abfarid

joined 2 years ago
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 5 hours ago

Dang, you're still posting? I haven't seen these for months.
Probably because I rarely scroll below 100 upvotes on Top...

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 5 hours ago

What's the origin of that background? I've seen it on a couple of posts lately.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 5 hours ago

Standard issue slave-girl uniform.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 20 points 22 hours ago

He will also never attract a husband.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw list item 1 more as "I want my phone to last for 5+ years, so I will want to replace my battery eventually", rather than "I wanna wreck my battery fast, so it better be replaceable". Being wasteful with your battery like that goes against the spirit of Fairphone, IMO.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

2.5 years isn't that long to evaluate battery degradation IMO, and as you said, you mostly don't even push your battery that hard. And the article even seems to imply that faster charging does impact battery life, it's just that manufacturers consider 100w a sweet-spot between charging speed and battery degradation.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 27 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Surely, that impacts the battery longevity, right? Personally, I disable all fast-charging features and charge my phone overnight.

P.S. Sorry for calling you Shirley.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 46 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Why do you need 120 watts charging for a phone? Most laptops don't even support 100w.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 5 days ago

For sure, taking control away from the users is terrible and scummy, but I think it's an entirely different issue, covered by "right to repair". A very small amount of people had the know how and the confidence to perform the repairs themselves even before this anti consumer practices became so widespread, so I don't think it's a huge factor in decrease of skill. I would say a much bigger factor is the fact that technology has become exponentially more complex. You can't just open up a radio and replace a vacuum tube, everything is a microchip now, and the soldering iron isn't gonna help much there. I guess eventually we will reach technology complexity and abstraction of such a level that no single person can hold the knowledge to "fix" it on their own.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 35 points 5 days ago (5 children)

This is kind of like blaming car manufacturers for people not knowing how to drive manual and how cars work under the hood, because they made cars reliable and simple to use.

There's always an incentive to make things more accessible. Skills always become outdated because of that. How many of us know how to skin game and cook it on naked fire? Not many, I presume.

Chromebook for all its flaws and limitations still let children, who would not have otherwise used any computing device, at least use one.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago

Take into account that I have my linear algebra exam in a week and I merely hope to get a passing grade, but apparently, in the very least they are useful for solving systems of equations using very simple algorithm-based operations.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

It's a running joke in the cartoon that people/animals keep calling Pumba a pig, he gets mad and insists he's "Mr. Pig".

 
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