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roneythomas6

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roneythomas6··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
I think you are miss remembering what climategate was. Climategate deniers where saying "There is no relationship whatsoever between human activities and climate change" and they released some out of context emails to support their claims. How does finding out sulphur reduction was masking actual warming effect make climate science any wrong.
roneythomas6··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
How could cooling be implied from climategate leaks, when climategate deniers where saying "There is no relationship whatsoever between human activities and climate change."?
roneythomas6··on SpaceX, Rogers to connect mobiles phones to satellites in remote Canadian areas
AST is already integrated to Nokia's 5G core and Bell in Canada and AT&T in US have signed up with AST for satellite coverage. Nokia is the supplier for both Bell and AT&T 5g core. Also with 3GPP R17 has support for Non-Terrestrial Networks(NTN)
roneythomas6··on SVB in talks to sell itself after attempts to raise capital fail
This is correct, Banks can plan for this risk by aiming to match the duration of their liabilities, which includes deposits, to their assets. For example, if a bank is getting funding via a one-year certificate of deposit, it can buy a Treasury maturing in one year to match. But if a bank’s deposits can move at any moment, it has to weigh that risk when investing. Banks also diversify with assets that are floating rate, like many kinds of corporate loans or credit card loans. Few are at risk of needing to wind down so quickly. But many may still have to take actions throttling back on loan growth or raising more capital if the Fed keeps going and deposits flee more quickly than anticipated.
roneythomas6··on Qualcomm wants to replace eSIMs with iSIMs, has the first certified SoC
Well just call any at&t store near you and ask them if they have eSIM and don't use their online chat for it. I had at&t eSIM on a Pixel not bought from them.
roneythomas6··on Qualcomm wants to replace eSIMs with iSIMs, has the first certified SoC
Well the first eSIM devices where smartwatches(Gear S2) and they used the lower powered SOC and the core design was from previously used smartphone SOC. Physical SIM cards where hard to package into a smartwatch, hence the introduction of eSIM. Also smartwatches have much lower profit margin, hence the reason they use older process node and no one wanted spend money on integrating it into SOC when they can use an older smartphone SOC design.
roneythomas6··on Qualcomm CEO says he’s expecting Apple to use its own modems in iPhones in 2024
Satellite SOS is based on the same bands used by 5g. Also it is now part of 5G NR Release 17. Qualcomm modems since Sanapdragon X60 had support for these bands. Even before Qualcomm officially announced Snapdragon satellite with X70 modem, Huawei was offering satellite communication with Snapdragon X65 in China, which is the same modem found in iPhone 14 series.
roneythomas6··on Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
iPadOS doesn't show battery health. It's always been like this. If you can show me where you are seeing battery health on a iPad then let me know.
roneythomas6··on Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
That's because Ars didn't do proper investigation into how storage is computed. One UI reports storage conversion losses associated with representing 1,024 bytes per KB as 1,000 bytes per KB. For example, a device advertised with 512 GB of storage actually has closer to 476 GB (GiB) of usable space. Likewise, a 128 GB model has approximately 119 GB of storage, with 256 GB yielding 238 GB of space.

Basically, higher the storage size, more the inaccuracies and more number of ghost storage will appear in system. It does this because [Android basically computes](https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1622706823940698114...) all files 'f' and empty size 'e' separately and finds the difference of given total size and (f+e) and assigns that to system.

https://twitter.com/Golden_Reviewer/status/16228515345634713...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/One-UI-5-1-bloatware-is-not-co...

roneythomas6··on Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
Apple does replacement but if the iPad is on the obsolete list then they won’t.
roneythomas6··on Japan's hydrogen strategy does nothing for decarbonisation: study
Yup that is correct. I know what you are talking about. Japanese govt(MITI) is very much involved in Totyota’s future goals.
roneythomas6··on Japan's hydrogen strategy does nothing for decarbonisation: study
The key here is Toyota is biggest employer in Japan and when you add its suppliers it's even bigger. Toyota very much wants an Hydrogen future so that they can retain those jobs.
roneythomas6··on TSMC starts volume production of 3nm chips
To be fair Intel and Samsung are also ASML EUV customers.
roneythomas6··on FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident
Ultimately none of these things produce anything of value and all they do is trade money in circle. Ultimately the money has to leave system. Right now there is less money in the system than it did before. I guess soon enough we will find many people cannot leave the system. This is the reason why Binance CZ announced the 1 billion crypto recovery fund to stop spreading contagion.
roneythomas6··on Apple Car: Bad Idea After All
Since iOS 13(2019) Apple CarPlay can show a second display on the gauge cluster or HUD. AFIK no automakers have supported it. https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20875604/apple-carplay-io...
roneythomas6··on Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
Factory reset on android can only reset the apps to the version of the app that came with the OS release. It doesn't revert any OS updates. Also all apps are updated by Google Play as long as you're logged in and haven't disabled auto-update.
roneythomas6··on Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
Android version number for a app developer is only for API compatibility. It doesn't ensure memory or storage. The above minimum memory and storage is for OEM's so they can ensure new version of Android can run properly on their devices.
roneythomas6··on Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
I have used Jelly Bean both on S3 and Nexus 4. What I found is that Jelly Bean gets really slow after a while and you need to factory reset every couple of months. Newer versions of Android don't have this issue.
roneythomas6··on Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
>Huawei is “free” to use AOSP, but can’t use Google’s APIs. See how far they got with that. No App Store and no Google APIs means a lot of apps won’t work. So you really need Google’s version unless you’re in China.

