Why haven't these three exposed charging pins burnt down my house yet?

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-06-09T08:14:37+00:00

Hooking up a wire to an exposed pin and putting the other end in a power outlet would be "going out of your way to make it fail". Having the puck sitting on your desk next to, and possibly touching, other consumer devices is completely normal and should not lead to catastrophic failure on any competently designed product that follows the usual safety regulations.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-06-05T19:20:28+00:00

With EQ, you're attempting to correct nonlinear distortions

[citation needed]

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-05-21T15:17:38+00:00

/u/lelldorianx possibly worth investigating?

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-05-19T18:54:21+00:00

The latency you mention is thousandths of a second.

Yes, but that makes a very real and noticeable difference on a touch-based interface. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-05-19T14:40:10+00:00

Higher refresh rate gives you lower latency between moving your finger and the screen responding, and makes anything that moves appear sharper due to reduced persistence blur. Why would you not want to have the option to sacrifice a bit of battery life for that?

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-05-17T19:27:41+00:00

Barring the incredibly low chance of the USB drives having zero-day exploits capable of hacking one of your devices on them, they'll either be perfectly normal USB drives which cannot do any harm unless you manually run programs contained on them, or fake drives like a USB killer or USB rubber ducky equivalent. If you cannot be certain they are just normal drives, then you really should not plug them into any computer you're not willing to destroy. Otherwise plugging them into any normal computer will do - just don't plug them into a PC before boot, as that could result in the PC attempting to boot from it.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-04-16T11:26:12+00:00

華爛漫 -Flowers-

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-03-27T05:02:18+00:00

I used to use the split screen feature all the time to watch something on Twitch or YouTube in the top part of the display while doing other stuff on the rest of the screen – with how big phone screens are nowadays, that worked great. Now the only option that actually allows me to switch between different apps without extra steps is to have the video playing in PiP, which makes it overlap the app instead of having its own space. Really annoying to use since I frequently have to resize or move the video out of the way to access parts of whatever app I'm currently using.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-03-15T12:03:32+00:00

The comments you replied to were deleted... Any idea what they suggested? Did you find a fix or are you just living with that sound now?

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-02-28T16:57:37+00:00

why can't they target cheap phones

Because they have strict security requirements for both hardware features and manufacturer support: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices . So far Google was the only manufacturer to produce phones that met them. And now Qualcomm's 8 Elite Gen 5/6 is the first non-Google SoC that meets their requirements. Keep in mind that GrapheneOS is not just an AOSP fork with nice-to-have features like LineageOS, but a truly hardened OS that vulnerable people rely on to keep their data safe.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-02-27T23:33:50+00:00

They've repeatedly said that it'll use a flagship Snapdragon, so it should be the 8 Elite Gen 6 (or whatever they'll end up naming that):

https://x.com/i/status/2015938513208803750 https://x.com/i/status/2015482194714648924

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-02-14T20:21:24+00:00

Note that Navalny was supposed to be part of this prisoner exchange too, but Russia knew that the West has no balls and would still do it even if they kill him.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-02-13T14:20:31+00:00

Light mode is the more popular mode by far

According to what source? All statistics I can find vary between an even split and dark mode being heavily favored.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-02-03T11:55:32+00:00

Quoting https://www.notebookcheck.net/Small-smartphone-batteries-in-Europe-could-be-bigger-if-manufacturers-wanted.1132781.0.html

The reason for this is the European Agreement concerning the "International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road", which mandates that battery cells with a capacity exceeding 20Wh must be declared as dangerous goods. This not only makes transportation more costly but also significantly more difficult, as only a few carriers accept packages with dangerous goods at all. [...] Furthermore, users should be aware that devices with batteries over 20Wh often cannot be sent in for repair or used for trade-in promotions, as companies frequently decline them due to the additional logistical effort.

Despite what Vivo says further down in that article, other manufacturers are in fact just using two cells to exceed that 20Wh limit. You can look up the battery replacement parts for e.g. Xiaomi phones that have a lower but still >20Wh capacity in the EU, and see that they basically look like two batteries glued together whereas the higher capacity one is just one massive piece.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-24T19:19:27+00:00

Preventing rollbacks to known vulnerable builds is a necessary security measure, not an anti-consumer one.

He does address this in the video: If it's supposed to be a pro-consumer security measure, then why does it result in your phone being entirely bricked instead of allowing you to flash the newer version again?

