I have also heard they are launching a AI called strawberry. If you pay attention, there is a specific reason why they have named it strawberry. if you ask chat gpt 4o, how many r's in the word strawberry, it will give answer as 2.
still to this day it will answer same. the model is not able to reason.
thats why a reasoning model is being launched. this is one of the reason apart from many other reasons.
but in all honesty , i would prefer giving it a bit of thought and research, at least 2 hours of straight thinking and then doing it despite what my conclusion is. gives a room for errors that are expected.
Find a warm sunny spot or cozy nook and go there. If the location gets uncomfortable, leave. Not terrible advice, all considered. Of course you can't always do that in say, a work setting.
i dont really feel i was able to connect with apples marketing, been on android since ages, but if we try to look at it in a marketing perspective, what is the reason that they were not able to wow me about the product?
I've been on apple since ages and don't especially connect with their marketing. It mostly seems to be pretty photography that you could put alongside any product.
I'm not sure there's much to wow people with iphone vs android but the iphone experience tends to be quite smooth and hassle free - my 2016 SE still works fine and gets security updates for example. Apple can be a bit control freaky about what you can do on your own device though for better or worse.
One wow experience recently was a friend on android lost his life savings through some malware getting his crypto wallet. You get less of that on iphone due to the apple control freakery.
I’m happy to buy from any brand that fulfills my needs, including Apple or any other vendor so here are my two cents:
I think Apple marketing, while grandiloquent, is pretty "honest", in the sense that you really get the product they marketed to you with no or really few caveats. So, their customers are happy and rarely feel betrayed.
But on the other side, Apple is also pretty vocal about what they don’t want their products to be (more open, interoperable, adaptable to any needs …).
So since they are generally straightforward about what they are selling and good at delivering their promises, people are either repelled by the flaws that are generally voluntary and may never change or attracted by the product because it fits their needs knowing it will be as good as in the marketing.
I don't know, I don't 100% agree with your assessment. Their marketing isn't really "honest" but more "simplistic".
Disclose less and you can fault/blame them less.
They don't disclose much and barely ever compare truthfully.
In terms of disclosure for instance they'll say 10% more battery life, 10% more than what and under what conditions?
Humans are bad at mental comparison, they'll forget we shouldn't be comparing to the 2 year old device that's a fallacy.
I think for the most part it's copium. People don't like to be wrong or conned. Apple disclose little enough information that the consumer can't feel they were duped (e.g. "they didn't say it's 24hr battery life, this must be normal") and little enough that they can justify any shortcoming as inevitable for the technology (e.g. "I can't install an app, hmmm it must be safety or something").
Because the wow-factor is ultimately rooted in ignorance. People only go "wow" when they don't know what to expect.
Since people here are predominantly techies, it's hard to be "wowed" by apples products. Airtags aren't magical, they're at best a neat application of their vertical integration, and mass adoption.
But techies are also much more aware of the negatives of choosing Apple, like their walled garden, paying for development, and otherwise being much more expensive than they need to be, I think I saw a post on reddit today about 64gb of ddr4 being sold by Apple for 1200$, it's hard to let that shit go even if their commercials look nice.
With that said, I was a Linux+Android user until 2020, and then switched to MacOS+iOS. I think for me Apple’s marketing didn’t affect it much, but the experiences of friends who made the switch did.
Yeah I'd say personal recommendation is a bigger thing than the ads. Also with iphones especially, when it comes to upgrade time the old ones usually still work fine so people give them to friends and family so they spread that way.
On my specific case, even though I disagree how the adoption of Java went down, and how the whole Java vs Kotlin got managed, I really like that Google pushes the managed userspace or go home mentality (NDK is only for games and real time audio, from Android's team point of view).
And Java ecosystem is one of the ecosystems I live on, thus Android devices are more appealing than iDevices for hobby stuff, alongside the price points, as I am not paying laptop prices for mobile phones, no way for Apple to wow me otherwise.
i found one thing helpful. if you drink coffee and then sleep immediately , i got a better sleep. it acted as good as melatonin gummies.
anyone like me out there? is it normal? or am i addicted?
Do you have ADHD? I read once that for normal people caffiene pushes dopamine levels too high, and stops them from sleeping, but for people with ADHD caffeine can push dopamine levels from too low to normal, calming them and helping with sleep.
I dont really have ADHD, but one time on nat geo channel i saw this video where they test two people , they were supposed to not sleep. after 12 hours they both were given coffee, one was allowed to sleep 30 mins, other was not . the one who had a nap recovered really well but the others conditioned worsened and he went to sleep even tho he didnt wanted to, his body gave up.
Alas, being of a certain age means that any kind of liquid before bed will result in an early-hours wakeup to relieve the bladder - negating any potential sleep benefits :(
That’s called a power nap. But you have to be a good sleeper in the first place. If you are not able to fall asleep before the caffeine kicks in, you’ll have a pretty different night/nap.
I have heard of people who say creatine helps them sleep. Creatine is technically not a stimulant, but in most people it causes a state of mental activation that would make it hard to sleep. I suspect you and the people who sleep better on creatine may have something in common.
This is funny. I started mixing ~3g of creatine into my morning coffee a couple of weeks ago. I never thought of it being stimulating or activating, but it's certainly possible: I usually don't stick long enough to things like this to form a habit, but my brain seems to nudge me into keeping up with it...
I don't find it dissolves or stays in suspension - at the end of the coffee most of the creatine is at the bottom of the mug. Which is a pity as otherwise it would be very efficient, tip it in while the machine makes the cup. Are you stirring it lots or similar?
The creatine I use is finely powdered and it immediately dissolves in very little boiling water. I add it to the second coffee of the day: first one is from the espresso machine for pleasure while waking up, second one is using instant coffee to maintain stable blood caffeine levels. The crema-faking bubbles from the instant espresso powder probably help getting the stuff to dissolve. Then drink it hot and quickly :)
That's why I use it with instant coffee ;) not much to ruin when your expectations are already low! Also, you need boiling water to properly dissolve the stuff. But to be honest: the coffee feels thicker, but there's no distinct change in taste due to creatine.
i have debloated my windows 10 system. i only use it for gaming and some work stuff. there is youtuber named chris titus tech who explains in detail how to have a debloated windows and also how to debload the graphics card.
