I just got a new Pixel 7a a few days ago. I specifically got that one to get the smallest of the bunch. It’s advertised as the smallest (and cheaper) model, phone size comparisons showed it to be indeed smaller than most competing devices and it’s even listed in some “best small phones” lists....
I hope somebody has a better answer for you but I think it’s just that the world has decided that one has to use two hands to operate a Smartphone now. I’d love a phone with a 5" screen but it looks like we are a (vocal) minority that’s not profitable to serve?
I’m aware of the enterprise backup solutions as mentioned in the main post. Still 45 TB are very impressive. But I was just wondering how diverse and powerful tape could be if it was the only viable storage solution. I’m assuming high speed rewinding and seeking and miniaturization would be something that the industry would have put a lot of effort into in that case, but for backup solutions those properties are less important.
I’m incredibly unqualified to even think about how one might get faster random access times but i was imagining sci-fi solutions like looped tape so that you are always at most 1/2 of the tape length away from the point you want to reach, or the tape equivalent of multi actuator hard drives where there’s be multiple independent tapes in one cassette in a sort of RAID style thing but maybe instead of (only) striping data could be stored on multiple tapes in different places to always have one tape that is at a position close to the data you want. Or a system where the same tape has multiple read heads applied to it in distant places.
Do we really need our modern data storage for mobile phones? Mobile phones for sure would be very very different than our modern smart phones but mobile phone networks don’t sound impossible. Of course the internet would have to work very differently too, but maybe routing and forwarding could be done just with everything from RAM?
You could probably carry some apps on individual tapes with you? If it was all miniaturized enough and we can cache some things. Digital photos and videos would work too as that obviously has been done many years ago.
NT Cassettes were about the size of a full size SD card and maybe twice as thick and that was in 1992. Imagine what 31 years of research could have done to that technology!
We all love retro games but let’s face it: Objectively some modern games are simply better. For example I’d argue that Pokémon Crystal is brilliant and one of the best GBC games but BW and BW2 are simply better in pretty much every way....
Well you’re not wrong but everything after Dexit isn’t really an actual Pokémon game in my book so there have only been 2 generations after BW in my view ;P
Sounds good but there isn’t any consumer equipment that can handle 2GB/s. Even 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches are super expensive and I don’t think we have anything that can do more than 10Gb/s in the consumer Networking space at all .
As somebody who likes using the terminal I too have mostly stopped using dd and use gnome disks instead. Getting the rightdd flags to get the best performance and progress indicators is a challenge to Google every time.
I downloaded StreetComplete to contribute to OSM and on f-droid.org/en/…/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/ it warns you that “This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service”. I’m not super concerned about that and will still try out StreetComplete but i was just wondering what non-free network...
I’ve tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do...
Hey I have never contributed to OSM and I just looked at f-droid.org/en/…/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/ on fdroid and there is a warning about “This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service”. Do you know which non-free network this is referring to?
GPT3 is 800GB while the entirety of the English Wikipedia is around 10GB compressed. So yeah it doesn’t store evey detail of everything but LLMs do memorize a lot of things verbatim. Also see bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2020/12/20/lmmem/
The 2-Player Starter Set was announced for the 27 October 2023 a while ago. What do you think the two decks will be? If you got to decide, the decks what would you make it?
After only 3 short years my Google Pixel 4A is EOL. It still works perfectly fine, but since our entire lives run through our phones I don’t feel safe trusting my bank accounts and so on to a phone without security updates. I feel like I wasn’t quite aware how short the supported time would be when i bought it....
I like the idea of a Linux Phone. I don’t know much about it. My bank’s 2FA probably wouldn’t be supported on that and i do need to have WhatsApp because it’s the default mode of communication for everybody that’s not deeply into privacy, right? What DE would you recommend?
I wonder if there are any technical reasons with maybe ActivityPub that old posts might have to eventually be archived?
But I enjoy the idea of never archiving or at least keeping posts open for a long time like 10 years. I’m not sure why but there is something special aboaut old threads being revived or kept alive. I had this one comment on Reddit where I purchased a product and months and years later people would still respond asking if it was still working or if I’d still recommend it. This I is like “The internet never forgets” but in a good way.
This truly is the year of the linux desktop (lemmy.world)
Need a rust version too. (sh.itjust.works)
New Pixel 7a user... am I not "getting" it?
I just got a new Pixel 7a a few days ago. I specifically got that one to get the smallest of the bunch. It’s advertised as the smallest (and cheaper) model, phone size comparisons showed it to be indeed smaller than most competing devices and it’s even listed in some “best small phones” lists....
How far could cassettes have gone if there was no alternative?
Let’s do a thought experiment....
Which retro games have never been outdone?
We all love retro games but let’s face it: Objectively some modern games are simply better. For example I’d argue that Pokémon Crystal is brilliant and one of the best GBC games but BW and BW2 are simply better in pretty much every way....
FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
What are the main challenges in Linux adoption for New users, and how can it be addressed? (lemmy.ml)
StreetComplete "promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service"
I downloaded StreetComplete to contribute to OSM and on f-droid.org/en/…/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/ it warns you that “This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service”. I’m not super concerned about that and will still try out StreetComplete but i was just wondering what non-free network...
Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?
I’ve tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do...
Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library (www.thedailybeast.com)
What do you think the theme of the 2-Player Starter Set will be?
The 2-Player Starter Set was announced for the 27 October 2023 a while ago. What do you think the two decks will be? If you got to decide, the decks what would you make it?
Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote DEBs (Apparently) (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.
The Pixel 4A will stop receiving security updates in August. New phone suggestions?
After only 3 short years my Google Pixel 4A is EOL. It still works perfectly fine, but since our entire lives run through our phones I don’t feel safe trusting my bank accounts and so on to a phone without security updates. I feel like I wasn’t quite aware how short the supported time would be when i bought it....
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