofu-kofupoka-gif-23968956

[final flame]

I don't even need to open that

The url says it all

[astral haven]

yea it served me well for 4 or 5 years

[ashen spindle]

I mean if you do anything where you want to show something via your cam, be it a product you work on, a sketch you drew on paper etc. a good webcam makes a difference

[final flame]

Eh take a little super glue or jb weld and it's fixed

[astral haven]

aint gonna last that long, there are 3 more identical points of stress 😦

[final flame]

Could also just be a defect

[astral haven]

ah shoot i already lost the broken part

welp ill stop by a hardware store on the way home to grab something

[marsh glade]

Yes

[astral haven]

fortunately my band is a replacement snap on band so i can replace it even if i glue the watch lug into place

[fossil orchid]

this is so true wooting one is unusable

[cursive summit]

?

Tf do you mean

It's older hardware, not unusable

One and Two are perfectly usable and great keyboards to this day

[frozen ingot]

1.5mm minimum actuation not my cup of tea

I want that F U L L analog range

[astral haven]

sure but thats alot better than pure binary\

and people are even somehow able to survive with pure binary

[fossil orchid]

does nothing basically the same as pure binary

[astral haven]

thats very wrong

[fossil orchid]

have you used it?

in any game

[frozen ingot]

yes, but if am gonna splurge 200 bucks on an ubermench keyboard I want the most uber one there is

[cursive summit]

Analog is borderline useless anyways

[astral haven]

my wooting has all keys set between 2 and 4, i dont use analog at all

[cursive summit]

Barely anything supports proper analog

[fossil orchid]

then dont talk

[cursive summit]

Talk about aggressive

[frozen ingot]

there's more than games that make use of the analog

[ashen spindle]

I used the W1 a lot of times to drive in gta via analog for example

[astral haven]

stuff that i dont use and accidentally hit is set to 4 so that it doesnt actuate accidentally

[ashen spindle]

worked great

[cursive summit]

Emulation could use analog well, I will admit

[astral haven]

and i use alot of dks which is also beyond useful

[frozen ingot]

its actually pretty dope for playing software instruments in an audio workstation context too

[fossil orchid]

wooting 1 is half baked
I don't like it

[ashen spindle]

I mostly liked it for one rpg, dont remember which one it was, maybe witcher, where npcs moved faster than your own walk but slower than your run animation

[frozen ingot]

lets you do some stuff even most actual music keyboards won't do

[astral haven]

its also not affected by nearby wireless charging

[fossil orchid]

that is for people who like wasting energy

[astral haven]

and it also has a theoretically longer shelf life since its not relying on magnets

[fossil orchid]

dont care

[ashen spindle]

who shat in your breakfast

[astral haven]

🤷 wireless charging actually isnt always wasting energy
when you are talking ultra low power systems that need to be charged daily, it will cost more energy to produce an extra usb port when that inevitably breaks than to just charge it wirelessly

[marsh glade]

https://tenor.com/view/the-dude-yeah-well-you-know-thats-just-like-your-opinion-man-gif-10470601

[fossil orchid]

it is

[cursive summit]

It's wrong, but it's still your opinion

[frozen ingot]

meanwhile wooting HE is the full gordon ramsay beef wellington baked

[fossil orchid]

👍

[ashen spindle]

it is an opinion that you think it does nothing for you, it's an untrue fact saying it does nothing that a regular binary switch wouldn't do

[astral haven]

^

[fossil orchid]

so all devices you use wireless charging for do not have usb ports I take it?

[astral haven]

please reread the message

[fossil orchid]

how often do usb ports break on you?

[astral haven]

since ive switched to my wireless charging mouse? never

😛

[cursive summit]

@astral haven Man's here to act aggressive and troll, don't feed 'em

Keep up and live on

[fossil orchid]

no I am a good faith actor

[cursive summit]

It's like typing on boobs

[astral haven]

you say after intentionally ignoring the important part of the message you replied to?

