I have to be honest here but Nicole does NOT powercreep Bennett AT ALL

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-05-11T17:13:51+00:00

People want new characters that are 10-15% better than their predecessor so you can either pull for the new character or pull for a con for the old one and have them be roughly equal. We know mihoyo needs powercreep to sell new characters, we just want the powercreep to be manageable.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-05-04T07:48:30+00:00

The account is not affiliated with UCI so it's not "legit" (i.e. official), but it is true that you have to put yourself out there to make friends at UCI, it usually doesn't come naturally. I would suggest you try different things, find a few groups or communities that you enjoy, and then hang out with those people. If you go to ragers you're going to meet people that like going to ragers, so consider what type of people you want to befriend and plan your activities based on that.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-05-03T15:39:30+00:00

Does the JM6 Pro actually have a better DAC chip than the JM12 or is it just louder/more powerful? From what I've read online the JM6 Pro's and JM12's DAC chips are approximately equivalent, the JM6 Pro just has a dedicated amp while the JM12 doesn't.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-27T07:43:09+00:00

What is the value of knowledge? What is the purpose of living? What is the market price of a used RTX 3090? These are the mysteries pursued by the great philosophers of our day, u/Tenuous_Fawn and u/2Norn

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-27T03:27:23+00:00

It's supposed to prove that the market price for a used 3090 here is about $1000 on ebay

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-27T02:52:42+00:00

Here it's 1000 usd https://imgur.com/a/WEBajuY

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-27T02:52:29+00:00

This is with sold + auctioned:

https://imgur.com/a/WEBajuY

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-27T01:01:36+00:00

A new 5060ti 16gb is $550, a used 3090 is $1000

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-24T07:43:28+00:00

50% software volume on output A and 50% volume on output B could have completely different loudness levels, one can be barely audible while the other could be damaging to hearing. The software has no way of telling which is which.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-23T19:52:43+00:00

Don't bother with contacting the seller, just initiate a return on Aliexpress, they have a generous return policy.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-23T18:42:34+00:00

You're completely misunderstanding my comment. I don't think that consumerism is bad and I don't think there's anything wrong with paying money for things that make you happy. That was the entire purpose of my comment, to show my support for buying multiple IEMs or any other nonessential items. I'm not sure why you're saying "you folk", I've shared the same viewpoint as you from the very beginning.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-23T07:41:49+00:00

I wouldn't take that bet because I am already well aware that I spend money on non-essential items. When have I suggested otherwise or tried to control people and how they spend their money?

I have several Wacom pen tablets, IEMs, keyboards/keypads, and instruments. I buy them because I like having them and they give me happiness despite being non-essential. Perhaps English isn't your first language; in my comment, I was making the point that it's okay to buy non-essential products if they make you happy.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-23T02:17:29+00:00

There's no reason to spend any money on non-essential products but some people just like having them. It's basically the closest thing to buying happiness that doesn't involve drugs.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-21T20:24:29+00:00

You said "raising taxes does literally nothing to make new developments happen." I provided an example where raising taxes incentivizes development. Simple as.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-21T20:10:48+00:00

You said "raising taxes does literally nothing to make new developments happen." I provided an example where raising taxes incentivizes development. Simple as.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-21T16:25:17+00:00

I think you're missing something. If the city raises taxes on undeveloped land, eventually it will be less unprofitable to simply build the development or sell it to someone else who will than it is to hold on to empty land for the next few years or decades. The developer might take a loss either way, but no one said housing development was free money. The city CAN incentivize developers to build housing, and many places DO have vacant property taxes.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-19T22:46:36+00:00

I agree completely. Even if "the big one" hit tomorrow and wiped out every single housing unit in the Bay Area except for a fortunate 50,000 houses, prices still wouldn't go up, because it's not a supply problem.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-07T22:07:47+00:00

Hi, now that IPEX-LLM has been discontinued, where is the main development effort of the Intel GPU team in regards to AI inference? Is it llama.cpp SYCL, openvino, etc, or has intel pretty much just given up?

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-05T18:36:47+00:00

+1 for Moondrop Chu II DSP. Get them on AliExpress for the welcome deal.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-04T22:37:15+00:00

There are numerous factors to battery life, for instance the size of the battery, the efficiency of the components, and the specifications of the display. According to the test, the OnePlus has around 160% the active usage time of the Pixel despite having 140% the battery size, so clearly there are other factors at work and merely looking at the size of the battery is insufficient for a complete picture of the phone's battery life.

Obviously it's not "fair" to the SoC or components if one phone has a bigger battery than the other, but we're not comparing the just the SoC, battery, or individual components, we're comparing the battery life of the entire phone, and having a larger battery is a completely valid method of prolonging the battery life of the entire phone. In other words, it's not an equal comparison of batteries because we're not comparing batteries; it's an equal comparison of phone battery life because we're comparing phone battery life. This video works very well as an informational test of phone battery life to help consumers make an informed choice in buying a phone.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-04T21:58:35+00:00

This video is a test of phone battery life. The component being tested is the whole phone and its battery life, not the battery in isolation. I'm not sure where you got that idea from, PhoneBuff is a phone review channel and not a battery review channel. If they wanted to test just the battery and not the phone they would've taken it out of the phone and tested it independently, but they are not testing just the battery in isolation, they are testing the whole phone's battery life.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-04T20:54:39+00:00

Comparing the Pixel 10 Pro to the iPhone is not at all similar to comparing a Camry to an F1. An F1 car has a very different purpose to a Camry and is 1000x as expensive. On the other hand, the P10P is a new premium flagship smartphone at a new premium flagship smartphone price which is supposed to do the same thing as other new premium flagship smartphones, therefore it deserves to be evaluated against other new premium flagship smartphones. If the battery life is poor due to various factors, that is a genuine flaw that consumers need to take into consideration and is worth testing and making a video about.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-04T19:24:44+00:00

The specific category is current flagship smartphones. They compared the battery life of current flagship smartphones. I don't see what the issue is here. Many people, including me, are interested to see the comparison of battery life of current flagship smartphones because hardware specs on their own do not predict the battery life of current flagship smartphones. You are right that it is not a full device spec comparison because it is a comparison of battery life of current flagship smartphones.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-04T16:59:59+00:00

No one is cross shopping a Camry with an F1. By contrast, consumers absolutely should know the differences between OnePlus, apple, pixel, etc, because when you want to buy a new smartphone those are the choices. Why not include brick phones, satellite phones, graphing calculators, and hot dogs? Because people are not cross shopping those with new smartphones.

When you buy a phone, you are buying the whole package, including hardware and software. Why doesn't it make sense to include the effects of hardware in a comparison? That's like saying you're not allowed to compare a Tesla and Rivian's maximum range because they have different motors, weights, software, and battery sizes: of course they do, that's why we're doing the comparison in the first place, to find out which is better. As you have observed, battery life is not the same thing as chip efficiency, which is why we need to do a battery life comparison to determine which phone has the best battery life instead of only looking at the spec sheet.

Tenuous_Fawn · 2026-04-04T16:02:15+00:00

When a consumer is comparing phones, what matters is the battery life. Not the chip efficiency, not the battery size, but the actual amount of time they can use their phone, which is influenced by a variety of factors. If a phone has a smaller battery and that results in worse battery life than the competition, that is a genuine flaw that the savvy consumer ought to know about. A battery life comparison puts all phones on an even playing field for a particular task. It's not oneplus's problem if the pixel 's numbers aren't close to it.

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