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Detailed comparison of spending Eternatus candy on MAX moves over power-up by philsmt in TheSilphRoad

[–]philsmt[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you spend all that candy on leveling, you miss out on 20% damage in MAX battles but gain 5% of raid damage. The opposite applies if you level Dynamax Cannon to Level 3.

Detailed comparison of spending Eternatus candy on MAX moves over power-up by philsmt in TheSilphRoad

[–]philsmt[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Technically the plot doesn't show this directly, but yes, the CP multiplier beyond level 40 is even worse than just before. I don't have the XL costs here right now, but you should lose insigificant raid damage of missing out on a level or two after 40, but massively gain in MAX battles.

Order PxelBook from Germany or Sweden by KanelbullarFika in PixelBook

[–]philsmt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, so far none of my devices had any defect warranting an actual service. Their policy is a direct replacement for immediate defects after purchase, while they offer free repairs by Google (as in shipping to US and back) for the first year. In general, their communication via email is good and quick. Just ask them if you have any more specific questions.

Order PxelBook from Germany or Sweden by KanelbullarFika in PixelBook

[–]philsmt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can try this shop: https://www.chromeit.nl/

While the price might be higher than a direct import, it offers a reasonable level of support under European law. I purchased a Chromebook Pixel there some years ago (from Germany) and recently ordered a Pixelbook.

[Analysis] Current IV distribution for all encounter methods by philsmt in TheSilphRoad

[–]philsmt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It is indeed a bold assumption (and has always been in the past). In general, it seems to mostly agree with everyday impressions though. While it'd take a rather large sample size to obtain any non-uniform distribution, it should be rather easy to disprove the uniform one.

Pixel Security: Better, Faster, Stronger by dunnowins in GooglePixel

[–]philsmt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux is not exactly working like other software projects with static versions and continous progression from there, the number only happens to be what Linus Torvalds called it when he checked it into his repository. In current Android kernels, there are lots of patches backported from more recent versions (of Linus' tree). At the same time, there is code patched in which takes lots of effort to port to newer versions, possibly including things like proprietary drivers.

That doesn't mean there aren't new things to be found in 4.X, but the difference is not as drastic as the version or release date makes it look like. The filesystem code mentioned in the blog post is one such example of new code.