i dont doubt that. atleast that its your daily life. but a lot of stuff in my daily life simply is an edge case. nothing wrong about it. beeing on lemmy is all in all an edge case. i wish it wouldnt be. but in fact i have met so far only a single guy who even knew what reddit is in rl. let alone lemmy. with that in mind i want to go back to the phone with 32gb of ram but with a midspec 5 year old soc. yes, i can imagine someone which can make use of that configuration. it still is a weird ass config. case in point; every other hardware config of a popular current phones. so i dont really know whats your point with your screenshot and i dont know how i dismiss your experience. like wtf

i fucking mentioned edge cases in my first post

so, running 50+ instances of different programs at the same time is your argument why a phone needs 32gigs of ram. thanks for the discussion dear internet person. especially after i stated several hours ago there might be edge cases.

lmao. so you cant give me reason and just post some memes instead. fair enough. idgf. its a cool device. having 32gb of RAM is fucking rad on a phone. but its stupid. its an inbalenced configuration with that weak ass soc. that was my whole point. but you couldnt even prove your point on an academic level.

it is. i firmly state: fuck apple. now give me a single reason why an underpowered linux device needs 32gb.

fair enough, maybe i’m stupid(which i am) but give me a usecase for 32gb of ram. completly disregarding the fact that this thing is a phone. Using it as an desktop device via an usb-c hub. when do you need 32gb of ram involving software which isnt bottlenecked by a 5 year old mobile chip? My 12 core AMD 3900X and my 5800X3d ramp up their cooling fans before my RAM gets maxed out with eg Firefox. C’mon i already admitted that there are edge cases. But this configuration is weird man. Especially considering that linux in itself isnt a ram hog in general.

fair, but we’re still talking about 32 frigging GB of ram in a phone. not that it should count as a best practice baseline but apple sells 16gb laptops as the entry point and tbf at the moment its just enough and their performance is sitting in a completly different league

I dont need a laptop right now but damn this thing is sexy. Its been a long time since hardware gave me that “do want” itch even though i dont need it. Ryzen would have been great but even with an Intel SOC this thing is a compelling package.

Interesting, didnt know about the current state of eMMC. That would be certainly useable if its the new stuff.

Regarding the ram: Yeah, a lot of ram isnt bad. But it also costs money and i dont feel like that amount of ram in combination with the rest of the hardware is too beneficial. Maybe i lack the creativity but i dont see applications where you need that much of ram and wont be bottlenecked by that 5 year old mid tier mobile SOC. Like my desktop gaming rig has 32gb of ram and current flagship phones still use sometimes just 12gb and go up to 24gb in very rare cases. 32gb just feel imbalenced with the rest of the hardware.

This feels off. Just the hardware configuration doesnt make any sense. The soc will be over 5 years old when this thing releases. Those four a76 cores @ 2,4 Ghz wont wow you with their performance and would be a downgrade compared to a flagship with a SD865 released 5 years ago. Which is alright by its own tbh. But why the fuck combine it with 32gb of ram? Thats just excessive and apart from hyper specific edge cases this just doesnt make any sense. Especially when looking at the eMMC storage. Personally i already find UFS 3.1 painfully slow when it comes to desktopish usecases sometimes. But eMMC is just pure ass.

This is like buying a pre built with a 12100f with 128gb of ram and only harddrives as storage. Like there is probably a really small market for that. But for everybody else it would be just such a bad choice.

show me that magic llm which doenst infringe the copyright of nearly everybody, which doesnt have an unprecedentet impact on the enviroment to train and run, which wont be used to cut of people from their income, which isnt owned by technocratic billionaire assholes, which isnt peddled and promoted by fascist goverments, which doesnt halluzinate, which isnt a blackbox, which actually works and doesnt fail at the simplest tasks sometimes, which doesnt infringe my privacy(allegedly tbf, but you know). the list goes on.

sure, sure technology itself isnt evil. but thats not a hill i want to die on in case of llms. they’re problematic on so many levels. full stop. i dont think its a naive take to have some skepticism against this clusterfuck. potentially some technologies could make the world a better place. but llms dont fit into this category.

Why not both?

I feel attacked. I bought one these gamepads where you put your phone in. Loaded the phone up with bunch of emulators and roms. I havent used it it public but once. I cant stomach outing myself as a 30+ gAmEr in public. Its a me problem and i should just give less of a fuck but i simply cant.

“Rumors suggest that Team Red was caught off guard by the aggressive pricing […] , while Team Green priced the RTX 5070 Ti and 5070 ‘MSRP cards’ at $749 and $549, respectively.”

WTF are they smoking at Toms Hardware?

Its such a weird ass nothing burger of a product.

Like i get it why it exists. Display- and lenstech are getting at a point where textclarity is good enough. Mobile chipsets can provide enough standalone performance for most office workloads. If you need the added processinh power of a workstation wireless displaystreaming is at a fairly mature point for 2D content when it comes to the lack of compression artifacts and the latency is solid enough. Passthrough is at a workable state, too.

Gaming wasnt the killer feature for VR for several reasons. So parroting apple and pivoting to this whole AR computing device schtick is understandable(ish).

But i watched both the initial AndroidXR Google presentation last month and now the shitty influencer marketing video of MHKBD and their messaging is so weird. The big sellingpoints are: You have Gemini AI, the Playstore is preinstalled with which you can ask Gemini AI to install new apps, Gemini AI also works with the preinstalled Google apps. Did we mention Gemini AI yet? Chill the f- out.

Look i own and use VR-Headset for 6 years now. I follow the subject since the Oculus DK1 was first announced. I like the tech. But there is nothing coming from either Google nor Samsung which makes me excited for the future of AndroidXR. Because i tried to work with a VR Headset. My current one has enough pixel density, pancake lenses and is consired one of the most comfortable on the market. Its utter shit. Waving your hands around in a 3D space isnt a good UX for 90% of the time. Having a device strapped to your head isnt comfortable. Battery life of like 2 hours is a joke if you want to get shit done. Having a cable strapped to your head mounted device for added battery life is even worse. Do you remember how we all happily traded our audio devices for wireless ones because its soooo much more comfortable? Yeah… The resolution still isnt great enough to combat eyestrain over long periods of time. The list goes on. Sure there are obviously some usecases where hmds can provide a real benefit. But for now most stuff is pretty niche. But i’m pretty sure circling your hands in the air so you can ask a LLM about the shoes your wearing isnt solving problems we encounter in our worklife. As a life style product? Give me some fucking entertainment, man? But not a single word about that so far.

Then have you tried to actually work with Android? I tried it several times with the desktop modes like DEX or Ready For… Its not great for abundance of reasons.

Then there is no confidence in google left. Like we all know they will kill off AndroidXR in 4 years. If not before that. If you could bet on it the quotes would be so bad it would probably better to just invest the money in s&p500.

Also i see no attempts at establishing an open plattform like android used to be. Every big corp wants to be the monopoly holder of a closed gardedn of the next big tech revolution. So they can pump ads directly into our eyeballs. Fuck this shit.