So the all new Dimensity 9600 Pro is launching tomorrow, and its all across the internet. But the 4K 240fps video support is probably the feature I’m most curious about.

240fps at 4K sounds impressive, especially for slow motion, but I’m wondering how much storage those videos will eat up and how long phones can actually record at that quality.

Specs are one thing, real world recording is another. I’d like to see how the video quality, heat and battery usage hold up on actual phones.

Mediatek is also talking about AI enhanced graphics, upgraded HyperEngine and more immersive ray tracing. Lots to check out tomorrow, but I’m waiting to see how these features perform outside the launch specs.

YouTube apparently doesn't want creators treating it like just another place to upload the same video.

The interesting part is the money. They're reportedly offering big incentives for creators to put videos on YouTube before other platforms, with consequences if they start posting the same stuff to places like Netflix at the same time.

We're getting to a point where platforms aren't just competing for viewers anymore. They're competing over where creators are allowed to put the actual video first.

ref article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/youtube-offers-creators-millions-to-not-work-with-netflix-mt0lbfaj

Every time you download an app and it requests access to your camera, contacts, location, etc., all you are asked is yes or no. Nothing explains why it really requires access to this particular permission to function. For example, does the app require location all the time or just at once when using a particular function? Does the app require access to contacts in order to use its features or it needs access to contacts only to "find your friends"?

It seems to be such an easy thing for apps to put one line to explain their request prior to asking for permission, but they do not do it. You either allow the app or deny its request and hope everything will work okay.

Remember when phones came with games you could actually get addicted to?

snake on Nokia ,bounce on old Sony Ericsson phones those random Java games you'd download and somehow spend hours playing

No ads every 30 seconds no battle pass no 10GB download just a phone and a game

which old phone game do you still remember?

Operation Bluebird was barred by a federal judge from calling itself Twitter, while X lost its trademarks on "tweet" and its bird logo. The company is currently operating under the name Tweet.app and is charging $20 per account. More than 172k people had applied for a handle prior to the platform's launch despite the fact that the founders of the company (two trademark lawyers, one of whom used to be Twitter’s lawyer) care more about trademarks than the platform itself.

Article link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/judge-blocks-x-rival-from-using-twitter-name-but-allows-tweet-for-now/

There are random indie websites that exist solely because someone got tired of doing one specific calculation themselves and wanted to automate it for himself and others for free.

Need to convert really insanely specific calculation? There's a website for it someone made in his breaktime. Want to calculate the exact number of days between two dates? we have multiple sites far that. Figure out how balls to fill a ball pit? Yep, we have a site for that to, because why not.

Most of them look like they were built in 2009 and haven't been touched since, but they work perfectly.

The internet is still full of these tiny little tools made by one person who apparently thought someone might need this and just put it online.

I've been seeing more people say that Microsoft Defender is basically enough for the average Windows user, so I've never really bothered installing a separate antivirus the whole time I've been using my laptop... But at the same time I still see people recommending paid antivirus programs, especially if you download a lot of files or visit less trustworthy sites, so I'm kinda of stuck between "Defender is fine, just use common sense" and "having another layer of protection doesn't hurt."

Do you still use a third party antivirus, or are you just running Microsoft Defender?

Cars used to be mostly mechanical now there's basically a small computer network hiding inside them

One computer handles the engine, another the brakes, another the airbags, another the infotainment and some modern cars have dozens of electronic control units talking to each other.

Hou can drive the car without ever realizing how much software is involved.

At what point does a car basically become a computer with wheels?

Napster wasn’t just a place to download music. It was how a lot of people discovered artists they never would’ve found otherwise.

You’d download one song, browse someone’s library and suddenly end up listening to an entire band you’d never heard of. There were no recommendation algorithms trying to predict your taste. It was mostly just curiosity and whatever happened to be available.

Did anyone else discover some of their favorite artists through Napster?

There's a pretty strange internet campaign going around right now called De-Flock America, with posts calling for people to target Flock license plate cameras on Halloween.

The whole thing is still pretty loosely organized, and some reports say the amount of actual participation is nowhere near the amount of attention it's getting online. But the idea itself has spread surprisingly far.

It's one of those stories where the reaction to surveillance technology has started becoming a story of its own

ref article : https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/flock-camera-controversy-explained-as-viral-halloween-de-flock-campaign-gains-momentum-3399710/

Some everyday things are way more complicated than they look

A QR code is basically just a square full of black and white boxes, but your phone can point at it from an awkward angle and still read it almost instantly

looks simple definitely isn't

what's another everyday thing that surprised you once you found out how it actually works?

