BorgDrone @ BorgDrone @lemmy.one

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You’d rather have a phone that randomly crashes?

Many hundreds? I checked an a replacement for my iPhone 13 Pro battery is $89.

Walk into Apple store, hand over phone, pick it up an hour later. Couldn’t be easier. Looking at prices, 3rd party repair services using non-original parts charge the same or more as Apple does.

That was not to get you to buy another phone, in fact the opposite. It was to keep your phone functional even though it had a worn out battery.

In phones there is this concept called a ‘race to idle’. Basically, you want your phone to do nothing, because doing nothing uses very little energy. So when you do something on your phone, the goal is to do it as quickly as possible so it can go back to doing nothing and save battery. Your phone will be in this low-power idle state 99.999% of the time. You still want your phone to be responsive though, when you click on something you want it to respond without delay. That means that when you tell it to do something it has to go from this low power state back to a high speed state.

Now, iOS is really aggressive in this, it ramps up the CPU speed really fast. As a result, the power draw of the CPU goes from almost nothing to a high power draw very quickly. This causes problems with old batteries. As a battery ages it not only loses capacity, but it also becomes slower to respond to changes in power draw. If the CPU needs a lot of power quickly and the battery can’t keep up you get a brownout (drop in voltage) and the phone basically crashes and reboots.

So what Apple has done is that when iOS detects this happening (i.e. a crash due to the battery being unable to keep up), it will ramp up the CPU a little slower. Or to use a car analogy: they don’t change the top speed, but are less aggressive on the gas so it takes a little longer to get to that top speed. If you replace the battery it goes back to the original behavior.

This is basically a good thing, the alternative is that your phone keeps crashing. Where they screwed up is that they failed to inform users of this.

Yes officer, this post right here.

The learning curve is a bit steep, but for me it’s part of the fun. You control all the variables, which kind of forces you to learn about the whole espresso making process. Once you got the workflow down it’s not too bad.

Don’t get it if you expect a quick cup of espresso in the morning. Do get it if you like to fiddle with things and want go the extra mile to get the most out of your espresso.

"lawless shithole" sounds more like a place you can break n enter with near impunity.

We have a functional justice system where I live. Guilt and punishment is established in court in a fair trial, not by a random redneck with a gun. I know this must be a novel concept for you but I ensure you it is the civilized way to do it.

So you deem yourself judge, jury and executioner?

You truly live in a lawless shithole if you think like that.

If you think your crappy shit is worth more than a persons life then you are truly sick in the head.

-K doesn't exist.

It does though, but negative Kelvin is actually hotter than any positive Kelvin.

LOLWUT

How is that privileged?

Flair Pro 2 manual espresso machine.

You think lethal violence is an appropriate response to a burglary? If you responded like that over here you’d be going to prison for far, far longer than the burglar would.

You don’t need a gun, you need a shrink.

There are other shithole countries other than the US.

If you need guns just to be safe, you by definition live in a shithole.

I don’t live in the US. I live in a rural area in Europe. It’s not at all a problem here. Probably only a problem in shithole countries like the US.

How are people living on farms supposed to defend themselves against robbers if they don't own guns?

Why is this only a problem in the US? You don’t think other countries have farmers? Or maybe that problem only exists in your head.

Otherwise you need cops to defend you.

Like the kids in Uvalde?