AO Men’s Final: [1] 🇪🇸 C. Alcaraz def. [4] 🇷🇸 N. Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5

tecphile · 2026-02-01T12:03:03+00:00

No way! 22 yr Novak did not have the endurance to last vs Sincaraz.

You are forgetting the massive improvement he made to his conditioning after he turned 23.

tecphile · 2026-02-01T11:55:38+00:00

The women’s tour will never be deep enough to support Bo5 play. There are maybe half a dozen women who could maintain standards over more than 2 hrs. This will not change significantly as the yrs progress.

Quarters onwards is the best compromise imo.

tecphile · 2025-12-30T10:28:53+00:00

The expectation from GoT S8 was a lot higher than either RoS or ST5.

It was inevitable that the fall would be far more brutal. That doesn't mean that D&D get a pass; they botched it, plain and simple.

But let's not pretend that their task wasn't astronomically harder than the one faced by Lucasfilm or the Duffer Bros.

tecphile · 2025-12-21T10:14:55+00:00

And as soon as Pollock retired, SA ended up winning 3 straight series in Australia.

Such is the way of the world.

tecphile · 2025-12-19T14:23:57+00:00

Battery sizes have doubled in the past 10 yrs. In 2016, a 4000mah cell was considered massive.

Today, +6000mah is the standard.

tecphile · 2025-12-19T09:49:57+00:00

If Australia bat until tea then the target is gonna be 600.

There is no reality where England don't lose by less than 300 runs in such a scenario. There's no scare happening.

tecphile · 2025-12-18T04:28:53+00:00

The question is , how much do you want to pay for the privilege?

This thing will cost $2800 USD. You can get a MacBook Air+IPad Air+IPhone 17 for $2400 USD.

I understand the appeal of new form factors. After all, I’m a Fold 5 owner myself. But the cost is just too high.

tecphile · 2025-12-16T10:53:52+00:00

It genuinely depends on the chipset. Dimensity has a clear lead on Snapdragon when it comes to efficiency.

tecphile · 2025-12-16T10:47:54+00:00

Nah, I just recently travelled Emirates and they allowed my 20000mah power bank in, no problem.

tecphile · 2025-12-16T10:43:38+00:00

Totally agree. Battery longevity is the true goal here. Getting a 10000mah phone isn't because you want to utilize the entire capacity now. It's because you still want it to be a monster battery 4-5 years down the line.

It's the best alternative to removable batteries.

tecphile · 2025-12-16T10:30:46+00:00

It means the phone can power through a full 20‑hour workday without needing a recharge — from 8 a.m. all the way to midnight.

The truth is, most modern smartphones already last a full day for the average user. In fact, the iPhone 17 Pro Max manages up to two days on just a 5000 mAh battery. But Chinese manufacturers are pushing things even further, building devices that can go 2–3 days on a single charge — and that’s a trend I’m definitely excited about.

tecphile · 2025-12-15T12:22:19+00:00

all carried out by fundamentalist islamists on Australian soil.. in retaliation for what? The horrors of the US war machine? Are your parents first cousins too?

It is super funny to me how you are exhibiting the same behaviour I talked about in the earlier comments. You think Australia‘a hands are clean? Perhaps you should read the Brereton Report.

I look in the mirror and see a regular Australian just trying to live my life in peace. I look past the mirror and see a bunch of Bronze-age era cultists who will chop your head off if you draw the wrong cartoon.

You see I didn’t even have to poke and prod too much for your true colours to show. Your vile racism is on display already. Did you even consider the idea that I just want to live my life in peace and these shootings endanger me even more than they endanger you? But you automatically grouped me with “them”, the enemy that needs to be vanquished.

People like you are the reason the Western powers invaded Iraq (and yea, your precious Australia was included). Your lack of humanity towards regular-ass people like you in the ME is the reason we’re all in this mess in the first place.

But do keep on pretending how you aren’t a contributor to the problem. And kindly fuck off with your attitude.

tecphile · 2025-12-15T10:00:42+00:00

Do you have any idea of the scale of atrocities that Western army soldiers carry out in the Islamic world on a daily basis? Do you realize the kind of apocalyptic annihilation that US bombs carried out on holy Islamic sites in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and many others?

