[side-eyes PCManFM]
janus2
joined 2 years ago
I assumed some sort of palm rejection would prevent taps registering on the side not in use, but completely forgot about phone cases 🥴
This is more of a software thing, but:
The Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact (and I think some other Xperias) shipped with a 3D Creator, a 3D scanner app. I found this out after having decided on the XZ2c for other feature reasons (mainly it being smol) but as a 3D printing dabbler, this was an exciting bonus.
Was it easy to use? Kinda
Could it produce scans with enough accuracy to be useful in 3D printed part design? Maybe
Did I ever get around to using it for that? Nope
Was it fun to scan all my friends' heads with and mess around with the gimmicky facial animations? HELL YEAH
that's called having a Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact and living in the US where they shut down all the 3g towers and all the carriers, including MVNOs, blacklisted its VoLTE capability >:[
—passive aggressively typed on the dinner plate of a phone that i had to replace my nice tiny XZ2c with
OLED or LCD + e-ink hybrid screens are probably quite a few years off yet, but I know there was at least one laptop with an e-ink screen on its lid
so many smart phone manufacturers are so gung ho about making the back of the phone out of glass (which I hate), I wonder if they could be convinced to swap it for an e-ink panel?
being able to just flip the phone around in your hand when you step into bright sunlight, instead of having to fumble with the status bar pulldown menu's brightness slider, would ABSOLUTELY RULE
plus you know. like. eyestrain relief or whatever :)
Out of curiosity, why do you prefer IPS screens?
Yes, LOS seems to be the colloquial abbreviation for it
Were you able to get VoLTE working on it? If so, HOW!? I only gave mine up kicking and screaming after the US 3G tower shutdown. Or well, after over a year of paying for a separate line & flip phone to make calls on.
...and now I like having 2 lines so I kept the flip phone.
...and I still use the LOS XZ2c like a mini tablet because I hate the stupid huge screen on its replacement.
I carry 3 phones now. Please send help
something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike one single book :]
Cannery Row by Steinbeck
Steinbeck's style is incredibly immersive. It has the perfect balance of illustrative/poetic/flowery descriptions and cerebral/analytical language. I love the characters and their antics, and how relatably they're written. I can identify with their feelings and motives even though I'm the furthest thing from a bunch of 1930's Californians.
My mom bought it for me to take on my high school band trip to San Francisco (which involved a long flight and some long bus rides). I think I remember more about the book than I do the trip :)
three words
specialized proprietary hardware
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