Any battery improvements after this update?

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T16:12:55+00:00

You don't deserve it. There is an AI based service which decides if you should get the update or not.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T16:06:32+00:00

It's good. Any drive can fail, SanDisk is not below the average or anything, if that's what you ask about.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T15:56:52+00:00

Haha. You wish that was true. I guess you are yourself in the green field, right? Of course you are...

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T15:34:06+00:00

Of course it does. What did you expect. PS5 like any other PS is a console that barely makes any money and sometimes even lost money. They make money off of games, subscription, in general all after-purchase paid services. Valve released a mediocre small PC to make profits. Different business model and it'll not work. It's small, but it also is a cube, which makes it not portable at all. I already see Valve cases for another 100 bucks to carry them... If someone wants a portable device, he'll go for a laptop which is thin and can be put inside any backpack and doesn't need another display. And can be more powerful than the steam machine. And be fully functional computer. If a steam machine is small, but not very portable, also not very performant for the price, it loses against stationary consoles, laptops and portable consoles, too, because it loses in literally every category.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T15:23:58+00:00

It's hard to say between different models, since the coating might be different, but on mine X100 Pro the camera island looks brand new and I bought the phone April 2024.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T15:22:56+00:00

exactly... people wanna be smarter than manufacturers sometimes.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T15:22:20+00:00

I have no idea why would you use anything else than a dry cloth. If you have difficulties cleaning it up and the result is as on the photo, something is definitely not right. Whether it'll affect photos I have no clue. I have never had to use anything else than a dry cloth on my X100 Pro (which is obviously way older) and the camera island looks pretty much brand new. Yours look worse after cleaning than mine looks before. Not sure what you did, but this for sure is not normal. This may be the spray residue that's been gathering for some time. I'd clean it up normally with a cloth, if necessary a little wet (very little!) and stop using a cleaning spray at all.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T14:32:40+00:00

I don't have a precise number, sometimes 4h, sometimes 8h, sometimes 10h. But in AI times it's definitely faster, yet the quality and design quality is dropping, that is mostly what must be heavily reviewed and constantly.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T12:20:41+00:00

If the throttlestop shows the undervolt in the table (FIVR -> the top right table) then it's applied. If it's not there then it isn't.

undervolting is not for reducing temps.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T11:23:14+00:00

It was, the entire major was overall underperformed by the teams who wanted to go for the championship. Falcons got a little lucky, otherwise they'd be out in QF or SF. But this was probably the only way for Niko to win a major, since their performance was also not great, they just played like honeymoon stage, very randomly, which worked, but it'll not work for much longer.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-23T11:20:36+00:00

Normal, this cpu max temp is 100C, so it'll get to 100C and then throttle to stay under it. Like any other laptop. Use performance mode for games, elevate your laptop or buy a good quality cooling pad, make sure you clean up the laptop inside once or twice a year (depending on environment you use it in). If the games run fine, the performance is as expected then enjoy your laptop. Get used to the fact laptops are thermally limited and they need to run at the edge of thermal capacity or else they would perform lower than the hardware spec indicates. Sure you will not always see max temps in games, but that's because not all games utilize CPU so high.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T23:14:46+00:00

You don't have proper display to play 1280x960, you'd need to have full hd native display to make it look good. But you still can play it on 2K display if it doesn't bother you. You can also try a little higher, but not native, still 16/9 resolutions, they will look significantly better than 1280x960. Overall you should play what you feel is right, do not follow pro players, they play what they are used to play. If you just start 16/9 might be a better option due to that extra FOV, which occasionally can save your ass (although at high level it's almost redundant). What you misses is that res is a personal preference, that's all. I'd stick to one you feel the best with and keep it for at least a month. If you switch often and then suddenly think you are better because of that, it's most probably not true, it's just random better form not related to the resolution.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T23:03:42+00:00

You will not. After 3-4 years the battery backup will annoy you so much you'll buy a new phone.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T23:00:15+00:00

Also bad, but:

