Eagle0110

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[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think that's exactly what people were referring to when they say "culture for specific bacteria". Remember it's not a bacteria species that phages target, rather it's molecular signature on certain bacteria they target, and it's a constant arms race in the nature, so there could be endlessly many possible kinds of molecular signatures found on what's technically the exact same species of bacterium.

So they are not "breeding a phage culture for one bacteria", rather they were breeding phage culture for the 1000 or so kind of molecular signatures, out of millions of trillions possible ones.

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Oh wow those pretty tiny memory requirements for a decent modern system! That's actually very impressive! :D

Many people can probably even run this on older media servers or even just a plain NAS! That's awesome! :D

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Exactly.

It's not so much that Americans are like this in general, there are always people like this and people who are opposite from this in any county, America included. But because of social media, the voice of specifically this kind of people get magnified and appeared much louder than the voice of people not like this.

Many American ran social media (those offered by Meta especially) are specifically designed this way because they operate in such a way where engagement generate ad revenues, and conflicts, destructive and otherwise rage inducing content are the most effective ways for generating engagement on the internet in general. Unfortunately over a course of lack of regulatory actions they have perfected a balance between as much rage inducing content as possible and not too much destructiveness to a point where they get into legal troubles.

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Has there been any estimated minimal system requirements for this yet, since it runs locally?

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Yeah phages have extreme specificity just like most other viruses, and that is both a really big advantage and a really big challenge, on the one hand if you get it right you rest assured it will absolutely not harm anything other than that one single target bacteria you breed it against, no antibiotics can be nearly as safe in comparison, but then on the other hand like you said it requires you to take time and lots of work to breed a culture first before it can be used at all :/

Maybe in the future this process can be automated, and maybe we can even do genetic engineering to create engineered phages on demand in an artificial process that's much faster... Oh well one could dream lol

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah it's certainly interesting that at least one vendor is trying to push for such a specific extreme niche. You do have to give up pretty much everything else for it, only 1 year software support, on buggy software made by a very small and not-resourceful company with poor software quality and support track record, no SD card slot, no IP rating, and no unlockable bootloader even so no root and not custom ROM after they end the official software support, etc.

But yes, looks like if the only thing you need is the best of the best sustained performance, this one is the best choice among all phones with this SoC.

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's actually not entirely that simple, there are a bit more nuance in this. They definitely do trade a bit of battery longevity, but sacrificing longevity alone won't give you 100W on a battery that typically can only do 45W, you will get it bursting into flame instead.

Rather, many of those Chinese phones that charge at super high power were double-cell or multi-cell designs. A multi-cell battery would allow you to reach much higher charging current under the same voltage while generating less heat due to lower resistance between terminals. But multi-cell batteries are inherently less space efficient than single cell batteries.

So they took different priorities and also traded space efficiency for charging speed, and of course this trade also means they have to trade other things to get back the space for battery, such as size of speakers (and therefore speaker audio quality) for example.

On the other hand many of those Chinese phones also don't abide by standard protocols even way before PPS became a thing, and many of them required their own vendor's proprietary charger to get the marketed charging speed, which have a VERY non-standard voltage, so that they can keep current low by raising voltage higher than standard USB/PD voltages, to keep the power high. This often also meant you need not only the vendor's proprietary charger, but also their proprietary cable too because their non-standard charging voltage is also beyond the voltage that's standard for USB cables. This principle is common now with PD chargers (like for charging a laptop for example), but they have been doing this way before PD protocol, so they have their own choices of voltage/current combos that are incompatible with PD protocol. And of course those Chinese companies like Xiaomi and Huawei would never give a flying F about complying to established industry standards and avoid vendor lock-in, customer rights be damned lol

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

You mean the circle below the cameras? That is not a button, this phone has an active cooling system, yes you heard it right. The "button looking" thing is the fan's protective grill, and the blue "ring" is the built-in RGB lights inside shinning through the gap for air to flow through. There is another set of openings on the side of the phone that gives another opening for air to flow through.

Because of active cooling this phone has no IP rating at all. Based on benchmarks and reviews I've seen so far they managed to allow the GPU to have nearly no thermal throttling, with the active cooling system. However, disappointingly, it does throttle the CPU a LOT still.

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ubuntu Touch, perhaps? Lol

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Hmmm it looks pretty but is it just me or Weather Master's UI looks soooo much more iOS-like than Breezy Weather?

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's the thing, for multitasking a foldable's screen size is not even remotely as transformative as a 10+ or even 12 inches proper tablet, while for just the most basic "have each side for different thing", which I guess is like the lowest possible standard we can have for multitasking, a conventional non-foldable phone doesn't do it that much worse, you just turn your phone horizontal and do split screen in landscape orientation.

On the other hand, with a 12" proper tablet you can meaningfully have 4 or even 6 windows showing on your screen at the same time, for some real multitasking, at a moment's notice.

My point is that current foldable phones don't offer enough screen size, to be transformative enough to justify the long list of downside you have to deal with, like fragile screen, screen fold crease, etc.

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