krakenx

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Asus ZenFone 8

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

And they will purchase their next phone sooner if the battery on their old phones die early.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Check which codecs your phone supports and buy a Bluetooth dongle that supports an HD audio codec. LDAC and APT-X HD are almost indistinguishable from an aux cable.

But yes, even those codecs max out at a pathetic 900kbs, and only have a few feet of range at that quality/speed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It basically only protects against hardware failure. It's not going to protect you from ransomware or even just accidentally clicking delete.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Capcom just started adding game breaking DRM to their archive of old single player Steam games because an exec got butthurt over a nude mod for Street Fighter. Now Steam Deck support is broken and my mods don't work with games I purchased years ago. The pirated version is now better once again.

At almost the exact same time, Valve sent a DMCA notice to Portal64 because for some reason they care about people playing a homebrew port of a $2 15 year old game on 30 year old hardware.

I used to think Capcom and Valve were two of the last good ones. Turns out there aren't any good ones....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They spent $350 million making Secret Invasion, which was a bad show in every way. They have no control over their costs, yet they squeeze everyone as hard as they can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

You can get USB micro to USB-C adaptors for about 1 to $2 each. That lets you use a single cable to charge both types of devices, which is the best of both worlds.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

4G, 5G and now 6G are worthless if cell providers don't provide enough bandwidth to the towers. The range also keeps decreasing as the generations increase, so now there are these big gaps that 3G used to cover.

In my area, 5G is slower than 4G and both have lower signal and slower speeds than 3G used to have. I need a dual SIM phone and to constantly switch my phone between AT&T and T-Mobile, and both are crap. I only use about 1GB in total too, and I'm lucky if I can pull more than 1 megabit on either service. I miss 3G speeds, coverage, and competition.

Worst of all, AT&T is forcing home users to switch to a 5G hotspot from DSL. It's probably a big part of why the cell towers are always overloaded too. Imagine running your home internet on 1 megabit with constant drops...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And two of them were red.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Cash for clunkers harmed buyers in the used car market, especially the poor.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

A solution to this would be an extra expansion battery that you could buy or rent as an add-on only when needed.

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