Controversial posts made by kamidon

@JaredBusch said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

@Obsolesce said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

@kamidon said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

@marcinozga said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

The title is nothing but a click-bait. Apple is not locking down batteries, it's displaying a message that it's unable to diagnose battery health, which is not surprising, since replacement batteries are probably lacking diagnostic chip that's present in original batteries. Your replacement battery will continue to work just fine.

Haha thanks, yeah I have 0 interest in reading an article about iPhones.

So we can assume most of your replies are ignorant?

Pretty much yes.

Niiiiiiice burn

@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:

I'm pretty sure I'll be getting a OnePlus for my next phone. I like my Samsung but it is so full of bloatware and doesn't give me the freedom to use it like I want. OnePlus is looking great.

OMG that's what I'm getting!
Yeah I've been eyeballing it for months now, the OnePlus 7 Pro. I'm on Verizon though, so I'm still trying to make sure the darn thing is for sure going to work! Well Plus money....so....yeah.

Currently I have a Pixel XL 2. It's a damn good phone, I have no problems with it at all.
Takes incredible pictures, battery still lasts all day and night and...yeah great phone.

Buuuuut I'm divorcing Google out of my life so, there's that.

@Pete-S said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@Pete-S said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@Pete-S said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@Dashrender said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@krisleslie said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

some of the systems they sell can come with 4-8 GB of RAM and NOT give you an option to add more ram (intentionally) because they removed the slot! So if you want brand new, BE WISE AND READ!

This sort of crap pisses me off.
This and: "Oh you want the i5? Well that only comes with 8GB of RAM sorry, you need to order the i7 to get the 16GB of RAM. Evil laugh ensues (probably)

yeah - I agree with that.

Sadly - sometimes it's due to the fact that they are trying for SUPER thin and SUPER light.. so making things modular costs both thickness and weight.

Yeah I get that, but I'm talking about the same model. A great example is the Latitude series, Dell does this crap with their different builds.
i7 and i5 latitudes are the same shape and size. It's literally the same chassis.

The whole i5/i7 is just a bunch of marketing that creates confusion. There is no real difference between i5 and i7 on mobile CPUs. Usually the i7 can run on a slightly higher clock frequency so it's about 10-15% faster when pushed. Which is not enough for the user to actually notice.

So it's better to take the i5, save a bunch of $$$ and buy memory for that instead. Seeing Dell selling new laptops in 2019 with spinning rust and 4GB RAM - that should be criminal.

Depending on the year it made a huge difference. Mainly hyperthreading and of course the amount of cores.
Imo, having used both extensively, there's a huge difference between an i5 and i7.

I call BS on that because they have all been 2 cores for a long, long time, up until 8th gen. Only the gaming CPUs (end in H/HQ/HK) have been 4 cores.

So the difference you noticed has been psychological or a change of generations or other components in the system, not i5 versus i7.

No. i7 blows the shit out of i5. i5s I THINK barely have hyperthreading as of now starting with Gen 8.
They've always been slower than the i7s and had less cores.
It's like comparing a S-10 to a Silverado and saying the S-10 is just as fast and can haul more.

Are you talking about the desktop CPUs? You do know that they are completely different compared to the mobile CPUs right?
i5 mobile != i5 desktop

I'm aware lol.
Fuck can't find older systems to show you.
Not all i5s had hyperthreading, I recall looking into ordering machines for our company a couple years ago, the i5s for the laptops were just 4 cores with four threads. Then the i7 had 4 cores with 8 threads.

@Obsolesce said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

@kamidon said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

@marcinozga said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

The title is nothing but a click-bait. Apple is not locking down batteries, it's displaying a message that it's unable to diagnose battery health, which is not surprising, since replacement batteries are probably lacking diagnostic chip that's present in original batteries. Your replacement battery will continue to work just fine.

Haha thanks, yeah I have 0 interest in reading an article about iPhones.

So we can assume most of your replies are ignorant?

Regarding that specific article, sure.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@kamidon said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Training Videos.

On what?

A new POS software called HR POS (Formally MobileBytes) as we are no selling/ supporting this.

