@fredricmitchell if you can afford it the iPhone is a superior device on all fronts, especially performance, also security. But it's 2x the price, and the perf gap has closed a bit in the last 2 years.

I feel like Android's pressure on the low end of pricing is what really matters long term, particularly since even previous-gen flagship iPhones are all $600+ and new ones.. $700 - $1000

@Sammitch never heard of that, in what context is :? used

@Carnage4Life @firasd TL;DR -- good luck putting that genie back in that particular bottle, these toxic fandoms on the tech side are predicting the future for everyone, it just wasn't evenly distributed yet.

@lizardbill it sounds so delicious though 🍲

@grantmccall @JacobEthanWhite @chrisltd on the iOS Safari side it is mostly minor aesthetic stuff, we could only detect the viewport size with mobile on-screen keyboard visibile starting with iOS 13 for example.

@grantmccall @JacobEthanWhite @chrisltd we suffer mightily from ongoing Chrome/Android bugs. Here's one that is fucking us really bad right this minute as a matter of fact: https://t.co/WW2CXDdz56

@Carnage4Life @firasd and this https://t.co/GrwzuZsoRE

@Carnage4Life @firasd I think this confuses the symptom with the disease; it is a side effect of excessively connecting humans to each other, and infinite information. Basically this https://t.co/QBStkEROQJ

@firasd @Carnage4Life yeah that is sensible, but if his point is "people can see the fakery too clearly with all the info in today's world and that's a problem" then it breaks down, for me at least. Excessive info is the way it's always going to be, from now on, forever. https://t.co/QBStkEROQJ

@firasd @Carnage4Life right but if there wasn't fakery in the first place, there would be less unintended "knowledge". I guess the larger point would be that fans are too dumb to understand anything, I guess? I mean maybe but that's not an interesting observation to me.

@grantmccall @JacobEthanWhite @chrisltd the good news is that iPhone 7 perf level is pretty decent overall, but you have to buy in at the 855 level and no lower.

@grantmccall @JacobEthanWhite @chrisltd it's not synthetic, it directly affects Discourse, and all other javascript on the web, of which there is a whole lot. The reality is that Qualcomm is many, many years behind Apple on SoCs. Whether that matters or not to you is a different issue.

@Carnage4Life still kind of ironic given the whole fake wrestling thing

@drewtetz Fight Club is awesome though, just sayin'

@wilshipley @UPS it's weird because SOMETIMES I get real time updates that even show where the specific UPS truck with the package is on a detailed map, block by block

@olea I just don't like Russian interference! 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 👍

@drewtetz I saw it in the theater in NC and as we walked out, some guy turned to me and said "did you understand that?"

@Pinboard TOO LATE MACIEJ

@los_kvant two codes claimed! 🎉

@ol_podol one code claimed 🎉

@Carnage4Life Yeah stand your ground is kinda nuts if you think it through. And it certainly should not apply if you're not ACTUALLY in your home!

@JacobEthanWhite @chrisltd still less and worse cameras, non-OLED screen, worse GPU. CPU would indeed be faster though. Question of overall feature balance vs. price, I think this Mi 9 is nailing it, and if Qualcomm can ever STOP FUCKING SUCKING AT MAKING CPUS, then it could be even more competitive

@sarahjeong oh they did pick up some hobbies all right

@kevindente Much worse screen, GPU, camera and bezels though. Now that Qualcomm has caught up a bit on perf the tradeoffs start to make more sense if the price is right!

@JacobEthanWhite Yes but the camera and GPU suffer, also you are missing a12 and a13 hardware security mitigations

Also I am kinda loving the Mi 9. Very very good performance, close to iPhone 7, at a super low $388 (global unlocked) price point is what Android was always supposed to be about, to me anyways.

So many ragrets are about to be had https://t.co/OPQXdulGTf

@kthorjensen Twisted Firestarter

@jbaert oh no, so every system update? I guess I'll find out..

@rchavik @Ayeshlive see replies; it's about the bugs. Rando software has a *lot* more than, say, Qualcomm SoCs

@dfnkt @Ayeshlive ah you're right I must have been seeing the 9 SE or 9T, my bad. Still a *killer* deal at $385 IMO

@dfnkt @Ayeshlive yeah the "comparable" phone is the $499 oneplus 6t (with worse SoC) and at $320 (or less!) it's absolutely no contest which is the better deal by a pretty darn wide margin

@dfnkt @Ayeshlive and checking Amazon right now, it's actually available for as low as $320 so I overpaid a bit? I wanted the blue shiny one though :D

@dfnkt @Ayeshlive spec-wise it's quite solid! https://t.co/bvAG24OUNP -- mine is the lowest spec (cheapest) version at 6GB RAM, 64GB storage. I don't think it is beatable for the price, and I got mine off amazon

@Ayeshlive yeah but bugs are also exploits, just sayin'

@Ayeshlive I don't particularly trust that code vs. Google, but point taken!

I guess Xiaomi marks these all as "system apps" so they can't be uninstalled as you would expect, and you have to USB tether as a "developer" and issue command lines to uninstall them. 🤷‍♂️

@jgordonshare I even installed iOS 13.0.1 to see if that changed anything; it did not!

@SurvivorRules I eventually managed to get the data off after HOURS of trying, but I'm adding this as a comment

@chx I don't think this is fixable honestly, prove me wrong!

@seesharp fire alarm of some kind? that'd be my guess. Most common?

@leahculver that's just WRONG

@Carnage4Life Snopes says mixture, not totally false, though.

