No Stupid Questions

Things like large 1” camera sensors, SiC batteries that offer 6-8k mAh, and other cool tech that would improve phones a lot. It’s not just Chinese brands either (e.g. Sony has an optical zoom camera on their flagship, Nothing has some excellent budget to midrange offerings).

It seems really weird, Apple/Samsung/Google are massive companies with so much money, yet they don’t try to offer this kind of tech on even their most expensive phones. In contrast, other phone makers have budget to midrange phones with insane battery capacities, Ultra models with innovative cameras, etc.

To me, it makes sense that Apple isn’t offering these kinds of things. They’re already extremely profitable and have the whole walled garden ecosystem that draws people in. Google focuses more on software rather than hardware, and their cameras are helped by software magic.

What surprises me is that Samsung isn’t trying to get better hardware to get more market share. If they had huge SiC batteries, large camera sensors, or other cool tech, it would definitely help sway buyers from Apple and other brands.

Especially since Samsung is struggling against both Chinese competition and, to a lesser extent, Indian competition. And in the U.S., they certainly want to steal market share from Apple.

What is with the reluctance of these massive tech companies from using the latest tech in their phones?

example: "what do you think was meant in this line in this scene?" or am i already here?

this is a fun question, i guess. i don’t want to appear stupid, i’m just really autistic.

https://youtu.be/kvkJZxzv-TA

in one of the scenes, the dark-haired antagonist tells the older vicar to tell him how to kill the were-rabbit, but he slips up and says “him”

when the antagonist catches himself and says he meant “it”, the vicar raises an eyebrow at him. I don’t mean to appear stupid, i just have no one to talk about random stuff like this with and want other perspectives on character body language :]

And not just for Mac OS.

As a not quite middle aged dude, I only just now figured out how to see magic eye stuff. I tried a couple times in elementary school but didn't get it so I stopped. Had a few drinks earlier, stumbled on some magic eye pic that I could see clear as day and it blew my mind a little

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33065306

I don't know what to think about it:

On one hand she looked ridiculous, wearing expensive make up and clothes, dyed hair, polished nails... the whole nine yards. She was together with a man who I thought was her husband, turns out was her son who was with her to make sure she doesn't wander off. She was slow giving answers and wanted to walk away, but her son always told her not to and to wait for the ambulance.

On the other hand, who am I to judge that woman if it makes her happy to dress like that? in 5 years or less she might not even remember her name. Who cares what she looks like? let her live like she wants.

this got me thinking, because on a previous post about aging another member of lemmy wrote never to act your age and to remain curious about anything, never to think that my way or my generation's way of doing things is the only right one as a way to avoid being a judgemental, sad and angry old person and to avoid dementia. Ain't this woman doing exactly this, not acting her age?

Still, to me looks like a complete waste of a life not to act your age to pretend being 40 years younger than you are. I would hate myself if all I can think about when I'm 80 is how to have sex with somebody 60 years my junior.

Is my future going to be that, to dress to look younger to try and get some attention from the opposite sex?

I’m the dad of a 14-year-old boy. Growing up, my parents were very closed off and distant, so I never felt comfortable asking them personal questions, which honestly hurt me quite a bit. I promised myself that if I ever became a parent, I’d make sure my kid felt comfortable talking to me about anything. So recently, my son came to me and said he wanted to shave down there but was scared he might cut himself. He asked how to do it. I asked him if he wanted me to show him, and he said yes. So I showed him the process. He said, “Thanks, Dad,” and that was that. On one hand, I’m proud that I created the open environment I always wanted growing up. On the other hand, I can’t help but wonder if people around me would think it crossed a boundary.

They only expose approximate, not precise, locations, so they shouldn't be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?

And if not what do you expect/want to replace it with. I dont think the whole web being like the fediverse is feasible,since billions of users use the internet

If you had a machine that created a window through which you could see the future, and in the future you wrote down the winning lottery numbers and relayed that information to your present self before that lottery number was drawn.

However, in your present selfs excitement, you turn off the machine before your future self wrote the winning lottery numbers into it for your past self.

