Sometimes it takes a lot of time to get your order at rush hours, but the culture tolerates patience and waiting.

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I’m now at the iPhone 16. The performance of those chips with 8GB in non throttled environment (Neo..) can run as a fully performant macOS.

Yet, as a phone I don’t feel upgraded performance since my SE 1st gen days.

Sometimes I get stuttering, basic browsing can get the device pretty warm, sometime camera lags to launch.

My usage profile didn’t change much over the years.

So I can only assume codebases became more bloated, websites became more heavy on resources. Because, if my device now throttles to what I was happy with years ago assuming the software would behave the same, I’ve expected my usage to give me at least cooler non stuttering performance.

But that was never the case.

Anyway, I have fiddled with it few times in stores.

* It feels nice form factor for holding. but the folded 'passport' screen still feels it's not yet caught by websites or apps.

* The claims are Apple is suspected of doing this form-factor (and as a display manufacturer I guess Samsung could sniff it...), meaning Samsung tried to be first. like the Galaxy Edge.

I guess the discussion over the form factor would be more valuable in a year or so after Apple drops their product. If enough actors has similar form factor, I'd expect designers to caught up with it.

https://tick.talaviram.com

Apple, Microsoft, Google - none is easy meaning you need to have Play store, certs, codesign, submit... But there are steps with few results making it easy for those platform to get the software.

I have tried my best getting also Linux but as the author said, there's nothing trivial (as my metronome GitHub issues can show https://github.com/talaviram/TICK/issues)

The name is exactly the tricky part... Linux has so many flavors. Even without installer, you have X server and Wayland and snap, AppImage, .deb each differ. add to that audio plug-in formats (CLAP, LV2, VST3) and the fact that some formats has no specific path for putting files.

For simple apps (not cli tools or ones aimed for package managers I start to think best is just providing an archive file (zip/tarball/etc)

While Linux is growing and is my goto for non-macOS, with so many releases, it still feels most users are more technical than other platforms. Add the LLM age where you can ask it to install it for you. a zip with binaries might be simplest for simple software.

Also, you have Meta and Google investing in simplified performant versions of their stack for developing countries which is similar.

What's funny though, I see people that sometimes says it's cheaper to build the app they need in a single prompt than to search for it.

It depends on who’s promoting as well as the stack and the app and the complexity.

To be honest (no pun intended here), I’ve actually benefited from finding leaks and optimizing code paths by such tools. As long as something is measurable and testable you can benefit from AI. Worth mentioning, I mostly do C++ code at my work.

So there’s a feature called Duress PIN which as explained through some comments means you put a different pin which intentionally wipes the phone. It’s not auto wipe or wipe after several failed attempts but intentional wipe of device. (Worth explanation as the current title nor the article doesn't easily explain this was made by the US citizen providing the alternative passcode)

For more technical details:

> GrapheneOS provides users with the ability to set a duress PIN/Password that will irreversibly wipe the device (along with any installed eSIMs) once entered anywhere where the device credentials are requested (on the lockscreen, along with any such prompt in the OS).

https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

OnePlus was always a subsidiary by Carl Pei [1] who eventually left the brand to create a new gadgets/tech company.

Nothing [2] is the next project he started that keeps many of the ideas started with OnePlus, good value for money and aim for quality Android.

Bootloader also seems to allow unlocking [3]

In recent years OnePlus was just another Chinese phone.

But if I've misunderstood something, I'll appreciate me being corrected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pei

[2] https://nothing.tech

[3] https://nothing.community/d/6047-policies-for-rootingunlocki...

So should be noted it's mostly macOS out of the box with some Linux support if I understand right.

This yields for exciting ideas or workarounds that might result a post-crisis memory boom (hopefully) also for local machines.

1. Lowest, Apple is evaluating new Chinese manufacturer which means change of supply demand if indeed it has reasonable QA. (https://www.ft.com/content/f4ac5c92-03be-4499-b16a-017a7e9ee...)

2. Companies tries to workaround performance - suddenly single channel is 'ok' ? :) (https://www.gigabyte.com/press/news/2403)

- Ban ANY use of your personal chats / device at work (eg. your wife texts you to bring milk on the way home)

- Ban WORK communication (eg. My colleague don't understand recent commit I've made)

So the web really isn't explaining how things enforced or what is being done. I do know of some industries where you put your personal phone when entering specific locations or having stickers on cameras) but here I didn't fully understood the scope.

https://mynintendonews.com/2026/06/26/nintendo-has-raised-it...

As my work develop is focused on macOS and Windows apps, I need a Windows laptop and got a light Prestige 13 inch with 32GB and 125H.

It did the trick, but I had years of not understanding how the throttling works. Sometimes if I was using AC and battery was lower than 90% I had CPU throttled at 800Mhz or even 400Mhz never going over 1Ghz. it drove me nuts and my fiddling with MSI Center was always unexpected. I had some strange steps to like connect/disconnect charger, change MSI Center performance settings. none was reliable. (even with Windows Power Settings all the way to max)

Eventually I've found on a reddit thread this (strangely hidden) uninstaller: https://www.msi.com/faq/9934 https://download.msi.com/uti_exe/nb/CleanCenterMaster.zip

Leaving the throttling and fan to Microsoft + Intel seems to do much better work. I no longer look at the task manager for CPU frequency. it just works.

So I have no clue what are the advantages of MSI Center in the first place (maybe bios updating?)

And the EU knows, hopefully it will improve the situation: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/03/18/48-hours-and-1...

Yes but to a point. Like Microsoft raised their Surface series prices. There's internal threshold of what they can tolerate before raising prices.

You can see the price and trend here: https://www.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

Yet, remember that costs are more complex with currencies and shipping prices.