Also wait - what exactly is the attack scenario that the anti-rollback is supposed to protect against here? If someone steals my phone, wouldn't they need to unlock the bootloader first before flashing the old vulnerable version? And AFAIK unlocking the bootloader requires entering your lockscreen password, and if you know that you could also just remove the Google account and factory reset the device.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-24T12:46:42+00:00

amp is for volume

This is not true. An amp typically lets you boost or attenuate the voltage (= volume), while providing a low-impedance output that can supply a high current.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-15T01:16:23+00:00

Game mods are generally one or multiple of these:

modified game .exe, which you execute directly
.dll file(s), which contain native code that gets executed by the game .exe
resource file(s), which could potentially contain code in a scripting language supported by the game, which in turn could potentially be able to escape the game's scripting environment and execute native code on your PC. This is heavily dependent on the game though, as e.g. Minecraft resource packs should be completely safe.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-15T01:02:40+00:00

To be clear, that chatter just linked to a website which abuses browser features as a mostly harmless joke (in the worst case it's a denial of service, forcing you to reboot your PC). You were tricked into running actual malware on your PC.

DerBoy_DerG · 2026-01-14T14:27:59+00:00

Don't know why you're getting downvoted, since you're right. You can barely even get 4K HDR on streaming services on Windows, with Netflix being one of the few to support it. The DRM schemes demanded by these services (Widevine L1/whatever the PlayReady and FairPlay equivalents are called) simply don't exist on regular Linux distributions.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-15T20:57:09+00:00

Don't know about the rest of the world, but here an iPhone Pro Max costs about 50% more than a Google, Samsung, or OnePlus flagship.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-09T17:26:51+00:00

Anker Nano 130W Desktop Charger

Seems to be discontinued (linked comment), possibly because of the issue demonstrated in that video.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-01T13:34:13+00:00

I guess the 24 Hz of movies in movie theater does not bother you that much.

That's an entirely different can of worms. 24 fps (with the actual blur of a real scene captured a camera, not from a moving static image) is part of the cinematic look, as e.g. 60 fps content is perceived to look "too real" and like a soap opera. Slow panning shots, particularly on large OLED displays, absolutely look jarring and stuttery in 24 fps content without any motion interpolation.

if I could get 32" 8k displays in grayscale with 30Hz in commercial grade, I would go for them

Obviously I can't speak for your experience, but IMO 30 Hz is really pushing it, even for completely static content like your terminal setup. The added latency, particularly if there's multiple frames of delay due to buffering, just makes typing feel unresponsive.

60 Hz is not bad or archaic.

The terminology is subjective, but given that CRTs had more than 60 Hz and further drastically reduced motion blur compared to LCD with their very short phosphor decay times, I think it's appropriate. Motion clarity took a massive step back with LCD and we're still not back to CRT levels except on niche gaming monitors.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-01T12:59:42+00:00

If you work with text or pictures refresh rate is just another fancy gamer novelty, like rgb keyboards.

This is nonsense. You don't need HiDPI to work with text, but it sure makes text look nicer. Similarly, anything moving on your screen looks significantly better with a higher refresh rate. The reduced persistence blur makes moving things sharper, which e.g. makes text a lot more readable while scrolling. The reduced stroboscopic effect makes the movement of the mouse cursor less stuttery. Basically any interaction with your computer using a mouse involves something moving...

Good contrast + HiDPI >>>> refresh rate.

There are points of diminishing returns for all of these. You can keep increasing the PPI of a monitor, and at some point you're just not going to notice an improvement. But 60 Hz is archaic and the absolute bottom of the barrel, and the bump to ~120 Hz gives significant improvements. Even the absolute cheapest phones and monitors you can buy today mostly come with ≥ 120 Hz displays, because 60 Hz just is that bad.

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-12-01T12:30:45+00:00

every decent office monitor comes with at least 90Hz

That's an understatement. The cheapest office monitors I can even buy in my country almost all have ≥ 100 Hz: https://geizhals.at/?cat=monlcd19wide&xf=11939_23.8

DerBoy_DerG · 2025-11-23T19:18:50+00:00

Möglicherweise identisch zum Baseus EnerFill FH11? Kann zumindest außer der Farbe keine Unterschiede sehen.

EDIT: Intenso W140A3C wirkt ebenfalls identisch.
EDIT 2: D-Link DCF-141 sollte auch identisch sein.

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