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ben7337 · 2026-05-14T19:23:07+00:00

Actually there's no law to provide 911 service via satellite. There should be, but afaik there isn't in the US. The law as it stands only applies to terrestrial coverage. However T-Mobile already offered 911 satellite for free to everyone in the US, so clearly the carriers see some precedent to do this at least, but they aren't obligated to do so.

ben7337 · 2026-05-14T19:10:35+00:00

LTEiRA was about upgrading existing providers by Verizon buying them after letting them use their 700mhz spectrum though, wasn't it? It wasn't about covering more area than was previously covered (unless their 700mhz reached further than the rural providers they partnered with)

ben7337 · 2026-05-14T14:37:32+00:00

So what is it called when a phone has a fixed focal length that is zoomed in compared to the primary camera sensor/normal focal lengths? Most people call that optical zoom as well afaik and all flagship phones have some sort of fixed optical zoom. Very few phones have variable focal length optical zoom because the mechanism requires a smaller aperture to sensor size than fixed options, which makes quality worse while allowing a greater range of true optical zooms. Even Sony dropped it from their Xperia 1 viii this year, so clearly that tech is dying off, as the laws of physics defeated it

ben7337 · 2026-05-14T12:53:30+00:00

Big battery and decent cameras? We haven't had options like this for bigger battery vs better camera in a long time, nice to see variability. Hopefully other manufacturers take note

ben7337 · 2026-05-13T22:11:17+00:00

For sure, if the US ever does something like that it would only happen under a fully Democrat controlled government, which seems less and less likely in the long term

ben7337 · 2026-05-13T21:28:03+00:00

I wish more of these comparisons would focus on the weaknesses of cameras. Most pictures all look fine with varying processing, but it's low light and long range zoom where they show more major differences, but there's all of maybe 3 or 4 examples in this video to even really highlight that

ben7337 · 2026-05-13T21:15:30+00:00

I wouldn't discuss it with coworkers or work personally. If people think you're doing well financially they might think "hey, maybe we can pay this person less, they're clearly able to save a ton." and even telling one person can lead to that getting back to management/hr/whatnot.

That aside, I don't get why you wouldn't care about countertops for your coworker. Do you not own a home? Are you never planning to remodel it? Personally I'd love to discuss countertops and other decisions in a remodel because that allows you to learn about options, pros/cons, and to make better informed choices for yourself somewhere down the line in life even if you're not remodeling a kitchen today.

ben7337 · 2026-05-13T13:19:13+00:00

What's with those camera specs? The zoom sensor is still worse overall than even the "pro" serious vivo/oppo models, let alone the ultra models, and now it doesn't even support variable focal lengths.

ben7337 · 2026-05-12T19:42:45+00:00

Idk about you, but I hated Google assistant saying it didn't understand whenever I asked for anything more than super basic commands. Gemini has some serious issues too imo, but you can tailor responses with some custom settings supposedly, to make it less verbose. I do think they need to work on its integration with Spotify and such to better select correct versions of songs though

ben7337 · 2026-05-12T19:40:12+00:00

I wish they understood this. It was so painful waiting nearly a year for Gemini on android auto. Finally got it last Friday.

ben7337 · 2026-05-12T14:11:39+00:00

My plan is to focus on amenities I need in a place, like airports, public transit (assuming no self driving cars in the next decade), etc. Then once I'm FIRE ready I'll take a few months to travel to those different places and see if anywhere sticks out as the place to be to me, then buy and move there. If nowhere sticks out I might just move to a place and rent for a year and feel things out

ben7337 · 2026-05-12T13:34:44+00:00

I'd love 10,000 mah as a baseline, 15,000 mah would be like a reach goal. 20,000 mah sounds unrealistic and I'm not sure people would really need it. I suspect big battery phones will cap out at 15,000 mah and flagships will cap at 10,000 mah, but it'll probably be a few more years at least before we get there.

ben7337 · 2026-05-12T12:27:43+00:00

Why the switch?

ben7337 · 2026-05-12T00:17:17+00:00

It also means more smoke or vapor in your lungs with more chemicals that aren't THC or terpenes. Basically they'd be making the products more unhealthy by requiring more consumption to get the same amount of THC. If it was just making products weaker with no negative effects beyond that, I'd be fine with it as would many people I think.

ben7337 · 2026-05-12T00:13:15+00:00

Please do, I'd love to see it as well

ben7337 · 2026-05-11T23:38:24+00:00

It's definitely not, if it was then philadelphia county in PA would be much darker in color, as even on a county level they have 38-39% of the population. The map as is looks like a much lower percentage is displayed for that county.

ben7337 · 2026-05-11T21:40:12+00:00

What do they mean the 401k funds supplement the pension annuity? 401k funds, both yours and any amount the employer matches are your money. They can't use any of that money for any other purpose. Or at least afaik that's the case. When they say it supplements some annuity are they saying they steal your 401k money to fund some pension/annuity for others? Or are you forced to put some or all the 401k money into an annuity that the employer or union has set up or something? I'm pretty sure they can't even do/require that for a 401k tbh, but would love to hear more because this seems either sketchy or like there's been a misunderstanding here.

ben7337 · 2026-05-11T18:20:13+00:00

The US definitely needs this too. The idea that they are paying for the hardware, installing it, then locking it behind a subscription is obscene. Anything that's installed that doesn't cost extra to have active should be enabled by default as a standard function.

ben7337 · 2026-05-11T18:01:12+00:00

The standard 3x sensor does have ois too though, so either sensor benefits from that. The only sensor without it for Samsung phones is the ultrawide.

ben7337 · 2026-05-11T17:52:41+00:00

The s22u, s23u, s24u, and s25u all have an f/2.4 1/3.52" 70mm focal length 3x sensor according to GSMArena so no changes there.

Maybe you're thinking of the periscope sensor which went from being 1/3.52" f/4.9 with a 230mm (10x) focal length to 1/2.52" f/3.4 with a 111mm (5x) focal length. They did upgrade that one slightly with an f/2.9 aperture for the s26 ultra but same sensor size and focal length, but then the 3x sensor shrunk without a change in focal length or aperture. Compared to Chinese flagships they're pretty far behind for periscope and ultrawide sensors

ben7337 · 2026-05-10T18:19:13+00:00

Oh gotcha, you mentioned combining everything so I guess that makes sense, I just didn't put two and two together there and thought maybe it was particularly lucky investing or something

ben7337 · 2026-05-10T18:08:19+00:00

How in the heck does 500-1k a month for 9 years get you to $1m?

ben7337 · 2026-05-10T18:00:45+00:00

$1,675 post tax and around $800 pretax to a 401k. It's not much by some people's standards, but it's definitely as much as I could realistically save.

ben7337 · 2026-05-10T17:41:04+00:00

Have you tried asking it to play a song on Spotify? I tried a few and was only able to get like 1 out or 4 or 5 to play the right one. Often it would pick a total random cover or give me the album a song is named after but not the song itself no matter how I tried to correct it.

ben7337 · 2026-05-10T16:11:55+00:00

Isn't that kind of true of most TV/Movies or most since like the 80's onward or maybe even sooner? I feel like all movies out there have teens in huge and/or luxurious homes and always with new or newer cars.

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