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Techaltar

@Techaltar@mas.to

I make videos for YouTube & Nebula.

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The Pixel 8 is the most buggy mainstream Android phone I ever had (my GF uses it and it just bootlooped itself for 20 whole minutes, often freezes, etc.).
Ironically, my Surface Pro 7 is also the most buggy Windows machine I ever owned and the Surface Pro X of my studio mate Kilian is currently unable to turn on, stuck on a boot screen.

You'd think that 1st party hardware would be the most stable, but in my small sample size I've never found that to be the case.

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I literally can't think of a major bug on any of my Samsung phones, maybe ever. Never had any real issues on phones from LG, OPPO, Realme, etc. either. My self-built PC I threw together from random components has been working flawlessly. How come the OS makers themselves are this incompetent?

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Fun fact: Birkenstock is on the stock market and is worth almost $9bn, lol

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Oops, Dell leaked 4 years of laptop chips, display tech & more

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-oops-dell-leaked-4-years-of-laptop-chips
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HwMITSfAm6I

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The fact that Notion will automatically launch its AI commands (which, afaik, is a paid feature I haven't subscribed to but it's trying to upsell me on) as soon as I press 'space' in an open text field is insane. Not some special character like /, but space!!!

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@etua_en

"please remap this button to another function"
"I'm sorry Etua, I'm afraid I can't do that"

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I'm personally as excited about the Snapdragon powered Surface Pro as I've been about any computer since at least the M1 Air. The Surface has always been my dream form factor, held back by mediocre battery life, performance, etc. I soooo want this to be a win

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People who use Apple's memojis or similar as profile pictures: I totally get that it's mostly anonymous while still somewhat personal, but ... do you find there is recognizability in it? My brain just subconsciously recognizes it as a memoji but then doesn't bother to look for any features. I never actually remember or recognize them. Is that just me?

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@Rekkert yes, I think it's the same for the others too, I just see the memoji ones way more often in the wild

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@LoneLocust seems like they do! Welcome to social media, where people come to express and argue about their opinions :)

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@LoneLocust ah OK then, sorry for assuming it. I just saw a memoji in the wild and had this realization that I could have seen it a hundred times and wouldn't have recognized it, which I found odd

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@xadrav that's nice!

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I am making a whole video about why live tiles were kind of doomed to fail, but then every shot looks so pretty especially with those 3D prints that I feel bad for badmouthing it, haha

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@kbielnik IMO:

  • it came way too late & could never catch up on features & apps
  • the biggest power plays (UWP apps, continuum, etc. that really leveraged Windows on the desktop) came too late. If W8 and WP8 had shared apps, it might have been different! By W10 the phone project was dying and so was touch on
  • MS charged brands money when Android was free
  • it was too different. We techies love a new paradigm & are happy to experiment, but normal users don't
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I really dislike that YouTube doesn't show you which channel uploaded a short & when without opening it. Especially with so much content being re-uploaded (sorry, "remixed")

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Which of these recent AI announcements/events did you see with more coverage of in your feeds?

(if it's none or both, just skip the vote)

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Ironically, if someone misspells my channel name in a press email it makes me more likely to read it because I think the email itself might be at least personally addressed at me rather than just from some spam list

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@Jessica oh hello you must be a real human!

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I sometimes feel that no person in the world spends as much time as me searching for product photos. It sometimes takes me over an hour to find a single image that will be used for, like, 2 seconds in a video...

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@graphito I need a few more people throwing money at me before I can hire my next person 😁

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A quick test to see what 3D printing custom props for a video would look like. I kinda dig it!

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@DemagohOfficial the Samsung camera is trying too hard to hdr everything which makes it look a bit fake, haha

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Huh, Adobe's CEO said in the Decoder podcast that generative fill is the most used feature in Photoshop since layers. Wild!
https://pca.st/episode/37e864f7-7143-430d-a14a-99c51fab2cec

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Will we see AR/VR/XR announcements at Google I/O? What's your guess?

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@MostlyBlindGamer @DenJohn ah I also didn't see what you replied to when I replied, lol
Yeah I doubt AOSP will be much of a focus in any capacity

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