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  • It's signal strength and signal clarity, both on a scale of 1 to 5.

    "you're 5-by-5" thus means " you're loud and clear."

    Edit: There is also a famous line in Aliens where a pilot says "we're in the pipe, five-by-five". I think it's also said in buffy.

  • True, but if you had the ability to flash your OS, there'd also be the potential of using a third paty repair shop to get it flashed with a new OS. That would be about the same experience as getting a new phone, but cheaper.

  • That's one aspect, but many phones are also just straight-up not jail-breakeable. It's an unfortunate reality of the phone manufacturing world that they put up as many barriers as possible to try and prevent you from having free range with your phone.

  • True, though it's a mix of culpability. We wouldn't be in this situation if devs quit over poor managerial decisions. Devs keep their heads down and do the dirty work, so they're also culpable in these trends. They don't deserve defending, they deserve a wakeup call.

    EDIT: face it folks, if you do a shitty thing as your job for someone else, it doesn't absolve you of guilt that it was some else's idea. You're still doing the shitty thing. No one gets off Scott free because they're 'following orders'.

  • I don't disagree with this. Software's performance enshittification is maybe non intentional per-se, but it's pretty obvious that devs don't think they need to optimize until it's confirmed that their software is insufferably slow. And I mean their software has to be so slow that it loses them customers in droves.

    Poor performance then immediately sells more performant gear. Lord knows that if software consumption didn't rise every year, I wouldn't even consider buying new gear till my current shit croaked.

  • That's not why we were able to get Apollo 11 onto the moon using only 8 kilobytes. The real reason is because we used the most batshit sorcery mankind may ever know to eek out every last ounce of usefulness we could muster from those 8 kilobytes.