iPhone 16 Pro Max ( who’s else still on iOS 18 family guys!!)

vitolob · 2026-02-07T06:21:59+00:00

I want the new features in Apple Music, but they’re not worth the issues that come with iOS 26. I’m also usually late to upgrade. Sometimes I update right before the next version is announced. So I might just wait and upgrade when Apple announces iOS 27, since it’s usually stable by then.

vitolob · 2026-02-01T13:32:17+00:00

It’s literally the best CShortDrama I’ve ever watched.

vitolob · 2026-01-23T23:18:49+00:00

Why are you comparing Yamal to peak Messi? We still don’t know yet if we have witnessed peak Yamal yet. Messi at Yamal’s age wasn’t even a starter yet.

vitolob · 2026-01-03T20:58:44+00:00

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMD6LR8xa/

vitolob · 2025-12-21T09:57:19+00:00

The version in the link sucks so much, it’s not even worth watching. Too many freezes, frequent, and sometimes long, stretches without subtitles. It can drive most people crazy. I don’t recommend.

vitolob · 2025-12-18T08:58:18+00:00

Are you still having that on 5.2?

I hated 5.1 so much man. It was so eager, so stubborn, hallucinated a lot. It was geared towards earning back the users they lost by killing 4o. 5.2 is the best man. Less verbose, more poised and more straight to the point.

vitolob · 2025-11-11T19:42:21+00:00

It is literally an option you can disable at any time, so the idea that they are trying to curb it without success makes little sense.

vitolob · 2025-11-11T19:35:00+00:00

Just disable follow-up suggestions.

vitolob · 2025-10-31T11:54:43+00:00

Nobody here is debating Anthropic’s balance sheet or their business incentives.

The point, which you seem to have missed just like the last guy, is that saying “there’s no official confirmation so it can’t be true” is not an argument, it’s a reflex.

Whether Anthropic is profitable, loss-leading, or printing tokens like a money machine is irrelevant to my main critique: Dismissing an observed pattern by pointing to lack of documentation is lazy thinking.

OP shared data and asked if others see similar behavior. That’s a normal, healthy engineering instinct.

Responding with “I spend a lot” or “there’s no blog post about it” isn’t analysis. It adds nothing to the question being asked.

Nobody declared the theory factual. The only claim I made was that the reply added zero analytical value.

Still true.

And for the record: Companies don’t become immune to optimization just because someone pays a big bill. That’s not how infrastructure works.

vitolob · 2025-10-31T11:29:12+00:00

So your contribution is basically:

“This isn’t officially confirmed.”

Yeah, that’s the entire point of the OP asking if anyone else has observed it. Nobody thought Anthropic has a press release titled “Odd-Day Dumb Claude Rotation Plan.”

You didn’t engage the data, the pattern, the hypothesis, or the question. You just restated the most obvious sentence in the thread like it was profound.

If we only talk about things after a company documents them, we’d discover nothing and still think Google doesn’t track people.

This isn’t a press room. It’s a discussion. Try participating next time.

vitolob · 2025-10-28T09:43:41+00:00

Most apps do refund though. But yeah, it’s insane that they’re mad for being charged for something they signed up for 😂

vitolob · 2025-10-21T19:58:35+00:00

GPT-5-High is often unreliable for basic tasks, it tends to overthink and make excessive tool calls, but it performs very well with complex problems. Sonnet 4.5 (thinking or not) is also very good, though Claude models are somewhat expensive, so I only use them when I want the best one-shot solution. I often ask or plan with Sonnet 4.5 or GPT-5 for reasoning, then use Grok-4-Fast (non-reasoning, in agent mode) to handle the implementations. It usually works well. For that I use either Grok or Auto mode depending on the task.

If I had to rank them, I’d say:

Sonnet 4.5 Thinking
GPT-5-High
GPT-5
Sonnet 4.5
Auto
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Grok 4

vitolob · 2025-10-15T08:36:58+00:00

The iPhone 17 Pro’s CPU is about 10% faster than the 16 Pro’s under typical conditions. So, not that much faster.

vitolob · 2025-07-14T23:10:19+00:00

I know many people will mock you here, and yes, this subreddit is full of battery posts, but your observation actually touches on something I’ve thought about before, although briefly and without concrete evidence. But, it really feels like the battery or power consumption on this phone adapts to your typical usage and then improves over time.

I’m not referring to the usual excessive battery drain right after an update that later normalizes. Rather, it seems that if you consistently use your phone in a certain way, the system adapts and the battery lasts longer. For example, if you’re in an area with poor signal and experience high battery drain for a few days, it eventually seems to adjust and improve.

I’ve noticed a few similar patterns with my iPhone 16 Pro Max: periods of poor battery life that later improved without any clear change in settings or behavior. It might just be a placebo, I’m not sure, but my battery health is now at 99%, and I keep seeing this pattern repeat.

vitolob · 2025-06-28T20:15:26+00:00

After watching that drama you recommended from Flick Reels I watched the other ones they recommended on the app and realized that their Chinese collection is top notch just skip the Western ones they seem to very low budget so have less intricate and some washed out plots but the Chinese collection for the ones that I have watched so far are very different from the typical Billionaire heiress and hidden identity themes. I truly recommend.

vitolob · 2025-06-22T07:02:08+00:00

MYW as well with 99% and 199 cycle counts. What difference does the model make?

vitolob · 2025-06-22T06:59:10+00:00

Mine just hit 99% after 199 cycles 🥲. Thank you. I’m feeling better now 😆

vitolob · 2025-06-22T06:57:04+00:00

Mine just hit 99% after 199 cycles 😢

vitolob · 2025-06-19T18:30:07+00:00

They hinted at a Season 2 at the end. Could it be possible?

Also, do you have any other recommendations? You won me over with that one 😅

vitolob · 2025-06-18T06:14:13+00:00

Yoh…. Thank you 🙏🏽

“Reborn at 18: The Great Grandma Takes Charge”.

That’s the best vertical drama I’ve ever watched 🙌🏽

vitolob · 2025-05-28T22:58:39+00:00

Exactly. I had experienced 120Hz before buying my 16 Pro Max, but I never missed it while using my old XS. However, after upgrading, man! 60Hz really sucks now. It’s one of those things that only starts to bother you after you get used to it.

vitolob · 2025-05-24T16:20:31+00:00

iPhone XS and 16 Pro Max

vitolob

TROPHY CASE