Midnight Wolf

I’m one of the outliers in that I do 80 to ~10 before the day is over, then I’ll charge and keep going, or I keep it topped up on the wireless charger throughout the day. But overall I’m charging at least a full cycle daily. I use my phone heavily. 1.5y in and I started using the 80% cutoff for lifespan, but I haven’t noticed a decline, it’s preventative and not reactive.

Family member has my previous phone, 2.5y old, and has not complained to me about the battery. When it was in my possession it was the same use case/scenario. Their use case is lighter duty, but they leave the screen on for like 10 minutes after idle, never turning it off manually. Pain.

My previous previous phone was given to a sibling, 3.5y old, again when it was mine it got the same heavy use. They use a battery bank some days, but they can be an even heavier user than I am sometimes - discord voice and video chatting, games, even doing one while also on a desktop. 100 to 20 or less most days, I often see it in the evening in battery saving mode around 10% when they are reaching for the bank. But that’s still with a few hours SoT and heavy use with socializing and games and stuff.

All 3 are pixel pros, 8/7/6. shrug

Crush my keys into pieces, this is my

Re 2, I was and am angry about how MS handled the Xbox exclusives. They spent the 90s making games for the pc that were great, and then the Xbox drops and the pc market is ignored for years. “just buy the console” makes no sense when I have a far superior machine right here, and when multi-player is behind a subscription. I was gifted an Xbox a few years after launch, along with Midtown Madness 3, the only game I wanted - and never gave MS a cent of my own money. I stayed on Halo 1 for years, then when Halo 2 finally dropped for the pc, I got it and enjoyed my first playthrough on my computer. My first playthrough of H3, ODST, and 4 weren’t until the MCC dropped on steam. I got Forza bundled with the Xbox, but it wasn’t until Horizon 3 released on pc that I got into it.

I fucking despise the 15-year window where MS just abandoned their loyal customers on pc to milk people with their inferior box and subscription bullshit. The smartest move they have made was re-embrace the pc as a customer base. And 8 year-old me could have told those moronic C-suites in 2001. They isolated a core customer base for short-term profits, and they have earned nothing but resentment for it.

The Xbox should have always been a product for “I don’t understand computers, but I want to play games”, while the pc should have remained a “I know what I’m doing, and I don’t need a walled garden”. MS fucked up massively, and lost out on revenue trying to force their hand for a decade+. The fact that they release on both is nothing but positive, as they get customers from both camps, and they finally are undoing a bit of the hate and resentment they caused.

I do not :o works just fine for me

I’m using Thunder (app), first one I tried and it’s basically what I had with RedReader so I’ve never really tried anything else.

No, no, of course not. Just sensible yachts and mansions.

It’s MS trying to not have another meltdown like CrowdStrike. They tried to do it with Vista, and they pussied out when all the same fucks cried out ‘but we can’t fuck with the OS like a bent-over ho’, and so MS let it slide in the ‘eventually’ to-do bin until it was demonstratably their fault for not clamping down on kernel access.

Also lol “willing to follow”, as I understand it MS isn’t giving them an option or opinion this time around. Gtfo of the kernel or your shit will stop working. I think the deadline is 2026, but it’s been a while since this was all announced.

“you could, like, fuck off with that shit”

“what does that mean” 🤔 🤔

whispering in THX surround sound: we are everywhere~

As someone who prefers licks, this is good progress

I… what? concerned expression

Ah, I’m not running 11 yet. I’m one of the holdouts still on 10, I upgraded as soon as it was available and then restored from an image to 10. I fear I need to get pushed to it at EoL, since my home rig has two sound cards, a keyboard, and a mouse that are configurable only in windows. But fuck, I’m dreading the day, as I hate the start menu, the possibility of ads in explorer, the context menu is stupid and is not accessibility-friendly, I can’t keep the taskbar at the top, the settings are getting more obtuse…

So yeah that could explain why I’ve not seen it before myself :p

I don’t think I’ve ever had that happen - maybe it’s a group policy thing or something?

This is it. OP is just dumb. “omg it’s restarting when it said it was at less than 100% and I can’t fathom why that would be, I told it to shut down reeeEEEEE”. I used to think this was job security (“my system got corrupted and it’s totally not because I’m an idiot”) but as the years go on I yearn to simply drop filing cabinets on their heads.

Then there is me, who has only had it when it was on $1 promo and I used it to get a 10% discount to buy a game, and then immediately cancel the pass.

I guess if it stayed $1 indefinitely I’d keep the sub, but beyond that, nope.

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yeah uh, the 2010 FB wasn’t great either…

box with image of successfully built backyard grill

homer, lowering the image to reveal his monstrosity

Soon: arrives at glue factory

Horse: wait no not like that

Okay, you go on and test it for us then

grabs popcorn

Phew, so it’s only a crisis for important shit. Dodged a bullet there! :D