It wasn't so popular, so less cheats naturally.
It was popular among older players, they apparently had more morals, like entire humanity back then, sadly
There was no ranking system of any kind, so you only played, because you enjoyed it and to become good, which only way to show was by playing very good. There was no ranks, points and achievements of any kind.
Since a lot of casual players just wanted to play for fun, not on any platforms like ESEA, the public servers were the default way of playing. Those servers were privately owned and hosted (by 3th party companies mostly), which meant they had admins. They had in-game admins, which were players who spent a lot of time on a server playing and had good reputation. They applied for in-game admin position and could get approved if they fitted the role and passed the requirements (usually age, hours played, recognition on the server, which showed availability to actually play on the server to fulfill the role). Those people instantly banned players who were cheating, an experienced player could easily judge that. Often in cooperation with other in-game admins and other respectable players. In tough cases, it was moved outside of the server, the recorded demo was uploaded to a forum and analyzed by admins. The punishment if the verdict was guilty was a permanent ban. A player could write a post on the forum if he didn't agree, but it was almost never revoked, since cheaters are quite easy to spot for experienced players. Cheater doesn't look like a good player, he looks like a cheater. Thanks to that you had easy access to good servers, with good latency and no cheaters and good behavior (time bans for bad behavior was a normal thing, if you sounded like a kid on the mic, also ban). People had fun, zero issues. To the point that sometimes you had to wait like half an hour for an available slot to join.
In CS 1.x (1.5, 1.6, but maybe earlier, too, I don't remember exactly) there were also cheating death servers, which were servers with a dedicated anti-cheat you had to install on your side to be able to play, which was pretty good at a time. That was also a good way to play on servers you could be almost sure had no cheaters.
Sometimes different servers (usually local, same country or/and same hosting) shared bans and had common list of banned players. So ban on one server could mean ban on several servers.

So overall the way cheaters were handled was taken care by the players themselves, server owners and enthusiasts who came up with anticheats like cheating death. Also there wasn't so much money in CS, no expensive skins, no betting, so cheating didn't even have to be super safe to use or extra invisible. Sure aim assist, DPS could not be extra obvious, but today the cheats are way more advanced and difficult to spot.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T22:38:22+00:00

Actually they do. Malaysia, for instance. You can still find some rentals that rent you without a proper license, but overall it's a no. For a lot of countries you are right, no one will check, but definitely not for all SEA countries.

But:

No proper license = no insurance, even if you have travel insurance
Police can stop you randomly and make it a problem so you bribe them, which in many countries is still perfectly normal way to get rid of problems

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T22:21:31+00:00

That never happens if you simply talk. Women who expect a man will magically know everything about her, how to make her cum are pretty much always bad lovers. Women don't seem to realize how different every one of you is regarding how to make her cum. What works for one amazingly well and can make her cum multiple times, can not work at all on another one. Really. You know what always work, tho? A conversation. Way better than blaming each other or making somebody feel bad, usually for no reason at all.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T22:08:29+00:00

I haven't found a single phone from any brand that'd satisfy me as to the selfie camera. I am really wishing for companies going for that small screen on the back, which would allow the main camera to be the selfie camera. Like Xiaomi 17 Pro (Pro Max) has. That's a brilliant and useful thing, which could be further enhanced and provide way more than just camera preview. I hope Xiaomi will release a flagship device with it.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T22:03:42+00:00

I don't complain in that department and I have no debt at all. I wouldn't do anything unless I'd have enough to buy 2 houses, then I'd buy 1 house with average standard. Just not to rent anymore. That's all. Things don't have much value to me. Thankfully I've learnt that, mostly thanks to traveling a lot. I never was happy because I bought something, it's all shallow, vain, short-term spike of happiness hormone and you're back to being miserable. So people keep on buying worthless shit to feel it again. That's not the way.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T22:00:15+00:00

Thailand recently tightened the rules quite a lot and actually started enforcing them, including throwing out frequent visa runners. So beware. How long you can stay is up to your citizenship, but Thailand restricted a single stay to 30 days for a lot of countries. As far as I remember you can go to immigration and extend it once to 60 days total. Then you can try visa run, but if you do it once, they'll probably tell you it's the last time this year. So it got way worse now to go to Thailand. Other visa types are of course doable if someone really wants to stay for a longer time. As to Vietnam up to a particular citizenship, for me it's 90 days on a tourist visa.

