Exactly. It’s not as if this tech is going in the dumpster, but all of these companies basing their multi-trillion-dollar market cap on it are in for a rude awakening. Kinda like how the 2008 housing market crash didn’t mean that people no longer owned homes, but we all felt the effects of it.

The casino takes them.

Important to consumers, yes. Important to OEMs? No, quite the opposite. I don’t think that applies to screen size.

If you believe this then why even argue against us with this “the market decided” BS argument in the first place? You’re arguing out of both sides of your mouth and contradicting your previous comments.

What did you even mean if not to imply that people weren’t buying specifically large phones because they didn’t include these anti-features?

I wasn’t implying anything. I stated that manufacturers put things like a headphone jack into a phone that seems like it was built by Fisher Price and then point to it’s lack of sales and claim “people don’t want headphone jacks”

So then you agree consumers want bigger phones?

Uh, no, I’m saying that consumers don’t always act rationally and make the best decisions which is why “market trends” can’t just be taken at face value. 1/4lb is actually smaller than 1/3lb if you weren’t aware, but consumers saw the bigger number and thought the smaller burger was the better value even though reality says otherwise.

You forget that all phones used to be small.

I haven’t forgotten that. You may have forgotten that all phones came with swappable batteries, small screens, and headphone jacks and they sold millions of them for decades. That proves these are important features because they sold well, right?

Also all those examples you gave apply to all phones, not just small one

What does that even mean? All phones come with old hardware and are poorly built outside of a couple key features?

Apple sold a 13 Mini, which was nearly identical to the 13, as much as is physically possible, and it was a dud.

So identical that they were nearly the same price which could put a lot of buyers off if they feel like they’re getting less value for their money. Consumers also think that 1/4lb burgers are better than 1/3lb burgers because they’re bigger as A&W found out in the 1980s when trying to compete against McDonalds. “The market deciding” doesn’t mean anything rational happened or that it reflects reality. You’re simply cherrypicking the result you want and shaping it to fit your argument.

What edge cases are you referring to? Screen size doesn’t matter if the resolution is the same.

They’re saying the smartphone market is too homogenous and there should be more options so that people actually have a choice in the device they buy.

If it was outselling the main model every year then they’d keep making them small.

Why would they do that if they make more money on the main model? It’s not like you have a choice in iOS manufacturers.

Maybe because people aren’t given a choice as everything is dictated by the manufacturers.

Slapping 10 year old hardware into a phone with a small screen is a guaranteed way to make people not buy your phone but that doesn’t mean people don’t want small screens, headphone jacks, replaceable batteries, etc. They just don’t want the garbage manufacturers lump in with these great features so that these phones don’t cut into their high-margin device sales.

Replacing SMT components would fall outside of repairability for 99.99999% of people. More realistically things like ports, screens, and batteries should be replaceable since they’re typically connected to the main board with cables. Furthermore ICs going back on a phone is probably extremely rare while the above mentioned items are very common failure points.

Unfortunately phone itself is not impressive especially from OS update standpoint

I swear to god manufacturers do this on purpose so that they can point to the low volume of sales and claim “See! People don’t really want these features” when in reality they’ve just slapped a couple good features onto a completely dog shit device.

Where are you finding it for so cheap? It’s $60 in American dollarydoos.

Probably per room but most devices aren’t going to draw a ton of power. If you have an antique microwave collection, that might be a problem though.

I absolutely loved Rubber but never delved into this guys other work. Not only is he a director, writer, and cinematographer, but also a DJ? What a crazy life path.

I think you’ll want to look into Wake On LAN to do this. I can’t give you instructions (tried once unsuccessfully on a Windows installation) but that should be enough to get you started.

Is it possible that you’re just following too close if you feel these new turn signals aren’t fast enough for you to react?

I’ll never look at an old man with grass-stained, white New Balances ever again.

Not in an ICE vehicle, but I may be under the false impression that some EVs use gear reduction after the motors, similar to how portal axles are set up. If that’s not the case, then you’re right it would just be the CV axles that are removed which don’t weigh quite as much.

I don’t think the article addressed it directly, but it seems like it’s improved due to being lighter weight with more torque and offset by not needing axles or gearing since it can be mounted in the wheel. It says they weigh 40kg, which isn’t too bad compared to axles and gearboxes in my experience with ICE vehicles.

I’m curious how this holds up to things like potholes and minor fender benders if it’s integrated in the wheel. Imagine hitting a huge pothole or a curb and not only having to replace a wheel, control arms, hub, ball joints, etc but also an entire electric motor.

I think this is what I’m leaning towards as I have very briefly played around with Proxmox on an Optiplex micro and was impressed with it.

After some more research I realized that TrueNAS probably won’t work as I have drives of various sizes pooled together so maybe UnRAID, OMV, or something else. Do you know if Proxmox’s native NAS can handle that or does it also require you to have multiples of the same drive?

I would (read: does) keep it that way. When your server inevitably goes belly up because of a misconfigured firewall or whatever you’ll thank yourself when the lights still turn on and your robot vacuum keeps going.

I have considered that and am not 100% decided either way but would love the convenience of having everything in one place though this can also he a drawback like you mentioned and “in one place” is just a matter of opening a new browser tab even if it’s on a separate machine, so maybe not really worth it. The Pi actually boots off a SSD since I’ve been burned by faulty SD cards in the past so it should be solid.

What’s wrong with keeping your old hardware?

I would actually love to reuse as much as possible since a primarily media server doesn’t need a lot of horsepower. I am wanting to go to an Intel CPU with an iGPU so that I could ditch the 1080TI and I can get them for a discounted price, but another user suggested the 5700g which would allow me to keep the mobo and RAM. The case is actually fantastic for being quiet, and the PSU is a decent platinum grade from when it was originally built. So all is looking good here except for the data transfer aspect since I need an intermediary machine to transfer from but I do have a few SFF PCs, micro PCs and laptops sitting around collecting dust that might be up to the task.

As for the OS. “Not Windows” is probably a bit intimidating at first but you seem to be pretty technical so it isn’t really an issue as long as you can read and process information.

This is going to be another challenge as I have played around with Ubuntu in the past and have a basic understanding of CLI, but struggled with random issues and getting myself into trouble and not knowing how to get back out of it. “You don’t know what you don’t know” was really in play after stuff like an update would cause everything to come crashing down and not knowing why. With my hobbies, it seems like something I really should learn but have really struggled with. I’m sure a lot was hidden with editing magic but the video I watched on TrueNAS made it look easy to pick up with a nice GUI so that I’m not spending all my time pasting esoteric commands into a terminal.

I wouldn’t mind a mini rack but don’t have anywhere to put it. Maybe when we move to a new house someday, that’ll be one of the first things I get.