Google tv streamer 4k is pretty good but recently went up in price due to RAM shortages

I don’t even need half of the storage, RAM and CPU speed in here.

This is kinda surprising to me. I constantly feel limited by the 8GB ram in my Pixel. I thought it would be a noticeable upgrade from my previous 6GB but it honestly barely is. Apps are killed in the background immediately after leaving them and tabs are very quickly unloaded. Even with nothing open, I typically only have <2 free gigs. Everything is very bloated these days to the point where it’s fairly common for even websites to consume several hundred megabytes of RAM on their own. Might be fine for some but I don’t see myself buying anything with less than 16GB in the future if I can avoid it.

CPU power is much less of a big deal, but Google tensor is kind of anemic and it shows. My phone struggles to even compute cloudflare security checks sometimes and apps take a pretty long time to install. Thermal management and efficiency/battery drain is downright terrible. Video calls absolutely kill the battery.

I don’t personally have a need for a ton of storage on a phone, but I can understand why people would if they’re torrenting or have local media, etc.

That said, I don’t really want to spend this amount of money on anything less than perfect. This thing is way too large for me physically and it probably won’t be very repairable either. Currently debating whether to buy a pixel 9 or 10 pro now vs wait for a cheaper moto option.

Yes, it’s definitely an option, at least in the US. Of course, some people prefer to just stay on it year round exactly because of what you said. Just depends on what you prefer.

Lotta comments here talking about vitamin D. It’s not going to hurt you, but the evidence that it improves mood is pretty slim at best to be honest.

Happy lights are great as is spending time outdoors/moving around. Try biking or walking to work if you can.

You can take antidepressants just during the winter or year round if you end up liking them. I didn’t even feel depressed but got on an sri for anxiety and it really increased my energy and concentration.

Other than that, taking care of yourself in general, seeing your doctor when you need to, etc. Any unmananged chronic health conditions you have can make you feel worse in general. If you’re a young person with a uterus, you probably have iron deficiency which can really affect mood and energy.

You can also take antidepressants in the winter if a happy light + more outdoors activity doesn’t do the trick

Shit post*

Guess I can check off number 15 after seeing this post

Yandex is a search engine. Their bots are just web crawlers.

iOS app store doesn’t allow open source in the first place

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”

Kind of a selective reading of this paper.

Taylor et al47 evaluated whether hot air dryers change the levels of airborne microorganisms in the washroom environment. They found that air emitted from the dryer outlet contained fewer microorganisms than air entering the dryers. They also found that levels of microorganisms on the external surfaces of hot air dryers were not different from those on other washroom surfaces. Thus, the authors argued that hot air dryers were appropriate for use in both the health care and food industry. Similarly, Matthews and Newsom48 compared the bacteria aerosols released into the air when drying hands by using 4 different models of hot air dryers and by using paper towels. They found no difference between aerosols liberated by paper towels and 2 models of hot air dryers, whereas the other 2 models of hot air dryers generated fewer aerosols than paper towels. They concluded that hot air dryers were safe from a bacteriologic viewpoint.

tbf I doubt many Uber drivers actually profit, especially the ones driving $40k cars