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Cake day: August 26th, 2024

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  • We recently noticed this with Samsung’s line where my mom went from one of the flagships to the lower end. She was initially hesitant but has actually been much happier.

    She got a removable battery, micro SD card slot, better battery life, among other features she came to love that weren’t on the flagship. It’s crazy they don’t, but my best guess is that all these features add doors/slots that “ruin” the aesthetic of the look of the phone? I’m not sure why else they choose to do this besides that. Though I have heard the removable battery loss is due to waterproofing, and it’s not possible to have that with a waterproof design.








  • I pulled out my Steam Deck just now to confirm because I wanted to be sure I’m being accurate.

    But yeah, on low, I was able to get up to 60 but it looks like now I’m getting high 50 fps on low settings. But I remember getting 60 at some point because I remember being surprised and amazed it could handle that and for specific amounts of time! I’m wondering if a new update may have changed this. This was prior to their update with ray tracing when I was getting 60 fps.

    On medium settings, I’m getting high 40 fps running about the city and even in combat. Still pretty and very stable looking at these frames.

    This is all outside of the DLC area, where I got much less before.

    The Steam Deck is an amazing device! The fact it can generate these results at all is pretty amazing. I’m curious how it compares to the Switch 2 in this. It will be interesting to see someone do a direct comparison between the two.







  • In addition to adblocking, some people use it for family censoring like blocking porn and gore on the domain level. It’s a more effective means as it would mean that your kid can’t go to ph on the family computer as well as their iPad.

    You can block individual domains if you wish but there are also a lot of lists out there that are generated and maintained by the community to include new sites as they arise.

    I like it for my iPhone for playing free games like solitaire and the like. A lot of these have intrusive ads but the PiHole effectively blocks the ads and I don’t have to have any third party apps running on my phone.

    Additionally, I set up a VPN on my Raspberry Pi so I can take this adblocking on the go too.

    You can also set up the PiHole to keep a log history which some people may want or you can use it to never keep the history for privacy reasons. I suppose this is another use case in ensuring your DNS server at home doesn’t keep a history of websites you visit from any device on the network.


  • I’ve gotten it 3 times from 2 different accounts. The first account sent it to me twice on two separate days. Ironically from an account that I had replied to months before it spammed me.

    Then it sent me it again a few weeks later from a different account, same picture but different name.

    I’ve blocked both accounts so far, so they may have sent more and I just didn’t see the other attempts.


  • I’d be willing to bet that most people in the world want a bigger phone.

    I downsized to a iPhone 15 Pro from a iPhone 13 Pro Max thinking that I wanted a smaller phone, but I find myself missing it and planning to upgrade to the larger variety come the iPhone 17 launch. Typing has been an absolute nightmare for my hands on this smaller phone. I make more mistakes and it’s uncomfortable.

    I also miss the larger screen size for viewing videos, but it’s not the end of the world there since I also have an iPad and other devices better suited for videos.

    But people forget how the iPhones, in particular, were criticized by a lot of people, especially on the Android side, for not having as big of phones and Apple finally caved a few years after Steve passed. I think Steve Jobs is what held back iPhones to the smaller size they had for so long.