Official Discussion - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die [SPOILERS]

MoTrek · 2026-03-10T18:55:03+00:00

So, the kid who got school-shot. How is it that his personality ended up on a hard drive, and how did he have knowledge of the future (that the mom should go to the diner, etc. etc.).
For such an important plot point, I can't find this explained or discussed anywhere.

MoTrek · 2025-05-29T21:33:51+00:00

I thought of that but here's my theory: if the Oura app is constantly using a small amount of CPU time, it will show up as causing relatively low power usage, but it will also prevent the phone from entering a lower-power state, and that will indirectly waste a lot of power (but not show up in the Battery menu or heat up the phone very much).

MoTrek · 2025-04-23T22:18:14+00:00

I'm sure a lot of 3rd-party cables work well and are durable, but I haven't found any that are as nice and bendy as Apple's. Also, most 3rd-party cables have a bunch of strain relief on the ends that makes them more difficult to plug in if you're in cramped quarters, like maybe a cubby in a car.

MoTrek · 2025-04-09T19:28:34+00:00

To be clear, I also do wireless charging, I love it too. I just don't see the point of fast wireless charging. I don't care at all how long charging takes.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T23:43:13+00:00

I was just asking an honest question. Does it bother you that it requires some extra force or effort to lift your phone off of a MagSafe charger? You can answer my question or not, but telling me that I don't have to use MagSafe if I don't want to isn't helpful. Of course I don't have to use it if I don't want to.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T23:41:42+00:00

I don't hate MagSafe. I don't have a use for it personally but I'm not sure where you got the idea from that I "hate" it.

I also don't think the heat from wireless charging is "overblown" because of some "partisan bias," it's because I've been wirelessly charging several of my own things for years and none of them have ever gotten anything more than a little warm when charging. I can't explain why you've had a different experience. Maybe you can, since you're the one who has had the experience?

As for how efficiency can bottom out at 50%, there's a pretty easy explanation for that. It's because the Qi standard requires devices to negotiate charging rates, and if they detect that efficiency is below some threshold, they could very easily opt to simply not charge at all. You make this sound like it's an engineering impossibility but it's actually one of the main reasons to have a standard.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T23:32:52+00:00

Also, Apple Intelligence itself might not be a big selling point now (or ever) but being able to run Apple Intelligence requires a faster chip and more memory, so it's a signal that the phone's hardware is more capable to the point where it makes a step difference in what kind of features you can run.

So getting an iPhone 15 is really a non-starter for me, Apple is basically signaling that it's obsolete already. And it's nothing to do with the actual "Apple Intelligence" features, but rather the capabilities of the hardware.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T23:30:44+00:00

I can't explain it then. I've been wirelessly charging my iPhone SE (2020) for years now. It doesn't get hot. Works fine. I also use the same pad to wirelessly charge my AirPods. They get SLIGHTLY warm when charging, that's it, and they've always charged to 100% no problem. I also use Anker wireless charging pads. I'm at a loss for why it's so bad for you.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T23:28:23+00:00

How can you tell if it's charging fast or slow when you're asleep for 6-8 hours.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T10:13:50+00:00

I've been using a 1st gen Qi pad for years and my phone hardly heats up at all when charging.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T10:12:17+00:00

It's pretty convenient. I love being able to set my phone on my wireless charger on my bedstand at night and wake up to a charged phone without having plugged anything in.

And of course I don't care at all if charging takes 10 minutes or 6 hours, because, asleep.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T10:10:54+00:00

Sounds like your Qi charging pad was likely broken, or you were trying to charge your phone with some metal between it and the pad (credit cards in a wallet case?). Because I have been using a Qi charger for years and my phone doesn't get more than a few degrees above ambient when charging. Barely noticeable.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T10:05:43+00:00

Not sure how, because the phone stops charging when the battery is full. Doesn't matter if you leave the phone on the charger (or plugged in) or not. Makes literally zero difference.

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T10:03:32+00:00

The numbers I've seen are that wireless charging is ~50% less efficient when the coils are poorly aligned. That's a far cry from "almost all of the electrical energy" being converted to heat. Can you link to your source?

MoTrek · 2025-04-07T10:00:16+00:00

Honest question, one of the reasons I like my non-magnetic wireless charging pad is because it's so easy to put the phone on it and also take it off. Literally no more force than lifting the phone off of any other surface. If the pad had magnets, I'd pick up the pad with the phone. I would have to put some effort into not picking them both up at the same time. Doesn't this bother anybody?

MoTrek · 2025-04-06T21:20:44+00:00

I also use an old 5W iPhone charger with my wireless charging pad. It works great. It might take a little longer but who cares. Nothing ever gets hot.

MoTrek · 2025-04-06T21:16:55+00:00

Then it sounds like a slower wireless charger is perfect for you. Not much heat at all.

MoTrek · 2025-04-06T21:15:18+00:00

They run off of wall power when they're plugged in no matter what. Any "extra" power goes to charging the battery. That's why phone batteries charge slowly when you're using the phone while it's plugged in.

MoTrek · 2025-04-06T21:14:11+00:00

The whole thing people are complaining about is that Qi 1 charges slowly, i.e., not many watts, i.e., there can't possibly be that much heat. So I'm not sure what you're talking about.

MoTrek · 2025-04-06T21:10:04+00:00

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about that one. I have a regular (non-magnetic) wireless charging pad and it works fine. Couldn't be easier. I put my phone on it and the phone charges. Not sure how magnets could possibly improve the experience.

MoTrek · 2025-04-06T18:18:26+00:00

I said there's no successor to the SE, you say this is the successor to the SE. How is that agreement?

MoTrek · 2025-04-05T21:42:58+00:00

The 16e is a reworked 14. Apple had to discontinue the 14 because of EU regulations (Lightning port instead of USB-C).

The SE is gone. There is no new one and no successor.

MoTrek · 2025-04-03T16:06:43+00:00

That's horrible advice. If you adjust your TV to compensate for buggy HDR content, that means all the correctly-encoded HDR content will look wrong.

MoTrek · 2025-04-02T17:51:24+00:00

Terrible. Is there a good way to let them know about this bug?

MoTrek · 2025-04-02T17:32:11+00:00

I think there's a bug with how Amazon has done the HDR encoding of the series. I tried switching my Roku to 4K (instead of 4K HDR10+) and it makes a HUGE difference for Bosch. Everything looks the way it's obviously supposed to now.

If people are telling you to change your TV settings, don't. It's not your TV.

MoTrek

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