AllHailTheSheep

finally

going through the laguna seca corkscrew on a mini has to feel insane

sorry, but the chances are actually zero. it takes a lot more force and specialized conditions to split an atom than a knife

it definitely used to be like that. these days it seems most things use connectors, my guess it they're cheap enough to manufacturer that it outweighs the trouble of manufacturing one solid component (with screen soldered to board, port soldered to other side of board, etc).

I don't really know enough to say 100% but I would guess that connectors make the manufacturing logistics wayyyy easier, with the added benefit of making it more repairable.

some phones still have soldered parts tho, pixels for example tend to need microsoldering for port replacements. iPads as well, so it definitely varies on more niche or purpose dependent devices, particularly when manufacturers think no one will ever open it up to fix it.

if the speaker gets too annoying, shoot me a dm with your phone model. i fix phones professionally and can help you diagnose and source parts.

unless it's a VERY cheap android it will be able to just be swapped.

only phones I see that need soldering for this kind of thing are vortex and blu phones.

edit: oh, and pixels. fuck pixels, absolutely my least favorite devices to work on.

I meant that devices purchased within the past 8 years or so have hevc decoding now. so even your grandmother who's known for holding on to old tech most likely has something that will work with it.

just in the past year or two I've found that those devices have become common enough for incompatibility to be extremely rare. and the software support is far better within that timeline too. firefox had issues with it as of a few years ago, but it's become pretty seamless on most browsers and devices.

I think kids being pedantic menaces are a very important part of society. most of the times it's over good things, but adults don't have the time or drive to address it.

compatibility with devices. it wasn't long ago that many cheap TVs and such didn't support hevc and required h264, or work on browsers, etc.

as others have mentioned mp4 with h264 is almost certainly the most compatible. that being said, I transcode everything to hevc if I can't get it natively, and never have issues. my server literally cannot transcode. it does not have a GPU, and hevc plays natively on every target device I need. even works in browsers these days.

most people will still say h264 is best. but if you're limited on storage space or want to optimize streaming bitrate hevc works wayyy better than it did even just 1 or 2 years ago.

agreed. even the internal lcds are starting to go with age. I've replaced a few in the past month without any physical damage. just decided their time has come I guess.

they're all containerization programs yes. I believe they differ in some minor details but thanks to the OCI standards a image built with docker will run in podman or vice versa.

distrobox is a little more feature rich for development, meant for exposing services and are interactive by default, vs dockers run and forget methodology.