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"Simon the Sorcerer"

Nicholas said:

Mine I'm not as critical of it as the reviewer is - possibly on account of his having reviewed so many other devices.

What 'phone do you have?

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Issue is the price mostly imho, the A21 is near the same price now, and pretty much everything in the price class of the device offers a fingerprint scanner, the chipset is bad as competition moved from the Snapdragon 450 (the Eynox 7884 equivalent) to the 665 (about a 50% boost single thread performance, 2-3x faster in multithreaded, lower power usage/faster race to idle).

It's decent enough/will work, we're very far past the early 2010's where there was a true requirement for not having the cheapest budget device for most people.

Johnatan56 said:

Issue is the price mostly imho, the A21 is near the same price now, and pretty much everything in the price class of the device offers a fingerprint scanner, the chipset is bad as competition moved from the Snapdragon 450 (the Eynox 7884 equivalent) to the 665 (about a 50% boost single thread performance, 2-3x faster in multithreaded, lower power usage/faster race to idle).

It's decent enough/will work, we're very far past the early 2010's where there was a true requirement for not having the cheapest budget device for most people.

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I don't intend to replace it until it stops working.

Nicholas said:

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I hope you are keeping warm. @Dave, @Sinbad: Has the heatwave abated yet?

How has your weekend been [and how does your garden grow]?

I went to VP to buy groceries for the house for the first time in years yesterday morning, and met my brother for something to drink at M&B afterwards. I played around in Blender - something I have also not done for a while, refined my Legendary:GoH deck as much as I could to the point that it does more damage than any I have compiled before, and prepared supper for the house.

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very comfortable

What's next?

How to write how-to guides.

I know that it has been panned on account of its microtransactions, but have any of you tried Diablo: Immortal?

Lawful Evil?

Nicholas said:

I know that it has been panned on account of its microtransactions, but have any of you tried Diablo: Immortal?

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Never got into that genre.

I find Pale girls more attractive because clearly they are missing Vitamin D.

Baxteen said:

I find Pale girls more attractive because clearly they are missing Vitamin D.

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Melanin?

Jessica Khoury nice.

Nicholas said:

I know that it has been panned on account of its microtransactions, but have any of you tried Diablo: Immortal?

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Diablo immoral you mean

Got my new heating bill, I am 78% below /m^2 heating in my building and 12% below water usage.
I still get to pay total / my square meters, lovely.
At least it's "only" a 85% increase in heating and 59% in heating. My one colleague they decided he gets a 280% increase, note that that will be corrected in a year's time to actual usage/cost, but still insane.

Everyone gets 150 EUR back though, because government does a once-off payment, big whoop, but I don't qualify since over the 40k / year single household cap (whoever decided that should get shot, the cap for couple/family is 75k, so my colleague gets it with his wife gets it, but I don't, need to find a partner and play tax games...(Austria average income is around 30k probs, Vienna I'd guess 40k, so anyone earning average will not qualify)).

Johnatan56 said:

Got my new heating bill, I am 78% below /m^2 heating in my building and 12% below water usage.
I still get to pay total / my square meters, lovely.
At least it's "only" a 85% increase in heating and 59% in heating. My one colleague they decided he gets a 280% increase, note that that will be corrected in a year's time to actual usage/cost, but still insane.

Everyone gets 150 EUR back though, because government does a once-off payment, big whoop, but I don't qualify since over the 40k / year single household cap (whoever decided that should get shot, the cap for couple/family is 75k, so my colleague gets it with his wife gets it, but I don't, need to find a partner and play tax games...(Austria average income is around 30k probs, Vienna I'd guess 40k, so anyone earning average will not qualify)).

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Is this due to the war and gas supplies?

biometrics said:

Is this due to the war and gas supplies?

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Yes/no, the Vienna energy company has decided they're rolling out city-wide cooling infrastructure.
Right now they have hot water pipes running to most of the city (district heating / Fernwärme) where you get your hot water and heating from (runs through your radiators).
They already have district cooling in some places in the inner city, and they want to roll it out everywhere because of the heat spikes. The idea is that they can then take the heat from places that are too hot and store it, then in winter they can withdraw from it. Supposedly they right now have "180 buildings" which are basically the universities, lots of public buildings, etc.

They are attempting to finish the "entire" "inner" city by 2025 (1st district), and then the next piece after that, but the 90m EUR spending doesn't make sense for the price increase since you're talking about 500k households paying average like 60 EUR/month more, or 30m/month increase. That's around 50km of piping by 2030 they say (including what's already built, note most of 1st district is supposedly done). To put that into perspective, the district heating is 1200km, if they only manage something like 50km / 8 years, it will take over 190 years to match.

Dropped my energy direct debit to £130 per month now.
Usage currently sits around £90. Big increase coming in November though when my fixed rate expires.

Sinbad said:

Dropped my energy direct debit to £130 per month now.
Usage currently sits around £90. Big increase coming in November though when my fixed rate expires.

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Electricity bill went from 27 to 29 EUR a month, my usage has been climbing though, and my provider is fully renewable and isn't an ass like Linz/Wien energy, 27/29 is still quite a bit though.

Linz/Wien Energy being taken to court now, can't argue gas price increase if supposedly fully renewable (as in Austria most have 80%+ hydro, mines at 90%, near all of the rest wind that is cheap from Norway). Other friend he jumped from 17 to 42, and anyone new on that provider will get about 80, they're going 47.4c/kWh (my current price is 19c/kWh including network), also fully renewable. Gran's contract she signed a month ago was 21c/kWh including network charges. Basically energy providers are having a field day, and the most fun thing about it is that most of them are still government/region/city majority owned, they're messing over their own residents.

Sinbad said:

Diablo immoral you mean

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I've seen it described as such on Youtube.