I was like this until I had a kid. I was not planning to have children but it happened anyway and to my complete surprise I love being a parent and I am a much better person because of him. I now feel empathy with others, even strangers in distress and I now follow the Golden Rule more pro-actively.
However, it fills me with despair knowing what my son will see and experience in his lifetime. I'm spending money on being more environmentally conscious and I've discovered that even though I'm not by any means wealthy I can do this while still living comfortably. Ofcourse my meager efforts is not going to fix global warming but I can start with myself and try to add my voice to larger matters, not for me but for my son.
Happened to my friends LG G4. When the battery only last half a day and the phone starts spontaneously rebooting with an increasing frequency it's time for a new battery yet again.
I've also seen it happen with an Acer laptop.
When the battery is old a high power drain can cause sudden failure, it's simply how these batteries work.
I love 4:3 and hope there'll always be a 4:3 version available, for me it's perfect. But then I never watch videos (apart from the occasional youtube) on my iPad. I understand your viewpoint though, it's just not mine.
I just replaced a Samsung GS6, that were no longer getting OS upgrades after 2-3 years, with an iPhone that will be supported for five minimum. I was at first considering a Pixel3 for swifter upgrades than Samsung but I don't want to pay top $ for a phone AND get datamined/profiled on AND get only 3 years support. It was expensive up front but if it lasts as long as my wife's iphone 5S it'll be cheap.
The iPhone runs the same 3rd party cloud services, mail, calendar, notes as my Samsung did. I don't use iCloud or iTunes, except for backup. I also use a third party email app called Canary Mail. I am no more locked into Apple than I was locked into Google.
I don't use voice assistants for much but have played with Google, Siri and Alexa - they all suck. The only thing I use Siri for is starting a Goodnight Shortcut that changes light and temperature in my place.
A friend just got a new LG phone and I congratulated him and helped him transfer stuff because it's a f-ing personal choice what f-ing phone people get and we should be f-ing happy for each other!
Hatred is one of the most powerful and intense human emotions. I have yet to completely understand why people can feel such toward a device like a smartphone. Maybe toward a company that is particularly malicious. Once I learned real hate toward a person I've never used it lightly again.
In any case I was happy with my Samsung Galaxy S6, it was and is still a really great phone but it is scandalous that it no longer receives OS upgrades which is why I got an iPhone now. I can use either OS and personally don't care either way. What is interesting is that the privacy focus of Apple is in its own way liberating.
I was selling applications in online stores for Symbian and Windows before the Apple App Store existed, they all wanted 50%. Brick and mortar stores wanted even more. I think there were one online store asking for less than 50%, they were small and trying to make it big.
The Apple App store set a new industry low for their "take" should be, everybody followed suit.
And ofcourse: "We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing."
I have first name.lastname at Gmail and firstname at outlook.com. I get so much crap: confirmation from site account creations, photos from some happy Germans having dinner, union and doctors newsletters from Denmark, student homework portals, invoices for bush clearing in South Africa and a fertilizer agreement for a farmer in Denmark.
A guy signed up for broadband internet, got invoices, then late payment notices and termination notices. Finally signup from different provider. All his personal details were in the email so I sent an SMS explaining, never got answer, he probably thought I was a scammer in some way texting from across the world.
It's irrelevant who invented something first and whether somebody copied something or figured out something independently, unless a law is broken. Given that it takes a year to create a new phone the first on the market with something might not even be the first to start developing on it - like the notch which were developed simultaneously by two companies even though one put it on the market first.
It's like the "Opera did this 10 year ago, Firefox" thing; it doesn't matter. Whether they reinvented, were unknowingly inspired or blatantly copied - in the end it benefits the user.
Furthermore the whole Android vs. Apple circle jerk is a thoroughly dumb thing spearheaded by constipated insecure teens trying to validate their choices. Lots of smart good people use iPhones and Android just like lots of dummies on either platform. Lots of people change between them multiple times, depending on deals.
Hating one company and being loyal to another is doing a disservice to yourself, they all want your money. Apple directly, Google monetizes your soul and Samsung is trying for both..
Base each new purchase on use case and budget and don't be an infantile: respect the choice of others.
Safari on iOS have ad-blocking extensions that can be installed, I'm using one.
For Android I use Firefox with uBlock Origin. The Samsung browser which is very good also have ad blocking extensions and is available for non-samsung Android phones through the Play store.
Unfortunately we can look forward to the web serving up only mobile sites, even for the desktop. Actually it started years ago with desktop sites and blogs putting up bigger images, then later came burger menus on desktop, etc. it's just accelerating to all out mobile web now.
This have been covered before with "what's going to happen" articles. Conclusion was that it's obviously not like an Evil Switch being flicked, companies are not that dumb after all. Instead changes are slowly going to creep up on Americans over time.
True: Sharp, Essential and Apple came out with notched phones at the same time, that they'd probably all spent a year working on, independently. This is not about copying the idea of a notch or rough similarity; it's about the Motorola looking identical, down to the very wallpaper.
