madis
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- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 2 days ago:
I meant like the elderly might still be using a dumb phone, but not a CRT TV.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 2 days ago:
Why couldn’t you turn off 3G on that old phone via that same hidden menu? Or how come the phone didn’t even recognize that it can fall back to 2G…
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 2 days ago:
Well, they shouldn’t turn it off any time soon, just like they don’t turn off analog radio. TV is one I can understand where turning off old methods makes sense, because people upgrade their TVs and use IPTV much more likely anyway.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 6 days ago:
These are all good points and indeed I considered them. I’m curious though, how many 6nd gen foldables have you had to repair yet?
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 6 days ago:
I get that too. It helps to put it in perspective:
- 870€ is about 45% of the official original price
- the phone was used for 2 months and in a very good condition (saw it firsthand)
- valid warranty etc
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 6 days ago:
I absolutely agree, luckily I got mine used for 870€.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 6 days ago:
So, a smartwatch? Pretty sure someone has made “badge” holders for them by now, just like you can get a brand new iPod.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 6 days ago:
I switched from OP 9 Pro to a Z Fold 6 to get the best of both worlds - a small, TV remote-like phone by default and a square-ish tablet for media and multitasking. Couldn’t be happier.
At the same time, I do understand people who thought the width of Samsung’s Folds is too small - my first consideration was OnePlus Open anyway, but upon actually holding it in store, I realized that Z Fold 6 is just more comfortable for me to hold closed.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 week ago:
new technology comes along
I believe the RAZR foldables allow you to do almost anything on the front screen, and in the latest iterations the front screen is larger than Samsung’s.
- Comment on Apple to pay $95m to settle claims Siri listened to users’ private conversations 2 months ago:
So how do you find actually private services?
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 4 months ago:
But sideloading and OEM stores (Samsung, Huawei) have been available for years?
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 4 months ago:
I don’t understand the second one “Distribute third-party app stores as apps, so users can switch app stores by downloading a new one from Google Play, in just the same way as they’d install any app”.
In real life you don’t see big supermarkets spread their flyers in competitors’ stores, how does that make sense digitally?
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 4 months ago:
But it would use less energy afterwards? At least that was claimed with the 4o model for example.
- Comment on UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer 5 months ago:
uBOL is entirely declarative, meaning there is no need for a permanent uBOL process for the filtering to occur, and CSS/JS injection-based content filtering is performed reliably by the browser itself rather than by the extension. This means that uBOL itself does not consume CPU/memory resources while content blocking is ongoing – uBOL’s service worker process is required only when you interact with the popup panel or the option pages.
uBOL does not require broad “read/modify data” permission at install time, hence its limited capabilities out of the box compared to uBlock Origin or other content blockers requiring broad “read/modify data” permissions at install time.
Emphasis mine. No background processes, including a website-reading permission does indeed sound more optimized for mobile, where people may have limited resources.
- Comment on Huawei tr-fold review 5 months ago:
I’d be super down for one that folds flat, and does away with the huge camera bump. Get me a nice stylus, a foldable keyboard and a simple folding support to hold the phone at an angle, and that’s essentially a desktop that can fit into your pockets.
So essentially your concerns are the camera bump and stylus? As the other features you mentioned are already there.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 5 months ago:
Serious question though, has any other company matched their 4o model yet?
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 5 months ago:
Because it keeps getting updates?
- Comment on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store 5 months ago:
Honestly, I’m shocked there aren’t way more. We have the Google Store, Samsung Store, Amazon store and…that’s it?
There are plenty of repositories for F-Droid, and from what I’ve heard, also for Aptoide.
That said, it is not really beneficial for most companies to compete with Google Play since they know the user base will be smaller, user experience will be worse (install warnings, no auto-update), and people may get affected by malware if they don’t pay attention to where they are downloading things from (may download a scam app directly instead of the legit app store).
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 6 months ago:
It would be nice if a competitor entered the space where usability is the goal and be an open source solution.
ReactOS?
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 7 months ago:
Search engine crawlers identify themselves (user agents), so they can be prevented by both honor-based system (robots.txt) and active blocking (error 403 or similar) when attempted.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 7 months ago:
Vivaldi and Brave have the option to disable the Hangouts extension in settings, which should disable this.
As linked in the article, it is indeed used for “Hangouts” (Meet) troubleshooting.
- Comment on Android's new anti-theft features 9 months ago:
Sounds like a work profile, so you could probably simulate it already with something like Island. Although I can’t remember if it also has a PIN feature.
- Comment on Android's new anti-theft features 9 months ago:
Seems like it will fulfill its purpose then - to protect said teenager’s data.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 9 months ago:
Well, supposedly people can use it without paying and without account, though I cannot confirm the last part in the official site.
- Comment on Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership was born from Google envy 10 months ago:
Well, if they wouldn’t, then someone else still would. Google? Apple? Amazon?
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 10 months ago:
What exactly is the great advantage of eSIMs if you have a dual SIM phone?!
If the phone supports a normal and eSIM at the same time, they are equivalent. Because in many countries, dual SIM phones are (and will be) harder to get than single SIM ones, so having eSIM at least allows that.
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 11 months ago:
Ahh, now that explains why I just saw a smaller number.
Floorp is based on Firefox ESR. Floorp will be updated every 4 weeks, with security updates provided before each Firefox release.
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 11 months ago:
Floorp looks nice and customizable, but in terms of updates it doesn’t seem very sustainable yet.
- Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla 1 year ago:
Indeed, they don’t have to bring back the XUL. The power users would just appreciate…
- new extension APIs that interact with the browser UI
- bring back toolbar customization that was removed for no reason (we can’t even move the extension button at this point…)
- bring back (start supporting again) compact mode and better themes
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 1 year ago:
I think it will be back this March with the new laws (Digital Markets Act).