Not while the current networks continue to work. 4G is plenty fast for me, unless they switch off the current frequencies I can keep using my current phone
I too feel that the hardware in smartphones is good enough. Their downside is that it tends to break pretty soon (in my experiences between 2 and 4 years) so you have to replace it sooner than later because of that.
I try to buy phones with user replaceable batteries for that reason
Well, obviously you know that the UI is something different from the core OS so OpenBSD could be run on a smartphone by having a touch interface similar to Android or iOS.
When docked with a keyboard and mouse you could run the traditional desktop UI and applications.
I'd love to have an smartphone like that but sadly Android and iOS seem to have won and that looks less likely every day
I used to have a Galaxy s4 with 16 gigs of memory and had storage problems all the time. I did have 20 or 30 apps installed (not an unreasonable number IMO) but no multigigabyte games or something like that but I still had to clean caches/delete Whatsapp images and videos all the time just for being able to install updates.
Now with a 32 gb LG I have no problems at all.
Yes, it is, at least where I live (Spain) maybe it isn't where you are. Spain doesn't have any problems with mobile internet capacity or speed (there's good working 4g in all the medium and big cities) neither most people have space-constrained smartphones so I don't know why they would publish it here and not on other first world countries.
Social apps want to grow in users all the time and they keep changing their product all the time to get more users, get them to spend more time or add more monetization options.
The problem is that at some point your product is gonna be pretty good and adding more things usually makes it worse. The undelying problem is that the users are not the customers they're just the product and so what they want is a secondary concern.
Yes, it's obvious Google-style user monetization. The problem is that they haven't given an option to opt out of that by paying money. Even apps for smartphones most of the time let you choose between free with ads and paid without.
Nope, it's not a "non story". All versions of Windows may have had some quirks but none before 10 has installed applications without the user's leave or forbid him from stopping the installation of updates, or displayed messages in the very same OS that are publicity for Ms' products or forced itself on users of previous versions without warning.
Windows 10 is just user hostile.
I'm currently still on Windows 7. And yes, I love my games. I'll have to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 or whatever at some point but if things are as bad as now (and nothing suggests they'll get better) I plan to dual boot and use Windows as a games console
I've been using the "lite" version of Facebook for some time and I don't miss the huge bloated "good" version.
I'm a pretty lightweight user so I don't notice the omissions the lite app has (probably has) and also has the chat integrated so I don't need to install yet another app just to reply to Facebook messages.
I don't know much about mobile development but they must be using some huge libraries/frameworks because I don't know how else many apps like Facebook weight over 100 MB in size
It's one of the things that annoys me the most in computing: Hardware that works properly becauming useless because of lack of software support.
Most hardware will eventually stop being supported by new software eventually but Apple is one of the worst about this. Forced upgrades is the name of the game in Apple world.
Obviously the intent is making it so hard to disable so that few users will bother. They use a similar strategy (reverting default programs to Windows built ins from time to time) to get you to use the included apps.
This is disgusting behaviour. That's the price we pay for Windows being the dominant desktop OS. If their marketshare was 50% or less they wouldn't dare to do that
Yeah, I know. People can get a little extreme. I'm not rich and I don't really need or enjoy very high end things so I try to keep it reasonable.
I bought a Cherry keyboard (~70€) a couple of years ago and I'm pretty happy with it. But I enjoy reading about it so I'll take a look to that reddit forum
Which isn't suprising at all since PC gaming:
- has been pretty much tied to Windows since the late 90s
- also which share of games work on Macs? On Windows it's 99%
They might not have everything well documented, or it might not be in a format suitable for publication. It obviously comes down to a cost-benefit analysis.
+1 for this. My eyes (as I guess those of many of us here) suffer from too many hours looking at screens. If we could just close our eyes and have cameras send the info directly to our brains that would be solved.
Same for ears, etc.
So there are hardware Bluray players that can't play new movies because the manufacturers can't be bothered to update them? Wouldn't that count as not being fit for purpose?
I don't own a Bluray player and had heard something about key revocation and so but never imagined that existed legitimate hardware players that couldn't play original discs. Madness.
I'm sure there's lots of technically competent people working on Windows. There's also probably many managers who want to do things right. Sadly, politics and economics issues always interfere and thus we get the user-hostile Windows 10. It's a pity because it could be a great OS for everyone.
You get advertisements specific to where you live I get the opposite problem. I don't know what is my ISP doing (I guess it's the ISP's fault) but I often get geolocated to Russia but I'm actually in Spain. The result is that I get russian ads (not so bad) but also a streaming service I pay also locates me there and I can only get the Russian version of their channel and not the Spanish one.
Weird.
Nope. I've never considered buying Apple stuff and the primary reason is that their philosophy has always been to only play nice with themselves.
I do not want to be beholden to any single company so I try to use hardware and software with support for open standards and that are as open as possible.
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Not while the current networks continue to work. 4G is plenty fast for me, unless they switch off the current frequencies I can keep using my current phone
I too feel that the hardware in smartphones is good enough. Their downside is that it tends to break pretty soon (in my experiences between 2 and 4 years) so you have to replace it sooner than later because of that.
