BearOfaTime

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BearOfaTime,

Boy, I’m so glad you aren’t running med research, or people my family would be suffering, or dead.

The meds we have today were unthinkable 50,60 years ago.

Are there issues with the system? Yes, huge ones - I could write a book on them. But your attitude is frankly juvenile.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

These magnetic attachments hint at functionalities similar to Apple’s MagSafe,

Or perhaps, Motos concept that was in production 10 years ago?

Last I checked Magsafe did nothing like this, only charging/connecting.

BearOfaTime,

Though they’ve been building nuclear plants with the help of Russia, because nuclear makes fucking sense. But the powers that be in the US have supported the green movement to block nuclear growth and keep us on petro, playing both sides against each other.

Ask most people what happened at 3 Mile Island and they’ll quote crap from “The China Syndrome”.

BearOfaTime,

First, find a good battery stats app. The factory stuff often isn’t granular enough. I use GSAM, because I’m lazy, my phone isn’t rooted, and it’s good enough.

Second, make sure whatever apps your using across TS aren’t doing something during this time. I have to carefully configure sync apps (Syncthing, FolderSync) to be sure they don’t use TS unintentionally.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

I’ve seen these kinds of issues over the years with different tools on a variety of phones. It’s so hard to know what the root cause is.

Some phones are just fine,others eat batteries, even when on the same versions of Android and the app.

Sometimes it’s just so hard to figure out.

BearOfaTime,

Just like auto updates is a feature I turn off, and yet I still get automatic app updates (and I set all network use options to “ask”, and it never does).

I’ve had the same problem across multiple phones since about 2015.

BearOfaTime,

Pixel with Lineage, DivestOS or Graphene is stable, faster than stock, better battery life.

And each one has ways to run Google apps if you want, DivestOS and Graphene in particular have methods to isolate Google apps to their own profile.

BearOfaTime,

Lol.

BT hasn’t been that bad in years.

Rarely have problems with pairing, and have about a dozen BT devices in my house.

Batteries and power are so much better today I worry less about charging BT devices than my phone.

BearOfaTime,

I’ve had 4x as many C ports die as I have Micro USB (and I’ve used micro ports since 2009 on multiple phones, numerous headsets, speakers, and small rechargeable devices).

C ports are awful for durability, despite claims they’re better than micro.

BearOfaTime,

You have to go out of your way to permit apps to install anything since like Android 9, iirc.

By default, only the play store can install apps, and anything asking for the permission has a pretty clear warning.

BearOfaTime,

Universal Android Debloat for those without root (it’s just a GUI for ADB commands to disable features).

Alternatively, switch to a flashable phone and use an AOSP rom like Graphene, Lineage or DivestOS.

BearOfaTime,

And people wonder why I root.

First I start with a user-friendly OS, like Graphene, Lineage, DivestOS.

BearOfaTime,

Great, yet another auto update to fuck things up.

BearOfaTime,

I’d rather they didn’t open it… It’s crap anyway, and I refuse to use it for those people who won’t move away from SMS.

BearOfaTime,

I can send and receive messages a thousand ways to Sunday. SMS is just one way.

Also, SMS isn’t dying in the US anytime soon. First, it’s just using an extant component in the cell management frames. These are always being transmitted anyway. Second, there’s a massive infrastructure in place which these companies are amortizing, fourth, the data gathering they get from it.

Then there’s organizations that use SMS for sending notifications, reminders, etc - you expect them to spend money to switch from a current working system to something else?

Then there’s end-users who are used to it, and are using different SMS apps - you’re going to tell them to use RCS they have to give up features in the apps they’ve paid for. Nevermind people resist change like there’s no tomorrow.

Plus RCS is terribly problematic. It fails as often, or even more often, than SMS. Just go search for RCS issues…for a protocol that supposed to replace SMS, it’s garbage.

And it’s still tied to a phone. Why would I want yet another messenger that’s tied to my phone and all the headache that entails?

I’ve been using XMPP apps between my phone and computers for close to 15 years now, pretty seamlessly. And there are plenty of other cross-platform messengers that aren’t dependent on a phone. What value does RCS bring compared to that?

BearOfaTime,

Yea, don’t waste time with MTP. It’s a hack to enable some access. It’s always been unstable.

Use some kind of network sync tool instead. Syncthing, Resilio Sync, Foldersync, etc.

BearOfaTime,

I can’t use a 6" screen one handed, I doubt most women (who are half the population) can either.

BearOfaTime,

Lol, I call BS.

You clearly don’t have “average size hands” unless you’re excluding women from that calculus.

Even then, an average man probably can’t use a 6" screen one handed. Why else do they ship with “one handed mode” on devices?

BearOfaTime,

Because I don’t want this giant thing in my pocket that’s also hard to hold, let alone use one handed.

BearOfaTime,

I just don’t find I really need to very often, very rarely in fact.

BearOfaTime,

They’re all pulling their chest out about who’s got the bigger

Yea, sounds like everyone you know is a tool. I don’t know anyone who behaves like this, it’s juvenile.

BearOfaTime,

Yet one more reason to not use the hot garbage that is RCS

BearOfaTime,

Houses are easier because standardization and regs (safety, really).

It’s appliances that are getting all the BS, and I hope we’ll always be able to buy non-smart appliances.

