Audalin

@Audalin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the secret to making LED light bulbs last as long as the package says?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Phoebus cartel strikes again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we have tons of ground-level sensors, but not a lot in the upper layers of the atmosphere, I think?

  Why is this important? Weather processes are usually modelled as a set of differential equations, and you want to know the border conditions in order to solve them and obtain the state of the entire atmosphere. The atmosphere has two boundaries: the lower, which is the planet’s surface, and the upper, which is where the atmosphere ends. And since we don’t seem to have a lot of data from the upper layers, it reduces the quality of all predictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube link doesn't suggest video title and the descriptor is in what looks like Russian. I don't live in Russia or use their version of YT. What's going on??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the fact that there was an unintentional DDOS when federated Lemmy instances were requesting the same preview around the same time, it must be one of LW’s servers, not anything on your side.

  The only sure way to get rid of this effect is to use an instance entirely hosted on servers in anglophone countries, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube link doesn't suggest video title and the descriptor is in what looks like Russian. I don't live in Russia or use their version of YT. What's going on??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know Google likes to localise their websites based on IP addresses. Perhaps the preview was requested from a Russian IP? (not necessarily yours, could be a VPN if you use one or one of LW’s servers)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see!

  And it was a stable OS version, not a beta or something? That’s the worst kind of bugs. Hopefully manufacturers start formally verifying hardware and firmware as a standard practice in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than what I said in the other reply:

  I live in the USA so getting one would be problematic but I hear perhaps not entirely impossible for me.

  Looks like it has a US release? If you’re unsure or getting a European version, double-check it’s compatible with American wireless network frequencies &c. Specific operators might also have their own shenanigans.

  Do you know how it compares to e.g. Fairphone?

  Nope, never tried Fairphone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very solid, I think (except water protection, but my previous OnePlus also didn’t have good water protection anyway; and I’m careful enough).

  I don’t tend to use glyphs or the default launcher (and therefore its special widgets that only work there; but the ability to have apps in folders on my main screen while being hidden from the app menu is more important for me than a handful of widgets, so Neo Launcher it is).

  A recent OS update added configurable swap (up to 8GB), calling it “RAM booster”. I don’t use it, but if you want to run a local LLM (or rather a SLM), you could try making use of it? As long as you figure out how to make the model use main RAM and not the swap.

  I like the battery life (or maybe it’s just because it’s the first phone where I started charging at 20% and stopping at 80% semi-consistently).

  Termux still works despite the new Android versions becoming more hostile to apps executing binaries they didn’t have included already.

  One thing I miss from OnePlus is the ability to deny some apps network access entirely. (I think it was removed in later versions of Oxygen OS?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also was a OnePlus user - now switched to Nothing Phone (2).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t focus on recommendations specifically. My typical process is:

  • spend anywhere from a few days to a few weeks figuring out which technical characteristics are important for this kind of product, which aren’t, why and when &c. This kind of information is usually available (and even obvious SEO garbage can give you new keywords to consider when searching);
  • based on these alone, determine what’s acceptable and what’s desirable for you;
  • if you haven’t already, find some kind of community around the topic and see which brands/manufacturers people commonly complain about and why; also see if there’re popular manufacturers only selling things via their own websites;
  • open your preferred store (or several) and filter the entire category based on what you’ve learned. Pick a few candidates and examine them closely;
  • go back to the community again and look up anything mentioning these candidates - including comparisons with other ones you haven’t considered. Perhaps consider them;
  • make the final choice.

  Skip some of these if irrelevant or if you don’t care enough. Spend extra time if you care a lot.

  It works well enough for every new phone (the market there is changing fast, so you start anew every time), it worked for my first PC I’ve decided to assemble with 0 prior knowledge, the mechanical keyboard and the vertical mouse, and pretty much every piece of tech I’m buying.

  And I’d say it’s reasonable to use Reddit without an account even if you disagree with what the platform owners are doing. The data is still valuable for such use cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The exact definition of sanity is a cultural choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  According to mathematical platonism, yes.

  Otherwise we have no idea. We have some models of physics, none perfectly describing our universe. We don’t know the structure of space, or the structure of time.

  Even if we did: what would it mean for a line or a plane to exist? There could be equivalent descriptions of our universe, some including those as objects and some only as emergent properties.