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iPhone 15 pro design is bad (lemmy.world)
 

I just want to rant. Was using my iPhone X since launch and figured I should finally upgrade. Got the iPhone 15 pro when it came out. The digital island is hideous. Makes no sense, and I don’t see how those features couldn’t have been incorporated into the notch. We just lose vertical screen real estate. Feels like big brother is staring at me constantly, whereas the notch kind of faded away.

The camera bump is huge, and feels awful to touch. It also makes case designs bad as well with the raised edge. It’s very hard to find a case without the raised square borer around the camera bump. These cases leave marks in all my pants. The funniest thing to me is there are billboards that feature the raised camera of the iPhone 15. There are also posters when you walk into an Apple Store of the same. As if they think it’s beautiful. I wish I had gone with my gut and not purchased the phone.

Making me think more and more about running Graphene on a pixel. Ugh, you just can’t win with phones now a days.

I realize for better cameras, you need longer lenses, but it should be a phone first.

Seattle at Sunset in c/[email protected]
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Steamdeck setup without PC (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I’m considering purchasing a steamdeck. I may be away from my computer when I get the steamdeck. Could there be any issues with setting up games without access to a computer with my steam account? I assume cloud saves will be available. What about setting up a game that requires rockstar launcher?

Edit: Thanks for the feedback. It looks like the answer is no, I don’t need access to a computer with my steam account.

Recommend me a programming language in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would second Elixir. Either that or Rust. Sure both are popular, but for good reason.

They are completely different from the languages you use.

You will be introduced to new paradigms.

As a person who used the same stack as you (albeit typescript instead of JavaScript), I think it would be a waste of time to learn C#. It is so close to Java, and learning it may make you hate having to use Java, because it seems a bit better put together. Even though it runs on Linux, and is a good language, I don’t think there is ever a reason to chose it over Java, because M$.

Preparing to Hang Up the Car Keys as We Age in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, indeed. I was giving a satirical take of how many older people feel. It’s hard to have your independence taken away from you.

Preparing to Hang Up the Car Keys as We Age in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fuck that. My kids (if I have any) can pry my keys from my keys from my cold dead hands.

What are you playing this week? (2024.01.12) in c/[email protected]
Occasional crashes in games in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That doesn’t necessarily mean it might not fix the issue. If you can find a GPU to borrow, plug that in and see if you still get crashes.

Occasional crashes in games in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Running Windows? You could try a clean install

Why can't code be uncompiled? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Here is a real world example of someone doing some reverse engineering of compiled code. Might help you understand what is possible, and some of the processes. https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

Once They Were Pets. Now Giant Goldfish Are Menacing the Great Lakes. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good use of AI + drones. Identification and eradication of invasive species. Sounds dystopian when I type it out, especially once AI identifies humans as invasive.

Cool SQL editor that I found today, licensed under GPL 3 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Each electron app has its own Chromium runtime. With the prevalence of electron apps, the result is multiple instances of chromium running on your machine. Chromium isn’t light weight. On top of that, there is the philosophical aspect. Do we really need to be shipping an entire browser for the purpose of creating a UI? That being said I understand why so many electron apps are created. HTML/JS/CSS are powerful and easy to use (IMO) and cross platform. I just try to avoid them and use alternatives to electron.

Cool SQL editor that I found today, licensed under GPL 3 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For real. Wouldn’t even consider it

Startup/New Device battery drain in iP15 Pro in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have a 15 pro and don’t think I experienced this. I know that photos on a Mac will run in the background, scanning your photos for faces and objects. That could be what happened, along with some other indexing. Surprised it occurred while on battery though. I wouldn’t worry about it unless it consistently happens.

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