They didn’t really replace it though. Pretty much every modern car sold today has Bluetooth. You don’t have to use android auto.

You’re correct. I tried to keep it short and misspoke. Two hot wires from previously split phase.

One long enough to be worth considering in the last 7 years.

No, they work really well because they run on two phases so 220v.

Correct, he was a soviet installed puppet.

You keep saying Korea, but you keep talking about a different country. Yes, in response to an attack on Korea, US did firebomb the aggressor.

I hope the US would react the same way today, but unfortunately current senile and treasonous cunt would almost certainly act the way daddy puto tells him to.

Either way, ancient soviet nukes would play zero role in the decision making process. I seriously doubt even a slightly more advanced shithole like russia has the capacity to launch even 1% after decades of corruption and neglect of soviet assets. Fucking North Korea would certainly be erased off the face of the planet by any modern army without a single rocket being allowed to take off from their territory.

No it isn’t. I explained exactly why. Country is tiny, they don’t have anything unique or especially valuable as far as natural resources and population is hungry and brainwashed. Those are the real reasons nobody bothers with them.

Let’s see, 1945 - 1871 = what the fuck are you talking about?

I want to welcome you to the internet. Place is wild.

I take it your agree it was a shit example since you didn’t provide any arguments to the opposite?

You’re talking about Korean War? America defended Korea from Soviet attack. You’ve got some alternative history you’re operating with?

How the fuck is it a good example? People are starving, their only real export is meth and the only countries pretending to deal with them are China and fucking russia. You seriously think that anyone considering taking over their territory would be worried that ancient soviet garbage will fly? Only reason Korea doesn’t take over is they know their country can’t survive infusion of starving, brainwashed masses that would take years to integrate into any modern society.

100% agree with the last thing you said about checking latest info before buying, but…

I stand by what I said about nothing AMD makes being even close to QS. Pretty much the only two reasons to need server side transcoding at a level where CPU is still relevant is

1. Plex and clones.
2. Security cameras.

There’s nothing worth mentioning that works with AMD.

My N150 is transcoding 9 4k streams from cameras 24/7 and easily handles another 1 or 2 4k streams when plex needs it. All at <10W. At this load, it almost never goes above 50% cpu consumption.

I’ll definitely check current offerings if I ever need to replace my setup, but right now, AMD basically doesn’t exist in this market.

Weird logic. I couldn’t care less if it has solution to world’s hunger if I can’t access it.

I realize some amd processors might have hardware video transcoders, but they are not even close to Intel’s quick sync. Fact.

I didn’t really make any claims about why. I don’t care. I was just supporting another person’s excellent observation that brand loyalty is idiotic and only way to influence the market is to vote with your wallet.

100% this. AMD is currently better for laptops/desktops, but my plex is running an Intel because AMD has nothing even close to Quick Sync for video transcoding.

I completely agree, but despite OP or Samsung looking better on paper, overall experience is just so much smoother. Shit just works. And at some point I began to value that over specs.

Just for some perspective, I’m basing what I’m saying on OP 3T, 5T and 8Pro, Samsung S21 and Pixel 8 pro and currently 9 pro fold.

Nah, I’m not doing back to OP. I hate to say it, but If you’re going to use android, nothing beats pixels. Not even close.

If GrapheneOS manages to actually work with a decent hardware maker to get a phone to the market, I’ll get that next, but only if Android auto and banking apps work. Phone’s useless to me without those.

Only reason I’d give those up is if I can get another Linux phone as polished as Nokia N9. Still the best phone I’ve ever owned.

Not a popular opinion, but if those two options are unavailable, I’d rather switch to iPhone than use a non pixel android.

Oneplus had great success but then enshittified. Raised prices to match Samsung and Google, outsourced support to some place that didn’t sound like they were even in the same dimension as any English speakers and took away their ability to help customers even by accident and finally quality of their phones went to shit.

They could’ve sucked the Chinese government subsidy tit for another few years and would’ve established themselves as legit competition, but that would only delay inevitable enshittification by a few years.

You can barely distinguish faces in 480p. It is useless. Technology progressed and there’s no reason to continue generating ewaste. These sensors are actual trash. Aldi isn’t selling old stock so this literal trash is purposefully manufactured only for people to discover it’s not actually useful and immediately return it.

Not weird. It’s ewaste. 480p in 2025 is trash. Eufy has 2k option for ~$60 on frequent sale with no subscription. So does Reolink.