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danielfgom , 6 days ago

Too much fuss about nothing. Samsung just want to be sure that they aren't getting ripped off on warranty repairs and that they have an accurate idea of the devices repair history. Especially with 4 - 7 years OS support on new models, that phone will likely belong to several owners over the years.

When I worked in Telecoms back in 2005 - 2008, Samsung had the very best repair centres. Out of all the OEM's their repairs were the fastest and the best quality and if a phone went in for repair more than twice, they would replace it on the third repair with a brand new unit.

Could not say that about Nokia, HTC, Sony Ericsson or Motorola. (There was no iPhone yet in my country at that time)

danielfgom , 29 days ago

They've been dodgy since day 1.

danielfgom , 30 days ago

I use Linux at home exclusively (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

Don't need Windows for anything but when I worked Enterprise IT the move to Windows 10 was a massive pain but we finally got it working and it wasn't too bad as an OS. There is no reason why you'd want to upgrade.

As for home users, from my experience people don't like change. If you move a single shortcut on the desktop , they are lost and panic .

So changing the entire look of the UI is not something people want. Plus Windows 10 auto update borked some windows 7 systems so users with that memory won't be keen to repeat it by upgrading to 11.

danielfgom , 1 month ago

No it's not that. Huawei has a very good name in China and new models sell out in minutes.

Thanks to the US ban Huawei hands had to put a lot of work into making their own OS, ecosystem and CPU chips.

And they've managed to pull it off. They have some very clever people working there.

danielfgom , 1 month ago

The only staff who need firing is Sundar. Google and android should have been easy better by now but he made them stagnant.

Android is still the best mobile os but it could have been even better under better leadership.
Plus they could have enabled and experimented with the OEM's to allow for additional hardware buttons, button remapping, a native Dex on all Androids, official gcam port to all OEM's so they don't need to make their own camera algorithms and even the cheapest droid could have had flagship level cameras.

And we haven't even touched on software yet....

Fire his useless ass

danielfgom , 1 month ago

This

danielfgom , 1 month ago

Grey suits. Where have I seen that before?🤔

Grey Nazi uniform

danielfgom , 1 month ago

I saw a documentary recently where they show how virtually all the worlds brands are owned by BlackRock as the largest shareholder.

BlackRock has 4 major shareholders: Rothschild's, Du Pont, Rockefeller and one other I forgot. Rothschild's holds the larger share.

The same Rothschilds who boast about creating the state of Israel.

Whatever you use, Apple, Google, Coke, Pepsi, Amazon, Boeing, Airbus, whichever car you can name, they basically own it. And all your money goes to them.

It's near impossible to escape their grasp. So don't waste your time unless you self host at home or find truly independent alternatives.

https://stopworldcontrol.com/monopoly/

danielfgom , 1 month ago

Did you not see him type into Yahoo who the major shareholders are of the companies in question? And the results? It was very clear.

danielfgom , 2 months ago

In my experience my default browser is always used, Firefox. And I disabled Chrome.

For anything secure I'd always open it in Firefox and never use the in app browser just in case.

danielfgom , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Well it makes sense. Hamas often pose as civilians to get the enemy off guard and then pull out an RPG.

Israel needs some way to be able to pull them out of a crowd. Especially if civilians are to be protected.

Anyway it's not like most western countries aren't already doing this, they just haven't told us yet. But there's an awful lot of cameras around Europe now and I'm sure they must have facial recognition tech.

And of course there's China who doesn't hide it it all.

Eventually it will be worldwide if it isn't already.

Edit: I'm not saying I endorse it, it's terrible, but my point is that they can kind of justify it with their allegation that Hamas dresses as civilians. Also that, very sadly, this is a worldwide trend which will most likely only get worse because the "elites" behind all this world system (and the genocide in Gaza) seem to be succeeding in pushing through their plans.

danielfgom , 2 months ago

You'd be surprised. I think the governments of the world do as they wish, secretly. As long as no one finds out..... But who knows really?

danielfgom , 2 months ago

That's because it's getting harder to find CD's plus the majority of people buy digital

danielfgom , 2 months ago

Not going to happen. The majority of users are tech illiterate. They have no idea to set this up nor any desire to pay domain name fees and web hosting fees....

Only a few techies like us might do it but nothing more than that.