[cursive summit]

It's actually rather fascinating how much Wooting alone progressed in half a decade

[fossil orchid]

I didn't ignore it I just missed it

[cursive summit]

Wooting One and Two were considered as great keyboards back then

[marsh glade]

It's almost like Wooting set the industry standard with actual innovation, and then by the time the "big boys" caught up, Wooting was again leaps and bounds ahead

[cursive summit]

And kings of analogue

[astral haven]

i drew your attention to it and you didnt address it

[cursive summit]

Wooting then invented their own fucking switch, and now Wooting is leaps and bounds above in keyboards

Not just in performance, but also in technology

The innovation is insane from a small company

[fossil orchid]

damn you are better at bad faith arguments than me I'm out

[cursive summit]

Just shows how much the industry has stagnated for the past 2 decades

[marsh glade]

Pretty soon our competitors will start releasing their implementation of rapid trigger, they'll be so impressed with themselves, and then they'll look up and realize that again we're taking huge leaps forward, leaving them in the dust... 😛

[cursive summit]

... they already are

Pretty sure I saw some keyboards in r/mechanicalkeyboards already advertising Rapid Trigger

That's literally what it was called too, Rapid Trigger

Wooting coined an industry term

[astral haven]

im still waiting for one of those companies to copy the web based configurator

[cursive summit]

Glorious prolly will in a year or two, they copied Wootility, they'll copy webtility as well

[marsh glade]

Yea, some of the smaller competitors are already releasing implementations, Flux keyboard for example

[fossil orchid]

glorious is shit they will never compare

[astral haven]

at least they sell mice 😛

[cursive summit]

Never heard of Flux, they also do analogue?

[marsh glade]

SteelSeries said on some stream somewhere that they're going to release something during spring, not sure where that's at

[cursive summit]

Oof

Yeah I'm in their web page

And I'm trying to comprehend why is it so shining

[marsh glade]

Oh not that one, the modular one that just did a kickstarter

Oh wait that is the modular one

Bah I'm all kinds of turned around 😂

[cursive summit]

Maglev Switches

Maglev?

The thing they do superspeed trains with?

[fossil orchid]

it's almost like acronyms mean something

[cursive summit]

Is Hall Effect based on levitation principle?

Pretty sure it's not

[astral haven]

maglev and hall effect are entirely separate

[cursive summit]

What sets the former apart from the other, and why are they both in this case used for keyboard switches?

[marsh glade]

Calder is going to Computex yea

I think Jeroen too

[astral haven]

and they specifically state "The weight can be modified by changing the magnets to magnets of a different strength grade"

[cursive summit]

Seems bothersome but actually useful

[fossil orchid]

seems too bothersome to be useful

[marsh glade]

If they can pull it off from a software perspective, it would be very impressive

[astral haven]

it in theory could allow you to decrease part counts

and friction

but in practice you need stabilization

so itll probably increase friction

actually i just had a pretty crazy idea
what if you made a switch that was capacitively actuated
you then can buy an off the shelf touchscreen and you can do (somewhat) whatever with the magnets

samsung had their hovering capability on the galaxy s5

[cursive summit]

Go create Carmooting, your own keyboard company

[astral haven]

beyond my capital capabilities

[fossil orchid]

if it was a good idea surely a prototype would be within reach

[astral haven]

🤷 the keyboard on my galaxy s5 is that prototype lol

[wheat plume]

I wish I could have the double tap gesture in Nova Launcher...

I wanna enable it to lock the screen

[cursive summit]

I've never heard of that, what exactly are you talking about?

This thingy? https://www.mobilefun.com/galaxy-s5-magnetic-bluetooth-qwerty-keyboard-case-black-45647

[wheat plume]

Is Nova Launcher the only one that can handle gesture navigation without root?

