Blue Train posted:

Last year, Google ran an experiment with audio ads on Google Home devices, which made a lot of people upset. Now, a CNBC report claims that Amazon might do something similar on its Echo speaker lineup.

Amazon is currently in talks with brands like Procter & Gamble and Clorox for ads within specific skills, and for data-sharing agreements that’d let them dig through users’ shopping history, according to CNBC. It’s also talked with companies about sponsored placements in product searches on Echo devices, and about using customers’ purchase habits to suggest products they might like.

qirex posted:

lol at anyone who doesn't think that's been the endgame for these things from the beginning

The Management posted:

google doesn’t have that. they can make marginal money by having you pay for music, but in general they’re doomed to try pushing ads into it and then watch the backlash happen.

The Management posted:

amazon has a game plan. when you say “Alexa, order some more laundry soap” it can respond with “okay, I got you some tide (tm) brand soap” and take their cut from the tide brand people to be the default selection, on top of being the store that sells the product to you. voice UI is just another front end to them.

google doesn’t have that. they can make marginal money by having you pay for music, but in general they’re doomed to try pushing ads into it and then watch the backlash happen.

Rickets posted:

My OnePlus X is still going strong 2 years past its manufacture date even though it has long been abandoned by OnePlus themselves. I would certainly buy another OnePlus phone if the price were right and I was in the market, but I also wouldn't leave the stock ROM in place so...really there's no easy choice.

isndl posted:

What's the best phone that doesn't have fast updates because you play a dumb mobile game that doesn't support new versions of Android immediately and you can't afford to miss out on those daily login bonuses?

Turdsdown Tom posted:

I was also a victim of the G4 bootloop, but the deal I got on the G5 was so goddamn good that I actually couldn't say no to going with LG again.

LastInLine posted:

google home does do that but it buys and ships from walmart and/or target depending on how you set it up

Plank Walker posted:

has anyone ever legit ordered something via voice (on purpose)?

i can't imagine buying anything, even dish soap, without like a picture of it to make sure i'm buying the right thing

Plank Walker posted:

has anyone ever legit ordered something via voice (on purpose)?

i can't imagine buying anything, even dish soap, without like a picture of it to make sure i'm buying the right thing

LastInLine posted:

how do you even specify stuff like types within a brand or size? do i have to say "hey google buy 96 ounces of all free liquid washing detergent" every loving time? what if they changed their sizes to 100 ounces for a bit like they often do (5% free!)? what if they changed the name to all hypoallergenic? what if they dont have all but have tide in that size? is the brand more important or the size? theres no loving way they account for any of that

Endless Mike posted:

i have once or twice when amazon offered discounts on specific items on alexa only. i don't think i've ever done it otherwise.

trying this:

"alexa order some laundry detergent"

asks if i want liquid or pods

"liquid"

she tells me the top result then asks if i'd like to buy

"no"

she sends a notification to my phone with more options

so basically it's faster to just use my phone anyway

Last Chance posted:

i add tubs of lube to my friends shopping carts via alexa

Endless Mike posted:

so basically it's faster to just use my phone anyway

The Management posted:

amazon has a game plan. when you say “Alexa, order some dinner" it can respond with “okay, I got you some tide (tm) brand laundry pods”

Cocoa Crispies posted:

EdEddnEddy posted:

The only time Overclocking a phone was a useful thing in my experience was back in the PPC6700/HTC Apache days.

The xScale Intel chip it had was the same one in say the Dell Axim X50v, but instead of being clocked at 624mhz it was at 416mhz.

The little overclock allowed it to run 624mhz perfectly fine and ran some apps perfectly it couldn't at stock speed. (Hell we all know it was to play games on it back then. SNES Emulators were getting good on them with the X50v still being one of the first GPU powered PDA's that also hardware accelerated SNES Emulation graphics.)

When there is only 1 cpu doing all the work, any extra Mhz you could pull out of it was a noticeable improvement back then.

It was neat but since then, Overclocking could be done here and there on some slower devices, but even on the Nexus 6P where you could overclock the cores a bit (I think the small cores could be pushed to 1.7ghz from 1.5), overall the thermal protection stuff and the amount of heat these things make at full bore anyway really makes it pointless as they throttle very shortly after. The only place it might actually be useful would be an active cooled device like the Shield TV, Shield Portable, OUYA (hah, but it does have a fan and could probably use it. I know the Tegra 2 Overclocked like a champ in some tablets) and maybe these up and coming ARM powered Windows 10 laptops.

But with how things are muscling around with more cores than clock alone, it's rather pointless at least in the present on mobile.

However, who knows what the future holds?

Endless Mike posted:

Endless Mike posted:

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

code:

static int fan_gpio=0;
#define FAN_GPIO TEGRA_GPIO_PJ2
static void	OUYA_fan_control(long temp_tj)
{
#ifdef TEGRA_THERMAL_CREATE_LEDS
	int ret=0;
	if ( fan_gpio == 0 ) {
		ret = gpio_request(FAN_GPIO, "fan");
		if (ret < 0)
			gpio_free(FAN_GPIO);
		ret = gpio_direction_output(FAN_GPIO, 1);
		if (ret < 0)
			gpio_free(FAN_GPIO);
		fan_gpio=FAN_GPIO;
	}
#else
	fan_gpio=FAN_GPIO;
#endif		
	pr_debug("OUYA: Fan[%lu]:",(unsigned long)temp_tj);	
	if ( temp_tj > 60000) {
		gpio_set_value(FAN_GPIO, 1);
		pr_debug(" <Turn on>\n");	
	}
	if ( temp_tj < 45000) {
		gpio_set_value(FAN_GPIO, 0);
		pr_debug(" <Turn off>\n");			
	}
	
}

LastInLine posted:

that guy is something else

i mean i know all of us myself included in dyp are "special" but some are just next level

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

i haven’t overclocked anything since 2009

Linguica posted:

i remember i had the very first POS asus eeepc which didnt even have an atom because those didn't exist yet, it was just an underclocked desktop celeron, and it was true you could get better performance while plugged into power by forcing it from 600 mhz to 900 if you were a huge loving nerd like i was, but doing that with a phone is just beyond the pale

Endless Mike posted:

infernal machines posted:

where's the genius who thought telling yospos about their one plus phone was a good idea?

sure hope you didn't buy it straight from one plus

quote:

A FAQ from OnePlus says its e-commerce platform is built with "custom code"

infernal machines posted:

roll your own e-commerce like it's 1999

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

what's the alternative?

OldAlias posted:

cyber pigeons