What would happen?

When I was little I always though that being famous was a merit thing. If a musician was known it was because he or she was excepcional in his/her art: an incredible singer, a highly skilled guitarist, an amazing drummer.

But then I got older and saw a lot of gigs, and a lot of disciplined and truly amazing musicians that nobody heard about... And most were struggling financially, having a side job just to get by. How come? What is missing from them that the "icons" have?

When I was a kid, we had a collection of most of the books in the series. They were meant to help improve our English reading skills and learn vocabulary, sentence structures, etc. I still remember those stories very well, which is kind of crazy to me.

I remember Chip (the older brother), Biff (the older sister), and Kipper (the younger brother) with his striped shirt very well, as well as the funny yellow dog “Floppy”.

I also remember a few of the side characters, like Gran, Nadim, and Wilma + her younger brother “Wilf” (I remembered him as “Will”, but apparently was wrong)

The first few “stages” involved normal things like going to the beach, Gran’s house, and going to school. The later stages had loads of fun adventures involving magical worlds.

Has anyone else read those books as a kid? I still remember each story very well, which I find really weird.

Is there anyway to make it use less at it gets more advanced or will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?

I’m from Vietnam. I’ve been in the UK for 10 years now. When I met my English husband 13 years ago at 19 I knew 0 English. We communicated using machine translation. So that’s when I started learning English. Fast forward to present day after immersion, living in an English speaking country, formal study, etc. and I’d say my writing and listening (understanding) are good, but my speaking and reading are still bad. I kind of gave up on trying to become fluent at this point.

If a person reads a lot of theory about how to swim, different types of techniques, other people's written experiences etc., can they swim if thrown in a deep swimming pool? Or, at least, be able to swim enough to reach the steep end and save themselves from drowning?

By "a lot", I mean spending over 6 months to a year, gaining theoretical knowledge. And when we throw them in the pool, they are willing to try it, as in, "I have learnt enough, and I am willing to try it out."

I realize there's no singular answer for this, but many of the MAGA crowd attribute many of our current woes to the prior administration, like cost of living, inflation, unemployment rates, etc.

I'd imagine that every day that passes and we get more and more distant from Biden's presidency, it gets a bit harder to blame him for every problem.

e.g. It'd be hard to blame many of the increased prices on electronics on him, since much of this has been driven by Trump's tariffs (but I bet someone will attempt to refute this!)

This is a long-winded way of me asking the community, have you seen any Trump fans start to come around at all? When do we start living in the conditions (good or bad) of Trump's America and stop laying blame on the last administration?

I'm interested to see what people of all persuasions feel about this.

For myself, I have seen some minor loss of enthusiasm among Trump followers, but I haven't seen anyone register as a Democrat yet :)

(not in the US)

For those who don't know, it's where someone takes a QR code like on a poster for a concert and puts a sticker with a different QR code on top to a fake website that looks like the concert website (or a Rick Roll).

The obvious answer is to scratch off the QR code if you notice it's a sticker, but It's not always acceptable -or legal- to start damaging stuff to check if it's real or not. Also what if it's out of reach on a sign or something?

You can't put a little text under saying what the website is as a sort of checksum because the vandal can just write their own website under their sticker.

Many moons ago I was in a band, and we had a website with our songs stored in Amazon AWS. I recently found that our site was archived on the Way Back Machine. But unfortunately, the audio was in S3 and those URLs don't work.

<Code>NoSuchBucket</Code>
<Message>The specified bucket does not exist</Message>

WBM did not archive these URLs (understandably).

I no longer have any AWS account because Amazon is poopy.

Are these files lost to time, or is there some magic way to retrieve them?

For example, in English, you might type something like:

r u going out 2nite?

Instead of:

Are you going out tonight?

How does that sort of thing work when texting in a logographic language? Is it just emoji city, or can they mix and match characters to make things more compact?

And similarly, is there a formal journalistic shorthand system that gets used when jotting down comments in real-time, e.g. in China, Korea or Japan?

Thank you kindly!