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  • carmo55@lemmy.ziptoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Dumb Phones
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    17 days ago

    All tech is killing off budget options because of the increasing percentage of wealth owned by the top 1% who will just buy the most expensive option without regard for features or practicality.

    Small phones would be cheap and cheap phones break the illusion that 2000$ phones are normal.

    It has nothing to do with demand, it’s just that the bottom 99% isn’t a profitable market segment anymore.











  • I think CachyOS is very nice - it’s as simple to setup as Bazzite for gaming but you don’t have to virtualize software that doesn’t come as a flatpak so it’s more flexible. As another commenter said, btrfs gives a really nice safety margin. The only prpblem is that Arch-based distros like Cachy should be updated quite frequently(I wouldn’t go longer than two weeks) so its not good for secondary PCs you interact with infrequently.




  • If you want to do it yourself instead of using a math library, then my immediate thought is tp write out and calculate the Taylor series of your function. sin(x) is basically x +x^3 + x^5 +… with appropriate constants (look them up on wikipedia) so then sin(x)/x is the same thing but you divide all the parts by x so you’re gonna have c + x^2 + x^4 + … Now just add more parts in a while loop until the error term is small enough or you have spent some maximal number of allowed iterations and you’re good.