Samsung has been documented using 6013 aluminum alloy or better since 2015. That means their Rockwell B hardness estimate starts around 80. If they have since upgraded to something like 7075, it would be even higher around 87. That is nowhere near “quite soft”. There’s a reason why “aircraft grade aluminum” is an…

Agreed. I’m on an S22, and really only on this because I dropped/shattered my S21. This S24 is not compelling me to upgrade any time soon, and I have a feeling I’d say the same thing had I not broken my S21. I’ll probably just keep my S22 until the battery degrades to a point I have to charge mid day, then see what is…

The funny part about mil-std/mil-spec is that sometimes the bar is high, but sometimes it’s just “good enough” to pass specifications while also being cheap enough to buy in tens of thousands. Really depends on the item. It’s a good frame of reference for standards, but not one to be confused with “highest possible…

Just my personal take, but titanium is dumb for phones. Just think: What is the advantage of titanium over high end aluminum? Strength to weight ratio. But you’ll never be in a position to test the strength without other parts of the phone (screen, mobo) breaking first. And weight advantages in a device this small is…

It’s fine not being gun heavy. Maybe refreshing even, but I’m a little weary of what I saw in this clip. Enemies pointing guns at you waiting for you to do something with the whip before attempting to fire.

I haven’t seen any of the shows you quoted. I’m aware of them via pop culture, but just haven’t watched. It is possible they also qualify as soap operas. The key distinction isn’t just that it is melodramatic on a borderline cheese level, but rather that soap operas never end. Each next episode picks up from the last.…

Huh...I thought people were leaving NYC and San Fran in droves given all the headlines about it last year. Guess that’s just hyperbole or just focusing on the filthy rich.

Is that tweet that kicked this all off serious or also a joke? I mean, Barefoot is a pretty low bar to hurdle, so it’s not exactly putting on big boy pants to say you drink something considered “better”. Or is that why is blew up? Because OP’s was inadvertently looking dumb for that comment?

They did mention AI nonsense (maybe a dedicated chip too), of which I will probably just hide away with all the other Samsung apps that can’t be removed. That’s the one downside to a skinned Android—not being able to delete Samsung’s apps. I’m all for them offering their own versions of messenger, email, calendar,…

Just did the side by side spec comparison of the base S24 with S23 and S22. This is the model I target because I don’t care to have a massive phone. There’s not a whole lot different other than revisions of each chip inside and a bump in battery mAh. You actually get a slight DPI decrease in this newest model since…

That’ like how Zipcar used to work. 

That’s a factor I didn’t take into account. I’ve seen some articles about Texas mega gas stations that have proper groceries and take out. I suppose that’s in its own category separate from what I’m imagining up northeast. 

That might be a fast food chain, but it still looks like gas station food. What we need is some of the Japanese 7-11 food products. Fried chicken for one, but any of their set meals would be great. Eating from 7-11 is actually dignified in that country and not just a shameful drunken mistake. 

Wasn’t just the iphone though. Touch screen phones in general took a while for mass adoption. Japanese people really loved their flip and slide phones back then. So much so, you can still find them for sale today. Just that mobile internet eventually became too big to ignore by the time of 3G, so people had to start co…

The villain should be a evil galactic corporation with vast resources and a legion of corporate executives, all with terrible ideas. 

The existing sanctions are still the same sanctions from 1962, which go beyond just being communist. It could be argued that those sanctions were warranted back then when Cuba agreed to host Russian nukes 90 miles away from Florida. However, there’s also the CIA attempt to run a violent coup to oust Castro before that…

It’s actually quite clever. AMD fooled everyone into watching a soap opera by throwing in zombies. General hospital went on for over 60 seasons, largely beating its own dead horse 99% of the time, so WD is practically in its infancy.

I bet it would be noticeably better with some jalapeno slices to add some bite to compliment the rich, but monotonous PB flavor.

Cereal and chips aside, all these packagings are the way they are to keep costs low. They, they are kind of inconvenient when it comes to dispensing said product, but I’d sooner just deal with that over price hikes just for packaging.

Wizardum looks like Hexen played in Minecraft.