GSam Battery Monitor, I use to check things like until what time I was up or how cold it was in the bedroom overnight. The graphs show when my phone screen was on (when I set my alarm) and log the battery temperature which I’ve found matches room temperature after a few hours (with WiFi/data off so it’s not doing whatever background tasks if people are conversing in a group chat or so)

One time I was absolutely certain my alarms hadn’t gone off but you could see a little blip on the screen graph, once every minute, matching precisely the (turned off) alarms. Either Sam is in on it or I just slept really soundly that day :D

Apparently it has ads though. Wouldn’t recommend, I always had it firewalled because I didn’t think it needed internet access to display some offline data from my phone in the first place and apparently that also works as an ad blocker? Fun side effect. But so I’m very interested in any open source alternatives people know of!

Would they use violence though? We might still be better off with the paper conflicts that these people have with each other 🤔

Would they resort to violent conflict though? The question was violence, not competition at others’ cost

Surely that’s just meant as a general concept and we don’t need to split hairs on the definition of that? Imagine an IQ test or whatever else people normally understand when using the word intelligence, and that such a person would get 1.5 times as many questions right

Independence and integrity doesn’t mean it can’t be for-profit. Factorio is indie but they’re not giving their games away for free. Newspaper journalists (redactie? Redaktion… what’s the English word) are supposed to be independent of e.g. the ads that are posted on the same page, and Tweakers at some point decided they want to act like this as well. Not that they have a rectification process or whatever, but besides (what I believe to be) honest mistakes they make a good attempt at journalistic integrity imo

I’d say the reviews are also worth taking a look at, but then I’ve never looked at anything else so I wouldn’t know if Stiftung Warentest is maybe much better :D. If you ever take a look at Tweakers’ reviews, let me know how it compares to them. I live in Germany so that description could be useful for me as well ^^

This is the page you’ll need to achieve these things: https://tweakers.net/info/werken-bij/

It’s set up like a for-profit organisation, not like Lemmy. They accept contributions in small quantities, within what the forms accept, but not things like linking a new webshop. The webshop needs to sign a contract and pay Tweakers c.q. DPG Media whenever someone clicks on their shop link within the Pricewatch!

You’ll have seen the general feedback form and it does work. One or two working days later you’ll get a confirmation that it has been processed IF you didn’t submit too many at once. It’s a boring job for them to manually check and correct these things; a lot of work isn’t necessarily appreciated.

Or when it’s not a standard change, like for a mobile phone (I can look up the model) the Geekbench 5 scores were swapped: the multicore results were in the singlecore field and vice versa. Puzzled me for a bit (how could single core be faster than multi? Surely the phone was busy doing something else during one of those tests?) until the penny dropped and then it seemed really obvious and that also matched the Geekbench 6 results for the same model where it hadn’t been swapped around. So I report this with all the evidence and “I’ve forwarded it to the testlab team” is all I ever heard. Few months later the mistake was still there. It’s not their job to think and the testlab is a more trusted data source than me so I guess they’re not going to take my word for it and the test people don’t feel responsible for updating the pricewatch

so yeah I’ve got mixed feelings. The pricewatch is internationally unparallelled for drilling down to the product you’re looking for; it’s an amazing resource and the profit model makes enough sense to me. I just wish it was more open, maybe like stackoverflow review queues where two people who gained enough site karma can accept a proposed edit, for example

Fwiw, I believe they recently actually had a job ad for this exact position (pricewatch manager, or at least that was part of the tasks), maybe a few weeks ago. They don’t have as much churn as the typical tech organisation, or so they said at an abonneedag = subscribers’ (open) day

I discovered this site because they wrote a JavaScript n-body gravity simulator as a side note for an article on iirc Cyclers. That’s the level of commitment I expect from a particularly dedicated space enthusiast, not a journalist! Especially when it’s not essential and a prominent piece in the story. Incredibly cool

They also have a podcast which I would recommend. Ain’t got no time to read the long pieces* but having them stories read to me while I’m cleaning the house? You bet!

* this is a lie; I read books for crying out loud