Double check the CPU is still running at full speed. Without a battery most mopdern laptops will throttle CPU (and maybe GPU) performance.

Also there’s no reason to remove the battery if you can cap it’s charging. 80% is better than 100%, but if it’s plugged in 24/7 cap it as low as it will let you. But 60% is even better than 80% for health. And any cap below 100% severely reduces the chance its battery will expand.

What privacy protecting steps are you taking? Generally it’s turning those off. The more normal you look the more likely to get past cloudflare.

But if cloudflare just has that IP hard blocked then you’re SOL. Find an IP that’s not.

IDK about you, but when I’m on a road trip I just want to get from point A to B as quick as possible. And if I stop I want it to be somewhere nice. Not a gas station/charge station. A 5 minute leg stretch is plenty.

Because not all carriers easily support esim. Last I was in Costa Rica maybe 1 carrier supported esim for prepaid lines, but will the employee at the store know how to set that up? Physical sim? Yeah, they’ll do it in a minute or two. I guess the 18 will force them to learn, but in some fuck ass small town how many people are rocking an iphone 18 and a prepaid line?

I’d love to get a phone that supports mmwave 5g, but the freedom of physical sim is well worth it. Also I spent a fuck ton importing this 15 pro, I’m not just chucking it willy nilly.

It’s been a year or two since I tried it last. Are current Samsung phones using dex or the AOSP one? Or does the Pixel 9a running Graphene OS support it?

Intel cpus are SOCs too.

Soc is almost a meaningless term these days. It used to mean “a mobile CPU”. But for power reasons laptop CPUs have all become SOCs too.

Dex is a really neat concept, but ultimately sucks ass.

Maybe the duo will baby step us towards that. But even iPad OS which supports this for years is rough.

iOS has been doing that for a few years for me. Word or phrase that seems perfectly fine? Nah. Also the auto fill thing keeps trying to change and to Andrew. No I’m not talking about Andrew 24/7

I have no clue what’s up with auto correct.

Battery life is the only thing I’m interested in. Not only does the 18 perform great, but it gets insane battery too.

I’m not buying it because no SIM card slot, but it does have me interested.

I’m not saying that 6ghz has more range or anything. I’m saying that weak 6ghz is better than 5ghz at any signal until you get to the outer limits of 6ghz. 6ghz is just that much faster that even when the signal is weak it’s better. And it’s so much faster that even when it drops packets it can resend them so much quicker. And the latncy is lower, so there’s less time between requesting a retransmit, and getting that data.

Yes. I got 1.4gbps down through 2 walls. 6ghz penetrates a lot further than you’d think. And even weak 6ghz is better that 5ghz until the very outer reaches of signal. 6ghz wifi is truly magic.

6ghz wifi doesn’t go very far, you’ll almost never see 25 6ghz connections.

At work I still get about 700 down with 25+ devices connected. There’s legitimately about 50 wifi connections despite being 30 floors up, but they’re all 2.4ghz which is worthless. Even 5ghz kinda sucks. But 6ghz? Rock solid.

WiFi 6e and 7 are legitimate competitors to standard 1gig Ethernet. Setting up my new WAP I got 1.4gbps down on my phone. And I think my laptop touched 2 at one point.

But Ethernet will always be more consistent.

I actively despise those things. When they’re the full boot they tend to be too tough. When they’re the tiny little things they do almost nothing. Plus the tabs will still break anyways eventually.

Cash was how I bought my 5 figure car. 10k fits pretty well in an envelope. 6 will fit just fine.

Nah.

Wait, you found a new desktop in 2023 with only 4 gigs of ram? I didn’t even think they made them with that little. Super budget ewaste tier laptops maybe, but desktops?

Also doesn’t jellyfin not support remote streaming?