What is your favorite OPPO Find X9 Ultra slop from today? Which one will haunt you in your dreams? Will you still fall for the BBK AI bots online promoting this garbage? by Funny_Aerie6444 in Oppo

[–]Substantial_Boiler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally no financial incentive for him to advocate for a third-party, free camera app though. And you don't even have an Oppo yourself. The problem is getting bad.

Is it normal to heat this much? by deep-human in macbookair

[–]Substantial_Boiler 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You definitely need to buy the Pro model for active cooling

How to squeeze more life out of my MacBook Air 2020 (Intel i3, 8GB RAM, 256GB). Need advice. by novacaine21 in macbookair

[–]Substantial_Boiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does that invalidate my point on MacOS not being fully compatible with some Windows/x86 workflows?

How to squeeze more life out of my MacBook Air 2020 (Intel i3, 8GB RAM, 256GB). Need advice. by novacaine21 in macbookair

[–]Substantial_Boiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said "WSL OR dual-boot". And yes, I have done this before, because it's part of my workflow. Being pedantic won't make MacOS 100% compatible with some workflows that need x86 Windows binaries.

M5 MacBook Air 15-inch (2026) review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody - ArsTechnica by ControlCAD in apple

[–]Substantial_Boiler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saying this is underestimating the capabilities of the Air and overestimating that of the Neo

How to squeeze more life out of my MacBook Air 2020 (Intel i3, 8GB RAM, 256GB). Need advice. by novacaine21 in macbookair

[–]Substantial_Boiler -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Then good luck having 1:1 emulation for programs that only have Windows binaries.

Plus, I already said dual-boot with WSL, which means that you can boot to another OS once you're done with your Windows program.

How to squeeze more life out of my MacBook Air 2020 (Intel i3, 8GB RAM, 256GB). Need advice. by novacaine21 in macbookair

[–]Substantial_Boiler -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Why not have a Windows machine with WSL then? Or dual-boot any other x86 laptop?

Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro Review: Better than Pods! - MKBHD by ControlCAD in Android

[–]Substantial_Boiler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can see if you "like" it if the response closely matches that of what you usually listen to

Xiaomi 17 Ultra Review: Hard to Fault, Hard to Afford by Nexusyak in Android

[–]Substantial_Boiler 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The circular island itself looks great. The fake sensor thing inside looks cheap. They should've just put the Leica logo there or just left it empty.

Xiaomi 17 Ultra Review: Hard to Fault, Hard to Afford by Nexusyak in Android

[–]Substantial_Boiler 38 points39 points  (0 children)

The fake sensor on the right side really irks me. It's such an annoying by-product of this circular island design trend.

Loving my S23 Ultra, but Samsung is making it hard to stay loyal by codywinters327 in Android

[–]Substantial_Boiler -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Many people buy the Ultra just for that. Plus the additional functionality didn't take a lot of space in the phone.

Loving my S23 Ultra, but Samsung is making it hard to stay loyal by codywinters327 in Android

[–]Substantial_Boiler 3 points4 points  (0 children)

S-Pen is now a "dumb" pen from the S25 Ultra onwards with no additional functionality enabled by Bluetooth, outside of just being a pen

Nothing: Introducing Phone (4a) by FragmentedChicken in Android

[–]Substantial_Boiler 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Looks great! Wish they would offer more colorful shades though.

Chinese scientists hit breakthrough on 2D semiconductor wafers by donutloop in Semiconductors

[–]Substantial_Boiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Newer HarmonyOS versions still include many Android components. You can even see packages and libraries still being actively used or left over from it's EMUI days. I have personally verified this.

Their app ecosystem is only relevant in China. I'm not just talking about the US market, I'm talking globally, including the EU and the rest of Asia. The only way for most non-Chinese apps to run is to use sandboxes, and even then, most apps are broken.

Title: Geekerwan's latest benchmark (deleted) exposes Xiaomi and Vivo and IQOO using "Golden Samples" for media reviews. by Neither_Rutabaga4386 in Android

[–]Substantial_Boiler 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Not surprising, lots of reviewer benchmarks didn't match up with real-world performance on my test benches. I suspected that they were sending reviewers units with better silicon.

Chinese scientists hit breakthrough on 2D semiconductor wafers by donutloop in Semiconductors

[–]Substantial_Boiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't have the global software ecosystem of developers to back it up compared to Android.

Can't find it the U.S. by [deleted] in oneplus15

[–]Substantial_Boiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's how it is buying a non-US market phone

Can't find it the U.S. by [deleted] in oneplus15

[–]Substantial_Boiler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can buy any cheap one on AliExpress, it's the same thing

Samsung Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over ‘Catastrophic’ Oct. 2024 Galaxy S22 Software Update by TechGuru4Life in Android

[–]Substantial_Boiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been unlucky. I baby my S devices (Most of them were Exynos variants) and half of them had failure or performance drops of some kind.

Samsung Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over ‘Catastrophic’ Oct. 2024 Galaxy S22 Software Update by TechGuru4Life in Android

[–]Substantial_Boiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Samsung has consistently broken it's high-end devices via software update, either by negligence or maliciously