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2026
Torrenters are building epic media collections
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…supposed to be, just never cease to blow my mind. But as phones get bigger and bigger, enough's theory is that phones should be 5.3 inches. That's the display size that they're going for. I encourage you to go look at the pictures of this phone because it is hilarious how small 5.3 inches appears to be in the modern context.
Everything now is like 6 up to 7 inches. You open up the duo and it's like 8 inches. I mean, it's stuff gets crazy now. 5. ◈ 36:22 3 inches is their theory. You also get a 3500 million amp hour user replaceable battery. You get a media tech chip set, you get a 50 megapixel Sony sensor.
You get 8 gigs of RAM. All of these things are made to be just, I hate to use this given the name of the phone, but enough, right? No more than you need, no giant overhead capacity of power that you'll never use, no wild thing that's going to only matter to pros in the camera, just exactly the…
My note
5.3 inches for a telephone is what I want. I would take my 6-inch reader as a cell phone, meaning my B6 Pro is what I prefer to carry. I wish that I could take my iPhone and make it half the size.
The Vergecast podtrac.com ↗
Are You Taking Fun Seriously Enough?
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…exception there was time with friends. Time Speaker 4: with friends was almost like chocolate chips in a cookie. Speaker 4: You can just add more and it keeps being better. Speaker 4: So that was pretty interesting.
And We also found one Speaker 4: of the surprising findings in that data was that spending Speaker 4: time on relaxing and leisure was actually associated with a Speaker 4: lower probability of having an especially good day. ◈ 8:36 And we Speaker 4: were like, I thought my grad student analyzed the data wrong.
Speaker 4: I made him go back and look at it again. Speaker 4: But it turned out it was about 70% of the Speaker 4: time that people were engaged in leisure and relaxation. They Speaker 4: were actually like watching Netflix, watching TV. And again, going Speaker 4: to what you're saying about that sort of false flow Speaker 4: or whatever.
It wasn't actually…
My note
This entirely makes sense. I know what it's like to force myself to have quote-unquote leisure time where the whole time I cannot stop thinking about what I could be doing, even though really what I need to be doing is taking a break.
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos omny.fm ↗