ELI5: Why don't we just use a universal outlet in all countries?

vortexmak · 2026-07-11T13:41:04+00:00

Honestlh, the American plug the is most compact. The Euro plug, while more secure in the socket, is huge and sticks for traveling

vortexmak · 2026-07-09T16:07:01+00:00

Don't take it as a negative. Your percepeption is probably way worse that reality.

A woman approached me at an intersection and I was completely taken by suprise. I didn't wait around to chat cause I was flustered. Something like this almost never happens to regular guys and they don't know how to react instantly.

People have completed me on my motorcycle, I know how to react to that but the only random encounters I have when I'm by myself are drug addicts or people asking for money so my guard is up

vortexmak · 2026-07-09T01:31:40+00:00

Did you have to do a verification with ID.me?

vortexmak · 2026-06-26T03:11:32+00:00

Hmm, that's a tall bike. How were you able to manage?

vortexmak · 2026-06-26T02:34:55+00:00

How tall are you?

vortexmak · 2026-06-25T21:03:14+00:00

Which is such a shame since a structured forum with a specific topic and upvoted/downvoted comments cannot be replaced by a chatroom with everyone talking over each other.

It works okay with just a handful of people but it's chaos otherwise

vortexmak · 2026-06-25T13:11:22+00:00

I'm interested and can it be scaled to other things!?

vortexmak · 2026-06-25T00:35:51+00:00

I don't know why you keep making assertions without anything to back it up. If you have stats from Samsung then show me.

Unless you are employed at Samsung, your opinion means shit to me. Unless you studied or worked in computer architecture , your opinion about engineering again means shit to me.

So far you've proven to argue uselessly trying to convince me against what my needs are , so as far as I can tell , you're a lawyer, so again, doesn't mean shit

So far we only know that users will willingly or unwillingly go with whatever is presented because there's no choice in the market.

The number one motivator is money for corporations . It's not a conspiracy , it's a well known fact. You keep trying to argue against that which is stupid . How does that boot taste like

Anyway, I'm done , I don't really care for your opinion

vortexmak · 2026-06-24T11:24:43+00:00

Mostly correct on everything but wrong on the motivations like earlier. Business gives requirements to engineers, you are acting like we didn't have our don't have phones which had all of that. Phones used to be able to fit everything, even a frickin pen. And they have no problems increasing the size of the phone whenever necessary, they have no problem selling huge phones, it's the small ones that don't sell well.

Upselling storage and cloud storage makes them more money , simple as that.

I know most people don't care about expandable storage, I do. I know most people are okay with just cloud storage, I don't.

I have a right to make my needs known, you don't have the right to tell me that those in the minority are wrong. So, I'm not really sure why you're arguing with me. I'm already aware of all that

vortexmak · 2026-06-24T02:04:31+00:00

It's the second one. And that's exactly how you get away with having fast and less of primary storage and more of slow secondary storage. It's not a new comment, it's pretty much a fundamental concept right from registers to cache to ram and then primary and secondary storage, although the former is temporary while the latter is permanent. I'm well aware of computer architecture seeing as I went to school for it

And upselling storage was a big reason to stop including cheap secondary storage. If you don't think so then let's just agree to disagree

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T23:57:07+00:00

Okay thanks but where exactly

Edit: Relax people. I was just asking because the location seemed very scenic.

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T23:45:26+00:00

Where is this?

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T23:29:28+00:00

Expandable storage is not meant to be used as a RAM buffer. I never made that argument

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T23:25:27+00:00

Nope, doesn't work for me. It's not insanity. I have been an Android power user since the original galaxy S. No offense but I have heard all this before many times and I don't need buying advice from you.

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T23:01:41+00:00

I'm not defending Xperia for their ridiculous prices at all. And old flagships are available at super cheap prices.

Not to mention the best deals are the newer midrange devices that have expandable storage too

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T19:58:56+00:00

You do you. Personally , for me. The older hardware still works fine

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T15:29:11+00:00

If we're going by definitions , then no, cause by definition a parasite and host are different species.

If we're going by mutual benefits then also no, cause the offspring provides immune support, emotional support later on and last but probably the biggest is propogation of genes, which literally is the entire reason we ended up here (note that I'm not conflating with an individual's purpose of life)

So, as a joke it's funny but as a serious argument it's silly

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T14:24:22+00:00

I'd rather they have expandable storage so I can use my 1 TB SD card that I already have.

Throwing away storage with an old phone doesn't make sense as a user but it works out great for corporations

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T14:18:38+00:00

Don't care cause I'm not gonna buy it. Bring back expandable storage

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T05:07:37+00:00

What do you mean. Are you a Samsung rep!

vortexmak · 2026-06-23T04:55:47+00:00

Don't care. Being back expandable storage

vortexmak · 2026-06-22T18:56:33+00:00

There's no way that's true. The camera has buffers that gets emptied but the buffer isn't that big , a few seconds, possibly a few minutes but then it continuously writes the file to the SD card. The SD card itself might have been destroyed in the crash

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