[cursive summit]

Nobody has a clue, Lana

Use google

[astral haven]

no no
the galaxy s5 had hover capability on its touchscreen
you can hover your finger over something to select it and it could sort of figure out the distance your finger is away from the screen

[cursive summit]

Uhh

[analog sinew]

oh that

drawing tablets often have that

[astral haven]

except not without an active component in the pen

[cursive summit]

Holy moly, how old is Snapdragon 800 series?

[astral haven]

usually requires a coil and a capacitor

[cursive summit]

S5 has Snapdragon 801 as far back as 2014

[astral haven]

nearly that old

lel

https://youtu.be/-9ro5gMDVLE

i had a root app that allowed me to use it as a cursor

[thick elk]

My Note 3 had a snapdragon 800 back in 2013, I think that was about when the series released

[sharp badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfINi5CNbY Google I/O , mainly AI things thus far 👨‍💻

[pale sigil]

Damn

Google maps are a mad upgrade

[sharp badger]

Kinda nice yeah, waiting for that Pixel Fold reveal even though i've seen the leaked stuff already want to know the pricing, the Samsung Fold 4 is around €1400 here so if they want to compete it needs to be priced good

Yeah that has not been presented yet

There's a tablet coming too kinda like a Google Nest HUB

[wheat plume]

👀 wat

I tried to delete it

gave this error

how did they make a display that big with rounded corners?

[sharp badger]

The 6a got a price cut yeah

[wheat plume]

Ireland never gets the discounts ;-;

[sharp badger]

The ''a'' versions are usually enough for most people

The 6a was recently priced at €299 here but the Pixel fold would fill the Tablet void for me

[astral haven]

i made the mistake of buying a flagship phone years back and i dont want to go back 😦

i could spend more on real camera gear if i bought a cheaper phone 🤷

[sharp badger]

Well one can get good deals during Black Friday/Cyber Monday so eh

[astral haven]

its not just the camera tho
i use dex alot

[sharp badger]

What phone do you have?

[astral haven]

s21

they do its just utter unuseable trash

[sharp badger]

The ultra?

[astral haven]

ye

[sharp badger]

Very nice

[astral haven]

ty

ive gone over to the store every year to check on the new phone but they never improved the zoom camera

and in fact i felt the image out of the 23 was worse

main sensor slaughters mine but my main is good enough

[sharp badger]

Kinda felt the same when i went from the Google Nexus 6 to the S8(Bad Exynos processor too) lol

[astral haven]

i had one of those lg burners before my s8 (snapdragon 😛 get rekt)

[sharp badger]

Europe only had those Exynos versions then 🥲

[astral haven]

the s8 exynos was faster tho btw

[sharp badger]

Battery life was very bad

[astral haven]

battery life wasnt great on mine either lel

[sharp badger]

Oh ok 😅

[astral haven]

and i upgraded from the s8 cause it wasnt lasting the day

[sharp badger]

Yeah i upgraded to an Oneplus 8 from the S8 and it kinda last a day now

[astral haven]

if i can hold out until i can get a sideloadable iphone with zoom camera and usb c with external display support...
🤷 who knows it is possible

[sharp badger]

Time will tell

[astral haven]

most of these are rumored besides the external display 🤞

[sharp badger]

Yeah, iOS 17 is releasing next month or something?

[astral haven]

"announce"

betas releasing soon after, not full version

[sharp badger]

Ah that's what it was

Should just wait until October when most of this years phones have released to just pick what feel best then

[astral haven]

i also realized the likelyhood of being able to have apps sideload other apps is pretty low

[sharp badger]

Yeah there's a security risk with that which Apple might want to avoid

[astral haven]

which is pretty key for revanced and tachiyomi

🤷 apple literally already has permissions

if the sideloading is via computer only that would be messed up and not count IMO

and if you can only sideload via safari people will probably make a PWA that can handle that

[sharp badger]

Probably

[wheat plume]

madlad trying to upgrade a dual GPU alienware laptop from 770m GPUs to 880m GPUs

[astral haven]

madlad?

what would be tough is upgrading to 2080 supers

[wheat plume]

True...