BearOfaTime,

I’ve been eyeing some commercial units partly because of this. Also because they’re made to run forever, and they continue to make parts for them.

Plus, the price of new consumer washers/dryers are well into the price of used commercial units, and approaching the price of low-end commercial stuff (that’s far better made and maintainable).

The used washing machine I’m looking at is $2k. With a known number of run hours on it (because it’s a commercial unit), easy access to internals (again, commercial), designed to be mountable, with proper leveling capability. These things are quiet and don’t shake at all.

BearOfaTime,

Speed Queen is the brand in the commercial used space. Can’t beat them. Parts always available.

BearOfaTime,

Yep.

I used to carry spare batteries with my S4 - they were slim, so it was easy. So I had to reboot to swap the battery - no big deal

BearOfaTime,

Yea, damn rare for an app to not save on the fly, as it’s how the data structures work by default on Android (and it addresses the memory management issue as you describe)

I can think of one app I have that requires you to save, out of the ~250 user apps on my phone. And I chose that app for that feature (a text editor).

I'm tired with all this Big-Phone-Elitism

I’m someone with relatively small hands, plus I want my phone to be on the smaller side since I prefer to use my tablet/computer/tv to watch content. But this trend where many manufacturers tend to keep futures away from smaller phones to drive people to bigger phones is driving me crazy and really makes it hard for me to buy...

BearOfaTime,

Sadly I think you’re right.

BearOfaTime,

It would, but why not make the phone larger and add more battery?

I’ve never heard someone say “my phone has too much battery”

BearOfaTime,

Just bought a 5. Going to buy a couple more as spares.

BearOfaTime,

“and mediocre experience” hahaha

Have my up vote.

How bad is it? Seems that branded stuff like this would likely be mediocre.

BearOfaTime,

As Openstars mentions, fitting stuff into a smaller space is much more work and expense than extra material for the body. I’ve watched engineers layout circuit boards for much, much, much less complex stuff and it’s quite a challenge.

Then there’s heat dissipation. Having owned numerous phones, including things like the S4 and S4 Mini, the mini would get hot doing certain tasks. Far less surface area means it will heat up and reduce performance. (Granted this was years ago, that hardware and Android version weren’t exactly efficient).

I’m sure there’s other issues like component selection (and sourcing), how many they expect to sell, etc, etc.

In the end, my money is on projections by marketing/sales/whoever.

BearOfaTime,

It really helps. I can use it for testing stuff, and then rebuild it as a duplicate of my phone (at least the baseline), then get a backup of it (not sure if TWRP still works for this, did a couple years ago), then it’s a hot spare for me that takes maybe an hour to get to bootable. And the let my backup apps (Neobackup and Titanium) restore everything from yesterday (They run daily backups, synced via Syncthing to my file server).

Plus when an OS upgrade comes along, I can run it there first to see if it breaks anything for me.

BearOfaTime,

Or actually show similar apps to the one you clicked on, like they used to

BearOfaTime,

Great point.

It’s so weird to me when people reply with “doesn’t happen to me”.

And?

That these things happen to people is a positive claim on their part. The idiots commentors saying it doesn’t happen to them don’t even realize their dispositive claim is meaningless.

BearOfaTime,

I think Lineage supports both of those.

Check wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

Also check out DivestOS, it’s a fork of Lineage, supports fewer devices.

BearOfaTime,

wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

BearOfaTime,

Scoped storage (only one app has access to its own data folders) is the heart of the problem. Not saying it’s wrong, as I understand the rationale.

This makes root necessary to permit a different app to write to those folders.

And then apps need to be coded in a way that doesn’t cause problems with restored data. Because even with root, this can sometimes happen.

BearOfaTime,

Ugh, full screen apps suck

BearOfaTime,

… With your advertisements

BearOfaTime,

5 hours in 2012? That was pretty damn good! Haha

BearOfaTime,

$1300

TEN TIMES the most I’ve ever paid for a phone.

BearOfaTime,

I hammer on a phone. Run an FTP server at home to copy files sometimes, have multiple sync tools running, always manually copying files to/from network devices, run RDP/SSH sessions often. The screen is rarely off.

I do fine with phones that cost $100 used. 2 year old flagships are a great value. If they work for me, the average user would have no trouble with one.

Switch to Graphene/Lineage/Divest, and people think it’s a new flagship.

BearOfaTime,

“don’t need to upgrade my phone every year”.

And neither do I. Currently running a (horror!) 2018 flagship on DivestOS. It’s faster than anyone’s phone that I know. Everyone is surprised at how fast my phone is.

Paid $80 for it 3 years ago.

BearOfaTime,

But make sure to update often!

BearOfaTime,

I would never spec a Windows machine with less than 16.

Even for a casual user. The problems it causes aren’t worth saving $50.

BearOfaTime,

Wait, you can’t choose your own search engine? Lol, I woulda ditched that launcher fast.

Then again, taking the stupid search box off is also one of the first things I do, then add a search app tied to touch-hold of a soft key, like menu.

BearOfaTime,

Unfortunately the stock launcher still runs anyway, because it provides things like the app switching UI.

So yea, you can switch but the other is still doing it’s thing.

On windows you could actually replace the shell, and Linux is even more flexible.

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