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  • With iOS 12.1, Apple has brought its controversial “performance management feature” (aka, throttling) to the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and iPhone X. This functionality dynamically throttles the phone’s processor as its battery degrades over time to stop the handset from randomly shutting down

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    Its literally a feature to improve the longevity of the device. And if you really hate it you can either replace the degraded battery (in which case it will automatically return to the factory clock speed) or disable the feature and experience device instability. Would you rather your phone randomly crash and shut off on you or would you prefer to keep 50Mhz of clock speed?

  • This is literally a GOOD THING. They made it so their phones would reduce their boost clocks slightly if the battery is degraded to the point where the battery can no longer support those clocks in order to prevent unexpected power offs/faults from the processor trying to pull more energy than the battery can output. The underclock is not noticeable in day to day usage and prevents instability due to a worn out battery AND it automatically reverts to the factory clock speed if the battery is replaced and therefore the underclock is no longer needed!

    Would you rather your several year old phone be slightly imperceptibly slower at times or crash randomly because that 50Mhz of boost clock was so critical to you?

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  • That was a big change I made when I started taking care of my teeth too was reducing my sugar intake. I now pretty consistently stay below the "recommended daily value" listed on the back of every package every day

  • I like when it becomes "on the other other other hand..." Like you're a member of the Jatravartids who had 50 arms and are the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

  • 2 big reasons for that:

    1. Fits better between studs as the other commenter stated
    2. Easier and cleaner to route the 2 power phases. US plugs are famously ~120V but what many don't realize is that's a single phase of 120V, and there's two phases that go into the breaker box. By combining the +120VAC and -120VAC phases you get a full 240VAC for higher power appliances like stoves, dryers, heat pumps and electric vehicles.
  • I've known a few midwesterners like that, they likely grew up on "natural flavor" and never add anything to their food and eat the blandest possible interpretations of real foods, and since their taste buds aren't used to any real flavor anything cooked with flavor is extreme to them

  • I had to get a new roof and siding due to hail damage. I got a blue metal roof with white trim and sage green vinyl siding. I took a bit of a risk and depending on how cloudy it is the blue roof reflects too much blue and the too colors start clashing instead of complimenting. But most importantly it's not boring! Also it'll look really good as the vinyl starts fading

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  • When I started actually taking care of me teeth there was a night and day difference between dental appointments where I'd not flossed much or at all since the last appointment and just flossing maybe weekly. Upgrading to daily further improved the experience. Flossing really makes the entire dental process suck so much less and is totally worth it. Also setting a timer to make sure you actually brush for 2 minutes can also be helpful, since you might not realize you've been under-brushing

  • If that's how you feel then I won't be sharing any casserole with you, thank you very much!

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  • Always remember to remove the bloated French language pack folks!

    rm -fr

  • Around where I live of the homes and businesses that have perpetually had trump stuff up since 2015 no longer have any trump stuff up. I think he might be losing his base...

  • So they have found ways to travel that we are not aware of, perhaps light speed travel or possibly wormholes, teleportation, who knows.

    I think you're missing that you're hand waving away literally the laws of physics. Light speed travel runs into a relativity problem (and relativity is so well understood at this point your phone's GPS receiver will make adjustments to the GPS data it receives because the exactness of the data actually exposes some relativistic differences between the satellites and the ground) which I've already described (a few years of near-light speed travel is thousands of years on the ground)

    The light speed barrier appears to be entirely unbreakable. Conservation of energy is proven in transportation and the energy sector constantly and is why near-light speed travel is highly unlikely is the amount of energy required to propel a vehicle to such speeds is absolutely immensely impossibly big, and therefore breaking the light speed barrier if it is even possible would require orders of magnitude more energy.

    Oh and Wormholes and teleportation are literally pure fiction

    I guess the reason people think so different about this is that they assume that aliens would travel with only human knowledge of space travel

    No no. It's because we assume aliens would be bound to the same physics as the rest of the universe is

    If they are here, they have had space travel for at least thousands of years, probably much more

    That is how long they would need to travel to get here from any other solar system. If aliens are coming it ain't going to be a couple of little green men in a saucer the size of a truck, it's going to be a generation ship, a cryoship or entirely robotic, and the current alien mythos really doesn't fit that.

    Circling back to the core claim that aliens have been visiting the earth and may or may not be abducting random farmers and probing them, the entire alien mythos is easily explained with previously-classified aircraft that were being built by the US during the cold war, drugs and mental illness, and largely doesn't exist before the 1950s. If you read some of the very first reports of UFOs before the mythos really received much media attention they entirely don't match the now classic imagery of little green men with giant bug-like eyes flying a circular ship, because these people didn't already have that imagery to apply to whatever weather balloon or classified aircraft they happened to get a glance of.

  • There's definitely benefit in going further up market (the $600 range tends to be where diminishing returns really kick in, where the differences between a $300 phone and a $600 phone are pretty obvious, the $600 and the $1000 phone are much harder to spot the differences) and if you buy a used generation or two old device you can really save some cash. My wife and I both got Pixel 7s last year for about $250 a pop, and they've still got several years of updates left on them

  • I've totaled 3 cars in the last 5 years (one deer on a blind curve on a county highway, 2 from hail) and the only change is this year they raised my deductible by $500...which given my only claims have been total losses I'm not sure how that really lowers their risk but I'll take it

  • I don't think people realize just how big the universe is. Or even just our solar system. The nearest star is multiple light-years away, and as far as physicists can tell, the speed of light is basically the speed limit of all things in the universe, so at minimum they traveled for multiple years at near-light speed (already basically impossible due to the quantity of energy required) just to...??? in our atmosphere?

    It took over 50 years for the Voyager probes to travel a single light minute, and Proxima Centauri, the closest star to us is 4.24 light-years away. Which means the Voyager probes will take thousands of years to travel a fraction of the distance of Proxima Centauri.

    Another problem is time dialation. Suppose you happened upon a craft that could take you to Proxima Centauri at close enough to the speed of light that you would arrive there within a human lifespan, the time that would have passed on earth is actually thousands of years. So any aliens visiting the earth now would have set off during the ice age at the very latest. They absolutely wouldn't be popping by for a quick visit then running off every few years, they would either be visiting then leaving again and not returning for many more millenia or they would be arriving and setting up permanent shop in our solar system, which we'd likely have observed by now given how many probes we send around the solar system and how many telescopes we have pointed at the sky all the time

    Are we alone in the universe? Almost definitely not, considering the sheer number of planets and stars the random chance that created sentient life on earth is extremely likely to have repeated a few times, but sentient life evolving close enough to us physically and in time that both can become aware of each other and maybe even communicate? Basically impossible, at least certainly not within a timeframe that any of use can truly comprehend

  • I’ve never actually needed on of these but they keep showing up in movies/games…so I’d vote this

    Sounds like you need a small electrical project then!

  • That's potentially useful then at least!

    The big challenge with AI generated summaries is that LLMs are so prone to innaccuracy that a summary that's never checked for accuracy by a human who has read the source material that's being summarized, it just exists in a weird limbo state of maybe-false maybe-perfectly-fine and the onus is still on the reader to read the source material to make their own decision just as it is without posting an AI summary

    LLMs are brilliant first draft machines. Unless there's a major breakthrough that improves accuracy they will need to stay that way

  • The worst aspects of the fediverse are really just the worst aspects of people rather than the worst aspects of people plus the worst effects of profit motives that you find on corporate social media. Also folks are really inclined to try to shun bad behavior rather than reward it with engagement that can directly lead to money for the poster