[astral haven]

that is literally as hard as upgrading a cpu in a desktop
its intended

[wheat plume]

CPU maybe

the GPUs are hard to swap

[astral haven]

???

its mxm

[ashen spindle]

unless he handsolders them in it should be the same

[astral haven]

its actually super easy unless alienware customized their clevo chassis more than i remember

[wheat plume]

got to match the screw layouts, the second one didnt, so he had to remove the mouting tray thingy and use that instead

[astral haven]

so he bought the wrong 880m 🤷

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/d_-nbLyM3Js

[ashen spindle]

ok so one out of 4 had a different board, yeah then the second 880 was the wrong one that he bought

[wheat plume]

possibly

[astral haven]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134284639295
heres the 3080 drop in replacement for my 1060 in my laptop

[sharp badger]

The new wallpaper effects is kinda nice that 3D effect not the Emoji one

New Pixels will be presented now (Sounds like it)

[astral haven]

my laptop performed on par with a desktop 1060

[sharp badger]

Pixel 7a is revealed now

[wheat plume]

what price?

[sharp badger]

$499 starting to be sold from today

[wheat plume]

and the regular 7 is??

idk the US price for that

[sharp badger]

The Pixel 7 was $599 when it was released so it should be cheaper now

[wheat plume]

ahh

ok, 100 less for most of the same hardware and specs

not bad!

its still not on the store for me ;-;

maybe only USA release RN

[sharp badger]

Probably and select stores

Pixel Tablet is presented now too and it's $499, shipping today

[astral haven]

or any other us company

[sharp badger]

https://store.google.com/intl/en/ideas/articles/new-pixel-tablet/

Pixel Fold next , priced at $1799 should also be available from today, shipping next month

[astral haven]

is there anything interesting about it?

[sharp badger]

Not really tbh feels like the Fold 4 would be better

[barren basin]

I don't really get folding phones

[astral haven]

think of it like having 2 screens but with a less noticeable seam

[sharp badger]

But i'd like to have a better Zoom lens/Camera overall when i buy a new phone so it's options like the S23 Ultra or Xiaomi 13 Pro or Google Pixel 7 Pro also the Pixel fold might have a better Zoom lens than the Fold 4

[wheat plume]

https://youtu.be/g_DHKoj7n8U

howd he get one already???

[astral haven]

embargos

[barren basin]

Why do I need two screens on a phone

[astral haven]

to do work?

[wheat plume]

ayy, there it it

[astral haven]

linus showed off his spreadsheet navigation on wan show a few times

mkbhd has a review up as well

[wheat plume]

7A comes with free VPN too

They are running the same promo deal as they did for the 6A :D

[gusty kiln]

tablet has a dekstop mode?

[wheat plume]

100 euro earbuds for free

The Fold is 1800 dollars

[sharp badger]

4821mAh battery 🤔

[wheat plume]

on the fold?

[sharp badger]

Yeah

[wheat plume]

oh gosh

how TF

did they get a waterproof rating???

on a FOLDABLE

[astral haven]

why not?

just fill it with glue

you just need to have sealing on the ports where your cable between the halves goes through

[thick elk]

Grease is probably what allows the rating

[pale sigil]

Idk how I feel

Also the 7 price went up

[thick elk]

hinges still move but it keeps out water

[wheat plume]

Im surprised he likes the software on this foldable

Hes an iPhone user and never said much good thing about Android before, but this is his first trying Pixel Android

the tablet feels alive

[pale sigil]

Kinda disappointed

[wheat plume]

ofc he rickrolls us xd

[astral haven]

wow i really like the screen sizes

[wheat plume]

6.1 inch for the 7A

perfect size <3

[astral haven]

nah i mean on the fold

[wheat plume]

oohh

ooo the animation when you fold it is so cool

the screen contents sort of slide into the middle

[final flame]

