Hardcore Will Never Die But Hardware Will

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it literally doesn’t matter what the use case is, the answer is some form of iPad and the price is how nice of a screen and SoC and how much storage you want

I find having mine on hand at work means I have the option to bypass or streamline certain stuff like quickly doing notes or having scripts on hand without having to go back to the printer and wasting paper. we also have a couple of older iPads on hand for teleprompter work and chat monitoring (note that these are kinda niche uses and I wouldn’t burn 300 bucks to have a remote controlled script rundown)

also the iPad is a better gaming device that the Switch and any number of handheld portable if you’re willing to shell out for a stand or mobile controller

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I got whatever the hell a 10th Gen iPad is (it’s got USB-C, I wasn’t going to fuck with shitty Apple cables).

Apart from the nightmare of figuring out which Apple Pencil works on it (the answer is the USB-C one if you don’t care about pressure sensitivity, and the first generation one with the insane charging method if you do), it seems fine?

Screen looks good, everything seems snappy. Been reading various comics on it, watching Twitch or movies I’ve redeemed digitally on it.

I don’t own a lot of iOS games (or at least ones that still work from when I had an iPhone 5 SE), but the stuff I downloaded from the Apple Arcade trial ran great.

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I certainly wouldn’t discourage the 8a but I used a Pixel 9 for a couple weeks after launch and it’s the first generation that actually feels like it might last 7 years. I tend to switch between Pixel and iPhone—I’m using an iPhone 16 and had a Pixel 7 before. The 7 was great but the build left a lot to be desired coming from an iPhone 12. They’ve completely cleaned that up with the 9. There are no awkward gaps, the buttons feel nice, haptics are better etc.

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I probably should have checked what T-Mobile was willing to give me for my poor P6

sure, yes, I will accept 800 dollars for my dying phone that I paid less than 800 for

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My Pixel 7, I think, is a lemon. Misses inputs, hangs up at weird times. Battery life is so-so, though it’ll generally get me all the way through a day if I’m not gaming or watching a lot of streaming videos.

Feels bad to want an upgrade so soon. But I got a promo that knocked $$ off my monthly Google Fi bill up until I’ve received $599 in bill credits so I have more or less gotten this phone for nothing. First phone I ever bought a case for and that money I think is what makes the prospect of buying a new phone already stick in my craw.

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I’ve never known what model my phone is until this thread prompted me to go into the settings menu and look it up

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I use tablets for reading pdfs and comics and yeah all android tablets suck to one degree or another

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My iPad Mini got a lot of use while I was taking notes in classes (on PDFs).

I’ve tried to make use of it now to mild effect. Procreate is cool for making art. There are some games on it. With the Gamesir G8+ I’ve made it into a serviceable PSPortal device.

Otherwise it’s mostly a media device.

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it just so happens most iPads have a pretty suitable AR for old games on some kind of all encompassing retro emulation app

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(it’ll be hard to notice the pillarboxing but I’m promise you this is an iPad RetroArch screenshot)

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I use my iPad to watch YouTube on while I play on my phone when I’m on trips.

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having random expo booting issues in the new build, who would have thought? do I bother with bios updates and tweaking to try to make this shit work consistently or do I just take the L? what’s the performance loss from ddr5 6000 to 4800

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the bios updates are mandatory for expo and 6000 is worth it but above that is generally not

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the thing is it boots sometimes, which seems kinda weird if it’s a bios problem

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bios updates are mandatory

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We ended up getting 2 of these, pray for no cooking, thank you selectbutton hardware krew :pray:

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bios update did indeed fix the problem. why is this shit so damn finicky? anyway, everything seems stable, started running layered stress tests and nothing blew up

I ran into one more problem with this build! so I got this 4070ti super, right. I knew the card worked fine, because I dumped it into my old build for a while because I hate building computers more than I hate anything else in life except maybe fascism, so I wanted to play around with the card before I fully committed to pain. anyway I build this computer and hammer out all the issues, including the expo shit. it takes forever, but I do it. so I’m like wow lets play some video games on this video game machine, as a treat. so I fire up a game, and immediately the GPU fans go ape shit, full fucking blast on frame 1. in my old computer this thing was very quiet, I was very impressed! now it is murdering me before anything even happens, even though the card is at like 40c. I investigate. msi afterburner isn’t reading the fans at all, they show 0%. fan control, however, will show me a fan, with another greyed out. I’ve never used the program before so I’m like whatever I guess it just does that. I start maxing that fan out in the program to see what it sounds like, and it doesn’t sound nearly as bad as what I’m getting in any game/furmark. I max every single detected fan in my entire system. it still doesn’t sound as bad as I get in game. a mystery fan! how intriguing! I’m like what the fuck, I built this computer one entire day ago, I paid for everything in it that spins, what fucking dimensional rift dropped an invisible fan in my case

I keep playing around with different fan settings in different programs. I learn that the fan detected by fan control is detected everywhere else, including in afterburner (afterburner will correctly report it’s percentage but not the RPM, because I guess afterburner sucks. this fan appears to behave normally, it ramps up over time as I run shit and the temps rise, I can hear it spinning up in the background layered behind the cacophony that is beginning to trigger me. I’m like maybe something happened, like a wire loosened somehow and now one of my GPU fans magically isn’t PMW anymore, so it’s just going from 0 to 100.

this was the last thing I wanted to check, because it involves maybe taking my computer apart. now, I can’t really see into this thing, the case is fucking monstrous and it’s on the floor in a weird somewhat inaccessible spot. I’m the kind of idiot that would rather investigate on the internet for 2 hours than pop that bitch open. but I half-ass it, I spin the computer around so I can kind of see in the case, because this PMW idea seems promising. can I see the fan wires? who knows, I guess I gotta check. and guess what I see! one of the stray fucking 8pin plugs hanging off one of the split cables powering this fucking card fell in some fucking angle good enough to jam it straight into the middle fan of my card. only I can’t figure out how to plug in the computer legos without doing something fucking stupid like this. my builds always look like a fucking disaster. anyway, I’m still not exactly sure how this caused my problem. I guess the card sensed that one of the fans was out of commission and compensated by cranking the shit out of the third? and fan control could only access one of them because of the sensor flipping out? and afterburner would register the fans as operating at 0rpm permanently because one of them, in fact, was? idk man, it works now, I’m fucking tired.

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Every time I daydream about building a PC I read this thread and say nah fuck it

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you would like it

it’s like expensive Lego

more expensive Lego

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Damn, you knew just the sales pitch to use on me

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Lego that can catch on fire

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