the S27 Ultra/Pro next year sounds like it’s shaping up to be a far more interesting device compared to any of the phones they released in the last few years.

After reading this I googled it and what I read didn’t sound super exciting. Just the regular spec bump and I’m skeptical of the reported RAM increase. Wouldn’t be surprised if they cut RAM like everybody else. So unless you want a Ultra level model in a base level enclosure, I don’t see what the “far more interesting device” is.

I could get somewhat excited if someone made a Xperia Play type phone with a full FEX-enabled Steam client.

I like mine. Can’t speak how much changed in recent generations because it’s my first new phone in 4 years. Other than deleting Chrome and switching browsers to Iceraven and the launcher to Lawnchair as well as the keyboard to Gboard, I don’t think I customized much. Slight tweaks here and there but for the most part I was pretty content with the defaults which is rare for me. In the past I may have been shocked by crap on new phones I needed to get rid of but I actually think most Samsung modifications to Android are pretty good and I often prefer the Samsung feature to whatever the Google counterpart is.

I use that sidebar they have a lot. That AI Select thing is great and I set all Galaxy AI stuff to be on device. The only thing I dislike about AI Select is that a recognized song can only be played through Spotify which I don’t use.

I cannot speak for the entire range of devices out there but if a line of products is unobtrusively good for a long time, it surely retents its user base.

Well, you made a wrong claim that I merely corrected. Watch whatever wherever you want. Doesn’t change the fact that the documentary creators I follow for the vast majority only upload to YouTube and those that also upload to Nebula offer a worse experience there.

you know who else has documentaries?

PBS.

support your local public broadcasting stations, people.

And do you know which documentaries they don’t have? The ones that are uploaded by their creators only to YouTube.

I watch plenty of Arte and I pay the fee but documentaries about video game speedruns etc. simply aren’t on Arte (or PBS or Nebula). I watch those where they are: YouTube.

it’s all crap and mindless shit anyways.

If you click on mindless shit, the algorithm serves you mindless shit. I get documentaries. 🤷

Archive.is is a Russian propaganda bot net. Don’t use it.

Looks like you failed at your duty of sexual education.

Shouldn’t this be posted in Uplifting News?

Can we really trust mozilla to be in charge of adblocking? It’s not like users have any power over firefox’s source code if mozilla decides that google ads are okay, for instance.

Just add custom filter lists. Never understood the outcry back when people used AdGuard and an optional whitelist was on by default.

If you can install a 3rd party web browser, you can change filter rules as well.

Users will first have to enable developer mode in settings, confirm they’re not being coached into disabling security, restart their phone (to cut off any phone calls), then wait a day and confirm their identity with biometric authentication or a pin before installing any apps.

Wtf

Threads doesn’t work with Lemmy/Piefed. Their ActivityPub implementation only targets Mastodon.

Also, instances that defederate from Threads but not Truth Social are a joke.

Trash cans against littering, public restrooms to relieve themselves.

Not really too hard of a concept to grasp.

Which part of littering wouldn’t be solved by trash cans?

Yeah. So? Most reactions to terror attacks are very irrational. This is among them.

Maybe Japan could just, you know, erect public trash cans like so many other countries.

The screenshot doesn’t claim to use LLMs though.

Why wouldn’t a language translation service not use a large language model? The service is named after Deep Learning after all.

Fairphone is looking to capitalize on Goole restricting AOSP support for Pixel phones. FP seems to be the way going forward.

As a side effect of Valve putting SteamOS on an VR headset with ARM mobile chipset, regular Linux on phones will likely also improve.

Because a PC tells the OS what hardware is present. Phones do not, that’s why there is no hardware detection.

Nobody forces phone makers to support the standard that would just do that: https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/systemready-compliance-program

I can’t be arsed to change the font.

Others just set a DIN 1451 font such as the widely available Bahnschrift and have nothing to complain about.

Homebrew could provide their own casks of FOSS applications, compiled on their infrastructure and signed by their key. It’s kinda what F-Droid does on phones.