I'm sorry what? I keep falling asleep halfway just reading this. Haha

@Pete-S said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@Pete-S said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@Dashrender said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@kamidon said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

@krisleslie said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

some of the systems they sell can come with 4-8 GB of RAM and NOT give you an option to add more ram (intentionally) because they removed the slot! So if you want brand new, BE WISE AND READ!

This sort of crap pisses me off.
This and: "Oh you want the i5? Well that only comes with 8GB of RAM sorry, you need to order the i7 to get the 16GB of RAM. Evil laugh ensues (probably)

yeah - I agree with that.

Sadly - sometimes it's due to the fact that they are trying for SUPER thin and SUPER light.. so making things modular costs both thickness and weight.

Yeah I get that, but I'm talking about the same model. A great example is the Latitude series, Dell does this crap with their different builds.
i7 and i5 latitudes are the same shape and size. It's literally the same chassis.

The whole i5/i7 is just a bunch of marketing that creates confusion. There is no real difference between i5 and i7 on mobile CPUs. Usually the i7 can run on a slightly higher clock frequency so it's about 10-15% faster when pushed. Which is not enough for the user to actually notice.

So it's better to take the i5, save a bunch of $$$ and buy memory for that instead. Seeing Dell selling new laptops in 2019 with spinning rust and 4GB RAM - that should be criminal.

Depending on the year it made a huge difference. Mainly hyperthreading and of course the amount of cores.
Imo, having used both extensively, there's a huge difference between an i5 and i7.

I call BS on that because they have all been 2 cores for a long, long time, up until 8th gen. Only the gaming CPUs (end in H/HQ/HK) have been 4 cores.

So the difference you noticed has been psychological or a change of generations or other components in the system, not i5 versus i7.

No. i7 blows the shit out of i5. i5s I THINK barely have hyperthreading as of now starting with Gen 8.
They've always been slower than the i7s and had less cores.
It's like comparing a S-10 to a Silverado and saying the S-10 is just as fast and can haul more.

@RojoLoco said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

@IRJ said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

@marcinozga said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

@IRJ said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

@marcinozga said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

The title is nothing but a click-bait. Apple is not locking down batteries, it's displaying a message that it's unable to diagnose battery health, which is not surprising, since replacement batteries are probably lacking diagnostic chip that's present in original batteries. Your replacement battery will continue to work just fine.

Yes, but Apple has talked about actually locking out 3rd party parts before

Do you have source for that claim? I know they did that with fingerprint readers, but that was a valid move. They do make their hardware harder and harder to fix, but I don't recall any claims that they were actually blocking 3rd party parts, with some exceptions where it would compromise security, like with above fingerprint reader.

They could even claim 3rd party batteries are dangerous (they can be).

They are dangerous... to Apple's profit margin. They didn't spend a gazillion ad dollars creating their whole "pay more for it because it's what all the cool kids use" thing so you could save a few bucks on a battery replacement. I'm actually shocked that they haven't announced that installing 3rd party batteries voids your warranty.

Yeah I never cared for Apple's dictatorship-esque treament of their products.
Even down to OSX (or whatever it is now, is it XI yet?) or iOS, you're so restricted, it's like wearing handcuffs.
Apple makes me thankful for Microsoft's latest CEO being so open to utilizing various other third party vendors and creators.

I had this issue with my HP Omen, but it went away after going back to Windows from Fedora...when I failed miserably to play games on Linux....lol

My workaround was just to turn sleep mode off. I just did this via the GUI in settings.

@IRJ said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

Yes, but Apple has talked about actually locking out 3rd party parts before

Wouldn't surprise me. It's Apple we're talking about lol.

@marcinozga said in Apple locking down iPhone batteries:

The title is nothing but a click-bait. Apple is not locking down batteries, it's displaying a message that it's unable to diagnose battery health, which is not surprising, since replacement batteries are probably lacking diagnostic chip that's present in original batteries. Your replacement battery will continue to work just fine.

Haha thanks, yeah I have 0 interest in reading an article about iPhones.