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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

The Nards Pan posted:

Uhh, I was just loving around. Does android really support logical volumes like that?

it's Linux so yes

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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Blue Train posted:

Is the back button in the loving status bar?

it's really not the preferred way of doing things in the os and was a very recent addition

but yes

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

infernal machines posted:

admittedly i was a teen before smartphones were a thing, but how much are these people masturbating, and where, that they need porn on their phone?

how is this an actual use case?

uh what else are they going to use

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

qirex posted:

remember that phone that was so bad it started dozens of fires and had to be pulled from the market? it's back!

i look forward to people complaining to the FAA that the ban shouldn't count

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Cocoa Crispies posted:

yeah if you're granny drawing and not double buffering like you should

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Endless Mike posted:

https://twitter.com/OnePlus_Support/status/883047144021798912

it's not our phone that's broken, it's actually your eyes

deleted already. impressive

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Larry Parrish posted:

Im not saying people should be janitoring their phones more but I really wish you could do stuff like disable the annoying rear end HEADPHONE VOLUME AT UNSAFE LEVELS alert without jailbreaking the phone with some retard's buggy romhack. Or like, set my phone to default to tether mode when connected to a computer. Or to have missed calls create a notification when they don't leave a voicemail. Seriously why is that not a thing Samsung.

are you deaf or are your headphones the wrong impedance or what?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

The Management posted:

also from anything I've heard working at Samsung is awful but you can't say anything about it because of Korean pride.

I've an engineer from Samsung Semiconductor ask me to relay messages to Samsung Display because they literally can't communicate internally.

the thing about chaebols is that they're not operated like the same company.

in Japan this is literal - like two companies with Mitsubishi in their name maybe completely unrelated now but Korea has somehow managed to have the worst of all worlds

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Lutha Mahtin posted:

i still don't understand how MS managed to have some actual success with the xbox brand. it's like the single new consumer product/line of theirs in decades that they didn't mismanage into oblivion

its more that nintendo gave up and then sony fell flat on their face

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Endless Mike posted:

to the surprise of absolutely no one, oneplus has been phoning home.

https://www.chrisdcmoore.co.uk/post/oneplus-analytics/

well that makes one number they can dial at least

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Agile Vector posted:

tossed services and scrambled apps!

Hugh G. Rectum posted:

they're callin home again!

doot doot doooo

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Verizon is very demanding about interfering with what goes on it’s network so it makes sense that nobody wanted to put anything new out on it

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

actionjackson posted:

I'll admit the iPhone SE looks interesting, I originally switched to Android because it was easier to customize the appearance (like with Nova launcher) and I liked having the choice of various phone manufacturers instead of just Apple. Is there data service on the iPhone that is similar to how Google Fi works on Android? Because that's a pretty good deal as it includes data in (most) of the rest of the world and I never pay more than $30/month

you can of course use any mvno you want but you’d have to buy an unlocked phone at full price or used. probably not a big problem for an SE.

maybe mintsim would work? im not too familiar with mvnos outside of the industrial space

Apple needs to put esims in the iPhone so they can gently caress over att/Verizon. google isn’t going to be a threat with their newer Project Fi phones but if Apple also does it...

hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Oct 30, 2017

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

your best bet outside a major carrier’s roaming is always a local prepaid sim

i mean until projectfi came around

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

atomicthumbs posted:

BIG.BIG.BIG.BIG.BIG.little

big beautiful wafer

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


adding “vc6 = good” to dumb shaggarpinions.odt

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

atomicthumbs posted:

i have never seen a usb drive that acts as a mass storage device

he’s technically correct, see the subclass tables. mass storage subclass 0x04 is for UFI. http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/Mass_Storage_Specification_Overview_v1.4_2-19-2010.pdf

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

rule 36, go straight to the STI

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

it's just an Impreza with not-150hp and you get to skip all the ridiculous crap on the sti

but seriously lol if you buy a Subaru sedan

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Endless Mike posted:

it's always about anime

there needs to be a "copy to yospos" posting option for iyg

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

PleasureKevin posted:

day of apple announcement: "boo boo the notch sucks, lol nice notch you got there crapple"

1 day after apple announcement: "folks we are now well underway in what people are calling the Notch Wars"



the source of this is the onion right

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


thank you

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

quality of the 3d image is directly related to the distance between the sensors in the notch so unless they want to make face id worse

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Serious question. For what possible reason would someone want/need to connect a thumb drive to a cell phone?

might be easier for transfering linux isos?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


i'm curious if this started as "just upload everything we have permission for we can filter out what we need in the cloud and storage may as well be free"

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Blue Train posted:

Trump is going to save zte ensuring that we can continue to use malware infested phones

what if its the zte malware thats sending those tweets and then trump has to double down because he must've forgotten tweeting it

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

President Beep posted:

lol. android phones get hosed up by default when modified. that’d be like buying a car and the windows stop working after you put gas in it.

cars have firmware too, flashing random poo poo probably doesn't have good outcomes

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

the current SE is running on the 6s processor right?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Shifty Pony posted:

"let's run the same OS on embedded devices, speakers, phones, tablets, and laptops!"


why?

its called linux

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

android isn't gnu/linux but chromeos is

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


a measure of error

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Partycat posted:

You know, like from that scene were he is loading the secret computer codes and stands around for ten minutes looking at his watch.

ah, a movie where is Q updating the firmware on all the one off contract gadgets, then getting into arguments with the vendors about whose problem it is?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

The Management posted:

this is actually a big dumb problem with android. every iOS update bumps up the kernel on every device to the latest version. android *never updates the kernel* from the version it shipped with, with the exception of added security patches. this means that if new things get implemented that require kernel and driver support, they cannot be supported even in recent devices. android is extremely hampered from getting software improvements due to this.

does android at least use LTS kernels?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

coke posted:

now the 8 and x has a separate models with intel and qualcomm modem where the intel one is garbage and can't hold onto signals as well as the qualcomm model while being slower and can't do cdma

cdma is dead or will be soon, verizon is no longer accepting device registrations for it and wants to shut it down next year

real world cellular throughput is usually limited by the backhaul to the tower and how buggy the base station is

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

The Management posted:

android is extremely hamstered

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

wait no, hamsters live longer than android phones

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Sagebrush posted:

I'm trying to figure out how much of that lens arrangement is actually required by optics and how much is just laziness

Because goddamn that is an ugly composition

if its for 3d imaging something weird like that would make sense

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


oooof

quote:

The lack of low-light capabilities is also readily apparent when the L16 is pushed above ISO 400. If you’re expecting to go out to dinner with friends, and bring the L16 to capture the moment, you’re going to be frustrated with many missed moments and some generally poor output with crushed shadow detail.


this thing has to be way better than phones for someone to want to carry it around and uh...



hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

The Management posted:

plenoptic cameras are a genuinely good idea. you can have a thin device with multiple cameras that captures an image without having to focus. unfortunately nobody seems able to make them.

the problem is that phones are “good enough” for normal people and the alternative market has or dreams of having an entire bag full of camera bodies and lenses

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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

The Management posted:

customers only care about specs, gotta give them them best specs

if you aren’t cheating you aren’t trying

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