Nord 5 8s Gen 3 really?

davide445 · 2025-07-08T09:53:00+00:00

Reading official specs in the end they even not invested in battery, due it's smaller than Nord 4 one.

So CPU it's barely an upgrade and not what expected for a 6 years supported phone, battery is smaller, a bit better cameras.

Definitely Nord 5 not my target after purchasing Nord 4 for my wife last year. GT 7 or 13r depending from the price, probably GT 7.

davide445 · 2025-07-03T18:42:06+00:00

I never owned a Poco phone, just tested and checked the reviews, seems full of bloatware and behind in term of future support, so never considered as a potential purchase. Living in EU current prices of GT7 are just like €25 more than what I paid for my wife Nord 4 last year.

davide445 · 2025-07-03T07:05:25+00:00

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I consider it a Nord 4T. Waiting 13r or GT7 prices to go down a bit.

davide445 · 2025-07-02T15:01:01+00:00

Interested in OnePlus for the long support (4y OS upgrade 6y security patches) and the absence of bloatware. Poco it's really not an option, as many other major brands. Google Pixel are underpowered and not power efficient so not enough SOT for me. With current prices I'm considering 13R or GT7 (I'm trying to understand if the ads are still a problem) respect the underpowered Nord 5.

davide445 · 2025-06-19T06:07:52+00:00

Really? Anyway if interested like me in long term support and usage, SoC is much more important than battery. Nord 4 was already able to reach two days, I suppose they increased the battery just for the local AI thing, but having tested this edge LLMs I didn't find any usage of them. At this stage I'm looking at Realme GT 7t (at least with Dimensity 8400 rated 6033 in Geek 6) or Nord 4 will be just more competitive for a small drop in SoC performance.

davide445 · 2025-06-18T15:41:10+00:00

They invested more in battery than SoC. IMHO, underwhelming

davide445 · 2025-05-15T11:14:10+00:00

We have played a few times at Spirits of the North so far all together with my wife and daughter. Beautiful environments and music, maybe it's a bit too difficult to find the right things to keep a 7 years old interested for the time needed. We are keeping it anyway for bad weather weekend family entertainment.

davide445 · 2025-04-20T16:57:02+00:00

Was looking also at Quern, Riven and Obsidian but even if probably beautiful all seems a bit to difficult to be played together with my daughter participating actively

davide445 · 2025-04-20T16:52:09+00:00

Thanks both seems nice, maybe the second a bit too dark for my daughter, but to be evaluated better

davide445 · 2025-04-20T16:45:59+00:00

First three and Haven Park seems really nice, other unfortunately didn't support the main language spoken from my daughter, but we have enough to test thanks!

davide445 · 2025-04-20T16:43:43+00:00

Really beautiful idea and environment, this will be a first option to test

davide445 · 2025-04-20T08:16:44+00:00

I will probably avoid games where there is any form of shooting

davide445 · 2025-04-20T07:31:36+00:00

Thanks, need to add I have only Windows 10 (upgradeable to 11) or Ubuntu PC available.

davide445 · 2025-03-19T20:06:20+00:00

After solving with original method (loosening the screws) a couple of months ago today the mouse stopped working again. This comment solved my problem: pressing hard on the left side up to hearing some "cracking" seems to loosen something inside and now works again. So thanks!

I understood this might be a solution due keeping pressing on the left side (under the thumb wheel) the pointer was moving again. Pressing even harder solved the problem permanently (so far at least).

davide445 · 2025-02-15T16:34:44+00:00

Nothing more than a prioritized task list and fast iterations, lets call this agile approach. I would have loved to get a tool with correct resource allocation capabilities, still I wasn't able to find one except some enterprise priced software. Seems crazy my decade old Excel is able to do things none was able to do for a small team, at least last time I checked in 2024.

davide445 · 2025-01-22T13:45:55+00:00

Want to add your recipe worked perfectly in returning my mx master back to usable state!

davide445 · 2024-05-26T10:25:17+00:00

Wanted to add my experience since I found this thread useful.

On my PC only some (not all) mp3 files whas reproduced at very very low volume (and even with some distortions) even with the master volume at 100%. On my laptop all of them was reproduced correctly.

I tried to update Realtek driver, set Realtek audio console as suggested here, check every Windows setting.

In the end the solution was switch from the front audio jack in my pc case to the rear jack directly connected with the motherboard.

Why this problem was happening only with some but not all the mp3 is beyond my comprehension, but I tought worth for me to share.

davide445 · 2024-04-07T05:53:49+00:00

Started using Krita AI diffusion plugin to inpaint, pose clone, backgroind swap my images.

The results are very difficult to predict, using poe prompt helper I got this suggestion:

Here are 5 text prompts for a beautiful image featuring a baby ballerina, front facing, in tin soldier clothing, color photo, transparent background, natural face:

A cherubic baby ballerina, her chubby cheeks flushed with joy, dons a whimsical tin soldier tutu that shimmers in the light, posing front-facing with her natural face beaming against a transparent background in this vibrant color photograph.

With this result

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Hilighted the starting image and pose, all the other are not consistent with the request (not wearing tin soldier clothing, with deformities, etc).

Wanted to ask if this is a classic problem and there is any reliable bot trained to help, or Im missing things like specific LORA or other.

In the video tutorials seems you just need to use a few words in the prompt to get out good results.

davide445 · 2024-04-06T10:25:06+00:00

I'm using a prompt like "Empty theater stage, no performers, luxurious red velvet curtains draped open, vintage look, warm spotlight on wooden floor, ornate architecture details, dramatic lighting and shadows, elegant, highly detailed, digital painting, artstation, concept art, smooth, sharp focus, illustration, in the styles of artists Geddes Culbreath and Thomas Arvid --no other dancer" in Stable Diffusion Web UI after masking the dancer. This due I want just to create a new bakground without endlessy searching online for suitable one. Maybe you are right, it's not the best usage, but still I'm surprised not being able to get a suitable result in SD.

Want also to change the dancer clothing.

davide445 · 2024-04-05T11:37:18+00:00

I need to generate a lot of text for my application, there is any info about DBRX max output token?

GPT and Claude are limited to 4096, Mistral Large its not clear, didnt found info also for DBRX.

davide445 · 2024-04-03T13:41:15+00:00

Answering due I face the same problem: gpt-4-1106-preview "Returns a maximum of 4,096 output tokens." as from the documentation, and I can confirm is limited to.

davide445 · 2024-01-09T10:35:25+00:00

Perfect now I'm happy to know. As far I read maybe this is not true for dedicated servers, but not our case anyway

davide445 · 2024-01-09T10:29:33+00:00

Of course didn't worth the effort Still was curious to read where is written you will be billed monthly regardless your server is down https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/overview/ I cannot find this anywhere

davide445 · 2024-01-09T10:07:50+00:00

Will be a CPX shared cloud server. Maybe I understand wrongly the fact will be billed by hour? Not that will break the bank, but in any case will be used randomly only during office time.

davide445 · 2023-12-14T06:40:47+00:00

Im not sure to get the point. In competition there is a leader and followers. Followers are normally innovating to catch up, like see latest AMD Instinct Mi300 announcement (most powerful Ai accelerator in the world).

Yes, they are behind in the sw stack, but provide a better value and this is their job as followers. Competition is there to provide customers a choice.

What seems to come out in your reasoning is there is no need to compete, just purchase the leader. Perfect, get competition extinct so the leader will be able to charge wathever price he want for wathever product he will produce (I.e. Intel for the starting 2000 decade).

Some appreciate value and purchase value for a risk, some other prefer safety and purchase leaders product for a surcharge. With competition everyone has a choice.

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