Plus it doesn't work the way they think. I already have a blog and occasionally post there and share it to social media. All the interaction, if there is any, happens on social, not on my blog.

Blogs are simply a place to post long form content but not designed for massive amount of replies and social interaction.

danielfgom , 2 months ago

I run Linux but only and recommend Firefox. Cross device sync is the best I've ever seen, the add ons library is good, you can theme it and it works well for me. Plus there's no chrome bs on there and the privacy defaults are good.

For search I use Google because it's still the best. And the others typically just give you Google results anyway. If you want Google results but without the tracking, in theory, look at Startpage.

danielfgom , 2 months ago

They should be put out of business and those responsible jailed

danielfgom , 2 months ago

What it says is, don't buy Boeing, buy Airbus instead.

For years I've always checked that the plane I'm on is an Airbus because the few Boeing's I've been on rattled like mad and the build quality and materials used were clearly rubbish. I'm not surprised the doors are falling off....

danielfgom , 2 months ago

Great news. I wish they would also deduct stars if the heating/cooling controls are not physical too.

danielfgom , 2 months ago

I wish the EU would just ban Apple altogether and be done with it! No more sales of anything Apple.

Close all the stores, both local and online, stop selling accessories, stop selling macs, iPads, TV etc.

Let current device owners use it until it breaks and then recycle it.

End of story. That company is just poison. The apple logo suits them - it's the poisonous apple given to snow white!!

danielfgom , 2 months ago

😊

danielfgom , 2 months ago

Lol. Apple is at the HEART of communism and NWO. It is BIG BROTHER. That's why their devices are locked down - to lock you in...

Don't forget Apple complied with Chinese Communist government to give them access to users iCloud accounts and also banned apps Chinese government doesn't like.
Meanwhile Google is still banned in china because they refused to censor the internet.

Plus on android I don't have to log into anything Google and can install open source apps to me hearts delight, with zero spyware or even install a different OS. Can't do that with apple stuff.

Rethink your world view.

danielfgom , 2 months ago

Apples lock in is worse for consumers than any "competition" they provide. There are enough other brands to foster competition.

Plus don't forget you Americans banned Huawei devices because they were a threat to Apple.... Under the guise of "spying" with zero evidence thereof...talk about eliminating the competition

danielfgom , 2 months ago

Tim Cook meets Donald Trump and a few weeks later Huawei is banned. I mean, it's obvious. Huawei was on its way to become the #1 selling brand worldwide.

I didn't say I was ok with it but I'm saying if they can do it to Huawei they can do it to Apple as well ...

danielfgom , 2 months ago

Bro, don't believe everything you read. Which OBJECTIVE 3rd party has verified this?

Nobody. The US told Canada to comply or else, and they went along with the BS story.

I SERIOUSLY doubt Huawei would be so stupid as to do that. And if they did, I guarantee you they would hide it very, very well.

Do you know how much malware governments make which goes undetected for years? Plenty. That's the name of the game. No way Huawei would make it that easy to get caught knowing the US would check for this...

danielfgom , 2 months ago

Are you on drugs or something bro? I don't hate anyone. If anything I feel sorry for apple customers because they are being abused and don't even know it.

You should read up on Richard Stallman and the ideas of Libre Software/Free Open Source Software.

Then you will understand how bad Apple really is towards its users and why everyone should be using Linux and open source software.

danielfgom , 2 months ago

Lol. These are all US allies.

danielfgom , 2 months ago

Many of these companies still exist but do other things. The biggest open source successful project is Servers - much servers run Linux. After that the next most successful open source is Android - the best selling mobile OS on the planet. That's really my friend....

danielfgom , 2 months ago

I didn't say China was bad. I said Apple was bad.

And you can make a very good Android phone with AOSP. You won't have Google services but you could make your own app store like Huawei and Samsung have.

danielfgom , 2 months ago

I never said China was good either. I just said Apple are being jackasses.

Newsflash: there is no such thing as a good government or politician. They are typically all scumbags.

Seems Apple is following in their footsteps

danielfgom , 2 months ago

HP is in the extortion business now....

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Finally someone sees common sense. EV's simply do not make sense. Petrol is the way to go. Just make the engines cleaner and leaner.

For the majority of the planet, petrol is far more accessible and affordable than electricity.

