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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • tbh not in the mood to argue with you about it. if your a hasan fan. fair enough. i’m not. as i said i dont consider him as bad as elon, not even in the same ball park. but i still consider him shit. i was even subscribed to him a few years ago. i’ve seen enough first hand. my views on him arent filtered through takes of others.

    so i was about to give you the win by going silent and just leave it be.

    but:

    i hope you realize how much right wing propaganda has gotten to you.

    fuck off. get bent. posted as a leftist.


  • wouldnt go as far as saying that hasan is a decent human being. no doubt, i rank im way higher than elmo. but that guy is still problematic on so many levels even if his believes align here there with my own. but to apply even more nuance to my shitpost: the most unfair part of my post was to generelise an individual single dev beeing the entirety of the soulless corporation of ubisoft.

    /hmm, lots of fans around here. idk how one can fall for this disingenuous fuckface. but you do you.






  • This is a weird one for me.

    When the first Wreckfest(back then Next Car Game) launched as a crowdfunded game 12(?) years ago as an early access title it made sense. Flat Out as a franchise wasnt in their hands anymore and it hit rockbottom. So to develop a new game in a genre which had no competitor at the time with the community was compelling. Ngl the development was rocky at times. But in the end they made a super good game. THQ Nordiq got on board and with that funds for very big improvements in the tech it dearly needed. At times the game barely ran on high end PCs. But the engine got optimized so well it started to run well on the (now)last-gen consoles, then the switch and even mobile phones. But with that came also a lot of additions i really disliked. The physics got nerfed for the consoles but also on the PC, DLC galore, FOMO weekly events, the pretty realistic(ish) focus on folk racing shifted more into Flat Out 2 madness. The current game is very different to 1.0 . Not all for the better IMHO(!)

    Either way: They again have a franchise with name recognition, they have a decently modern engine and game with lots of content to build upon and a publisher with funds. I dont see why an early access is needed? Especially in this super bare bones form with barely any cars or tracks(some even lifted from the last game) and nothing(!) else. I’ve put hundreds of hours into the last game. I still love it. Also i could really use finally a fresh new racing title after all the disappointments in the last years. But this… in this form isnt it. Especially knowing the community feedback might get thrown out in the future when the money man make decision. Meh



  • My first thought went to those M-Disk/BDXL bluray disks which supposed to last 1000 years if you believe the claims. So with 100gb per disk you would need atleast 1000 disks. Probably more since the data probably wont perfectly fill out each disk. Writing to optical media is slow and according to the very first searchresult i found it takes upwards of 3hrs to write and verify a single disk. So with a single drive it would take atleast north of 3000 hours if nothing goes wrong. A year has ~8760 hours btw. Oh boi.

    But i wouldnt want to rely on a single copy of each disk. If the data is so important i would like to have atleast 10 copies? So the year would probably consist of only maintaining and repairing several burning rigs and going through like 35.000 edit: 11.000 blurays and then finding spots to safely store them.

    But how will they read the data of the disks in the future? Blurays and todays data formats most likely wont exist anymore. So you would need several redundant PCs with bluray drives which hopefully last that long. The HDD/SSD wont last in them. Linux live disks burned on the blurays? On top foolproof documentation how to operate all that ancient shit.

    My head hurts



  • Motorola G100/Edge S

    Atleast here it can be had for under 200€ on the used market.

    You need to unlock it via the motorola website. But then its fully rootable. Atleast with the retail unit i purchased.

    Buildquality is good. Nothing fancy. Its mostly plastic. But it holds up quite nice after 4 years. The chromed plastic of the frame flaked a bit from my rough handling.

    Removable sim and SD-card slot. Battery isnt removable. But its not the worst when it comes to repairability according to teardowns i watched.

    But it has a headphone jack!(!!!)

    Runs officially up to android 12. Last time i checked it should get android 15 with lineage.

    Security… well there is only so much lineage can do with the official vendor support beeing ended like 2 years ago. But its good enough i guess.

    That 21:9 1080p 90hz LCD screen is solid. 500 nits brightness isnt state of the art anymore but its more than useable.

    Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 combined with 8gb RAM is still performing well. If your into emulation it handles most of the consoles well. Even switch and pc emulation apart from the most performance hungry titles.

    Cooling isnt the best. Its just a heatpipe from the SOC directly too the battery. SOC will heavily throttle as soon as the battery gets to around 40 degrees C. That nets you around 20-30 minutes of the SOC running at full tilt.

    USB 3 5gbs with display out is a really cool feature. Sadly with going custom rom you will loose the great ‘ready for’ desktop mode from motorola.

    Its a bit big and heavy for my taste though. I switched to a smaller device as my daily driver.

    All in all its great device for screwing around imho



  • Its such a weird ass nothing burger of a product.

    Like i get it why it exists. Display- and lenstech are getting at a point where textclarity is good enough. Mobile chipsets can provide enough standalone performance for most office workloads. If you need the added processinh power of a workstation wireless displaystreaming is at a fairly mature point for 2D content when it comes to the lack of compression artifacts and the latency is solid enough. Passthrough is at a workable state, too.

    Gaming wasnt the killer feature for VR for several reasons. So parroting apple and pivoting to this whole AR computing device schtick is understandable(ish).

    But i watched both the initial AndroidXR Google presentation last month and now the shitty influencer marketing video of MHKBD and their messaging is so weird. The big sellingpoints are: You have Gemini AI, the Playstore is preinstalled with which you can ask Gemini AI to install new apps, Gemini AI also works with the preinstalled Google apps. Did we mention Gemini AI yet? Chill the f- out.

    Look i own and use VR-Headset for 6 years now. I follow the subject since the Oculus DK1 was first announced. I like the tech. But there is nothing coming from either Google nor Samsung which makes me excited for the future of AndroidXR. Because i tried to work with a VR Headset. My current one has enough pixel density, pancake lenses and is consired one of the most comfortable on the market. Its utter shit. Waving your hands around in a 3D space isnt a good UX for 90% of the time. Having a device strapped to your head isnt comfortable. Battery life of like 2 hours is a joke if you want to get shit done. Having a cable strapped to your head mounted device for added battery life is even worse. Do you remember how we all happily traded our audio devices for wireless ones because its soooo much more comfortable? Yeah… The resolution still isnt great enough to combat eyestrain over long periods of time. The list goes on. Sure there are obviously some usecases where hmds can provide a real benefit. But for now most stuff is pretty niche. But i’m pretty sure circling your hands in the air so you can ask a LLM about the shoes your wearing isnt solving problems we encounter in our worklife. As a life style product? Give me some fucking entertainment, man? But not a single word about that so far.

    Then have you tried to actually work with Android? I tried it several times with the desktop modes like DEX or Ready For… Its not great for abundance of reasons.

    Then there is no confidence in google left. Like we all know they will kill off AndroidXR in 4 years. If not before that. If you could bet on it the quotes would be so bad it would probably better to just invest the money in s&p500.

    Also i see no attempts at establishing an open plattform like android used to be. Every big corp wants to be the monopoly holder of a closed gardedn of the next big tech revolution. So they can pump ads directly into our eyeballs. Fuck this shit.