• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Speak for yourself, I want a better phone as in with removable battery, sd card, headphone jack.

    The difference is, science is not making phones better for the consumer, but for the maker.

  • olutukko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I honestly don’t see any reason for a better phones in a while. I bought oneplus 6t 5 years ago and after getting latest android with custom rom it’s like having a new phone no lag at all. the only thing that is bad is the battery lifem I already changed it once and got scammed om ebay , the new one is 1000mAh too small :D not a suprising event

    • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I recently upgraded from a OP6 to the new Pixel, and aside from being a bit shinier in some ways, it felt like an expensive downgrade, since I’ve lost a headphone jack and gained features I didn’t particularly care about.

      The days of a phone upgrade bringing new features feel like a lifetime ago.

      • olutukko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        haha yeah. I have been checking the new phones from time to time and the specs are almost the same I have so there is no point in upgrading

      • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Silly consumer. You mean you don’t want to overpay a trillion dollar corporation for more invasive data collection and buggy AI features that will be killed within a year? Won’t someone think of the poor shareholders?!

    • Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I always use the cheapest cell phones until they fall to pieces. I don’t need a cell phone for more than basic things, being able to call, receive messages and little else. Social networks, administrations and things like that I prefer to do more comfortably from the PC, my old eyes are no longer able to deal with these things on a small screen and I don’t really feel like it either.

      • olutukko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I had to use cheap phones for a long time and it was pain in the ass. they always got full and ran like shit after like 1 year of use so when I finally got the chance I bought actially powerful phone. I love it. it took me 4 years to get the memory full and it’s pretty much always lag free. im my last phone I has 16gb memory which got full so often that I had to factory reset them constantly to get them running even half decently. nowadays even cheap phones have fairly good specs though so I don’t think it would be the case anymore and I’m most certainly not going to spend as much on my next phone as I spent on this

        • Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          It’s correct, but my, despite to be a €100 Phone and after 3 Years, it still works fine as it should. It’s logical that it dond have a big memory, but enough for what I use it. As said, it depends on the use as in other things too, you don’t need an Ferrari, if you use it only to go to the mall or for 2km to your work. At least I always buy or use the just for what I need it. If I need the Phone for an use intense, for sure I would buy one for €1.500, it’s not a problem for me, but this isn’t the case.

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I was actually helping an aging coworker who wears a hearing aid set up some features on his phone and connecting his phone to Bluetooth. I was significantly disappointed with the lack of features geared toward those who are hard of hearing. Specifically in driving mode for Android auto. He’s got a newish phone (S23) so it’s not that. And the settings were far too convoluted to find for my tastes.

    It really bothered me quite a bit that I couldn’t make the Bluetooth register that he was using a car and therefore speakers, not headphones. And further that the settings for voice prompts in the maps app requires he go into his personal Google settings to change toggles because the app user facing one is only available once you pick a destination and he couldn’t hear it.

    Is it too much to ask for a long presa shortcut?

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Oh hearing aid apps suuuuuuuuck. I can’t even get mine to forget a source. It was a problem because I accidentally connected to a neighbor’s Bluetooth for a few months last year

    • ddkman@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I mean android always sucked in this regard, but can you better explain what the problem was? I often use my phone, while wearing earplugs, (so basically deaf. Or I can’t hear, whatever), and I never found anything I couldn’t do.

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        So it has support for hearing aids. But nothing for the automotive side of things in that regard for the hard of hearing. His phone was connected to the car via Bluetooth. But no sound was coming from the cars speakers, and that sound was not transmitted to his hearing aid.

        The onscreen toggle setting for Google maps does not show up until you select to navigate to a destination (this was a problem, because at first we couldn’t even see if it was toggled on). Picking a destination and choosing to start navigation made that toggle show up, and it was toggled on but we still had no sound.

        There’s a settings toggle at the bottom of his screen (mine is not the same, I checked that both apps are updated to the latest firmware), and that settings menu has toggles for things like assistant voice/smart features related to the app, but no sound features. To get to the advanced sound features for the app you have to select your profile from the menu, then select settings, then select Navigation settings, and only then can you select things like “mute state”, or “guidance volume”.

        Specifically things like “play voice over Bluetooth” which was not selected by default after his last update. This is not a setting he even knew existed or knew how to find. So I honestly doubt he deselected it.

        My pixel 8 has accessibility features that allow for quick toggles. To control things like screen brightness and volume. It also has more settings for the hard of hearing than his. His S23 has the support for hearing aids but not things like sound amplifier that I was looking for. And audio adjustment which would have been useful to allow him to rebalance the sound for the ear that doesn’t use a hearing aid. I actually wonder if that’s a developer settings thing and why it should be hidden that way.

        I also couldn’t select what type of Bluetooth device he was using (but this may be because of the make and model of his car, not a shortcoming of Google or Android).

        For him I’m sure this was very confusing because it seemed convoluted even to me. Anyway in the long run, we got voice prompts for navigation up and running, and he was happy with that. But the bar for entry for the hearing impaired seems a bit high.

    • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      As someone who does audio production as a hobby, and recently made an album using mostly Android, I can tell you that audio routing in Android is an absolute nightmare. Basically, Android (at least my Android devices) doesn’t give you access to any settings at all, it just assumes that you use the default settings of whatever you happen to plug into it.

      I had a problem where I’d plug in my DAC, and it would detect it and start using it, but it failed to work in the app I wanted it to work in. It took me something like two days to figure out I had to plug things in in a different order in order for them to work properly. Just infuriating, and something that would be simple to fix if they’d just give you some super simple audio routing options, but NOOO, they just have to assume that no one knows what they’re doing and try to do everything for you.