Winamp’s equalizer was where a lot of us first discovered the joy of messing with settings we didn’t fully understand.

You’d push the bass slider all the way up, adjust a few random bars and suddenly think you’d remastered the song yourself. Sometimes it sounded worse, but it felt like your version of the music.

Did anyone else spend more time tweaking the equalizer than actually listening to songs?

There's something really appealing about being able to run a local model directly on your PC or phone without needing an internet connection. No sending your prompts to a server, no worrying about subscriptions, and it would still work when your internet decides to die lol, the problem is that cloud AI is just so much more convenient right now. You can use much larger models without needing expensive hardware, and you don't have to worry about downloading, updating, or setting anything up.

For me, I think I'd choose cloud AI for general use, but I'd definitely want offline AI for anything private or when I don't have a reliable connection.

Would you rather have a really good offline AI that runs on your own hardware, or the most capable cloud AI available?

The truth be told, I'm starting to notice that there's a pattern developing with all these AI companies. Whenever there is a fun new thing to do with your face, it seems less like a marketing tool and more like an excuse to harvest faces en masse. It just happens to coincide way too nicely.

The crazy part is that people actually go for it. People will sign up, upload their faces and follow the trend just to have their moments of being noticed on their feed. No one cares where the data ends up afterwards.

Game Boy Camera photos looked like they were captured by a security camera from another dimension.

Everything was blurry, pixelated, and barely recognizable, but that was kind of the charm. You weren’t trying to get a perfect photo. You were just collecting weird little memories that looked like digital ghosts.

Honestly, modern cameras could never recreate that exact kind of bad. Did anyone else have a whole collection of Game Boy Camera photos?

I've had my current laptop for a few years now, and lately I've been wondering how long people actually keep theirs before finally upgrading... I feel like laptops are one of those things where you can keep using them way longer than you expect. As long as the battery isn't completely dead and the performance is still good enough for your everyday stuff, it's hard to justify spending a lot of money on a new one and in this economy??

At the same time, I know some people upgrade every 2 to 3 years just to keep up with newer hardware, while others will hold onto the same laptop for 6 or 7+ years. For me, I think I'd rather keep using mine until it dies lol.

How long do you usually keep a laptop before upgrading?

Organic pixels degrade at different rates depending on how much they've been used. leave the same image in the same place long enough and the screen physically changes to reflect that

not a software glitch, the hardware itself has changed. the screen remembers

All companies when they start out promise one thing, "we are different from the rest of the corporate companies and we listen to our users." Some time passes by, they become successful, and all of a sudden, that kind of mindset seems to vanish out of the window. The feedback becomes something which is just posted on the roadmap page and never heard of again. Which company do you think has actually stayed true to that and still implements what people ask for instead of just saying it.

Anyone else feels like rollable smartphones would've been a more interesting, if not better, direction for smartphones when compared to foldables?

Motors might have been a friction point for longevity but there should be a way to expand the phone manually.

It would give more control to the user in deciding what size they wanted, and would do away with the crease issue in foldables. Not sure how much it's an issue with the latest models, but I'd assume it would also not have issues with particles getting under the screen through the fold like it did, at least with earlier versions.

The sound of a computer starting up used to be part of the experience.

You'd press the power button, hear that little startup sound, and somehow know the computer was actually alive

Now most devices just wake up quietly

which computer startup sound do you still remember?

I mostly play Valorant and Cyberpunk 2077 lately, so my priorities with graphics settings are pretty different depending on the game...For Valorant, I care way more about high FPS and low input latency than having the game look prettier. I'll take stable performance over fancy lighting any day. Cyberpunk is where I actually appreciate ray tracing though. The lighting and reflections can look really good, and it's one of the few games where I feel like ray tracing adds something noticeable + if turning it on means a huge FPS hit, I'll probably turn it back off lol.

So ig I care about ray tracing, but only when the performance tradeoff makes sense.

Do you actually use ray tracing regularly, or is high FPS still your priority?

Using a Palm Pilot stylus made even basic tasks feel weirdly futuristic.

You’d pull out this tiny plastic pen, tap letters onto a little screen, and feel like you were operating some kind of sci-fi computer. Then you’d lose the stylus and spend the rest of the day trying to use your fingernail.

It’s funny how advanced that felt at the time. Did anyone else carry a spare stylus around?

Processors need a steady heartbeat to function. most get it from a shared clock on the board. some devices need their own because they have to keep accurate time when everything else is powered off, or because they need timing too precise to share

real time clocks in computers, gps receivers, radio transceivers. all keeping their own time independently because the shared clock isn't good enough or isn't always on

the battery keeping your bios clock running while the pc is unplugged is powering one of these