TheRetenor
TheRetenor t1_j6ivbbg wrote
Reply to comment by gear_m9 in Huge Sony Xperia 1 IV price cut gives credence to rumor that Xperia 1 V may match Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra price tag by ardi62
Let's not get started about their camera auto mode either.
BUT they have an SD slot, headphone jack and fantastic media quality. And if you know how to handle the camera, you can get some high quality pictures out of it and even though it doesn't do as well as eg Samsung in low light conditions, it can put out some very natural images which samsung sadly never does.
TheRetenor t1_j6iuyhu wrote
Reply to comment by nondescriptun in Huge Sony Xperia 1 IV price cut gives credence to rumor that Xperia 1 V may match Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra price tag by ardi62
So we can go at it slowly then, got plenty of time
TheRetenor t1_j48yc4y wrote
Reply to comment by Pubelication in The Fairphone 2 will hit end-of-life after 7 years of updates by ennuinerdog
Because that wire is already connected to the headphones and pretty damn hard to misplace while the dongle is more of a "whoops gone" item that also adds a double point of failure to the tech I'm having to carry around.
TheRetenor t1_j46wnrg wrote
Reply to comment by tjeulink in The Fairphone 2 will hit end-of-life after 7 years of updates by ennuinerdog
I have actuallt never seen an Android app not work on an Android phone that was on a somewhat reasonable older version (like 8.0 kind of is currently). I have however seen apps act up specifically in brand terms. Sometimes an app will not work on a certain Samsung device or similar.
And ontop of that you can install literally any Android version on most android phones if you are willing to invest a day of reading through guides (and have an unlockable phone), I mean there was the Android 10 patch for the 2011 Galaxy S2 and even new apps ran on that. Issues came mostly from insufficient hardware, which is of course not as much a problem on apple phones because there is no budget segment. A 2018 Galaxy J Something will struggle with anything 2023 way before flagships.
But in general, backwards support is mostly good for both OSes and I wouldn't want to discredit apple there.
In privacy terms however I disagree as recent events have shown. If you watch rossmann, you would know about some of those anyways though.
TheRetenor t1_j46vmve wrote
Reply to comment by CthuluTheGrand in The Fairphone 2 will hit end-of-life after 7 years of updates by ennuinerdog
With a dongle that
- will on average break much sooner than the headphones or audio jack so one has to buy a new one
- in most cases allows you to either charge OR use Headphones
- might fuck up your sound quality because 99.99% of those dongles come from china and have questionable specifications
- is a hassle to carry around all the time just in case one wants to listen to music and lost way too easily ?
TheRetenor t1_j46v5br wrote
Reply to comment by nathanfay in The Fairphone 2 will hit end-of-life after 7 years of updates by ennuinerdog
My condolences. For both the headphones and the S9 at this point. I too use an S9, but I luckly had the chance to test the apple headphones before buying anything.
TheRetenor t1_j0vhmkw wrote
Reply to comment by Frances_Zappa in ChatGPT allows this AI typewriter to talk to you by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1
This chatgpt just wrote a formally correct proof for my numerical linear algebra class...
TheRetenor t1_iu9ch0g wrote
Reply to comment by Bigdildo3000 in Philippines becomes global case study of media repression by betawings
That is theorietically true, however, reducing a country to the state of their thoughts resulting from censorship, oppression, misinformation and lack of higher education on averages really does make you one of the less qualified people to talk about democracy.
TheRetenor t1_iu8vmi6 wrote
Reply to comment by Bigdildo3000 in Philippines becomes global case study of media repression by betawings
How short sighted
TheRetenor t1_j952r34 wrote
Reply to comment by cuddly_carcass in MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air by MotorDrive
Life also needs carbon in the air. It's just that there's a bit too much of it in it, for both cases.