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  • Compared: Apple AirTag vs Tile Pro and Chipolo One Spot

    daniPhone said:
    “All three models are powered by a CR2032 coin cell battery, one typically used in watches”

    I’ve owned dozens of watches, but never have I seen or heard of a watch carrying a CR2032 battery. 
    They’re huge!
    "size typically used as a CMOS battery on a motherboard" 

    better?  :)
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  • Netflix cuts video bitrates in Europe due to social distancing demand

    zroger73 said:
    I still can't tell the difference between 720p, 1080p, and 4K content from a distance of 10 feet on a 65" TV and I have 20/20 vision. I can tell the difference from a few feet away, but that's too close to be watching a 65" screen.
    The human eye does have a limited resolving power. 
    As with everything "normal" is more akin to average normal, but regarding our viewing into the eye, optics for viewing *into* the eye hit the anatomic limit of resolution decades and decades ago. AO is the working (but expensive) solution to photographing individual rod and cone cells, etc. (Think AO the same as earth bound telescopes looking through the atmosphere to deep space)

    http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.png



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  • Apple paying up to $500 million to settle iPhone battery slowdown lawsuits

    lkrupp said:
    acejax805 said:
    Add this to the ever growing list of reasons to support Right to Repair legislation. Apple isn't doing itself any favors.
    Oh you're gonna love it when the EU mandates user replaceable batteries. Back to the case and battery flying apart all across the pavement when you drop it. I remember those days. Do You?
    how many US$5 children's toys have user replaceable batteries?
    how many have the cover & batteries flying off to the toddler?
    a screw or two solves your "problem" on a $1000 device.

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  • Essential sees no way to ship the Gem phone and is closing down

    sflocal said:
    It's amazing that Andy Rubin is able to continue funding failures and not be in the poor house.  The originator of the knockoff iOS flops again.

    I consider Rubin as bad as Eric Schmidt in terms of ethics.

    Because they raised US $330 million in VC (and still have $30 million cash on hand)

    I doubt Rubin put any money of his own into it, so his wealth has nothing to do with the company.


    Though i do have a feeling the death of Essential & drying up of buyout offers from other tech giants was directly related to the risk from the publicity of Rubin's workplace scandal.
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  • Taika Waititi slams Apple's MacBook Pro keyboards in Oscar speech

    Then buy a PC and do your word processing on that.

    Solved.
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