Knork-and-Fife (u/Knork-and-Fife)

Knork-and-Fife commented on Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S thedrive.com/news/budget-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

os2warpman · 24 days ago

It has been my experience that people who talk about cars are lying to themselves.

They say they want one thing, but buy another.

They claim they want a manual transmission and then buy a RAV4.

They claim they want a sports sedan and then buy a RAV4.

They claim they want a station wagon and then buy a RAV4.

They claim they want a base, cheap, simple, vehicle and then they drop $55k on a fully-equipped RAV4 Hybrid.

Be weird. It's ok. Do the dumb thing and follow your desire.

And you can hedge your bets. I bought, used, a manual transmission convertible sports car, a sports sedan (red, even!), and capacious station wagon for all of my Home Depot needs all for less than the price of RAV4 Hybrid and between the three I always have at least one functional vehicle!

Knork-and-Fife · 24 days ago

I think a lot of people do want these things, but car buying is not always up to just one person. It's often a decision made in the context of a family or group who will share a vehicle or otherwise have input on the buying decision.

These studies should be surveying these groups instead of individuals I think. Sometimes the "group" will just be one person, and that's okay. But I wouldn't want someone's opinion if they're making it on behalf of a group without the groups input, because that's not realistic

Knork-and-Fife commented on Why doctors hate their computers (2018) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/mitchbob

cyberpunk · a month ago

AI features that .. WHAT?

How does that work? Are you saying that personal doctors appointments are being live transcribed by microsoft or openai?

Over. My. Dead. Body.

Knork-and-Fife · a month ago

At my last doctor's appointment the nurse asked if I was okay with AI conversation transcription and summarizing that the doctor uses. So I had the option to decline.

I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. There are contextual details you might include when talking to your doctor that you wouldn't expect your doctor to write down into your medical record.

Knork-and-Fife commented on Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3 my.matterport.com/show/?m... · Posted by u/uticus

jwoglom · a month ago

I love that the black trash cans say "Microsoft" on them, for some reason.

Knork-and-Fife · a month ago

They had to compete with Apple

Knork-and-Fife commented on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) smallandroidphone.com/... · Posted by u/asimops

neogodless · a month ago

https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-zenfone-10-review-3334...

According to this article

> The ASUS Zenfone 10 is a compact flagship Android phone from ASUS. Sporting a little 5.9-inch display

Though you have to argue it's not tiny. (Don't think it sold all that well, though, at least not mainstream.)

Knork-and-Fife · a month ago

i was waiting to buy one until they fulfilled their promise of allowing unlocking the bootloader, which they never did...

Knork-and-Fife commented on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) smallandroidphone.com/... · Posted by u/asimops

sensen · a month ago

The Jelly Max looks really tempting, but I'm a little apprehensive after running the Jelly Star for a while and dealing with constant dropped calls and bad call quality all around.

Knork-and-Fife · a month ago

I'm in a similar boat. I really (really!) wanted to love the jelly star (when I used it for almost a month), but on Verizon I didn't have an LTE signal most of the time in the Seattle area, including downtown, which I find unreasonable. Also the battery life was horrible, 20% per hour of active use and 4% per hour of standby.

Using the jelly star proved that using a small screen is not a problem for me and I would gladly pay money for an experience like that.

But it also proved that it is not an acceptable option in terms of quality. Hopefully the Jelly Max is better in these regards.

I think Jelly Max the ideal size for me too (jelly star was a little too small for doing driving navigation). I'll keep an ear out

Knork-and-Fife commented on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better domenic.me/fsrs/... · Posted by u/domenicd

Knork-and-Fife · 3 months ago

I used basically this algorithm in college with the following setup:

Make a word document that lists all the keys to memorize vertically. Save as PDF

Open the PDF in a viewer with annotation tools. Make a clickable note in the margin just next to each key. Write out the value to memorize in the note field.

Cycle through the clickable notes. When you get one right easily, drag the note more to the left in the margin. As you cycle, focus on the ones furthest to the right. If you get one wrong, move it a bit further to the right.

In general the notes will move to the left until you're comfortable with all of them. And the balancing of which ones you need to see and focus on plays out very naturally and you feel in control the whole time.

There are many downsides with this compared to a tool like anki (e.g. I only used it on a laptop), but there was also something about it that just worked really well for me, so I never ended up switching to a different tool. But this was before anki had the similar algorithm described here. Maybe my experience would be different today

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0xEF · 4 months ago

I still rock my OG Pebble and while I am excited they're coming back, I have no plans to upgrade.

Like you, my needs are simple; vibrating alarm, notifications, but with one key factor; I need a display that I can read in broad daylight that plays nice with my far-sighted eyes. The eInk display on the OG Pebbles hits the mark. Being able to read a text without pulling out my phone is also nice.

Plus they can be got on eBay for about $30 USD and a fresh battery is about $15, so they don't break the bank. The Rebble.io community's work is still functioning well enough for my use, as well.

Knork-and-Fife · 4 months ago

Small correction, pebbles use a TFT "e-paper" display, not e-ink. This is how they have reasonable refresh rates for animations and no after image problems. It's the best compromise imo

Knork-and-Fife commented on Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools androidauthority.com/asus... · Posted by u/kirenida

DoneWithAllThat · a year ago

The article casually refers to Asus breaking “their promise” but nothing in the rest of the article suggests Asus ever promised anything of the sort. That they used to provide the tools wasn’t a promise. Did they ever advertise or up-front communicate that these tools would be made available and maintained?

Knork-and-Fife · a year ago

A lot of the zenphone series had bootloader unlock as a listed feature which was then removed when they disabled and took down the tool. The Zenfone 10 was advertised as going to have the feature as well before and even after the launch for a bit. Asus claimed that the tool was coming at several points but the date in their promises kept getting pushed back and eventually turned into we don't know and now it appears to be never. This is stuff that was in writing from them, search it up, but you'll need to check the Internet archive for the info that they've removed from their own sites (like the repeated pushing and cancelling of the return of the unlock tool)