I just came back from a children’s birthday party. Naturally, I made sure to charge the phone as much as possible on the drive to the indoor playground. I took and sent a sizable number of pictures and videos, and played some Spotify over the car system on the way home. Nothing else, not even navigation.
5.5h on mobile, 1.5h total SoT - the battery went from 92% to 29% during that time. This is a great “half-a-day” phone, but, sadly, useless for any significantly longer outings.
Yeah being from AUS, I’m actually not too sure if I am missing some AI features. Which ones are you missing?
Most of the call-related AI features:
“Hold for Me” being the most painfully absent.
That call center menu navigation AI thing is missing (but that’s rarely supported even in the US).
No Google Duplex at all.
No improved Call Screen Assistant at all, it’s still that extremely robotic sounding, first generation one.
No “summarize this” feature for websites, either. That was one of the big, new, introductions.
Honestly, that’s pretty much half of the on-device AI features. The rest is the cloud-based photo magic stuff that isn’t run on the phone’s chip at all, that works and can be really cool (but is painfully slow and often quite buggy).
I don’t expect most of these to make it out of the US / to the EU anytime soon, and I’m willing to bet that I won’t see “Assistant with Bard” for a very, very long time.
Pixel 8 Pro 265Gb here. My first Pixel, my last Google device was a Nexus.
Right now, it’s a love/hate relationship:
I love the camera, display, software, haptic feedback, build, design, sound, call quality (seriously, I can use speakerphone without the other side even noticing that I’m doing so, wow!) and the face unlock during the day - when it’s bright enough, it’s almost magical. All really, really great things.
I’m fine with the performance (coming from an older Snapdragon 865 it surprisingly doesn’t feel like a notable uplift, but it’s good enough, and the most demanding game I play mobile is the NYT crossword), the fingerprint scanner is a little worse than on my old Xiaomi/Poco midranger and, I believe/hope, currently hampered by a bug where it doesn’t reliably trigger from AOD, which probably is the reason why it’s only just “ok” for me overall. Battery life on wifi is fine, albeit surprisingly a bit worse than on my three-year-old phone with its 4700mAh and identically sized display. Reception is fine, no complaints there.
I’m a bit miffed that some of the more interesting AI features are US-only, but what is there in the EU is still mostly nice and useful. Bluetooth is a bit weak, I had some connection issues with my Sony in-ears that I never had before.
I hate, hate, hate the battery life on mobile, especially on 5g. It’s utterly, embarrassingly, awful. How the fuck is it so much worse than on my three-year-old cheap-o phone with its far smaller and slowly dying battery - on the same carrier/5g? Why does it constantly feel warm when on 5g? There’s no way I can use this phone away from charger and wifi for a whole day.
So, yeah, best phone I ever had on wifi. A pretty, but useless, paperweight after a slightly longer day out on mobile. And it’s hard to comprehend why it’s so awful for me, I feel like there must be some kind of explanation or bug.
Literally the only issue I’m having with the phone, but if there’s no solution to this, it may turn out to be a dealbreaker.
Geeze, what an obvious sales pitch.
Try The Secret of Money Island instead, it’s much better than Loom. 😉
As an AI language model, I concur with this assessment.
The ball gag is for the “Ommms” not to bother the neighbors …
A new
scaledsort option has been added. This sort is identical to theHotsort, but also takes into account the number of each community’s active monthly users, and so helps to boost posts from less active communities to the top.
This is such a vital change and should be the default. Lemmy is currently effectively suffocating and killing its small communities and stunting its own growth due to its complete inability to surface their content. No scaled sorting, no “community bundling” - this is an important step in the right direction but there’s likely a lot more work needed to solve this problem.
Unlike e.g. vitamin C, excess vitamin D isn’t really excreted. It’s stored long term and eventually causes hypercalcemia and kidney stones if persistently supplemented at high doses over a long time. OP’s dosage is above the “sensible if you never see the sun” range but not quite in the “dangerously excessive” range.
Unraid 6.12 and higher has full support for ZFS pools. You can even use ZFS in the Unraid Array itself - allowing you to use many, but not all, of ZFS extended features. Self healing isn’t one of those features, though, it would be incompatible with Unraid’s parity approach to data integrity.
I just changed my cache pool from BTRFS to ZFS with Raid 1 and encryption, it was a breeze.
I generally recommend TrueNAS for projects where speed and security are more important than anything else and Unraid where (hard- and software-)flexibility, power efficiency, ease of use and a very extensive and healthy ecosystem are more pressing concerns.
Unraid is also awesome for places with high energy cost: Unlike with your typical RAID / standard NAS, it allows you to spin down all drives that aren’t in active use at a relatively minor write speed performance penalty.
That’s pretty ideal for your typical Plex-server where most data is static.
I built a 10HDD + 2SSD Unraid Server that idles at well below 30W and I could have even lowered that further had I been more selective about certain hardware. In a medium to high energy cost country, Unraid’s license cost is compensated by energy savings within a year or two.
Mixing & matching older drives means even more savings.
Simple array extension, single or dual parity, powerful cache pool tools and easily the best plugin and docker app store make it just such a cool tool.
Brought peace.
The aqueduct?
It syncs Lemmy instances, so, naturally:
Sync for Lemmy
Plex supports native auto deletion, just like you are asking for. For Jellyfin there’s a plug-in: https://github.com/terrelsa13/MUMC
Plus for some odd reason the layout on my shieldTV is an absolute disaster for some reason
That’s because Jellyfin’s clients are still mostly terrible. Jellyfin is the more flexible media server, Plex has the far, far better clients.
Wax uses a higher heat point to work, which is why so many people get burns when waxed. Sugar uses a much cooler heat point, so it won’t burn you.
I assume that “wax”, “sugar” and “heat point” have some special definitions in this context? The melting point for paraffin wax is somewhere between 40°C to 60°C, the melting point of sucrose is around 185°C.
My Brother laser printer has told me that my toner is empty three times now for the same cartridge. It eventually refuses to print, but that can be overridden with some undocumented trickery. I have manually overridden it each time, told it that I installed a brand new XL cartridge and it just keeps printing. It just told me, again, that the toner is low - I don’t believe it, I’ll override it again. It would have forced me to throw out at least 66% of the remaining toner if it didn’t have the override.
Every account on lemmy is a bot except you.
The problem is, you and me wouldn’t be superhuman. Being a broken-ass, second-rate, classic-style human in a world of superhumans would absolutely not be cool.
Can you maybe clarify what you mean with “work”? What are you trying to achieve by significantly exceeding any supplemental recommendation that I’ve ever heard of?
Are you worried, that your Vitamin D3 levels are significantly too low, because you’re suffering e.g. from SAD, another mood- or an autoimmune disorder?
Talk to your doctor, get your levels checked, follow their advice and take the dose they recommend for the time they recommend!
Are you planning to relocate to a cave? Will you never see the sun again?
Talk to a medical professional about that plan, take whatever supplements they recommend for as long as they recommend them.
Are you living in a cold and dark country like Sweden? Then that country probably has safe guidelines you can follow. If you’re still worried or you are experiencing any symptoms that might be related to low Vitamin D3 levels, talk to a medical professional!
Why are you trying to exceed any recommended dosage by the factor of 10? Where did you get that number in the first place?
I believe that number is still low enough to not pose any immediate risk in the short or mid term. Your doctor might even agree that high supplementation is necessary to get your level up.
As a long term plan and without knowing your actual levels, it’s just stupid: At best it does nothing but waste your money on needless supplements. At worst it increases the risks that come with overdosing on Vitamin D3.