sbeak
@sbeak@sopuli.xyz
Hi, I’m sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.
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- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 6 days ago:
It means that you can use more secure passwords rather than using easy to guess passwords. Using cloud based ones like Bitwarden means you have to trust the company hosting your passwords to not screw up and suffer from a data leak. I think Bitwarden is pretty trustworthy, but I might be wrong on that one.
Alternatively, you could selfhost (with something like Vaultwarden) or just use something local like KeePass. For the latter, you can choose to sync with SyncThing if you want.
I personally use KeePass, but don’t use SyncThing.
- Comment on What makes a fart dry vs wet? 1 week ago:
I always thought it was the sound. A dry pop vs a wet squelch
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 1 week ago:
Today I learned that POTUS stands for “President of the United States”, never knew that before.
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 1 week ago:
Interesting, I learned something new today :D
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- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
To be fair, Samsung’s new Fold 7 does seem to be very thin (and surprisingly keeps the same battery capacity with the Fold 6), and Apple Silicon has always been very good.
But things like larger camera sensors, ridiculously large SiC batteries, superfast charging speeds (Samsung does have 45W, which is probably enough for most people, but Apple unfortunately does not have fast charging…), and high-value budget to midrange phones (e.g. Nothing’s latest ones are awesome with clean software, and of course all the Chinese ones like Redmi, Oppo, Poco, etc. that usually have bloaty software) the big brands don’t really have anything that competes with the other smaller brands.
One comment already pointed out that Samsung would rather use their own sensor and are probably developing their own 1" sensor (as well has better sensors for the ultrawide and telephotos). A whole bunch say that the big brands usually play the long game and see how the latest tech develops before implementing it in their own smartphones. Another says that Apple and Samsung produce way more phones than the smaller brands so they have to wait for the tech to scale. So Apple and Samsung certainly have legitimate reasons to wait.
A bit off-topic, but I think it’s kind of crazy that Huawei and Xiaomi were able to develop their own cars. Pretty wild.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
if their phones go poofy it would be very bad
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
and microsd card slots. Pushing people to pay more for storage upgrades…
- Comment on it's just science 1 week ago:
uh oh.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
fair enough. It’s not very nice big tech, but they were never that nice to begin with
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
I find it interesting that, of all companies, HMD was the first to adopt it (aside from Apple)
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
But for instance, let’s say Samsung adopts SiC batteries. Battery life would be much better, so more people would buy Samsung phones over Apple and it would be one less advantage for going for the smaller brands vs Samsung. Plus, if you had two-day battery life, when the battery inevitably degrades, you’ll still have solid battery life.
- Comment on it's just science 1 week ago:
no, roads would be soft and nice!
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
I would argue that everyone wants more battery life and most people would appreciate better cameras too. Cool tech is useful tech. There’s a reason why other companies are adopting it
- Comment on it's just science 1 week ago:
Imagine if all roads were made of soft squishy stuff like rubber or carpet…one can only dream…
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
Yeah, Apple Intelligence really was half-baked. Apple be Apple I guess
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
In a nutshell, most of the promised features of Apple Intelligence wasn’t released on launch (notably, still no smart Siri), at first only things like image playground and note summaries.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
Ah so things like Apple Intelligence being a staggered release
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
Oh, that makes sense. Apple/Samsung manufactures way too many phones for the new and upcoming tech like SiC batteries and super large image sensors. Hopefully Apple (eventually) innovates again instead of adding yet another button.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
That makes a lot of sense. Samsung’s displays are also quite good too.
I still find it strange that they’re not trying to develop SiC batteries though, esp. for their foldables and thin “Edge” puone
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
SiC batteries would also help a lot for thinner phones like foldables (see Find N5 and XFold 3 from Oppo and Vivo compared to Samsung’s Z Fold 7) as well “thin phones” (see Samsung’s S25 Edge and Apple’s rumoured 17 Air)
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
Another thing, Qi2! Only Apple and the HMD Skyline support it. Why is that?
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- Comment on Has anyone ever read the book series “Biff, Chip & Kipper” as a kid? 2 weeks ago:
I remember the first few stages were orange, green, and blue while the magical adventure ones were purple (I think, I might be wrong)
- Comment on Has anyone ever read the book series “Biff, Chip & Kipper” as a kid? 2 weeks ago:
OHH I REMEMBER THAT
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- Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 2 weeks ago:
I think they are confusing Microsoft Edge (the browser) and Bing (the search engine). You can see the Copilot icon in the top right, so it’s probably the Edge browser.
- Comment on A decentralised game hub? 2 weeks ago:
more like a platform where the community is able to publish user-created games for people to play. Maybe the different instances could be different types of games (e.g. action, RPG, puzzle) or different languages/regions. For instance, something like Roblox and even Scratch is where people are able to make their own games and make it public so others can play (though for Scratch, it’s not just games).
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