Recharges at a supercharger is closer to 15 minutes today than 40. I said and meant 15 minutes.

I have a lot of dead spots where I'm at and I'm on T-Mobile here in the states and their network is so so to say the least. It's really fast when you get a good connection and basically useless when you don't.

But switching from a mediatek based Motorola phone to a newer Qualcomm based phone was pretty much night and day in terms of signal quality, call quality and actually getting calls and texts. I had a couple of calls and texts I just didn't get on the old Motorola mediatek. I sometimes don't get the best call quality on the Qualcomm chip but I don't miss a call and worst case scenario I have to go to a different room to get decent call quality.

The Samsung modems aren't terrible if you have the very latest ones but the Qualcomm ones are still significantly better.

There is a lot of room for catch up among the Samsung and Mediatek chips in terms of modem quality. And apples home-built modems are kind of crap from what I've heard although I don't run Android.

The point being that if I want a decent Samsung phone with a good modem I have to splash out at least a thousand bucks for the one they make with the Qualcomm chips. This is especially annoying because I get a absurdly powerful CPU and GPU that I do fuck all with. Even my current phone has a ludicrously powerful CPU and gpu. The old Media tech had sufficient performance but again crappy modem.

I think this would be less of an issue if I was on Verizon or AT&t but they cost at least another 30 to $50 a month over what I'm paying now so that's right out.

I'm actually surprised that they don't push signal and call quality more as a feature. Again though I don't think it matters if you're on AT&t or Verizon it's more of a T-Mobile problem. And T-Mobile works well if you're out and about it's just that the signal that they have doesn't work as well inside of a building. Doesn't help that the room I spend most of my time is basically a dead zone

Still there is a lot of room for improvement. Also it feels like battery life could be improved. These companies keep pushing more and more raw performance and that's really at this point only of any use for gaming. I don't know maybe some of those CEO twits thought I was going to run AI models on my bloody phone...

is that not the function of corporations under capitalism? if i were a shareholder i would be appalled if i discovered they were not doing their best to do as much profiteering as possible!

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There just is not as much room for profiteering in a market when the technology has matured.

Everyone already has a cellphone. The new ones are not much different from the ones they already have. The market will still have demand, but not at the previous rate.

that's a good idea. I've definitely experienced with a "ground rules" type preamble (h/t some ep of " Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg" podcast https://podcast.clearerthinkin...) and it works decently well.
one clause he suggested "don't compliment me" was def good and works well.

attempts to get it to highlight when it changed its mind instead of sliding silently into a revision have not worked nearly as well.

one thing that kinda concerns me about it is that it would make all my conversations instantly identifiable even if otherwise anonymous.

I think I should pony up for some plan that doesn't store charts for training... it maybe run some local insurance but that seems expensive for near cutting edge performance...

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