I don't think that's the main reason why Huawei cannot make phones. Sure in International markets it's an issue. But Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and other phones sold in China also don't have Google Play and Play Services.

roneythomas6··on The Best iPhone
I agree with your comment. The camera was really impressive and it was first nexus phone where the camera outperformed an iPhone. But I think the video quality wasn’t that great when compared to iPhone. Mine started shutting down prematurely in Canadian winter after more than a year of use. But Google replaced mine for free even after the 1yr warranty expired. Ended up with Pixel 2 which had even better camera than Nexus 6P. The first iPhone to outperform Pixel 2 for low light was the iPhone 11. But during those times the video quality really sucked on both Nexus and Pixel, which it still does to the day.
roneythomas6··on Cooling related failure (in Google London DC)
Google doesn't run its networking equipment on commodity hardware. That's been the case for over a decade source from Open Network Summit talks. The issue here isn't about network equipment temperature rating, rather whole datacenter losing cooling.
roneythomas6··on Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses
With the Wear OS 3 the licensing terms have more flexible, I believe it is to get Samsung on board. OEM's bring their own companion app. OEM's also can skin the UI as long it follows Android Wear UX. OEMs also can release their own companion app on iOS. Samsung isn't supporting iOS at the moment, but Fossil and Montblanc are.
roneythomas6··on Apps and advertisers are coming for your lock screen
Also Facebook had a android launcher app called Facebook Home, that would show fb posts from your friends on your lockscreen.
roneythomas6··on Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as first customers
Google has been huge contributor to wikipedia for over a decade now.
roneythomas6··on Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare Workers Sites for 2x Performance (2020)
I host bunch static sites and have done benchmarks around TFTB and general network performance. Netlify is fast and most people won't notice much difference since the web page will be cached after the first visit.

Cloudflare is faster, you also get http3 over http2. Also Cloudflare has much better peering around the globe. When I do traceroute it's fewer hops compared to Netlify. I have tried vercel but haven't tested it extensively they use AWS and Cloudfront. If you use Github pages or Firebase hosting they both use Fastly. Fastly is also really good, in certain regions Fastly has better peering with ISP over Cloudflare. At Least where I am located Fastly is faster, but both Github pages and Firebase hosting doesn't have support for http3. On a fast network between h2 and h3 you won't find much difference. On a unstable or slow network h3 makes a big difference.

roneythomas6··on OBS Studio 27.0
I was able to build OBS from source for M1 Mac. I don’t know how optimized it is. But with few changes to the cmake files you can build it without errors. The only part I am stuck is with code signing. You need to code sign, if not it crashes.
roneythomas6··on OBS Studio 27.0
I actually managed to build OBS for M1 Mac. All the dependencies do have arm support. I only had to make small changes in the cmake file for arm64. Right now I am stuck at the part of signing the OBS app package. Without code signing Mac cannot open it.
roneythomas6··on Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU in Next Exynos Flagship
I wouldn't say the gap is closed. It's not bad as previous Intel modems but not Qualcomm quality. I had Pixel 2 went to iPhone XR(current phone). In between I also had other android phones (S9, G7 and Pixel 3) for testing purposes. When compared to iPhone XR, iPhone XR had slower speeds when compared to Qualcomm modems. Also if your carrier supports carrier aggregation then the speeds are noticeable. I had do live streams with tethering this summer and Intels modems are not fast as Qualcomm modems.
roneythomas6··on Zhaoxin ZX-E / KX-6000 CPU review
Was about to mention this.
roneythomas6··on An update to storage policies across your Google Account
No it won’t, I manage gsuite accounts for non profits and I have multiple accounts which are inactive for two years and the data still remains.
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