The bezels imo are too bad

I really don't like them

[wheat plume]

yeah..

tbf, its a tablet, having thick bezels to rest your thumb on when holding it is nice

https://youtu.be/LYRnAmP7LKA

AAYY

[sharp badger]

Well there's models like the Samsung fold 5 and Oneplus V that are said to be released this year

[wheat plume]

review from my fav tech yt person

<3

[pale sigil]

Can you give me a summery

[final flame]

Nisekoi bg

[wheat plume]

he big weeb

everything has a weeb wallpaper xd

[sharp badger]

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/oneplus-v-fold-release-date-predictions-rumored-specs-and-more Which will probably be like this https://www.gsmarena.com/oppo_find_n2-12002.php

[pale sigil]

Samsung Galaxy A54 or pixel 7a

[wheat plume]

7A

the only better thing on the A54 is the faster screen

90 V 120

[sharp badger]

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=12170&idPhone2=12070 Here's a comparsion of the two phones

[astral haven]

a54 also has an sd slot

[final flame]

Yea

[astral haven]

better camera

[final flame]

Which more android phones should have

[wheat plume]

probably will need the SD card on the Samsung cause of all their fucking bloatware

I heavily doubt the a54 has better cameras, maybe it has MORE but not better

[astral haven]

a54 is faster charging with a larger battery

[astral haven]

nah the main is alot better

1 micron rather than .8 micron pixels with a wider aperture and larger diagonal

and the samsung is us 150 cheaper lmao

[pale sigil]

And battery

By a lot

Idk, personally the biggest factor is battery

And screen is leagues ahead

[final flame]

Wish more flagships had a micro SD card slot, that literally one of my only things I care about, I just need something for my music

The only flagship that even has one is the sony Experia

[astral haven]

far as i can tell only advantages of the google is 6ghz wifi, faster usb port, and probably faster picture processing as well as all the google software features

[sharp badger]

Asus Zenfone 9 has good battery too? which is kinda a contender with those phones

[astral haven]

zenfone is smaller and much higher end

[wheat plume]

and 5 years of software updates

[astral haven]

nope

[wheat plume]

3 years + 2 years for patches

[astral haven]

3 os 2 security ye

[wheat plume]

youll get to Android 16 with it

[astral haven]

same for the samsung

[wheat plume]

Samsung only offer 3 years for flagships

[astral haven]

4 os versions for a54 and a34

[wheat plume]

really?

[astral haven]

5 years of security updates

[wheat plume]

sauce

[sharp badger]

https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/what-galaxy-devices-get-four-android-os-upgrades/

[wheat plume]

ooohh

ok

ISTG that was just for flagships

[astral haven]

it is

but those are the flagships of the a series

[pale sigil]

Also did I read that right

[wheat plume]

o

[pale sigil]

Google committing to 5 years updates

Or is that just security

[astral haven]

just security

[pale sigil]

Lame

[wheat plume]

3 years Android versions + extra 2 years security

[astral haven]

so yea the samsung is getting android 17 where the pixel is going to 16

[sharp badger]

A54 will get 4 Android versions

[pale sigil]

Hmmmm

But it's oneui

So basically you can discount that value by 2

[wheat plume]

^ yep

[astral haven]

thats a fixable problem 🤷

[wheat plume]

and bloatware

[pale sigil]

Knox disagrees

[astral haven]

🤷 also fixable

[sharp badger]

Can always uninstall stuff

[pale sigil]

Tbh I don't like OneUI

[wheat plume]

Knox....

[pale sigil]

And I can adb remove bloat

[wheat plume]

no go on custom roms

[astral haven]

knox doesnt prevent you from removing bloatware and installing a custom launcher

[wheat plume]

launcher doesnt fix the horrific 2005 looking status bar icons

[pale sigil]

You were replying to oneui

At least that's what it looked like

[astral haven]

theres nothing inherently wrong with oneui

theres just alot of bs added that can be removed

its work

[pale sigil]

I don't dislike oneui

Tbh

[astral haven]

but its only like 2 hours of work

[pale sigil]

I just hate how slow Samsung are

Less than 2 hours

[astral haven]

and 2 hours to save 150 is pretty solid esp when you are getting better hardware

[pale sigil]

To save?

