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wazoobonkerbrain , to nonononoyes in Questing

My take on this is that the initial post was innocent. The followup was tongue in cheek.

So not a troll, but a clever recovery from a miscommunication.

stebo02 ,
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I’m pretty sure the initial post was tongue in cheek too. The title is too clickbait-y for it not to be

roboRoboat , to pics in My Mantises Have Hatched!

Woah, rad! Mantises (manti? mantopedes? 🤔) are the coolest.

GuyFi , to pics in Week 2: Congratulations to BeardyGrumps for their photo of the week.

One of the rare posts that make me go

HOLY SHIT

tapple , to memes in I'm just so tired after work

I feel like my steam library is just an ode to all the game streams I’ve watched.

fist_of_fartitude , to noncredibledefense in there are 0 stairs in Russia. just jump off airborne T-60 turret at desired elevation
@fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works avatar

Zelensky is 5’7” (153.88 in non-freedom units), which coincidentally is the same as Putin’s height. Also, Pootpoot is widely suspected of wearing lifts in his shoes.

vanZuider ,

5’7” (153.88 in non-freedom units)

I don’t know what non-freedom unit you’re using, but in centimeters 5’7" would be ~170.

fist_of_fartitude ,
@fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works avatar

Apparently the kind that result from me doing the math wrong.

404CameranotFound ,

For some reason I thought Putin was like 6’ x”

fist_of_fartitude ,
@fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works avatar

I guess he is, technically, if you limit the value of x to at most -5.

404CameranotFound ,

Lol

givesomefucks , to mildlyinteresting in Asian earwax > Every other earwax

The genes aren’t unique to Asians, it’s just most have it over there.

Europeans are way more likely to just have one copy of the “Asian” gene than two copies tho.

Which fucking sucks, because you get both types of earwax and the gooey and flakey get all mushed up.

Resistentialism ,

And that, is how I imagine crunchy peanut butter

BowtiesAreCool ,

I think I just threw up in my mouth

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

Was it moist and gooey or dry and flakey?

Vaginal_blood_fart ,

Yes

DarkThoughts ,

That actually explains some things.

shootwhatsmyname , to programmerhumor in Hey friend. . . what do you mean it's 15:00?
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Sponsored by Google

phorq ,

Is that like AskJeeves? I’ve never heard of them.

Doomguy OP ,
@Doomguy@lemmy.world avatar

Let me ask the duck, and report back

root , to programmerhumor in Hey friend. . . what do you mean it's 15:00?
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One of the worst parts of return to site

Gangreless , to nonononoyes in Questing

Classic reddit shitpost

kolorafa , to programmerhumor in and people wonder why we say PHP is a meme

PHP Fatal error: Unparenthesized a ? b : c ? d : e is not supported. Use either (a ? b : c) ? d : e or a ? b : (c ? d : e)

wanderingmagus , to programmerhumor in Hey friend. . . what do you mean it's 15:00?

I’m in this picture and I hate it

TheLobotomist ,
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What were you searching for

LaunchesKayaks ,
@LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

Same tho

kratoz29 , to retrogaming in Anyone else still rocking the 351V?

Let me guess… Lemmy rotated your pic 😅

Yes and I love it, sadly I had back luck with mine because it stopped to work within a week when I bought it, I talked to Anbernic and after like a month of emails and slow process they agreed to send me a motherboard, which I accepted and replaced myself, but turned out it didn’t have the rumble motor, I should have savaged mine, but due my inexistent soldering skills I just say fuck it and used it without it, which it sucks, because as a console gamer I like rumble motion when possible… Still i can fix it I guess…

I only have that one (black model) a Retroid Pocket 2 (not plus), and a Miyoo Mini which I treasure a lot because the lack of supply… And I like more the RG351V because the Retroachivements!

nugget359 OP ,

Yup Lemmy rotated my pic lol. I rarely use rumble but that’s because I mainly use mine for 16 bit and below. Hopefully you get it sorted out!

kratoz29 ,

Yeah, to be fair me too, but I liked it with PSX games.

wren , to mildlyinteresting in Japanese WWII warplane lies wrecked in shallow water off Guam
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Stunning photo. This is so interesting!

Akinzekeel , to mildlyinfuriating in Updated my Samsung phone and it installed unwanted apps

I just got a Galaxy S23 about 2 weeks ago. It came with Facebook and Swiftkey as well as a bunch of Microsoft Apps. But no Tiktok, Games or other crap. Even after updating the OS nothing like that had been installed.

My guess is that a lot of people do not read anything and just rush through the initial setup process, thereby confirming things like wanting recommended apps to be installed.

Also there are some mentions of rooting here. I suggest to first give adb a try. It lets you uninstall any app without rooting (including Facebook and Swiftkey in my case).

_cerpin_taxt_ ,

Or you could just not buy a $2k phone loaded down with shitty bloatware.