@kwiersma @jongalloway This lacks the requisite levels of whimsy

p.s. #peaceouthaterz

Is JoJo Siwa still gonna be rocking that Ms. Pac-Man bow at age 30? 🤔

@tobermatt Even the Samsungs?! Or was it off brand shenanigans?

@susanthesquark Two factor hardware keys all the time everywhere!

Printing out the PDF helps for multiplayer! https://t.co/7v1uwakJCh

@PassMarkInc @AfroEagle @ThePobV “A basic data blocker will send a fixed charging signal, which may result in slower charging. The PortaPow Data Blocker includes our SmartCharge chip which detects and sends the correct signal for your device (Apple, Universal or Samsung)”

@metsfan “A basic data blocker will send a fixed charging signal, which may result in slower charging. The PortaPow Data Blocker includes our SmartCharge chip which detects and sends the correct signal for your device (Apple, Universal or Samsung)”

@PassMarkInc @AfroEagle @ThePobV Safety has a cost! Fast charge isn’t needed all that often in typical charge scenarios though

@AfroEagle @ThePobV Yeah it is not complicated

@pythonmeister @discourse On top of THAT, faster CPUs finish the work faster and get to crazy low power draw idle states faster, which is incredibly important on mobile.

@Pinboard https://t.co/NkofWoKfD3

@ach0w @my2k @wavyknife Oh yeah it does not work, it's basically a "looks like you are not running Microsoft Outlook, therefore the sender is screwed" notice.

@fuzzy76 @esesci those are so strongly correlated in practice that the difference seems insignificant to me (but I don't disagree that presenting both pieces of info would not hurt)

@patio11 One thing: the European “mandatory 3D secure 2 credit card thing” rollout has been disturbingly NOT smooth by Stripe standards, but that might be Europe craziness? https://t.co/XzYg58DSrp

@my2k @wavyknife That is an automated email Microsoft Outlook sends when you try to “undo” sending an email. I think it only works if both users are on the same version of Microsoft Outlook. But it is 100% automated, no person sent it

@kevindente It stays dark and gets darker for a looooong loooooooong time. I don’t know that I have ever watched a show this relentlessly dystopian.

@FznSG @danekhollas @discourse I believe @eviltrout can make it so!

@tsakoyan Yes that’s the joke

Also see https://t.co/URDurQXBV4 — anyone can download the PDF and play as the reader!

These are pretty aggressive settings — original 5mb, large 1mb, medium 233kb, small 73kb. So pick “large!”

@drewtetz did anyone bring the Whitesnake album

@Pinboard you are just angry because all your yubikeys are now so totally p0wned

it really should be 10 minotaurs though

@jonadair so, the Jon Adair, what's your point?

@ryanburnett it seemed automatic for me when I uploaded an image through Mobile Safari

@lazycoder @bradwilson @StackOverflow @spolsky That is a question for @spolsky not me! I am definitely a fan of offices!

@chetfaliszek I am pretending these tweets are unskippabe cutscenes

@denvercoder See
https://t.co/BU6reCLi7u

@paulg this is ICE COLD Paul Graham 🥶

@b11c 🤦‍♂️

@venzann another sneaky thing is making the first (n) storage fast and the rest really slow. So quick tests will "confirm" good speeds.

also don't even bother buying USB drives in 32GB+ sizes until you know what the read/write speeds will be, otherwise... https://t.co/0tD8CYisRV

@Carnage4Life that said, no way I'd want to go back to 1000 A.D. either

@Carnage4Life the lottery of time as well, I'm still pissed I wasn't born 300-400 years in the future

@jonobacon highly recommend this book as well https://t.co/kCVa2nuu5a

also maybe not using "just" two times in the same sentence (not my copy, it's theirs)

@betsyphd maybe, but milky way is first to walk the plank!

@Pinboard What’s irritating is how painfully tribal Republicans are.. and how effective that strategy really is. We should be learning from that.

@drewtetz Come on Drew Tetz

@craniac I know it's like 640kb of memory should be ENOUGH for ANYONE

@agilethumbs @ManuelBieh @dhh @LaurenGoode the web is basically 80% JavaScript now. Our project @discourse has been 100% JS since 2012.

@patio11 Trust me we support people who run open source ruby code on random cloud servers and we are *keenly* aware that per-thread perf has advanced a lot in the last 7 years

@kevindente so so painful to read in this format. just eye bleeding

@chrisltd @jef_poskanzer Mouse support is already in iPad OS 13 my man, take a look.

@jef_poskanzer given the way hardware prices and iPad OS 13 software is starting to look, I'm not sure *anyone* should buy them any more?

this particular Chromebook, one of the nicest and fastest, has the m3-8100Y. So basically Apple's (now one year old) A12 is *doubling* Intel's performance at the same power draw. I'm just sayin' https://t.co/JvpB5goQ2w

oh yeah and the $499 iPad Air has the same SoC as the iPad Pro, that's what I was trying to remember, so..

@ericlewis Yes that is why I specified Pro to make it a more dramatic comparison, probably your best bang for the buck is a used XS or XR

@nberardi @DanielOCnr Yeah ours has dual 100A breakers on the main

@TwigCaseCo this reminds me that I need a case for an iPhone 11 Pro Max XXXTREME

@susanthesquark @mcwm Ordered!

@timohetzel this is one of the cases where I relied heavily on Amazon reviews https://t.co/Wjmm22Aoe7

@Pinboard @deadprogrammer and I are headed to Ukraine in 2 weeks, we will endeavor to work all this out

@Tetizera @Pinboard you don't need to know much to know that you need to vote for whoever is running against Trump