Read TFA linked.
I have a notched Essential phone right here and it looks and feels very different from the iPhone X, they all look their own way, the P30 does not.
It's like the much ridiculed rounded corners case, it's was actually about much more: the phone looking the same, the icons on the screen, the box it came in and even internal Samsung emails discussing how to do it. But in front of a judge you can't just hold up a device in each hand and and say "your honor, what do you think?", you have to laboriously discuss each detail, thus the rounded corners case.
Well, a large number of notched phones are out now and they all look noticeably different. Notches are wide, narrow, thick, thin, rounded, square, screens are different sizes, bezels differing, etc. etc.
If you read TFA you'd see that this is not just about rough similarity. It's every detail carefully copied, all the way from the hardware down to the wallpaper style.
All three notched phones (Sharp, Essential, iPhone) came out within the same year or maybe even within half a year. I think it's safe to say that since development of a new phone typically takes a year; they were all working on it at the same time, independently.
You can't "copy it" and put out an entire new phone in a few months. So I'd credit this idea to all three, rather that waffle on about who copied who, also because it really doesn't matter anyway.
iOS 12 loads apps about twice as fast on a five year old iPhone 5s, completely breathing new life into this device. This is measurable and independently documented online.
While I agree that the rest of the industry is unlikely to use their code I'd like to point out that your big numbers does not translate to more secure systems. Modern cars have more computers than ever and it's a pretty common opinion by experts that the industry have integrated all these systems with little to no concern for security, just like many airplanes, sadly.
But hey maybe these hundreds of "security engineers" at Toyota are actually creating a new secure by design car computing system. It's about time!
Yes, my wife just got a used iPhone 7. It's a bargain and 5 years of SW updates guaranteed (from initial release) is very useful in this respect.
I just put iOS 12 beta on her old iPhone 5s and apps load in half the time, if it wasn't for wanting a bigger screen she would have stayed with it. In contrast my only 3 years old Android is no longer getting updates.
With the things people use their phones for now they're practically the new Personal Computer and with people starting to keep phones longer it's not enough keeping security updates to three years.
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So when in love you loiter nearby and eventually deliver your payload from a safe distance?
It could reduce network congestion in busy areas. Apparently congestion is a big problem and 5G is the new neti pot.
I was like this until I had a kid. I was not planning to have children but it happened anyway and to my complete surprise I love being a parent and I am a much better person because of him. I now feel empathy with others, even strangers in distress and I now follow the Golden Rule more pro-actively.
However, it fills me with despair knowing what my son will see and experience in his lifetime. I'm spending money on being more environmentally conscious and I've discovered that even though I'm not by any means wealthy I can do this while still living comfortably. Ofcourse my meager efforts is not going to fix global warming but I can start with myself and try to add my voice to larger matters, not for me but for my son.
Apples latest generation is not thinner than the last, on the contrary.
Happened to my friends LG G4. When the battery only last half a day and the phone starts spontaneously rebooting with an increasing frequency it's time for a new battery yet again.
I've also seen it happen with an Acer laptop.
When the battery is old a high power drain can cause sudden failure, it's simply how these batteries work.
I love 4:3 and hope there'll always be a 4:3 version available, for me it's perfect. But then I never watch videos (apart from the occasional youtube) on my iPad. I understand your viewpoint though, it's just not mine.
Seems like a writ for the circlejerkers.
I just replaced a Samsung GS6, that were no longer getting OS upgrades after 2-3 years, with an iPhone that will be supported for five minimum.
I was at first considering a Pixel3 for swifter upgrades than Samsung but I don't want to pay top $ for a phone AND get datamined/profiled on AND get only 3 years support.
It was expensive up front but if it lasts as long as my wife's iphone 5S it'll be cheap.
The iPhone runs the same 3rd party cloud services, mail, calendar, notes as my Samsung did. I don't use iCloud or iTunes, except for backup. I also use a third party email app called Canary Mail. I am no more locked into Apple than I was locked into Google.
I don't use voice assistants for much but have played with Google, Siri and Alexa - they all suck. The only thing I use Siri for is starting a Goodnight Shortcut that changes light and temperature in my place.
A friend just got a new LG phone and I congratulated him and helped him transfer stuff because it's a f-ing personal choice what f-ing phone people get and we should be f-ing happy for each other!
Hatred is one of the most powerful and intense human emotions. I have yet to completely understand why people can feel such toward a device like a smartphone. Maybe toward a company that is particularly malicious. Once I learned real hate toward a person I've never used it lightly again.
In any case I was happy with my Samsung Galaxy S6, it was and is still a really great phone but it is scandalous that it no longer receives OS upgrades which is why I got an iPhone now. I can use either OS and personally don't care either way.
What is interesting is that the privacy focus of Apple is in its own way liberating.
