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SunnyvaleCA says

I don't think you've programmed a smartphone for the last decade. There's a nominal coordinate system (all floating-point values) and a scale factor. The original iPhone (for example) used a scale factor of 1.0x, but newer iPhones have used 2x and 3x "natively" as well as some funky scale factors to help out people who would like a magnified view. In addition to the pixel density dictating a 2x or 3x scale factor, the screens have gotten physically bigger, so that the original 480x320 iPhone is dwarfed by the 2778x1284 pixel iPhone 13 Pro Max.

I know about the stupidity of the retinal display. It would be useful for people with perfect eyesight that also use magnifying glasses with their phone.



Fortunately we don't live in that world.

Apple makes a lot of things that have "better specs" that just don't matter. It's a sort of cult. Sure, it's better, but a person can't experience its superiority. The screen has more pixels than the eye has cones and rods, and it is more costly, it requires more computational power, it drains the battery, all this stupidity just so they have a MARKETING point - then to add insult to injury, they LITERALLY glue the battery in, make it impossible for 3rd parties to repair it, and slow down the operating system to encourage upgrades. They're just an asshole company.

I have a piece of shit "Motorola 5G one", literally one of the cheapest phones I could purchase. It has a TWO DAY battery. I'd rather it be lighter and smaller, than have this ridiculous battery. It's just extra weight. It's probably the same size as the latest iPhone, but it doesn't have stupid useless specs, it's designed for functionality, I'm SURE the processor is slower and there's less cores - it's more than adequate. It's just a phone.

Patrick says

https://slaynews.com/news/woke-hollywood-celeb-comes-to-grim-realization-i-wont-be-woke-enough-for-the-left-one-day/

“Sometimes I wonder — did I and others cutting them off make them dig their heels in deeper, fuel their ignorance with a nitro-boost of resentment and spite?

Their ignorance?

It never crosses his mind that the woke can be wrong sometimes. It's always the others that are wrong and need to "change" or "evolve" or "learn";.

Even as he tried to virtue signal by being self reflective and demonstrating tolerance toward the mean bad outdated conservative, it was only as a vessel to assert intolerance.