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Of course :-) It was a Bunnahabhain XXV, the greatest sherry cask dram I have ever had the pleasure of tasting. I am very close to rationalizing buying a bottle, but I know I can buy four $100 bottles of other whiskies that are 95% as good, and will give me a wider range of experiences, for that same price.
Or you could buy two bottles of the Bunnahabhain and two other $100 bottles instead of buying the new iPhone ;)
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> Except it's really easy to accidentally destroy or lose a phone. In 20 years of owning different mobile phones, I've never accidentally destroyed or lost one. Maybe you are just clumsy or careless.
In twenty years of commenting on the internet, I've never insulted someone's physical abilities. Maybe you are just lacking empathy or deliberately clueless.
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I am using my Dell XPS 13 with a resolution of 1920x1080 (scaled from 3200x1800) for the internal display and an external display with native 1920x1080 and cannot confirm this. It works pretty well (GNOME3, Ubuntu 17.04). Firefox is not tiny. I did not change anything in my X config files.
You mean you changed the resolution of your internal screen with xrandr? Or does xrandr still report 3200x1800? If not, then this is not a HiDPI setup. HiDPI is (basically) when applications draw using internal coordinates that are not "1 screen pixel per logical pixel", but more than that.
xrandr reports the following:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192 eDP-1 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 294mm x 165mm
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That's just not true in any possible way. The handling and driving experience of a nicer sports car is absolutely nothing like a regular midranger, not to mention all the quality of life features.
I think it's truer these days than most of us would admit. The current Shelby Mustang placed only behind the McLaren 570S in Motortrend's 2016 best driver's car contest, beating out the Merc, Aston Martin, Porsche, and others[0]. The BRZ might not be fast, but it has almost universally positive reviews anyway because it handles and drives so damn well[1]. Even the $23k Ford Focus ST gets positive reviews as a great d…
For reference, the trackday club I belong to is doing a weekender trip to the nurburgrink in late october: I'm not taking the fiesta for that (also I don't want to drive 800km in it to get there).
Planned obsolescence is my biggest gripe with Apple and other brands that do this. My 2012 iOS device is now stuck on iOS9. I wouldn't mind except they bundle web browser updates with the OS. This is wrong. The web browser on iOS9 does not support javascript ES6 features such as the "Let" statement. Any web sites that use let statements will fail on iOS 9. I discovered this recently when browsing on my iPad3, 2012 mo…
Apple have a lot to answer for, and there are a lot of flaws with iOS devices, but this isn't one of them. 5 years of updates for a smartphone is pretty good. From Android, I think only certain Sony phones even come close to that. By now, the battery cells will be damaged, the CPU/RAM too slow or limited, the flash memory wearing out. Time for a new phone :)
As mentioned, I don't mind about OS updates, I care about browser updates or at least patches for iOS Safari.
> By now, the battery cells will be damaged, the CPU/RAM too slow or limited, the flash memory wearing out
Nope. The battery on my iPad3 is fine. iPads should not be classed as a "throw-away" replaceable product like phones seem to be. CPU and RAM is fine for web browsing and most apps. Flash memory wearing out? Gimme a break.
Every Steam game homepage gallery is broken now on browsers that don't support ES6 javascript. The highlight player doesn't display images or video since recent update to their website. I previously enjoyed browsing Steam on my iPad looking for new games. Example:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/449640/Bloody_Zombies/
Note, I partly blame Steam web devs for not making it backwards compatible, but also Apple for denying Safari any updates because of their dirty business model of abandoning their own products. Disgusting lack of modern environmentally concerned tech life-cycle standards. They boast about green packaging for products destined for the grave in only 5 years.
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Hmm OK, so I guess you just make sure you buy a phone with an easily replaceable battery then? Or is it that cheap when you have it done too?
You don't even need that. Phones like the LG Fortune, which I own and works totally fine, can be bought for $25 new and out the door, no contract, at mainstream retailers like Best Buy. I also have a moto e4 which I'm using to type this. I think it cost me about $65. (I also have a variety of iDevices and flagship phones for testing stuff I write) We are in the age of adequate, super cheap phones that aren't awful. I…
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In twenty years of commenting on the internet, I've never insulted someone's physical abilities. Maybe you are just lacking empathy or deliberately clueless.
How am I insulting someone's abilities ? He's making a blanket statement that mobile phones are easily destroyed, which is bullshit. Sure, a person may be clumsy and often drop their phone, but that's not a problem with the phone itself. The world is full of small, fragile things. Should we start rubber-padding everything ? The same can be said for, e.g. glasses, should no one wear glasses anymore because they are 'e…
> Maybe you are just clumsy or careless.
People with physical restrictions, muscle deterioration, neural impairment can have difficulty with fine motor control, and drop things. Implying that someone is 'clumsy' is implicitly judging their physical ability.
Additionally, modern smartphones are fragile (glass fronts, water damage) and discreet (wallet sized). They are broken more often than old dumbphones, and get left behind/dropped into inaccessible places.
> The world is full of small, fragile things.
Those things usually don't cost hundreds of dollars AND are an everyday item. You don't carry your fine china to the shops in case you have the need for a cup of tea, and watches are water/shock resistant (& are physically tethered to you).
Who are you arguing against? No one said that people shouldn't have phones; just that their cost/risk benefit of phones has convinced them to stick beneath a certain price point.
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New battery is about $10, not exactly a blocker, but they do increase the price.
Hmm OK, so I guess you just make sure you buy a phone with an easily replaceable battery then? Or is it that cheap when you have it done too?
Speaking for the OnePlus One and Nexus 5 the procedure is pretty straight forward: pop it open using plastic trim tools (which are often sold with batteries) disconnect the ribbon cable and pry the battery off any adhesive. Drop the new one in, reconnect it and snap it back together and you're done.
Depends on the phone I guess, but the whole thing takes maybe 15 minutes.
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Also called price anchoring [0] in marketing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
indeed; for those who may not be familiar, see 'behavioral economics' [0] for the ways that known quirks in human reasoning can be used to game consumers. don't buy a house without learning about it. there are two great books I recommend for those interested: predictably irrational [1] and the upside of irrationality [2]. personally, I think the first is better than the second as a layman's introduction to it. [0] ht…