Are we so desperate that we want what is basically malware ported to Linux? Ew. I didn’t tolerate that shit when I was running Windows, and I’m sure not going to start now.
I’ll just keep on voting with my wallet, and not pay money for such user-hostile products.
10 years ago, all I wanted was a brick-sized phone with a battery that won’t quit. Now that we have cheap and reliable portable power banks, it’s dropped down on my priorities list.
I guess a 22Ah battery would have a longer effective lifespan, too. I mean, if it drops to 50% capacity after a few years, that’s still more that double most phones. So that would potentially solve my longevity issue.
This link is more Lemmy-friendly: [email protected] (note that you might need to refresh the page after loading it, if this is the first time someone is loading it on your Lemmy instance).
Typically, I use a slow-charger overnight (a plain ol’ USB type-A charger, which I think means 5W max), then top-up as needed during the day with USB-PD fast chargers. I generally do not top up to 100% during the day. I have adaptive charging enabled in settings.
That said, I’m a heavy phone user, and I’ve never had a phone that reliably lasts me a full day. According to aBattery, my current phone is at 750 charge cycles, which is just about 1 per day since I bought it. I’m not up to date on all the latest developments in battery tech, but I think it’s normal for a battery to drop to 80% of its original max charge after 500 cycles. I don’t think I have a dud on my hands, just an ordinary battery that is aging as expected. Like I said, it’s still “fine”. It hasn’t started unexpectedly shutting off or anything like that.
I still have my old Pixel 2 (now 7 years old) that I occasionally use as a wi-fi device. I used that phone heavily for 2 years and very lightly for the remaining 5. I’m lucky if the battery lasts half an hour at this point; it’s basically a desktop device now.
Also works on Twitch with the added benefit of NOT playing ads (you still get breaks, just with a placeholder screen instead of the commercial).
mpv has yt-dlp support built in, so it can just play the streams directly.
vd (VisiData) is a wonderful TUI spreadsheet program. It can read lots of formats, like csv, sqlite, and even nested formats like json. It supports Python expressions and replayable commands.
I find it most useful for large CSV files from various sources. Logs and reports from a lot of the tools I use can easily be tens of thousands of rows, and it can take many minutes just to open them in GUI apps like Excel or LibreOffice.
I frequently need to re-export fresh data, so I find myself needing to re-process and re-arrange it every time, which visidata makes easy (well, easier) with its replayable command files. So e.g. I can write a script to open a raw csv, add a formula column, resize all columns to fit their content, set the column types as appropriate, and sort it the way I need it. So I can do direct from exporting the data to reading it with no preprocessing in between.
Yeah, I’ve replaced phones in the past that were perfectly fine except the battery was terribly degraded. With an iFixIt repairability rating of 2 stars and a new battery costing more than the phone was worth, it just didn’t make sense to fix it.
My current phone is only two years old and while it’s still “fine”, the battery life is noticeably lower than it used to be. I doubt it’ll remain useful for another two years.
Many brands now provide software support for longer than the hardware will remain useful (thanks to non-removable batteries). Strange times!
Consumers partly killed replaceable batteries by demanding things they couldn’t deliver. Waterproofing
Ehhhh…no, not buying it. We had water-resistant phones before the switch to non-removable batteries. For example, the Galaxy S5 (the last Samsung flagship with a removable battery) had an IP67 rating. The current Galaxy S24 has an IP68 rating. Go ahead, ask your average consumer what the difference is between IP67 and IP68, and how much they care.
Oh yeah, and the S5 also had a headphone jack and SD slot. You can do all these things and still have water resistance, so let’s all please stop perpetuating these myths. If you’re not on Apple’s or Samsung’s payroll, you do not need to lie for them.
My experience might be a bit outdated, but I remember finding the default Mac OS X Terminal extremely slow. A few years back I ran an output-heavy command, and the speed difference between displaying the output in terminal vs outputting it to a file was orders of magnitude. The same thing on my Linux system was much, much faster. I’m not sure how much of that was due specifically to rendering, vs memory management or something else, though.
I might see if I can still reproduce this in Sequoia and if Ghostty is faster on Mac.
According to Rtings, the Samsung has a notably worse viewing angle than your other two. Take a look at the graphs:
Samsung: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/samsung/odyssey-g5-g50d-s27dg50#test_1417
Asus: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/asus/tuf-gaming-vg27aql1a#test_1417
Acer: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/acer/nitro-vg271up-pbmiipx#test_1417
Not sure if that explains your experience or if there’s something more to it.
I don’t. I have installed Firefox manually for many years across several distros now, albeit for different reasons. For example:
Debian only has Firefox ESR in the Bookworm repo. I want the latest mainline version.
Bazzite only offers it via Flatpak, which breaks functionality I need such as native messaging.
I see no problem installing it manually. It keeps itself updated and has caused me zero problems.
The ideal amount of storage is enough that I literally never need to think about it, never need to delete anything, and never need to use cloud services for things that could realistically be local.
It’s hard to say what that would be because I’ve never had a phone that even came close.
The largest phone I’ve owned was 256GB. That was “fine”, but it was NOT big enough that I could fundamentally change my habits. For example, I don’t carry my entire music collection on my phone. I don’t even do that on my laptop anymore since the advent of SSDs.
I have a 128GB phone now and it sucks. I’ve set up a one-way copy to my home desktop with Syncthing so I can safely delete photos, videos, and screen recordings from my phone. I need to do this frequently.
With the standard price-gouging in the industry, I will probably settle for 256 with my next phone. If prices were reasonable, I’d go for 1TB at least.
I miss SD cards but there are no viable options with slots anymore.
We need a lock before the lock screen to deal with all the functionality you can now access without unlocking it.
Sometimes I accidentally turn on the flashlight when the phone is in my pocket. I call it asslighting.