Life’s too short to avoid something you actually enjoy just because other people told you it’s not good enough.

I totally agree with Samsung being bullshit. As for how people can accept that, well, it’s probably the only ecosystem they know. My experience is anecdotal, but I’ve been to parts of the world where it’s iPhone vs Samsung. Like, USB-c is a Samsung plug. So, just as people get attached to the iPhone UI, regardless of model, people do the same with Samsung.

Speaking of bullshit, has anyone elseatched Pixel’s deletion of the back button? While I’ve been conditioned on how it works, there’s still a number of app swipes that turn into “back” commands instead.

I miss the Nexus lineup.

Image searching brought me to this xaoyunyn. I don’t expect that to be any kind of real brand. It probably gets many different labels over time.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/xaoyunyn-Rechargeable-High-Lumens-Flashlight-Compact-Powerful-Zoomable-4-Modes-Emergencies-USB-C-Fast-Charging-Water-Resistant-Everyday-Carry-Aviatio/16036601660

Good for you, I’m glad you know so many things. Your knowledge is above average.

Cloud service purchaser doesn’t realize the system is ONLY a cloud service. Much like the commenters here, these bed owners are asking the same thing" why the fuck does a bed NEED to be connected to the internet?

I would have assumed it allows a direct connection between the controller and your phone. While I fucking hate the need for a wireless device to control my sleep Number (paid for a Bluetooth remote though), none of us can ignore the fact the gen pop loves having apps for the most basic of functions.

No, but “bricked up” is slightly more accurate for beds that got stuck fully erect and got bed-privism when they overheated

Never underestimate the willingness of a corporation to create pre-destined garbage to save money. Literally whatever the cheapest option is. Ford produced the US gen 1 Transit Connect van in Turkey. To avoid the “chicken tax” that applies to light trucks (see: original subaru baja with pickup bed seats), they shipped it with a shitty 2nd row seat and cargo doors with windows. It was classed as a passenger vehicle. Upon receipt, Ford swapped the doors for solid as needed and discarded the 2nd row.

Making garbage was cheaper than the tax. Without additional regulation, have no doubt these companies will try to make an assembly line that feeds right into a landfill.

This week marks 10 years with my Xbox One Forza Motorsport 6 edition. I was thinking that’s a good mile marker to admit it’s struggling under modern games and upgrade to a disc XSX. Guess I won’t expect any cool discounts this holiday. Probably just discounted to the prior price.

I really like the blue console/controller with racing stripes and car sounds, so it’s a shame they haven’t matched that. Part of the reason I didn’t want to replace it yet

Agreed, it’s tooting his own cohort’s horn without acknowledging he is, inf act, susceptible to marketing. The actual topic at hand is marketing for software tools to software devs. Of course hand-waving marketing doesn’t work, it’s a technical field with technical products. The marketing he’s blasting is emotion-based marketing. Guess what, there’s plenty of other emotional decisions that will be affected by marketing in his life. Vacation destinations, artistic exhibitions, restaraunts, games, whatever. This article screams like it’s from someone who loudly proclaims marketing is dumb because they weren’t swayed to by women’s deodorant because of a YouTube ad.

You are not immune to marketing.

Not a true sim, but Ace Combat 7 novice controls are non-inverted. I feel like Far Cry 5/6 and definitely Fortnite put the non-inverted pitch control on the planes, which were not the focus of the game. I assumed other plane-including games did the same.

For decades, we’ve had a question live as a meme of misunderstanding and yet, it’s exactly the question this committee should be asking now instead: “who is 4chan?”

Good question and I’d like to know. From the linked paper in the linked article,

(445 nm; 1.25 W/cm2)

Sunlight is 1000W/m2, which I believe to be the sum of all wavelengths. 1m2 is 10,000cm2, so their light would have a total energy of 12,500W/m2 if I did my metric right. I’ve wandered into a field I don’t have all the info were.

rerouting

Let me try running around in Watts. I picked out a royal blue, 450-465nm Cree XE-G LED from LEDSupply. At max 3,000mA, forward voltage is 3.7v. That’s 11.1W of energy consumed. I’m not sure how to find an exact efficiency ratio, but Wikipedia puts it around 30% light, 70% heat in the page on “thermal management of high power LEDs). For reference, incandescent is about 10/90%. From there, I’ll round down for optics and call it 3w total light. That gives you the light output density for 2.4cm2, or an 18mm circle, or like a 3/4” circle, or a little less than a US penny. All with a fist-sized heatsink and a fan. Per LED.

I think.

“Kinetic” with a hard “T” like posh Brit is saying it to the queen? Everyone I’ve ever heard speaking US English pronounces it with a rolled “t” like “kinedic” so the alternate pronunciation still reads like it’d have a “d” sound

“I’m happy with my harbor freight light” he said, but his voice trailed off by its conclusion

Really though, the discontinued 3x AAA Braun light has a red light mode and that gets me every time.

But like, you can’t just delete someone’s wealth, because they can’t just rebuild an empire from scratch. These self-made billionaires are so strapped for cash, charitably speaking, because they need the capital to fund future charitable investments. Don’t you want to get a trickle of charity more than once? That’s why they can only donate like 10mil a year. Also partly because humans are really bad at estimating the difference between 10mil and 400bil. It’s like a factor of 40. They’ll be drained of wealth after 40 years at 10mil a year.

Oh wait. Hold on. 40 years… 10 mil/year… So 400 million… If we froze their wealth of ~390bil, by the end of this scheme, they’d have… ~390,000,000,000- 400,000,000 =~389.6bil.

OK nevermind fuckem

No, it’d take at least a 3rd heinously rich guy to wipe the 1.8tril USD student loan debt. Don’t be ridiculous, 2 can’t pull it off.

You are correct, lux, not candela. Got my alternate light measurements mixed up. Guess I was also off by an order of magnitude for it’s lux when full. Look, I can read paper under moonlight!

Micro was weak and largely people’s first experience with frequent-use plugging. Cheap cables don’t last long. Car use is abusive, even using the phone while charging is harsh. Moving the phone by the wire. Hard cable angles to keep the phone upright in stands, cup holders, cups, whatever. Rolling the cable tight for storage or travel. Pulling by the cable to unplug instead of by the head. Accidentally tripping on cables or otherwise yanking them. It’s death by 1,000 papercuts for the cable. Shit happens.

I’ve had many micro cables get broken, requiring the perfect angle, but never the ports themselves as far as I could tell. I’ve never had a C port fail either and rarely have cable issues. However, any time the C ports require a specific angle to work, I have found they’re packed with lint. It goes with the “click” getting weak as well. Paperclip, Sim card pick, compressed air, a good cheek puff, usually all good after.

Headlight height has nothing to do with this conversation. Frosting the headlights on an F-150 will reduce their throw. The F-150’s headlights will be made brighter to compensate. Your Sentra will now be blinded all the same. The solution to this problem is lowering headlights in the type of the Juke and Gen 1 Cherokee (not grand Cherokee, the 2015 compact).

Your sentra’s hazy headlight is throwing more light at oncoming drivers than the clear, properly aimed headlight.