abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

The watch featured a 32-millimetre (1.26 in) 144 × 168 pixel black and white memory LCD using an ultra low-power "transflective LCD"

The problem is that e-paper is a category of displays, and some companies label reflective LCDs as "e-paper". Which is subjective (and I personally heavily disagree with that categorization, cause then LCD clocks and Gameboys have "e-paper" displays, too).

But in the comment I responded to it was said Pebble has "eink" display, which is categorically wrong, as that is a very specific proprietary technology, which is e-paper in traditional sense, like the ones in Kindles.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website -3 points 5 months ago (14 children)

IIRC, it has a reflective LCD, not epaper display.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's with the egg covering the PS logo?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

I tried. But got:

Can't touch Moss

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago

Yes, of course, strictly in Minecraft.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 18 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Let's be real, we ain't touching grass, let alone take action.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Worm: *puts on mechanical suit*

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

It's definitely not just a couple of seconds, unless you have a very lightweight OS and only 1 or 2 apps to work with. And no matter how little extra time it takes to cold boot the system, there's still no benefit to doing it that way, so no matter how little that time is, it's still wasted.

As I mentioned, one is free to use their computer however they wish, but it doesn't make it not wasteful to shut it down. If grabbing something to eat was part of my daily routine, I'd grab it beforehand, instead of needlessly going back and forth, wake the computer and use it immediately.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Firstly, I normally have way more than two apps open. And secondly, in case of a few apps, I personally still value the couple minutes of my time more than I do 2% of my battery. But to each their own.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used to have a watercooled PC, I don't remember it making any sounds while in sleep. Why would the pump run when PC is asleep?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I was mostly talking about stationary computers, but even in case of a laptop (unless it runs Windows which has terrible sleep management) the benefits of starting your work immediately once you open the lid outweighs the cons of losing a couple percent of battery overnight.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

But you can't bring the same argument back to me. Cold booting requires more time and effort. Thus to make that argument, one needs to provide the benefits that compensate for the downsides. Some people provided possible benefits that matter to their specific case, like, PSU makes noise (actually, that was you in a different thread), or they want to save laptop battery, etc. But if we are taking about a modern stationary computer with mains power, there's practically no benefit to shutting it down, only downsides.

Of course it's completely valid for somebody to do it out of habit, but they can't expect to use that as a valid argument for others to do it.

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