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Thursday, August 01

Daily News Stuff 31 July 2019

Unexpectedly Edition

Tech News

It's the attack of the 32GB unbuffered DIMMs! (AnandTech)

Still waiting for a proper detailed review though.
Europe is employing magic fairies to secure its borders. (TechDirt)

Well, a Magic Fairy app. It doesn't work at all, just the same as magic fairies, who are lazy little buggers when they're not under the lash.
iPhone sales are down 12% since last year which has to suck for Apple because they can't produce a new product to save themselves. (Tech Crunch)
Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab S6. (Tech Crunch)

Only in 10" size, nothing in 8". My Mediapad is still working pretty well though.
bootOS is an operating system that fits entirely in the boot sector of your disk drive. (GitHub)

Take that ChibiOS and your "only a few kilobytes".

The creator has a book out on writing programs that fit entirely in the boot sector. (Lulu.com)
Some YouTubers I'm vaguely aware of got their talk cancelled from PAX because. (One Angry Gamer)

I mean, literally because.

That's a message worthy of Twitter's own Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

"Unfortunately we have to remove you."

Nice messaging, PAX team.

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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:04 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 "Only in 10" size, nothing in 8"."
I gave up and bought an S4 this spring. SD 835 is pretty good for gaming.
The 10" screen is nice, but actually overkill for mobile gaming, and it's a heck of a lot heavier than my 8" S2.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 01 2019 08:28 AM (Iwkd4)

2 Tablets: I "upgraded" to the S5E... scare-quotes because somehow in all the research I did before the purchase I missed the whole thing about how the 5GHz antenna is borked on the damned thing. I kind of miss my 8" S2 but I was able to hand it down to someone who was using an ancient hand-me-down iPad and considers the S2 to be a SUPREME improvement. And setting my WiFi to no-5GHz mode means I'm mostly able to stay online. Sigh.

So... meh. *shrug*

Posted by: GreyDuck at Thursday, August 01 2019 09:26 AM (yisPP)

3 The S2 was pretty nice, if you didn't need a good GPU. When frickin' Farmville plays like garbage, something's wrong.
I still have my S2 but something's wrong with it--it gets down to about 25% charge and will shut itself off.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 01 2019 11:13 AM (Iwkd4)

4 Devices mostly estimate available battery capacity by voltage, and as the battery gets older the voltage curve changes, so that the device guesses 25% when it's really down to 3%.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, August 01 2019 11:21 AM (PiXy!)

5 Huh. Makes sense. Looks like a replacement battery can be had for $30-50, and you only need a spudger.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 01 2019 11:57 AM (Iwkd4)

6 Also, I really only got 18 months out of the battery, maybe less, before it started doing that. Disappointing. I did use it a lot, though.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 01 2019 12:02 PM (Iwkd4)

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