JohnWorks

I want to start using eSIM but I keep hearing about issues with tethering and the phone reporting normal data usage as tethered so I’ve always avoided it due to that. My fear is at some point carriers charging a fee to switch the eSIM from one phone to another.

I’ll keep using it until they no longer let me, I guess. Pretty sure OMV and TrueNAS have matured enough to fall to if unRAID decides to go full subscription, at least.

That’s fair I would’ve used it more for supporting Mozilla and because I trust them with that data.

This sucks to hear as I’ve been paying for their relay service for a while now. I’m wondering if I should work to transfer all emails over to another service…

I was also considering signing up for Mozilla monitor, but now I’m not so sure if it’s just gonna get canned soon or not.

Looking though that it looks like Samsung made a comment

Samsung’s representative stated:

“I’m unfamiliar with the specific variables that could have come into play with this repair or the unsubstantiated comments from Mr. Jeffrey. What I can tell you is that there is no requirement to pair parts on our smartphones. If a repair were conducted correctly, a device would not lose functionality.”

I was checking to see if anyone made any additional comments on the Hugh Jeffreys video and someone said they replaced the screen but kept the fingerprint sensor and it still worked fine. I believe replacing the battery with a 3rd party option should still have the device working fine.

Hugh left a comment on the video as well:

Do you have a source for this? I’ve tried looking up anything online to see if this is something Samsung started to do but couldn’t find anything. I am also seeing 3rd party batteries available on Amazon for the a32 5g.

Here’s an example that seems to have good reviews. Couldn’t find anything in the reviews that say the battery needed to be paired.

Edit: battery said it wasn’t for a32 5g here’s another https://a.co/d/7Zy2N88

Well that sucks. I’d like to continue hiding it but I imagine it’s to enable the circle to ai search thing.

I thought Gemini nano was supposed to run on device but the article is saying it’s cloud based?

Is there a face swap feature similar to the pixel best take thing or is it just moving objects and erasing?

“The enormous 22000mAh battery on Tank offers a decent battery life.”

I’d call that more than decent lmao

Same I legit think it could’ve been Google’s actual competition to iMessage but they fumbled the bag so badly it’s crazy.

Man that would be nice. Could finally have it be all in one again like Google Hangouts before it was killed.

I probably could’ve been clearer I guess what I meant was a hardware company making a competitor

I guess by competitor I mean in the sense that’s like a free service that doesn’t harvest data and is e2e. Only thing I can think of with mild adoption rates is signal although I think that it’s also my bias since I use it. Hardest part is being able to run these services with little to no income from the service and apple is able to get away with it since they make money off of other stuff.

I know I’ve been using signal and Snapchat but it would be nice to have something supported by a larger company that wouldn’t harvest your data (as much) as Facebook. I don’t think I’ll be switching off of signal anytime soon anyways since I had to drag my friends through hangouts dying and then allo dying. I like telegram’s features but I don’t think I’d ever want to use it due to some of the privacy issues I’ve seen about it.

I’m kinda surprised another company hasn’t made something to legit compete with iMessage yet. Like even Samsung only uses RCS and mostly through Google messages. I kinda wish something like beeper would take off but at the same time I wouldn’t trust the remote server running iMessage issue.

Hopefully other manufacturers will have something like this implemented as well

Had to retire my simple touch since the back rubber started to melt and get sticky. Replaced it with a current gen glow light I think is what they’re called now.

I know Google has some AI stuff available for their phones in the photos app (and some that offloads it to the cloud). Is there anything available or preloaded on other phones that use the snapdragon chips and actually take advantage of these AI cores?