JohnEdwa @ JohnEdwa @sopuli.xyz

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That's exactly what it is. I previously had Intel hardware for a few generations, but I got seriously pissed off that every time I wanted to upgrade, they had come up with a new incompatible socket and discontinued everything older so I had to also buy a new motherboard.

I think they might be a bit better at supporting older sockets these days, but still, too many sockets and incompatible chipsets.

There is a soundcard in the bluetooth headphones and wires are dirt cheap, it's not about that. Proper lightning headphones require getting your product certified by apple ($$$) and a special apple chip added in ($$$) because iPhones refuse to connect to devices that aren't.
But they will connect to all bluetooth devices.

At some point SteamOS has major issues crashing when waking up from hibernation, which is probably why it hasn't been added as an option. Which is annoying, because if you run out of battery, the deck just dies. At the very least, it should force-hibernate itself before dying.

Statement: you are correct. They should instead be called brain meatbags.

Human brains don't actually have any pain receptors (even though headaches would have you seriously believe otherwise), so a brain alone wouldn't be able to feel pain any more than it would be able to smell or see.

They are neurons derived and grown from human skin cells iirc, so, kinda?

What a pointless use of a sensor. The only time you'd need to detect if there actually is someone sitting on the drivers seat before activating the seatbelt alarm is when they are doing something idiotic like using autopilot from the back seat.

Hm. I would be interested to learn why, exactly. If it has terrible methodology, why is it constantly referenced and why hasn't a better one been done since then?
Or is there a better one that nobody just uses?
And how should the data look, because most of every other source I can find also agrees that beef is the worst (or possibly on the second spot after lamb) as it comes to CO2 per kg.

First step: just eat less beef.

Even that alone is enough to make a quite decent impact.

I feel it’s worth noting that everyone calling you he/him or “little brother” or “man” doesn’t make you not a girl.

Obviously, but when the narration and descriptions use those as well, it gives it more importance than just having other characters misgender them in conversation.

男の娘 literally meaning “male daughter”

Which is the otokonoko I linked to. If the term was used today it would be much more ambiguous, but the game came out in 2004 when that term was essentially only used for" crossdressers" in Japan - what I guess we'd these days call femboys - and basically never for trans people. That meaning came almost two decades later, and some would even argue that it shouldn't be used for them at all.

Bridget is another one. At least they got a better ending than the real life counterpart.

In the original Japanese translation, Vivian is referred to as an otokonoko (which also can mean just "boy") and the game often uses otoko (man) and otoutou (little brother) to refer to them - so the intention was most likely to paint them more as a crossdresser.
English localisation completely removed all traces of these, just makin Vivian a girl.
And now the remake, for both languages, makes Vivian explicitly trans.

Wouldn't be the first two decades old Japanese game that had to rethink crossdressing/trans characters in their remakes.

Or the Seat Mii Electric, it's even slightly more bare bones than the Citigo-e. Basically the VW group decided that instead of one car with three trim levels, they spread them under three different badges.
Though the dashboard is basically identical in each one (even the e-up) and what's missing are parking sensors, cruise control, steering wheel buttons and stuff like that, so all of them fit the "not a smartphone on wheels" requirement.

Live Paper is not E-Ink, so it shouldn’t have the same inherent issues with ghosting or refreshing.

E-ink is a very specific display technology with ink particles floating in oil controlled by magnetic fields. They don't explicitly state what this Live Paper exactly is, but they do state it's something that solves the downsides of typical reflective LCDs, so, probably one of those but better.
Actual e-inks have the benefit of looking like ink blobs on paper and not square pixels, and the image staying even when power is completely removed, and the massive downside that because they are being physically moved, it actually takes a bit of time so they have terrible refresh rates.

Interesting, but taking it a too far to the tiny end - I don't need a phone I can hide in my prison pocket, just one that fits in my regular ones.
Also Unihertz has terrible software support and doesn't provide android upgrades for their phones, so it's already in a sense 7 months out of date - and sadly obscure enough that there isn't much custom rom development either.

Screen size stops being meaningful when you start comparing phones released years apart - the 5" Shift5me is 141,5 mm x 71 mm, phones around that width have seen screens all the way from the 4.3" of the 2011 Philips W920 to the 6.2" of the 2024 Samsung S24. For reference, the S4 mini was 4.3" at 124.6mm x 61.3mm.

But if that is an acceptable size of a phone, there are still few of those around, thankfully. It's just about the limit of what I can comfortably handle at all (Pixel 4a currently)

They would need to know what tag is yours, it's not like tags have a subscription based contract with a company that directly links the device to you.

Unlike, you know, a cell phone. Which you carry with you at all times.

The part where tags are for finding lost, not stolen, items.
Stalking someone and tracking a stolen item without alerting the thief are identical situations, so you simply can't make a device that works for one and not the other.

One workaround that I can think of is if something like this was properly integrated to police systems, so that when you report the tagged item as stolen, the cops could switch it to a mode that keeps silent.

The S4 mini wasn't quite that small, but typing comfort on small phones depends entirely on how comfortable you are with using swipe/gesture typing, as that's realistically the only normal way to do it - any on-screen buttons are just too tiny to hit accurately unless you go landscape.

This is a phone that fits in one hand.

This is a phone you can barely hold in one hand, but can't actually do anything with it because your thumb maybe reaches 25% of the screen unless if you dangle it precariously on your palm.