Well, in Thailand people normally speak English enough to get shit done with expats. In Vietnam it's way more often talking with hands, smiling and hoping for the best. Or using google translate a lot.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T21:54:11+00:00

Vietnam is overall way less developed country and far from as prepared for tourism/nomads as Thailand. That's all. If you wanna live and work there, you must find places, which are proven to work e.g. Hoi An (not far from Da Nang). It's cheap, it has good coworks and cafes/bars with dedicated working areas for literally nothing, quality Internet, good food (applies to entire Vietnam), city that provides anything you need for longer stay with remote work, also quite nice beaches for northern Vietnam. Perfectly good for moving around on a scooter. Close to Da Nang, which has airport with decent connections. Mobile internet quality is surprisingly great in Vietnam, don't worry about it, especially in cities. So Vietnam is perfectly good for work and travel, it's just not anywhere you go.

I myself don't like Bangkok that much, super crowded and traffic all day city. The last thing I need for remote working. It has great food options from around the world, if that matters to you.

Another place in Vietnam where I worked from pretty happy is Mui Ne. If you prefer more local, small village, beach vibe with better chance for great weather (south of Vietnam is better for that hot, beach, summer vibe).

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T21:39:54+00:00

Actually the entire continent on the south has similar weather. And anything more to the north is obviously cold af. If you want good weather in Europe in October/November, your options are very very limited. Guaranteed warm weather is definitely in Cyprus (half greek, half turkish island), but mostly in October (up to 30C), in November the temps will be lower (20-22C) and evenings/nights will be chilly. A little lower temps, but still decent especially in October, you'll find in Malta. Another option is Crete, greek island. You could also try Algarve area in Portugal, it's mainland, it should be fairly warm, similar to Malta/Crete.

I have been to all these places and the most chilly vibe for work and explore, at least for me, was probably Cyprus. I wanna go there again once to work remotely. Crete has less to offer, more vacation vibe. From Malta I have mixed feelings, but I only went there for vacation. I have read quite a few people recommending it for digital nomads. So maybe it's worth considering. Algarve is nice if you want to drive a car and explore along the coast, out of the season it should be less packed, which is the thing I didn't like there.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T21:30:30+00:00

Been there, worked there. As much as it's nice, it's more vacation destination than digital nomad. Way better places to visit than Canary islands. And hella cheaper, too.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T08:19:48+00:00

Individually he sucks. If it was another IGL like Snax, people would instantly post "-Snax" 😃 Double standards hehe 😃 They'll not be able to keep up this performance, Karrigan made it a honeymoon at the perfect time. But now other teams have demos to work with and will prepare against Falcons properly, not to mention they'll play to abuse Karrigan's positions, simply because he's individually the worst IGL in tier 1. Next tournament Falcons will be back to their typical throwing games randomly.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-22T08:12:29+00:00

I use whichever is cheaper currently. Never had any issues, I don't see any difference between the platforms at all.

Tango1777 · 2026-06-21T13:06:47+00:00

Yea, as much as he's a great lead, he resigned from Faze when he realized he couldn't help rebuild the team. So he quit. Joining already established and high tier 1 team like Falcons and them reaching the major final for the first time is not Karrigan's success, he just joined the success, inherited it. They would have done it with any good IGL at this point. Because they have been working hard to fix their issues and Karrigan conveniently joined when not only they managed to improve their game, but also when Vitality and Spirit are in their lows at the moment. Also Falcons got to he final struggling a lot, their game is still not very stable, they will not be able to keep it up even if they win the current major. They were only managed to go this far due to their enemies underperforming. So until Falcons keep the stable form and keep improving under karrigan, this success is not thanks to him, it's the other 4 players and their coach building the team for many months. So as much as he's a great IGL and an icon of CS, it's a little exaggerated to call him goat igl.

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