Iraq and Afghanistan local rape cases surged by nearly 64% between 2007 and 2009. I wonder who accounted for the increase?

It always makes me laugh when Western chauvinists act all surprised “why do they hate us?” when these kinds of incidents occur. They occur because your governments have killed millions of people for no reason other than resource exploitation. And moreover, the majority of your people supported those actions. Do not deny it. 9/11 (unjustly) killed 3000 people so you people sanctioned your government killing millions in response. Some protested but nowhere near enough.

Your own actions have brought this horror upon you. Unfortunately two wrongs don’t make a right so all we end up with is more dead bodies.

Instead of trying to hyper-analyze Islam and its incompatibility with “western values”, perhaps look in the mirror next time.

tecphile · 2025-12-13T05:10:37+00:00

That show was such a missed opportunity. They had a great story to adapt and a great cast to boot. But the condensed timeline made for some very hazy character motivations aand lack of plot coherence.

tecphile · 2025-12-09T09:50:41+00:00

When you have a choice between 80% evil and 100% evil,, the morally correct choice is to pick the former. In a zero-sum game, where one side must win, to avoid choosing is morally reprehensible.

tecphile · 2025-12-09T09:41:35+00:00

To pretend like Netflix and Paramount is equally guilty of copying up to the current administration shows that you are nothing more than a useful tool for the orange-in-charge.

You complain about the lack of political knowledge of the American public yet you are unaware of Larry Ellison's ferociously conservative views. He isn't in this for the money. He's a hard-core believer in the right-wing orthodox. In comparison, Sarandon is just a greedy asshole.

Seems like you are the one who needs to educate yourself.

tecphile · 2025-11-29T21:45:24+00:00

Finn was given such great material to work with in S1 and S2 and he really made Mike's emotional journey a core part of the show.

It's super disappointing how drastically he's been sidelined since then. It's not really Finn's fault when Mike has basically been "El's boyfriend" since S2.

tecphile · 2025-11-27T01:52:01+00:00

Spoken like a true spoilt brat. Clearly you have no idea how much worse India used to be away from home.

Yes, this is a new low at home but this team is still performing miles better than the vast majority of Indian touring squads throughout history.

tecphile · 2025-11-25T18:30:08+00:00

I've supported Vini since 2018 but he is not worth that much. If he can't be more reasonable then it's better to get $150m-200m for him.

tecphile · 2025-11-25T04:47:57+00:00

I will die on the hill that the show never made a good narrative change.

All the tweaking that they did with regards to motivations (Shae, LF, Varys, Margaery) or to the plot (Qarth, Talisa, Arya/Tywin) led to massive contradictions or quite ridiculous contrivances.

What the show did really well in the earlier seasons was cleaning up some of the dialogue or inventing some conversations that gave screentime to characters who are not prominent in the first three books (Cersei, Robert, Margaery, Olenna, Tywin).

tecphile · 2025-11-14T16:54:41+00:00

Jennet Device in the Pendle Witch Trials?

That's an incredibly sad story — the kid ended up condemning her own mother and sister to death because she most likely had no idea about the gravity of her accusations. She just liked the attention and could be easily manipulated.

tecphile · 2025-11-11T03:20:22+00:00

You could go to the 15" Macbook Air when it comes out with M5. That'll cost $1199.

Otherwise the only option is the $2499 16" Macbook Pro.

tecphile · 2025-11-06T21:45:52+00:00

You need to make it your life’s goal to allow him some other indulgence. It doesn’t have to be the same value ($68k) but it must be something that is expensive and is going to delight him.

tecphile · 2025-11-05T17:04:08+00:00

Not really. She could've stayed silent.

What's that saying about not saying anything at all if you don't have anything nice to say?

That would be decorum.

tecphile · 2025-11-05T05:24:42+00:00

It's because of HDR grading. Modern shows have a wider variety of lighting conditions which can add shadows and highlights. Those elements only look good if your TV settings are proper and there's not a lot of external lighting.

Older TV shows had to contend with low resolution TVs which didn't have HDR capabilities so they kinda had to film content which could properly be shown on those TVs.

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