Miscellaneous Tech News
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon stops selling Dash buttons
Amazon says it has stopped selling its Dash buttons because shoppers are using other methods to buy products.
The plastic Dash buttons were designed to be stuck around the home and pressed to reorder specific products on Amazon. When the buttons were launched in 2015, Amazon had to reassure the BBC's Dave Lee they were not an April Fool's joke. Amazon said product subscriptions and automatic reordering had since grown in popularity making the buttons unnecessary.
It was a bit of a silly idea.
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@LilAng said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Does it fold in half?! If not I'm not interested! Plebeian technology is rigid, my phone MUST FOLD!
I mean when it unfolds theres a huge crease in the middle...
The Foldable Phones are a great idea, I think -- at least once the prices come down. I definitely wouldn't buy one without seeing how bad that crease is in the middle. If it's not going to affect my ability to see content or use the device, then I might could live with it.
I'm holding out to see if Verizon gets the Galaxy Fold. If not, I may grab the Note 9 since it has the same CPU as the Note 10.
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Foldable is interesting. I wonder if I will love it or find it annoying. Would I prefer smaller, thinner, stronger... or the bigger screen option? Don't know.
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Right now, I want my phone smaller, not bigger. Having a fold makes smaller much harder.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Right now, I want my phone smaller, not bigger. Having a fold makes smaller much harder.
For me, I like reading on my Tablet if I'm doing any serious reading. My phone works for that, but feels too small. It would eliminate me carrying a tablet around when I go places, and a 7" tablet is a lot easier to do things like RDP on than a phone.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@LilAng said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Does it fold in half?! If not I'm not interested! Plebeian technology is rigid, my phone MUST FOLD!
I mean when it unfolds theres a huge crease in the middle...
Is there? I've not seen one close enough yet.
they put it in this box thing so no one could touch it, but people went in close enough to take better pics and you could see a crease
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A crease doesn't surprise me, the material needs to go somewhere, and has to have a crease to ensure a uniform bend.
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@LilAng said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@LilAng said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Does it fold in half?! If not I'm not interested! Plebeian technology is rigid, my phone MUST FOLD!
I mean when it unfolds theres a huge crease in the middle...
Is there? I've not seen one close enough yet.
they put it in this box thing so no one could touch it, but people went in close enough to take better pics and you could see a crease
Probably wanted to keep people away to not see how dumb it is.
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@scottalanmiller I have to have my phones large, like 6 inch screens or I just cant see it and it makes my eyes hurt.
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller I have to have my phones large, like 6 inch screens or I just cant see it and it makes my eyes hurt.
I have the Galaxy S9 and am tempted to get the newer model because they have the smaller S10E now. I like it to easily fit in my pocket.
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I also don't use a case for that reason.
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller I have to have my phones large, like 6 inch screens or I just cant see it and it makes my eyes hurt.
6” screen is a good size. With iPhones, you can change the display zoom view from standard to zoomed and then increase the text size. I get a good balance using those settings.
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@bnrstnr On the appliance for XO.
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@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr On the appliance for XO.
So you downloaded their trial appliance rather than building from source or using the installation script you can find on my GH account.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller I have to have my phones large, like 6 inch screens or I just cant see it and it makes my eyes hurt.
6” screen is a good size. With iPhones, you can change the display zoom view from standard to zoomed and then increase the text size. I get a good balance using those settings.
I really like the SCREEN size of the old iPhone 5s.
If they had that with like no edge around it, it would be great.
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@scottalanmiller Yeah that makes sense. I dont use cases either right now because I hate most of them. The company I liked didn't make a case for my 2 phones so Ive been caseless since then. It was https://www.nicolameyer.com/. Oh wait it looks like they make my cases now, cool.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr On the appliance for XO.
So you downloaded their trial appliance rather than building from source or using the installation script you can find on my GH account.
Apparently I was not aware of your account or script. I will check it out.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller I have to have my phones large, like 6 inch screens or I just cant see it and it makes my eyes hurt.
6” screen is a good size. With iPhones, you can change the display zoom view from standard to zoomed and then increase the text size. I get a good balance using those settings.
I really like the SCREEN size of the old iPhone 5s.
If they had that with like no edge around it, it would be great.
I was worried that they were going to get too big when I first heard the announcement that the 6 was going to be bigger. But I did want a slightly larger phone.
Once released and I checked it, it was just that little bit bigger that worked well for how I use the phone. The Plus/Max line are way to big for me.
Yeah the top row is not reachable with my thumb, but I wanted that little extra space for reading. I just dumped rarely used (but used) icons to the top row.
I like the iPhone X now being full screen. That is sweet. I will be upgrading my iPhone 8 to the iPhone XS this month.
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@DustinB3403 What are some of the main reasons you use xcp-ng over KVM? I have been spending a ton of time working with KVM to steer totally clear of MS (even though Hyper-V has been great). I have mentioned numerous times that backups of guests are one of my priorities. I would rather make a few clicks to backup/export/etc at guest than risk making mistakes on command syntax.
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@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 What are some of the main reasons you use xcp-ng over KVM? I have been spending a ton of time working with KVM to steer totally clear of MS (even though Hyper-V has been great). I have mentioned numerous times that backups of guests are one of my priorities. I would rather make a few clicks to backup/export/etc at guest than risk making mistakes on command syntax.
XCP-ng is Linux based
