In 3 years I haven’t had a single attempted connection that wasn’t me. Once you get to the ephemeral ports nobody is scanning that high.

I’m not saying run no security or something. Just nobody wants to scan all 65k ports. They’re looking for easy targets.

It makes more sense when you think of how syncing music worked for iPods.

Music went from your PC to the iPod, and that was the only way. You’re syncing your iPod with your PC to make your iPod match your PC. The iPod touch came out and let you download music on the device, but when you went to sync to make the data match you gotta make it match. Either copy the data to your PC, or delete it from the iPod.

Change the port it runs on to be stupid high and they won’t bother.

It’s a carryover from the iPod days. You can thank the music industry’s DRM for this.

For mid range GPUs maybe. But CPUs and high end GPUs aboslutely had an improvement.

Ryzen 9000 series and Intels Core 200 series didn’t really up performance too much, but they did reduce power consumption by a good bit. But the 9800x3d CPU is an absolute beast. https://gamersnexus.net/cpus/rip-intel-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-cpu-review-benchmarks-vs-7800x3d-285k-14900k-more

http://gamersnexus.net/gpus/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-founders-edition-review-benchmarks-vs-5090-7900-xtx-4080-more

In the six months I spent hooked up to every health tracker I could find, feeding my morbid curiosity, I drove myself slightly crazy. Each hit of dopamine I enjoyed by getting good scores on a health-tracking app was offset by long periods of self-doubt that came from not fully understanding how to make sense of the torrent of data without my doctor’s help. I also became obsessive — checking the apps was the first thing I did in the morning and started occupying hours of my day.

So don’t strap every single possible monitoring device on you on day one? Take your time and learn how they work/what they do? And maybe don’t do it if you’re a hypochondriac?

Mac OS dropping 32 bit support made me realize just how bad the situation is. And that was over 5 years ago.

The fact that any software being made in 2025 is still 32 bit is ludicrous.

The fact that codecs like aptx aren’t ubiquitous on all android devices is one of the biggest reason why it never switch back. Aptx when the two devices support it is beautiful. Low latency, high quality. Perfect. But even nice devices don’t always support it (I’m looking at you google) It’s a solved problem, but manufacturers can’t get their shit together.

Then you have manufacturers like Sony who produce butt loads of Bluetooth paraphernalia, but can’t make Bluetooth on their phones work for shit. Bluetooth key for his Tesla doesn’t work for him unless his wife turns off BT on her phone first.

2.5mm plugs suck ass. My first smart phone had one and I HATED it. It’s so tiny, fragile, and I DETEST working with it.

The funny thing about battery size; they could make the phone 1mm thicker and you’d get way more battery capacity from that than removing an aux port.

Z space is not at a premium, X and Y space are. A 3.5mm jack takes up a TON of space in all dimensions. The PCBs of modern phones are TINY compared to the phones of old.

Apples dongle is $10 and very high quality. It uses the same chip that was previously internally in the iphone. Good adapters aren’t that expensive.

Dedicated DACs for phones started taking off right as the 3.5mm jack was getitng killed anyways. All the hardcore audiophiles I know that listen to music on their phone use one of those because they can actually drive good headphones. It was kinda perfect timing.

You can have wired USB C headphones with no latency.

Also any good headphones should compensate by delaying the video a bit. At least on iOS with Airpods the audio and video are almost perfectly synced. Same with any other bluetooth headphones I’ve used. I did have a REALLY old BT speaker with like a 500ms delay and that was very noticeable. But that speaker is over 10 years old and cost $20.

entirely

It’s not just overhead.

Proton is amazing, but it’s entirely overhead translating library/system calls to Linux.

That is not at all true.

but that’s a separate statement about games being better optimized on Windows.

Is that though? You can’t say X is better than Y when you’re changing multiple variables. If windows had a proton equivalent and both games ran through it then yes that would be a direct comparison. But you can’t say X + Y is better than Z (by itself)

DXVK is a part of proton that also is available on windows. DXVK alone can get you double digit performance improvements on games. And that’s not getting into all the one off tweaks users can do to proton to optimize the game. Enabling pre compiled shaders gave a huge performance boost for Elden Ring.

Games run faster on SteamOS with proton than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

FTFY. I hate all these articles that downplay the heavy lifting proton (and all the tools that make it up) are doing. But “Proton makes games run better” doesn’t get the same attention.

The themed icons are even worse

Over time I hate themed icons more and more. In like 2013 when I still used Android as my main phone I used to use them. But shortly after that I realized any customization I do myself is just… hideous? And ever since then I’ve hated all of it.

iOS recently added tinted and “dark” icons and they’re all horrendous.

https://www.xda-developers.com/material-you-monet-theme-engine/

Apparently it’s officially called material you, but that name is so stupid I think I’d prefer to call it by it’s code name too.

You can make software accessible without Ai

How do you propose generating alt text for images without some form of machine learning?

Alt text is an accessibility feature. Do you really want to be exclusionary to anyone who’s remotely blind?

Air conditioning?

Much better cargo capacity and organization?