Hawke

joined 2 years ago
[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Slow, extra data traffic, extra battery usage.

What are the upsides? I could see a phone being a great controller for a remote seedbox for sure.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Why would you torrent from your phone?

Wrong tool for the job…

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

My reasons:

  1. Because it just works.
  2. I can uninstall the trash apps that apple includes and use my own preferences.
  3. Don’t have to deal with bloatware from two vendors (Google and Samsung for example)
  4. Vendor lock-in. I started on iOS (iPod touch) and so I have a certain amount of app purchases that are iOS-only. This is the only one that galls me.
  5. longevity / platform support. I’ve had this thing for close to five years, and the battery is only starting to fail in the last few months.
  6. decent display. Samsung galaxy’s PCM brightness control gives me horrible eye strain.

Maybe it’s just Samsung that’s trash, I dunno. I tried hard to like android and in principle I should prefer Google’s more open ecosystem. But it just seems to enable every manufacturer of android phones to try to outcompete each other in how awful they can make the experience of owning their products, all in the name of trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

Fuck. I’m old.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

NGL, 8 years seems a little sus. I’d have questioned it less if it were 10.

Was there something that happened in 2012 that would have made this less dramatic?

I propose the same graph but covering 25 years just to be sure to include a definite outlier.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

At this point is it even subterfuge?

They’re not hiding it any more.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (10 children)

It would seem not.

Probably made from cardboard derivatives.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hanlon’s Razor fails us here.

This shot is not sufficiently explained by stupidity.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Cruelty.

Or Russia.

Same thing.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Can you stop spamming that everywhere? Make a post if you want to.

Also, punctuation is your friend.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

That’d be trademark, not copyright.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Doubt it, they were more likely using md5sum files in 1999.

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