I was selling applications in online stores for Symbian and Windows before the Apple App Store existed, they all wanted 50%. Brick and mortar stores wanted even more. I think there were one online store asking for less than 50%, they were small and trying to make it big.
The Apple App store set a new industry low for their "take" should be, everybody followed suit.
I believe the official QI standard supports 5W, 7.5W and 10W. It actually goes as far as 120W IIRC but that's not relevant here.
Multi Account Containers and Temporary Containers are even nicer.
And ofcourse: "We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing."
I have first name.lastname at Gmail and firstname at outlook.com. I get so much crap: confirmation from site account creations, photos from some happy Germans having dinner, union and doctors newsletters from Denmark, student homework portals, invoices for bush clearing in South Africa and a fertilizer agreement for a farmer in Denmark.
A guy signed up for broadband internet, got invoices, then late payment notices and termination notices. Finally signup from different provider. All his personal details were in the email so I sent an SMS explaining, never got answer, he probably thought I was a scammer in some way texting from across the world.
It's irrelevant who invented something first and whether somebody copied something or figured out something independently, unless a law is broken. Given that it takes a year to create a new phone the first on the market with something might not even be the first to start developing on it - like the notch which were developed simultaneously by two companies even though one put it on the market first.
It's like the "Opera did this 10 year ago, Firefox" thing; it doesn't matter. Whether they reinvented, were unknowingly inspired or blatantly copied - in the end it benefits the user.
Furthermore the whole Android vs. Apple circle jerk is a thoroughly dumb thing spearheaded by constipated insecure teens trying to validate their choices.
Lots of smart good people use iPhones and Android just like lots of dummies on either platform. Lots of people change between them multiple times, depending on deals.
Hating one company and being loyal to another is doing a disservice to yourself, they all want your money. Apple directly, Google monetizes your soul and Samsung is trying for both..
Base each new purchase on use case and budget and don't be an infantile: respect the choice of others.
Safari on iOS have ad-blocking extensions that can be installed, I'm using one.
For Android I use Firefox with uBlock Origin. The Samsung browser which is very good also have ad blocking extensions and is available for non-samsung Android phones through the Play store.
Unfortunately we can look forward to the web serving up only mobile sites, even for the desktop. Actually it started years ago with desktop sites and blogs putting up bigger images, then later came burger menus on desktop, etc. it's just accelerating to all out mobile web now.
This have been covered before with "what's going to happen" articles. Conclusion was that it's obviously not like an Evil Switch being flicked, companies are not that dumb after all. Instead changes are slowly going to creep up on Americans over time.
Indeed, this is for somebody trying to prevent their nosy spouse from discovering they are having an affair, nothing more.
True: Sharp, Essential and Apple came out with notched phones at the same time, that they'd probably all spent a year working on, independently. This is not about copying the idea of a notch or rough similarity; it's about the Motorola looking identical, down to the very wallpaper.
Read TFA linked.
I have a notched Essential phone right here and it looks and feels very different from the iPhone X, they all look their own way, the P30 does not.
It's like the much ridiculed rounded corners case, it's was actually about much more: the phone looking the same, the icons on the screen, the box it came in and even internal Samsung emails discussing how to do it. But in front of a judge you can't just hold up a device in each hand and and say "your honor, what do you think?", you have to laboriously discuss each detail, thus the rounded corners case.
Well, a large number of notched phones are out now and they all look noticeably different. Notches are wide, narrow, thick, thin, rounded, square, screens are different sizes, bezels differing, etc. etc.
If you read TFA you'd see that this is not just about rough similarity. It's every detail carefully copied, all the way from the hardware down to the wallpaper style.
All three notched phones (Sharp, Essential, iPhone) came out within the same year or maybe even within half a year. I think it's safe to say that since development of a new phone typically takes a year; they were all working on it at the same time, independently.
You can't "copy it" and put out an entire new phone in a few months. So I'd credit this idea to all three, rather that waffle on about who copied who, also because it really doesn't matter anyway.
iOS 12 loads apps about twice as fast on a five year old iPhone 5s, completely breathing new life into this device. This is measurable and independently documented online.
While I agree that the rest of the industry is unlikely to use their code I'd like to point out that your big numbers does not translate to more secure systems. Modern cars have more computers than ever and it's a pretty common opinion by experts that the industry have integrated all these systems with little to no concern for security, just like many airplanes, sadly.
But hey maybe these hundreds of "security engineers" at Toyota are actually creating a new secure by design car computing system. It's about time!
Yes, my wife just got a used iPhone 7. It's a bargain and 5 years of SW updates guaranteed (from initial release) is very useful in this respect.
I just put iOS 12 beta on her old iPhone 5s and apps load in half the time, if it wasn't for wanting a bigger screen she would have stayed with it. In contrast my only 3 years old Android is no longer getting updates.
With the things people use their phones for now they're practically the new Personal Computer and with people starting to keep phones longer it's not enough keeping security updates to three years.
Indeed, for traditional search results they source from Bing; https://duck.co/help/results/sources