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This phone has been out since Spring 2022. Any reason for the post? If we want to talk about the utility of a thermal camera, I found it neat. I used a $150
by andrewia 4y ago
This phone has been out since Spring 2022. Any reason for the post?
If we want to talk about the utility of a thermal camera, I found it neat. I used a $150 Seek camera to diagnose poor insulation in my bedroom, and one contractor even offered free advice over email since the images were clear enough. I've also used it to find hot ICs on a PCB. The resolution of these lower cost modules isn't great, which you can see by all the postprocessing they advertise. But it's enough to see which wall is leaky, or which IC needs a heatsink.
- ajsnigrutin 4y ago> This phone has been out since Spring 2022. Any reason for the post? also, they offered phones with flir cameras before, so nothing new on this front either.
- brailsafe 4y agoI didn't know about it before, and now I do. Certainly more valuable than the much older hustle culture startup ceo stuff that's often posted.
- theCrowing 4y agoLinus used it in his last video.
- pimlottc 4y agoLinus Torvalds? He has videos?
- hindsightbias 4y agoThe other Linus
- komali2 4y agovan Pelt?
- nickthegreek 4y agoLinus Tech Tips
- cerved 4y agoYes. He's switched from LKML to TikTok
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoI purchased a phone with built in FLIR for a friend in Australia. It was cheaper for me to buy it in the US, ship it, and pay a bunch for insurance than for her to buy it locally. You can see the phone at 4min in this video https://youtu.be/BDUOtlVc4UM https://youtu.be/BDUOtlVc4UM
- tildef 4y agoIt's actually even older--August 2020 according to GSM arena (https://www.gsmarena.com/cat_s62_pro-10358.php https://www.gsmarena.com/cat_s62_pro-10358.php) Got mine not long after. Kind of surprised to see it make the HN front page in AD 2022.
- chrismorgan 4y ago> Spring 2022 That was last week. (Seasons are a lousy way of describing times for anything other than local, geographically-anchored content. They’re only meaningful in a comparatively narrow band, falling apart if you head much towards the poles or equator—the four seasons model is useless in tropical areas especially—and inverting if you head to the other side of the equator.)
- firecall 4y agoIndeed. Our friends in the USA often assume the people they are talking to are only in the USA!
- mrguyorama 4y agoNonsense, plenty of places in the US completely lack spring and fall as reality, including where I grew up. What you should have said is that many in the USA often assume the people they are talking to experienced a life identical to theirs
- system2 4y agoDoesn't everyone live in the USA?
- randomdata 4y ago> Seasons are a lousy way of describing times Given the context, 'spring' is just another way of saying second quarter. It has nothing to do with seasons beyond incidental alignment between calendar quarters and observed seasons in certain geographic areas where the use originated. Indeed, even second quarter breaks down where the Gregorian calendar isn't used, but you have to make assumptions at some point in order to communicate. Context fills in the gaps.
- rippercushions 4y agoNo, it really isn't, and it's mildly obnoxious to people living in the southern hemisphere (or the tropics, for that matter) when people assume spring = Q2. Mildly because we're used to it, but it's not hard to avoid. And for better or worse, the Gregorian calendar is the universal civil system now, even in the countries like Saudi Arabia that notionally use other calendars. Even Korean Juche years, Japanese imperial eras etc are aligned to Gregorian years.
- lamontcg 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ I'm one of today's lucky 10,000 to find out about IR cameras for smartphones.
- emilburzo 4y agoyou mean 2020, right? > Announced 2020, June 28 > Status Available. Released 2020, August 17