Huh

It costs more

[astral haven]

here in the us its cheaper

355 for everyone besides verizon
375 for verizon

[wheat plume]

odd, usually carrier sell the phone for cheaper to get you locked into them

[astral haven]

no im talking "unlocked" phones

[wheat plume]

the verizon option wont be unlocked

[astral haven]

verizon uses special bands that makes their variants more expensive

no unlocked but verizon compatible

[wheat plume]

oh

[astral haven]

https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Factory-Unlocked-Android-Smartphone/dp/B0BSLR2L5R/

the global variant is incompatible with verizon but is cheaper
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-A54-Unlocked-Worldwide-T-Mobile/dp/B0BY3G6PLF/?th=1

its $180 with a contract

190

[wheat plume]

why tf

are people pissed off my the 7A bezels????

they tiny

[astral haven]

meh not as small as others

[gusty kiln]

it's acceptable for the price

[wheat plume]

its not being angry worthy and calling them thicker than a bowl of oatmeal

[astral haven]

not competitive tho

[wheat plume]

wait wtf

why doesnt the 7A have OIS?

[astral haven]

😬

[wheat plume]

Videos are wobbly AF

[final flame]

Just get steadier hands ez

[astral haven]

also gorilla glass 3 not 5 from the a54

[final flame]

Eh gorilla glass hasn't changed much really at all

[astral haven]

also it does have ois

its just not very good?

[pale sigil]

Maybe that's context price

[astral haven]

its actually changed pretty significantly

[wheat plume]

OFC dbrand made a ninja turtles skin for it

https://youtu.be/zxDTitg2MeE

[astral haven]

its a noticeably huge display tbh

[wheat plume]

Also
Apparently there was a rumor the 7A would have a ceramic back

:')

why TF would the BUDGET model have ceramic? XD

[astral haven]

seems significantly larger than samsung fold

[wheat plume]

whomstf expected that shit?

[astral haven]

i mean its pretty expensive for a budget model

[wheat plume]

yeah..

seems only Marques is not pissed off by either the 7A or Fold bezels

[astral haven]

like you are really close to getting standard model iphones and tier 2 flagships like asus and motorola

[wheat plume]

good. you have sense

[astral haven]

🤷 thing is i use a phone with a case

[wheat plume]

yeah... those make the phone a lot bulkier ... xd

[astral haven]

if the phone already has its own bezels, it makes you reach even further

my phone with case on is acceptable bezels
but more than that and 😬

[wheat plume]

120Hz :D

[astral haven]

Minimum acceptable imo over a grand

[wheat plume]

^

ok

this is a clever way to organise this on a large screen

I like it

Looks this way normally

https://youtu.be/LRJPk9BmJY4

[pale sigil]

499 MSRP I guess

[wheat plume]

yeah

100 up from 6A

but you get better screen and battery capacity

and better cameras

and wireless charging

6a no have that ...

People get mad at plastic backs too

why? they dont shatter or crack when dropped

and cheaper to replace

it can get nasty scratches though over wear and tear overtime though

Is it strange to me that I really do not like OneUI is dark theme?

OneUI looks way better to me in light theme

[final flame]

Nah, dark themes imo are overused and generally not implemented well

[wheat plume]

Yeah
I'm shocked that it's so easy to install graphene

Also
You can't install custom roms on Samsung phones anymore because of Knox

[final flame]

Light themes are underrated when done well they can look great

I use my phone in light mode and it looks great

[wheat plume]

I dislike light themes on LCD screens

Yep

Well
Not really

You can install goodlock

That app lets you do custom ROM levels of UI customisation
Other than status bar icon theme...the ugliest part about OneUI

But you can change the layout of the recents screen
And literally everything else

Hmmm?

