Brainfarts
diwangs' blog; mostly about tech, philosophy, and rants.
I don’t know about you, but lately my Instagram feed has been bombarded by MLM marketing material. Turns out, this 2020 pandemic has been a fertile breeding ground for them because of people’s craving for alternative income.
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Blockchain for CS People
Blockchain is one of the most misunderstood technology that exists right now. On one end, blockchain is one of those tech words that has been mythified to be a world-changer: a tool that can solve poverty, world hunger, and other grandeur things. It’s easy to get caught in the marketing hype and get a non-accurate, sugarcoated idea of it. On the other end, some people think blockchain is “just a linked-list” and has no use cases outside of cryptocurrency. While both extremes have some kernel of truth, I think that there should be an elaboration to be made to truly understand the potential and limitation of the technology.
BTPN Jenius Review
Due to its bureaucratic inertia, the banking business has to be one of the slowest sectors to adapt to new technologies. While new flashy gizmos do exist, especially payment technologies (e.g. Apple Pay, Android Pay, Visa PayWave, cryptocurrencies, and in Indonesia there are TCash, e-money cards, and countless other small startup stuffs), the consumer banking experience stays roughly the same: to be able to use the bank’s services, you often still have to go to a physical building and hassle with the paperwork and the queue. While majority of the banks have some kind of online services, they mostly function like a cashless ATM that can only do a simple send and receive transaction. Not exactly a thing that you would call ‘innovative’.
Phones are Kinda Mature Now
As someone who watches the tech industry, I cannot escape the famous “what phone should I buy?” question given to me by the people around me. Then, as time goes by, I realized that it’s getting harder and harder to even find a bad phone. Years ago, there’s a clear and distinct class division of phones in a company’s lineup. The top flagship phone has all the feature that you can imagine: cameras, colored high resolution screen, email and browser, Office file reader, and occasionally, a funky and radical design. As you traverse down the series, you’ll end up with the basic, lower-end phones: monochrome screen, GSM only connection, plastic design, and a beeper speaker. Back then, low-end phones are astronomically inferior to the flagship and there’s a somewhat clear spectrum of goodness. However, as of today, that gap has been vanished, or at least greatly blurred.
Moto 360 2nd Gen Review
You could argue that smartwatches are a waste of money. They don’t do much and they are typically a drab. For the price, you could just get a fine dumb watch (?) and not worry about the little quirks that it has; you can just wear it. I just bought a Moto 360 2nd Gen last month and let me tell you my inexplicable experience I have with it.
The Gadget Etiquette
We all have gadgets. But not all of us know how to use them properly. In your life, I’m pretty sure you had, or have, that friend who constantly hump his face with a screen. And that’s just one of many examples that not all of us know that unspoken rules of gadgetry. So, here are those few rules that I’ve discovered :
Icons, They Capture My Heart
I’ve been interested in the Windows 10 ecosystem lately. One day, i came across this picture :
Google Photos Review: A Bad Cake from A Great Dough
Pictures are memories. They remind us about something memorable and we can’t afford to lose them.
Understanding Phone Specification for Newbies
Got confused when seeing phone’s specification list ? lemme try to help you. I hope this geeky terms won’t get you anywhere near confusion.
Photography: ISO, Aperture, Shutter speed, and Exposure for Newbies
When you buy a new camera and explores it, maybe you’ll find those thing and you wanna know about it. Well I’m here to explain to you in a very simple way.
Razer’s Project Christine
Hi all, i’ve promised to write more right ? so here it is, now i will talk about the Project Christine
Android feat. 64-bit Processor: The Hype
Hi all, now I want to talk about Android with 64 bit processor
Motorola’s “Project Ara”
diwang’s here, now i want to talk about a new concept of a smartphone, a modular smartphone.
Arma 3 Review: The Real War Game
Hello all, diwangs here, now i want to tell you about my experience with Arma 3.
First Post
Just started blogging, This will be a blog about my opinion about games, gadget, and other technology stuff, stay tuned!