6/11/2023 0 Comments Geek clock explained![]() Alas, alas.īut did it really? Is that geek culture gone, or does it share shelf space with other geek cultures? Let’s break this down a bit. ![]() In going global, they say, geek culture lost something: the intimacy of a basement D&D game, that safe space for the social outcast. And so: the spectre of the fake geek girl, the angry black fan, the humourless queer geek, and worst of all, the users: the money men who see geeks as just another subculture to be monetized. Geek culture is changing, has changed, and naturally, not everyone is happy. Car commercials are built on Star Wars jokes. Power tool companies set up booths at comic cons and give out handyman-themed comic tie-ins. Geek culture wasn’t just about the things, and intense appreciation of the things, it was about a way of being together, and a way of being a man. Geek culture then, was a refuge from the wider cultural world outside, that you couldn’t quite fit into. Regardless, it was you and your SF novels against the world. ![]() Or maybe you were a geek first, and you found the things later. Everyone who could be said to be participating in geek culture was by definition a little bit weird, because liking geeky things and admitting to it, amounted to scarlet nerding yourself. Why do I need a processor faster than most laptop processors, if I can't render a video in the background, I was first shocked to discover that, before I understood how iPhones could keep 15 apps in 6GB RAM phones.What we talk about when we talk about fake fangirls.īack in the day–the non-branded, power-to-the-people, halcyon days of geek culture–being a fan was being a geek, was being an outcast, was being a fan. If you agree that IOS is not at all optimized, then sure, A16 might be light years ahead of 8+ gen 1 (I don't know how 8 gen 2 will perform, but Gary from Gary explained showed a benchmark of 5190 geek bench, which is like 8points less than A16 in multicore).Įlse, agree that Apple cherry-picked the geek bench single core results ( it is the only benchmark test in which A14 is faster, not even in multicore geek Bench.), and is fooling their loyal customers, with how they said that their GPU performs better than an RTX 3090, by picking up video editing in h.264 Format, the only workflow, and specific format that it can do better, and Hiding the fact that the video quality is lower than from the hardware accelerated rendering of RTX 3090 ( Hardware rendering is not as perfect as software rendering, and not all hardware rendering are equal apparently, I didn't know that until then.).Īnd the last bit I want to say, since you can't do anything other than to say you have a faster processor, it doesn't matter even if A14 was truly faster than the 8 gen 1, It is still worthless, except for taking videos, which is better in iPhones every year. in fact, it might be the least price to performance phone, because you can't utilize half the performance of the processor, and so end up being worse than even mid-end android phones with better displays and cameras, that can use better GPU, ISP, MODEM, etc.īut we have SD 870 phones with 120HZ AMOLED display, stereo speakers, and a large battery that you can play AAA games for more than 4 HR in a row, which can game even the largest game in 1080P, ALL for under 300 dollars (290 maybe.)ĪND SERIOUSLY FROM WHERE DO YOU GET THAT 8+GEN1 (NOT EVEN 8GEN 2) and A14 ARE ON THE SAME LEVEL?įrom geek bench? then IOS might be a optimized OS, maybe the worst of all the major operating systems, that even though it cannot even process things in the background, even though it doesn't have an interactive widget, after finally inventing widget after 9 years, and lacking any customization that android is capable of doing, an iPhone 14 pro max is just marginally faster than a foldable phone with 8 gen 1 in a mixed speed test involving a variety of APPs and Games? If you are given an a16 chip on a potato for 300 dollars, it is not better than an iPhone 13 with A16. Dinervc, Price to performance does not work like that.
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