With root maybe

Goodlock is a Samsung official app

It's only on their app store though

No...

Launchers can only change home screen and app drawer

Not the recents, lock screen , gestures, etc etc

[pale sigil]

So ladies

Which phone do I get

Tbh ye I get that

6a is still on my mind

[astral haven]

how much does the a54 cost for you tho vs the 6a

[pale sigil]

Same price

[astral haven]

6a not 7a
thats super expensive for a 6a

[pale sigil]

Oh

Um

[astral haven]

and an a54 for that matter

[pale sigil]

50 less

[astral haven]

still expensive for each of those but understandable

really the only thing you give up is grapheneos
cause afaik there isnt really a way to degoogle a samsung

[wheat plume]

There isn't a way to do anything other than stock ROM

[pale sigil]

Oh nvm it's £350

For 6a atm

£450 for Samsung and Pixel 7a

[astral haven]

same for 7a at the moment, give it a few more weeks

[wheat plume]

Stock pixel ROM is perfect imo
Other than lack of nfc tile to toggle it .-.

[pale sigil]

Tbh I like the bezels

That not pre tax?

Ye the £350 is final price

[astral haven]

stock samsung rom is perfect imo other than the lack of
...
actually i cant think of anything more i'd add tbh

[pale sigil]

Tbh I really care a lot about battery

The 4000mah is disappointing

Battery seems very bad

On the pixel 7a

[astral haven]

theres also the a34 btw
also 120hz, but has even better battery than the a54

[astral haven]

this is with 60hz tho

[pale sigil]

He was getting 5 hours

On media/ small camera use

He said it's been getting better though

Tbh the a548# very appealing

But what's disappointing with a54 us the port

[astral haven]

yea thats the one thing that samsung cripples on everything besides s and fold

question is how often do you use usb for data transfer

[pale sigil]

So does Xiaomi

Which is why I want to move

I use it for my apple dongle

But also yes transfer and it would have been nice to use Dex

Or whatever it's called

[astral haven]

get an s21 or 22 then
One of us

[pale sigil]

To expensive

[astral haven]

look harder and look for used

[pale sigil]

I'll never go uses

Never again

[astral haven]

why?

[pale sigil]

Always something wrong

And battery health is usually bleh

[astral haven]

buy from someplace with returns?

[pale sigil]

No because I'm cursed

It'll die 1 month after warranty

[astral haven]

🤷 you can save literally hundreds by just spending 2 or 3 hours inspecting

and samsung has a diagnostics menu that allows you to test everything

[pale sigil]

How do you not know my history XD

I am truly cursed with tech

So second hand simply is a no go

[astral haven]

if you cant find the issue after dedicating 3+ hours to finding it then youll be fine

[pale sigil]

I wish there was benchmarks

For the 7a

[empty wren]

Midrange phone have gotten good honestly

[astral haven]

https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-s-series/certified-re-newed-store/buy/?modelCode=SM5G991UZAAXAA

1 year warranty

[pale sigil]

1 year

[empty wren]

But yeah the tensor chip at this moment could be a lot better

[astral haven]

dunno how much it is in the uk, but you should be able to get it for cheaper than this

[pale sigil]

I couldn't even dream of only having 1 year warranty

[empty wren]

Yet in America that is usually all there is

[astral haven]

^

[empty wren]

Cannot even buy another year in some cases

[pale sigil]

Pixel 7a has quite a bit more perf it seems

[astral haven]

pixel 7 is 1 year warranty

[pale sigil]

Not in 1st world countries

:p

2 year min

[astral haven]

does the uk have that?

i thought it was just eu

[empty wren]

How about iphone warranties?

[pale sigil]

We were in the EU and still use their laws

But we also made our own that are just copy and paste

Everything is 2 year min @empty wren

Any product