lustrum @ lustrum @sh.itjust.works

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Same here. I just don't give a fuck. I do whatever is the least friction to me, a lot of times pirating is the best option.

• Music, can't easily play it everywhere I want with spotify or youtube music? Pirate
• Movies, scattered allover with different pricing models? Pirate
• Film comes out and want to watch with friends? Go to the movie theatre.
• TV on the BBC I can easily watch, just watch there (pay TV licence).
• TV that comes to the UK later than the US? Pirate
• Game is a good price on steam, buy.
• Game is time locked to the premium edition buyers (Starfield), Pirate.
• Obscure premium podcast, buy because it's not elsewhere and has an RSS feed. (Plus I don't mind supporting some creators)

Basically, I have plenty of spare cash and will pirate or buy depending on whatever works for me, not what works for them.

Pretty stoked for the lineup in this race.

Right, but if I need to contact a friend or family. How am I supposed to do it without affecting privacy? If the other person doesn't use Signal or else.

Interesting. Mine gets warm but never had anything throttle

Might actually be a good shout.

Switch 1 had a 720p screen with a 1080p max TV output. That's approx a 2x increase in throughput.

With Switch 2 it's expected to be a 1080p screen and a 4k output, that's a 4x increase in pixel throughput. So a 2x output increase might not be adequate.

However, it is widely expected to have DLSS, which would greatly reduce that requirement.

Companies always do this shit, penny wise, pound foolish.

Big time. Their chassis design will dictate performance too. They will get the best chip they can in a cost budget and then thermal/battery limits will dictate where that chip actually lies.

The steam deck is cool and a great device but the Switch 2 will be sleeker and nintendo won't settle for a 90min battery a whiney fan, and that has trade offs.

I'd love to switch to Signal and I do have 1 contact there. Everyone else uses FB or whatsapp and just doesn't care. What am I supposed to do?

Yep. I had a pixel 5. I got sucked in and bought a pixel 6 pro. It's literally the same apart from the zoom looks better and the phone is bigger.

I did have modem issues with the 6Pro so I got the 7 Pro and the phone is the same apart from the odd change.

So for me going from a Pixel 5, I gained pretty much nothing, man I miss that phone.

Yeah it's not abnormal at all, just a bit more than other phones i've had. And heat is just wasted energy. Overall love the phone

None specifically. Its just warm when browsing around, especially on 5G

Agreed

Here's some that I follow:

• Anandtech^1: Great general tech website, has some deep dives. It did used to be a lot better
• Chips and Cheese^2: Insane deep dives into architectures and chips.
• More than Moore^3: Ex Anandtech editor in chief, does great breakdowns of new AI tech and silicon.
• igor's Lab^4: Does some great deep dives into various GPU and CPU issues.
• KGOnTech^5: Only just followed this blog, seems to do a good teardown on the apple headset.
• Krebs on Security^6: Blog by one of the best security researchers and breaks down vulnerabilities
• EE Times^7: Good well written site with overviews on many areas in tech
• Techspot Featured Articles^8: Mainly gaming and GPU/CPU, but does some good articles exploring games, tech etc

I don't have issues with the radios personally (I did on my Pixel 6)

Calculating the UK out:

• £799 for the phone
• 2.91% of pay
• Salary they calculated it at is £27,457

That sits abit lower than the median here in the UK but the mean is much higher

Is that a spec of 4.5W anywhere? Just checked and the max my Pixel 7 Pro will push to my laptop is 4.5w too

You should though. I have a Pixel 7 Pro. I've seen all the reviews/tests showing how bad of a chip it is. But in day to day use it's fast snappy and pretty good.

it does however warm the device a lot and warmth = battery loss.

Tensor G1 and G2 would probably be absolutely fine if fabbed on TSMC.

They could use an external USB controller.

Right but even if you half the number it's still only on par with last generation with significantly more room to grow and predictable income.

Indeed. The issue for these companies. If phones aren't enticing enough and people start hanging onto devices for an extra year that effecticely cuts their revenue in 1/4.

That's why icloud got more expensive, it's why google is trying to monetise your web history for ads. They're looking for further revenue.