      • mudeth@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        and recently made an album using mostly Android,

        What did you use? Cubasis? G stomper? Flstudio?

        And what part did you give up doing on Android?

        • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I used Koala Sampler. It’s a great piece of software. I did eventually end up finishing arrangement and mastering on PC, though.

      • harmsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I second the idea that audio is a nightmare in Android. I have the AYN Odin, and I’m always muting it by accident because the lowest volume setting is still a bit louder than I want. 0-15 is nowhere near enough granularity, but the Android devs can’t seem to comprehend the idea.

      • khornechips@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I completely sympathize with your frustration, but when it comes to your average cell phone user they absolutely do not know what they’re doing. Signed, someone who manages cell phones for an entire hospital and wishes he didn’t.

        • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Haha! Thanks. I don’t know about that. Some of it was actually fun. Recording on a plane was surprisingly cathartic.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      One idea I’ve heard is that telomeres gain increasing stress and damage after years of DNA replication, from the torsional strain of the spiral of DNA as it splits and reforms in the replication process. How in the world could you fix that? DNA lube?

      • MonkderDritte@feddit.deEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I thought telomeres just get shortened during replication but not in stem cells or something like that? A while ago since i was in that rabbit hole.

        I think my conclusion was, we would have to fix programmed cell death vs. immune system & cancerous behavior, add 4x replication for dna-repair like some algae do it, and fix something in ribosomes (which i forgot).

        Then again, we probably don’t have to meddle with programmed cell death at all?

    • nicky7@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m literally having my 19 year old cat put down tomorrow due to kidney disease and I very much wish for him to feel young and healthy again. It sucks.

    • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That killed my childhood cat. Would be awesome for future kids to not experience what I did.

          • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I dunno accepting death as an inevitability seems important since since we otherwise struggle hard to ignore it in western culture and by extension can create a lot of suffering.

            • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 months ago

              A pet doesn’t need to die for that. If you look around… Death is everywhere!

              [Starts singing and dancing a musical number down the street]

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Accepting death is an important oart of growing up, ckd killed my beautiful ginger boy a month ago. No animal deserves to die just to be a goddamn teachable moment

    • freijon@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Unpopular opinion: There are already way too many domestic cats and they are responsible for the extinction of various species, mostly birds. They are amongst the most problematic invasive species in the world. Its probably not a good idea to increase their lifespan…

      • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        In your country perhaps, cats aren’t a problem everywhere. Even the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds maintain that cats are not a major cause of bird decline (in Britain).

        • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Forgive me if I don’t treat Britain as an expert on biodiversity, given their history of hunting most of their wildlife to extinction.

          • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Well the RSPB shockingly are quite against hunting animals, who’d have thought it? And careful throwing stones from your glass house, didn’t your lot hunt the bison almost to extinction the moment they landed?

    • Drusas@kbin.run
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      2 months ago

      That would be amazing. They can already live so long. To think, you might be able to have a cat with you for most of your adult life.

    • DeviantOvary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      One of my family cats is currently at the end of her life due to kidney disease. It really sucks, glad they’re doing something about it. Now if only they could do the same for dogs.

    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Maybe not directly, but there was a demand for “portable computers”, a better input system for phones, better portable cameras, a way to readily access the internet anywhere, among several other things. The smartphone became popular so quickly because it concretized all of those latent demands into a single device.

      • HubertManne@kbin.social
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        2 months ago

        that is a good point and no one wanted a walled ecosystem. We really did not get what we wanted just like so many things it was kinda what we wanted.

      • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        To add to this, pre iPhone phones sucked ass. People were absolutely asking for a better phone directly too

      • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Exactly this. If a company can show me a phone that can do something new that my current phone can’t-- not just a marginally better camera or invasive AI assistant-- then I would say to them “I still wish you would have spent your resources on dog longevity, but yeah maybe I’d be into that.”

        An iPhone isn’t a flip phone but better… It’s a whole different thing.

      • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        they used to talk about ‘the $100 computer’, but I think they were envisioning a laptop or a netbook, no one thought it would be a mobile phone

    • TurtleTourParty@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      What? Before the iPhone Palm and RIM were improving their smartphones constantly, new feature phones were coming out all the time with apps to access social media, the internet and play games. I think a lot of people actually were often wanting a better phone especially because all the phone mentioned above had terrible touchscreens.

    • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Why do people believe this shit? Like the Internet was around. You can go see me arguing with people calling my Nokia NGage a taco and me defending having to hold it weird if I get to play Tomb Raider on my phone, on forums, right now. Oh and the kids all hold their phones that way now and yes it looks stupid but they just remastered Tomb Raider for mobile so who cares.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      This has to do with all the services running in the background. Modern phones are actually extremely efficient, providing you’re not connected to push notification services and don’t have apps running in the background all the time.

      Problem is that Google and Apple loooove user data and so it’s very hard to do this, impossible in the case of iOS. I have a fully google-less tablet and that things lasts many days on 1 charge.

      Also scrolling on TikTok is basically the most intensive thing you can do on your phone unless you play 3d games. Lots of data being transferred, lots of effects, you KNOW it’s sucking as much data as it can out of your phone too.

      • cosmic_cowboy@reddthat.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        What OS are you running on your tablet? I am running Graphene on my phone, and the battery isn’t bad, but I bought a Pixel specifically for the purpose and don’t have a baseline to compare it to.

    • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They sure are!

      But humans (there is a dig line too actually) are complicated, furst treatments are out aleeady (works not very well, on only on 2 of the 7 base topics IIRC).

      Next 10 years will be interesting.

      • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        last i heard of them there was this australian dude from harvard applying it successfully to rats. where can i read more about these current ones that were released?