I'm sticking with petrol no matter what they say

danielfgom , 3 months ago

I'm sure there is more that can be done. I've heard that Porsche have developed a cleaner fuel that can power petrol cars. I'm waiting so that what that is.

Unfortunately the car manufacturers typically have supported the petrol suppliers, which are big powerful entities, but if they stop doing that and really focus on clean fuel, I'm sure it can be achieved.

EV's at the moment are NOT good for the environment and create WAY more pollution than petrol cars in their manufacturing process. Making batteries produces WAY more pollution than what petrol cars with catalytic converters will ever make in a lifetime. This is a fact.

danielfgom , 3 months ago

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1142087_toyota-exec-says-evs-won-t-top-30-wants-new-engines

Er......you might want to rethink that statement.

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Here you go

https://www.topspeed.com/porsche-synthetic-fuel/#:~:text=Porsche%20is%20developing%20eFuels%2C%20a,traditional%20gasoline%20in%20combustion%20engines.

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Because I have enough common sense to know this tech is not ready. Neither are the energy grids. If we reach a point one day when the tech is ready and the grids can handle it, then I'll be open to it

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Batteries and their construction if at the moment a worse alternative. And involves slave labour.

At least C02 is already naturally occurring. Btw, humans and plants need C02 to live. Without it we die ...

danielfgom , 3 months ago

I've been through quite a few keyboards both open source and closed and they pretty much all suck. In the end I found Gboard to be the only viable option.

I did go into settings and disable all the data sharing, uploading/downloading options so in theory it should send nothing to the cloud.

It's swipe typing is also best of the rest at the moment. I swipe type 99% of the time

danielfgom , 3 months ago

I agree. It's time Sundar hits retirement and they put someone more visionary at the top.

Google has become seriously stale.

I was just remembering how back in 2010 on my iPhone 4S I could receive a text message while driving and tell Siri to read it to me, with no internet connection. And it would, and I could reply by Siri as well

But my current Android phone (I love Android it's really great overall) cannot do that if I don't have an internet connection!

Why??? Why haven't they baked certain basic offline capabilities into Assistant and only need internet for search queries? Makes no sense but it's one of those small indicators that Sundar is not paying attention.

danielfgom , 3 months ago

No offence but I don't think this phone will be any good in a few years because of the CPU choice.

If it's already sluggish now, what will it be like in 5 years? Unusable.

danielfgom , 3 months ago

They talk about Apple but Sony phones have had this feature for a while. In the settings you can choose whether the phone is always 100% charged, or whether it charges to 80% (or a custom %) or whether you want it full by the time you wake up.

I use the 3rd option. It stops charging when it gets to 90% and I tell it when I'm getting up, and just before it will charge up to 100 %.

Best of both worlds. Only ever having 80% to start is not nice because you get less juice during the day and need to charge by the evening. Plus battery anxiety. I'd rather have a 100% full battery.

Clearly newer, better battery tech is needed. Plus replaceable batteries.

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Very ironic.

That's why I just tell it to be full by morning because I purposely bought a phone with a great battery . Why would I want to hamper it by 20%???

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Another idiot company who seriously thinks this will work. All that will happen is the remaining employees will have to work twice as hard to keep things afloat but the CEO will give Ai the credit....

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Instead of using robots to replace menial jobs and help humans who have physical labour jobs, they've invented a tool that will get rid of all white collar jobs, forcing us all into manual, low paid labour jobs.

Taxes will fall off a cliff and life will get really bad because the state won't have money to maintain the country. Companies making Ai content won't be able to sell it because no one can has money to buy it. In general all product sales will fall off a cliff, except for food, and many companies will close, resulting in mass unemployment and eventually collapse of society .....

Great job morons!

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Sounds like good motivation for the machines to kill us off and keep the resources for themselves

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Apple really sucks hard! What a terrible company! 🤮🤮

danielfgom , 3 months ago

The SOC isn't the whole story. The user experience is what counts. But Qualcomm do hehe a chip as powerful as Apples. Zuck should just buy that

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Lol. Thanks. But I take don't give a crap about up or downvotes. I literally never look at that ever. I just want to get my opinion out and see what other people's opinions are.

But you're right, it's probably the isheep....

danielfgom , 3 months ago

Apple is ahead but Qualcomm is not far behind. Plus even the current chips are already powerful enough for this stuff. A Snapdragon Gen 3 should be able to power a headset I would have thought.