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Cake day: July 22nd, 2024

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  • I find it extremely frustrating how weirdly wrong-density much documentation is. It’s extremely detailed in all the wrong places and often lacks examples for common use cases.

    I learned a while ago that news articles are supposed to have increasing levels of detail from top to bottom. Each paragraph adds a bit more context, but the general picture should be contained in the first one. Hardly any documentation follows that pattern.






  • Covid hit just around the time where people around me (and myself, obviously) hit 30, got kids and settled down.

    That means, covid turned into a “getting old” speed run for me. Before covid, there was something going on each weekend, a party here, a gathering of friends there, it was almost always at least something going on. When the lock down was unlocked up for real in 2022, most people had partners, didn’t want to go out anymore or do anything at all, some kids were on their way or just arrived.

    It felt like a development of 5-10 years was compressed into one or two years.


  • Both have potential revenue streams used to justify the cost.

    You sure about that? AI in any semi-professional environment uses proper AI accelerators with loads of ram and not overpriced consumer cards. And that ignores the fact that AI never produced any relevant revenue stream.

    Miners, do they even exist anymore? Bitcoin is ASIC land and ethereum switched to proof of stake?


  • What is competitive about textures? Is eSports an arts contest now? You can’t seriously suggest that having better textures makes a gamer better at playing counter strike.

    4K high FPS is exactly the kind of useless numbers game I’m talking about. There’s a point at which humans don’t see differences anyway. Especially in those super high competitive games you also have pretty fast paced movements, you can’t see texture quality.

    Yes, if compared in a lab environment the newer card will probably create a better image, but we’re pretty close to “virgin blood infused speaker wires for audiophiles” territory.


  • I honestly don’t understand why people keep buying these. It’s not like games look that much better compared to cheaper models.

    And what’s really surprising to me: who exactly pays those scalper prices? Who can justify shelling out 1-2000 currency units for a (part of a) toy?

    The entire industry lost its direction. It’s only about some artificial numbers go up and no one even tries to come up with a reason for those numbers.








  • That has nothing to do with a conspiracy, it’s just cheaper. If they can get away with it, they’ll do it.

    Reality is, most people give relatively thought to their purchases. They just buy “the new iPhone” or pick an Android that seems reasonable to them. And even those who do ostensibly care, often enough only care about specifications. More cores, more nits, more camera.


  • Question is rather: why does Android not allow any distinction between Internal and external/removable?

    My downloaded media files belong on the SD card, but APKs, sqlite DBs and temp files don’t belong there. But de facto, it’s just used as an extension for internal storage. That’s just stupid.