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by Aachen 6mo ago
Nice! As a heads up, don't be tempted to replace the battery via a third party if the Samsung battery ever stops meeting expectations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834810
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by Aachen 6mo ago
1996, for anyone else wondering Not sure how comparable that is when considering that the devices are also commonly required as ticket on public transport with no offline fallback (going so far as to include animations on the screen so yo
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by Aachen 6mo ago
Do you have more info about this? I recommended Motorola phones to people based on a combination of price, their needs, and expected longevity (at least 5y now with the new update and replacement part requirements). If that's not the c
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by Aachen 6mo ago
Then read upthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835184 I just don't see why we can't have nice things until proven otherwise (especially considering there is already evidence that this works), rather tha
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by Aachen 6mo ago
> some degree of waterproofing/water resistance Can we have this discussion once ? In this thread alone, there's like 50 instances of people making this claim and each time it takes about 20 minutes before at least one person
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by Aachen 6mo ago
"instead of resorting to ad hominem" Was this edited out or which part do you mean?
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by Aachen 6mo ago
This balancing act is already happening. If you modify the battery controller, you can totally continue charging beyond the voltage that the phone considers to be 100%. It also increases the risk of damaging the battery ( https://
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by Aachen 6mo ago
My experience with an Apple battery saying ~81% longevity remaining is that it'll die when it still reports half full and you open a demanding webpage It's a genuinely hard problem to measure battery capacity with existing smartph
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by Aachen 6mo ago
I don't know if this is standard, but at least for some previously enacted electronics regulations I know they look into the real-world effects. I think I was looking for information on how they calculate the battery life for the new s
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by Aachen 6mo ago
That sounds like seeing a pattern where there is none (apophenia). Do you have examples of posts that wouldn't be downvoted outside of times where Europe/Africa is awake, or that weren't only because it was posted outside of
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by Aachen 6mo ago
Don't remember that being necessary to taketh away, and now that they're required to giveth it back we don't want it anymore?!
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by Aachen 6mo ago
Same with laptops btw. I once caught a seller where the webpage and sticker said 5200 mAh but acpi -i reported 4400 mAh. They provided a replacement free of charge, presumably their supplier scammed them in turn (it was a small local websho
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by Aachen 6mo ago
Not sure if I should be repeating the same answer below each instance of the question but here goes: See the Samsung Galaxy S5 for example as having a good waterproofing rating and user-replaceable battery
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by Aachen 6mo ago
Waterproof phones all still have charging ports and no flaps. Not sure how but that seems to be solved. Maybe that one part's connectors are encased in glue?
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by Aachen 6mo ago
There were models that were both waterproof and not glued (the only tools needed for a battery swap were the replacement battery and opposable thumbs). I never had/tested one myself though, this is just going off of the manufacturer&#x
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by Aachen 6mo ago
No. I can't find a legit battery for my Samsung phone, only forgeries and "compatible with"s. Local repair shop said they could put a new OEM battery into this 4yo second-hand phone So I pay them and they do it. The result: -
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by Aachen 6mo ago
Galaxy S5 was IP67-rated (1 metre depth, 30 minutes) and had a user-replaceable back cover / battery Also a notification LED, OLED screen, bezels to pick the device up by, headphone jack, unlockable, a continuous light sensor... peak s
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by Aachen 6mo ago
I didn't know that! I had heard they made transformers and (then-Open)AI used it in GPT, but that explains how come Google wasn't then first to market with an LLM product when the intended application was translation
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by Aachen 6mo ago
(not the downvoter) I'm not sure if we're on the same page. I mean LLMs right? Not whatever Google Translate and DeepL use. The latter was better than gtrans when it launched, nowadays it's probably similar idk, and both are
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by Aachen 6mo ago
I assume that's just a manner of speaking, like a judgmental form of hallucination I remember HN piling on me for saying something along the lines of evolution causing a property (am I stupid, do I not understand that it's not int
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by Aachen 6mo ago
Yes, for me as well, but large chunks of these tasks seem within the realm of what they can do when you break it up into small enough bits and control the prompt very tightly Particularly machine translations are no worse than what an untra
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by Aachen 6mo ago
> when its relatively short-lived predecessor frequently killed people If only it were this obvious when the polluted air isn't your home but the entire planet, killing not your grandma but taking a few healthy years of life from ev
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by Aachen 6mo ago
How much of the workforce is organising and other information dissemination or transformation? I'm more on the skeptical side than the evangelist, but I can see how large parts of such things could theoretically be shifted away from hu
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by Aachen 6mo ago
I noticed this in an app's changelog recently, saying something along the lines of "remove metadata comparison function because new Android versions no longer support it" Thankfully F-Droid has a "never update this app&q
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by Aachen 6mo ago
The A16 gets 250~500 Hz according to Phyphox' database (depending on which A16 model you've got) But I see Google indeed introduced another permission for this: https://developer.android.google.cn/develop/sens
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by Aachen 6mo ago
I didn't get to see it but that sounds actually like a really fun Easter Egg to discover when you're on the website together with someone else! Can be distracting when reading the article of course, so it needs a toggle, but I&#x2
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by Aachen 6mo ago
cc.arduino.sciencejournal for anyone else who is wondering what's behind HN's ellipsis
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by Aachen 6mo ago
Huh? I get 500 Hz here on a Samsung from 2019 and make use of it regularly. Sensor frequency is one of the things I check before buying a new phone, surely newer Android versions haven't killed that with new api restrictions?! Edit: no
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by Aachen 7mo ago
That's my expectation, but I've got a father who forces Microsoft products upon everyone for the reason that they're paid and industry standard and thus must be good (no, there is no argument possible; yes, it's worth th
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by Aachen 7mo ago
Seems like a lot of extra effort (save, add, commit, come up with some message even if it's a prayer to work now) only to undo it again later and create a patch or alternate history out of the final version. Why bother with the interme

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