Sent from my $700 Google Pixel 7 Pro

LaunchesKayaks ,
@LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

Aww yeah Pixel gang 😎

AllHailTheSheep ,

pixel 7 pro launched at 900$. s23 ultra launched at 1,200$. not an insane difference there for the amoled screen, better cameras, and s-pen. let people buy what they want 😭😭

_cerpin_taxt_ ,

Yeah, the Samsung phones are such a great value. They only come with about 20 apps you can’t uninstall unless you do some convoluted bullshit, the UI they draw over Android is bloated and slow as hell, and Bixbie is awful. Oh cool, there’s a 200mp camera. Something that only pro photographers care about lol. My Pixel 7 Pro takes phenomenal pictures, too, and isn’t a nightmare to deal with. So much value!

not_that_guy05 ,

Hate my 7 pro. Double tap light sometimes works, sometimes… The phone is over heating every fuckin time I open the cameras app which is rare as fuck. My fingerprint sensor works half the time unless I disable the extra I actually want that come with the phone. There’s a line the down the middle of my screen that appears randomly and it’s annoying which I think is part of my fingerprint issue. I miss my nexus Shamu that was a great Google phone.

_cerpin_taxt_ ,

Damn, I’m sorry you’ve had that experience with it. It sounds like you got a lemon. I’ve had every other Pixel phone since the first one, and never had any of those issues.

eth0p ,

Oh cool, there’s a 200mp camera. Something that only pro photographers care about lol.

Oh this is a fun one! Trained, professional photographers generally don’t care either, since more megapixels aren’t guaranteed to make better photos.

Consider two sensors that take up the same physical space and capture light with the same efficiency/ability, but are 10 vs 40 megapixels. (Note: Realistically, a higher density would mean design trade-offs and more generous manufacturing tolerances.)

From a physics perspective, the higher megapixel sensor will collect the same amount of light spread over a more dense area. This means that the resolution of the captured light will be higher, but each single pixel will get less overall light.

So imagine we have 40 photons of light:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">More Pixels    Less Pixels
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-----------    -----------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">1 2 1 5         
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2 6 2 3         11  11
</span><span style="color:#323232;">1 9 0 1         15  3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">4 1 1 1         
</span>

When you zoom in to the individual pixels, the higher-resolution sensor will appear more noisy. This can be mitigated by pixel binning, which groups (or “bins”) those physical pixels into larger, virtual ones—essentially mimicking the lower-resolution sensor. Software can get crafty and try to use some more tricks to de-noise it without ruining the sharpness, though. Or if you could sit completely still for a few seconds, you could significantly lower the ISO and get a better average for each pixel.

Strictly from a physics perspective (and assuming the sensors are the same overall quality), higher megapixel sensors are better simply because you can capture more detail and end up with similar quality when you scale the picture down to whatever you’re comparing it against. More detail never hurts.

… Except when it does. Unless you save your photos as RAW (which take a massice amount of space), they’re going to be compressed into a lossy image format like JPEG. And the lovely thing about JPEG, is that it takes advantage of human vision to strip away visual information that we generally wouldn’t perceive, like slight color changes and high frequency details (like noise!)

And you can probably see where this is going: the way that the photo is encoded and stored destroys data that would have otherwise ensured you could eventually create a comparable (or better) photo. Luckily, though, the image is pre-processed by the camera software before encoding it as a JPEG, applying some of those quality-improving tricks before the data is lost. That leaves you at the mercy of the manufacturer’s software, however.

In summary: more megapixels is better in theory. In practice, bad software and image compression negate the advantages that a higher resolution provides, and higher-density sensors likely mean lower-quality data. Also, don’t expect more megapixels to mean better zoom. You would need an actual lense for that.

Akinzekeel ,
  1. I bought the Google Pixel 7a before this one. Software design was terrible and loaded with unnecessary “features”. Returned it.
  2. I agree it’s silly to spend that much on a phone. But the S23 was just under 800€ and I got a free pair of Galaxy Buds 2 Pro from a promotion.
_cerpin_taxt_ ,

Did you buy the Pixel 7a second hand or something, or through a carrier? The whole point of the Pixel phones is they’re stock Android with zero unnecessary apps pre installed. Your shitty Samsung also has Android, but Samsung puts their own slow, bloated as hell interface over it. Not to mention all of the bloatware pre installed. Stop lying lmao.

Akinzekeel ,

It seems that you get so enraged by someone daring to like a different product than you that you lose your reading comprehension. I said the software design was terrible (i.e. how the menus were styled). I never said anything about bloatware. Also we already established that you have no idea what those phones actually cost and just throw around some made up numbers. Who’s the liar now?

_cerpin_taxt_ ,

Or you could just not buy a phone loaded down with shitty bloatware.

Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro

starman2112 ,

+1 for ADB. Online tutorials are dead simple to follow. De-facebooking my phone and killing Bixby are the two things that made me decide not to trade this in for an old Razer Phone instead.

Chailles ,
@Chailles@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I had a similar experience. I got my phone directly from Samsung, so it’s also likely it might have just been the Carrier that did this.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

so it’s also likely it might have just been the Carrier that did this.

The answer is literally in the second line of the screenshot: “Mobile Services Manager”, so yes, provider branding.

CaptainProton ,

Did you own a Galaxy before? For how long? In my experience Samsung does this through updates over time. Your S23 is good for up to about 6 years or until around 2028-2029; you will have this stuff pushed to your phone by end of 2024.

The problem with all the phone reviewers is they put zero thought/effort into the patterns of brands in how they support past models past mentioning how long you get security patches for. Reviewers just do not talk about this on past models in relation to new models.

Akinzekeel ,

I did not own one before, this is my first ever Samsung phone. So I can’t tell what they might or might not do in 6 years. Owning a phone for that long would be a first for me though. So far, all the Android phones I owned would stop receiving updates long before that.

Bach37strad , to cat in Little man caught me spying on him

I hope this picture is unrelated to your username.

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