I try to buy phones with user replaceable batteries for that reason
Well, obviously you know that the UI is something different from the core OS so OpenBSD could be run on a smartphone by having a touch interface similar to Android or iOS.
When docked with a keyboard and mouse you could run the traditional desktop UI and applications.
I'd love to have an smartphone like that but sadly Android and iOS seem to have won and that looks less likely every day
I used to have a Galaxy s4 with 16 gigs of memory and had storage problems all the time. I did have 20 or 30 apps installed (not an unreasonable number IMO) but no multigigabyte games or something like that but I still had to clean caches/delete Whatsapp images and videos all the time just for being able to install updates.
Now with a 32 gb LG I have no problems at all.
Yes, it is, at least where I live (Spain) maybe it isn't where you are. Spain doesn't have any problems with mobile internet capacity or speed (there's good working 4g in all the medium and big cities) neither most people have space-constrained smartphones so I don't know why they would publish it here and not on other first world countries.
A great evil doesn't make good a lesser one. Android is bad yes, but Windows used to be much better (think 7)
Social apps want to grow in users all the time and they keep changing their product all the time to get more users, get them to spend more time or add more monetization options.
The problem is that at some point your product is gonna be pretty good and adding more things usually makes it worse. The undelying problem is that the users are not the customers they're just the product and so what they want is a secondary concern.
Yes, it's obvious Google-style user monetization. The problem is that they haven't given an option to opt out of that by paying money. Even apps for smartphones most of the time let you choose between free with ads and paid without.
Nope, it's not a "non story". All versions of Windows may have had some quirks but none before 10 has installed applications without the user's leave or forbid him from stopping the installation of updates, or displayed messages in the very same OS that are publicity for Ms' products or forced itself on users of previous versions without warning. Windows 10 is just user hostile.
I'm currently still on Windows 7. And yes, I love my games. I'll have to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 or whatever at some point but if things are as bad as now (and nothing suggests they'll get better) I plan to dual boot and use Windows as a games console
I've been using the "lite" version of Facebook for some time and I don't miss the huge bloated "good" version.
I'm a pretty lightweight user so I don't notice the omissions the lite app has (probably has) and also has the chat integrated so I don't need to install yet another app just to reply to Facebook messages.
I don't know much about mobile development but they must be using some huge libraries/frameworks because I don't know how else many apps like Facebook weight over 100 MB in size
It's one of the things that annoys me the most in computing: Hardware that works properly becauming useless because of lack of software support.
Most hardware will eventually stop being supported by new software eventually but Apple is one of the worst about this. Forced upgrades is the name of the game in Apple world.
Obviously the intent is making it so hard to disable so that few users will bother. They use a similar strategy (reverting default programs to Windows built ins from time to time) to get you to use the included apps.
This is disgusting behaviour. That's the price we pay for Windows being the dominant desktop OS. If their marketshare was 50% or less they wouldn't dare to do that
Yeah, I know. People can get a little extreme. I'm not rich and I don't really need or enjoy very high end things so I try to keep it reasonable.
I bought a Cherry keyboard (~70€) a couple of years ago and I'm pretty happy with it. But I enjoy reading about it so I'll take a look to that reddit forum
Thanks!
Know any website or forum where they talk about high-end keyboards? Thanks.
Which isn't suprising at all since PC gaming:
- has been pretty much tied to Windows since the late 90s
- also which share of games work on Macs? On Windows it's 99%
They might not have everything well documented, or it might not be in a format suitable for publication. It obviously comes down to a cost-benefit analysis.
Regarding #7, what's wrong with today's mechanical keyboards?
+1 for this. My eyes (as I guess those of many of us here) suffer from too many hours looking at screens. If we could just close our eyes and have cameras send the info directly to our brains that would be solved.
Same for ears, etc.
So there are hardware Bluray players that can't play new movies because the manufacturers can't be bothered to update them? Wouldn't that count as not being fit for purpose?
I don't own a Bluray player and had heard something about key revocation and so but never imagined that existed legitimate hardware players that couldn't play original discs. Madness.
I'm sure there's lots of technically competent people working on Windows. There's also probably many managers who want to do things right. Sadly, politics and economics issues always interfere and thus we get the user-hostile Windows 10. It's a pity because it could be a great OS for everyone.
You get advertisements specific to where you live I get the opposite problem. I don't know what is my ISP doing (I guess it's the ISP's fault) but I often get geolocated to Russia but I'm actually in Spain. The result is that I get russian ads (not so bad) but also a streaming service I pay also locates me there and I can only get the Russian version of their channel and not the Spanish one.
Weird.
I use Win 7 too but my pc is 4 years old. How's support for newer hardware? It'll surely be lacking at some point
Nope. I've never considered buying Apple stuff and the primary reason is that their philosophy has always been to only play nice with themselves.
I do not want to be beholden to any single company so I try to use hardware and software with support for open standards and that are as open as possible.