*on the power button.

My s10e had this, and it’s the best IMO.

You can also swipe it to pull down the notification shade.

No I get it. Hair that’s put up in a messy way, so that there’s a few stray strands that fall along the face and neck… Strangely hot.

These AI voiceovers are getting to the point that it took a few mispronunciations for me to notice.

So it should be safe in airplane mode, no? If I can trust my device, that is.

What’s wrong with a grapheneOS device on airplane mode? Is firmware level tracking a confirmed thing?

I think it depends a lot on the style and size of pants, and it’s just a personal preference.

While I prefer smaller phones for how they feel in the hand, all of my pants could easily fit a phone 7" or larger. But if normal phones don’t fit in your pockets, then a folding phone makes sense.

Also personally I’m the sort of person who dislikes how bulky traditional wallets are, and I’m bothered by my earbuds case. But point taken that a folding phone still isn’t very thick generally.

Interesting, I always thought that was the pointless form factor. I guess I could see it being nice if you have really shallow pockets, although it seems like it would be uncomfortably thick compared to a normal phone when closed.

With the fold style, (especially trifold) It turns into a tablet you can carry in your pocket. Which would be worth it if it wasn’t fragile and twice the price of a phone + tablet.

I’m younger and don’t have a serious injury, so I wouldn’t say this would fix back pain for someone with an actual injury.

But for me, back pain was fixed with better posture and muscle strengthening too.

I think the biggest thing was focusing on engaging the muscles supporting the lower back. Glutes and core specifically.

And for posture, just be conscious about keeping the body in alignment in a way that feels comfortable, not “sitting up straight”

i think it’s common with younger generations, especially when texting !!

Well ideally they would just make the phone more durable without a case, and the full thickness of the camera filled with battery, headphone jack, etc.

Seriously so much smartphone design is based on initial appeal, not actual usability.

Yes this is so dumb. Razor thin phone with massive camera bumps. Who is asking for this?

I’ve been saying for years that it needs to be nationalized. And this is a really good time to do so; Elon is showing that him being in charge is a national security risk.

But Trump 100% doesn’t have the guts to do it.

It’s using information from multiple frames, as well as motion vectors, so it’s not just blind guesses.

And no, it’s not as good as a ‘ground truth’ image, but that’s not what it’s competing against. FXAA and SMAA don’t look great, and MSAA has a big performance penalty while still not eliminating aliasing. And I think DLSS quality looks pretty damn good. If you want something closer to perfect, there’s DLAA, which is comparable to SSAA, without nuking your framerate. DLSS can match or exceed visual fidelity at every level, while offering much better performance.

Frame gen seems like much more of a mixed bag, but I think it’s still good to have the option. I haven’t tried it personally, but I could see it being nice in single player games to go from 60 -> 240 fps, even if there’s some artifacting. I think latency would become an issue at lower framerates, but I don’t really consider 30 fps to be playable anyway, at least for first person games.

And yes, it has been used to excuse poor optimization, but so have general hardware improvements. That’s an entirely separate issue, and doesn’t mean that upscaling is bad.

Also I think Nvidia is a pretty anti-consumer company, but that mostly has to do with business stuff like pricing. Their tech is quite good.

The Beatles Pink Floyd Radiohead David Bowie

All artists that I’ve liked for a long time that I’m unlikely to get sick of. Also with quite large discographies.

Definitely, although I think it’s most interesting if the advanced technology is based on the magic.

Like, let’s say there is a world where there are magic plants that can heal you, people who can magically scry nearby locations if they meditate deeply, and stones that levitate in the moonlight.

And there’s an evil empire that exploits the fuck out of this by industrially farming the plants to create a highly concentrated serum, removing people’s brains and hooking them up to computers for magical sensing abilities, and attaching fragments of moon rocks to the levitating stones to create antigravity. Creating invulnerable flying supersoldiers with impossibly good radar powered by brain backpacks.

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It’s a bit dark, but I think suicide would become extremely common. Born in a third world country? Reroll. Born as the wrong gender? Mulligan. Getting old? Refresh. etc.

It would probably cause a lot of chaos in society. I think there would probably be a stigma around it unless there’s a good reason, with people going out of their way to prove that they died naturally. I guess you’d have to memorize a secret phrase or something to prove you’re the same person.

Also, would people even want to have kids, if it’s just some random old person’s mind? Not really sure how I would feel about that.

And what happens when the population decreases? Would everyone just be waiting in a queue to be born, or would they actually die? Either way, choosing to not have kids would become a bit of a tragedy of the commons.

Uh, unless you’re a philosophical zombie, you have direct proof that consciousness exists. On a level that isn’t directly explainable from our current understanding of the brain.

I don’t have any proof that anyone else is conscious. For all I know, it’s possible that everyone else is just a biological automaton. (although occam’s razor suggests otherwise)

But I do experience my own existence and awareness. So because of that, I’m 100% certain that consciousness is a real thing, more certain than I am of literally anything else existing.

I’d like to clarify that it doesn’t mean that free will exists, and doesn’t suggest whether consciousness is emergent, separate, or universal. But it definitely exists beyond just being some observable collection of behaviours.

Also infrared cameras are pretty sensitive, so the lights often aren’t that bright.

And the contact lens definitely won’t make infrared light as bright as visibly light. It also likely doesn’t line up exactly with the wavelength used by most cameras.

It would probably be noticeable but not appear very bright.

This is bullshit. Adobe had a negative space verion of the a, but never used anything that looks like this until very recently. Meanwhile Delta has beem using this logo for well over a decade.

Also, it’s a pretty generic logo that probably shouldn’t be trademarkable. (the earlier negative space version, sure, but not what amounts to basically just a triangle)

It sucks that corporations can basically just decide that something is theirs now, and force everyone else to stop using it.