quirzle

The ability to use a custom launcher to work around a stupid decision doesn’t make the decision less stupid. Not being able to customize something to easily customizable by default is a stupid decision. I strongly feel that applies to the search bar placement and the default search engine.

Yeah, I’ve got a bunch of the annoyances filters active and don’t know if I could browse most websites without them at this point.

Is the last one still useful if you enable the cookies filter under annoyances in uBlock?

Now? They’ve both been lacking (and declining) for years at this point.

You can get USB-C to HDMI adapters that serve this purpose. I bought one a while back for like $15 on Amazon along with a cheap HDMI switch, and will use it to flip a spare monitor to watch video sometimes when I’m not working especially hard.

I travel quite a bit, both for work and because I like going places. Often, internet is somewhere between unavailable and shitty. I keep a mess of music, movies, and tv shows synced/cached from Plex (which keeps fresh content via downloaded smart playlists that update as I watch episodes, etc.) and usually a couple of audiobooks in case I find myself making a long drive.

My comment mentioned why the SD card was removed. To paraphrase Linus, they’re the cheapest form of NAND storage and are extremely unreliable.

Your comment mentioned why you personally don’t like using SD cards, though I disagree that it’s a reason to remove the functionality completely, which is why I wouldn’t buy a phone without a slot. If you’re having such reliability issues, you should buy a higher quality SD card. They’re objectively more reliable than cloud storage though, should you ever go somewhere where network connectivity is an issue. And 128 GB is almost nothing, kinda proving my point that this is more of a use case point than an argument against the feature.

Also if they hadn’t removed the jack I doubt we would have seen as much progress with truly wireless earbuds.

Given that they’re still using Bluetooth, which is still terrible with any interference, low bandwidth, and has the same tedious connectivity problems it’s had for the past decade…I’d argue we have yet to see that progress where it matters.

the market has moved on.

If that were true, there wouldn’t be so many people vocally expressing why new products aren’t adequate without these basic features.

That’s not really a counter argument, you’re just complaining about people talking about hardware features they want in a thread about…hardware features we want.

A counter argument would elaborate on why these features aren’t relevant anymore, but you didn’t include that. A counter argument would offer superior alternatives that should be used instead of SD cards or 3.5mm jacks, but you didn’t include any of those. A counter argument would have addressed the initial arguments of cloud storage being an unnecessary expense and a wired jack being more reliable than Bluetooth, yet you didn’t do that either.

Every thread about hardware has at least one guy bitching that phones should still have 3.5mm jacks and expandable storage, but the guy whining about him is just as consistent. Congratulations, you’re a different layer of the exact problem you’re complaining about.

RE: OP, 3.5mm jack and SD card, of course.

Services running in GCP aren’t built into the phone, which is kinda the main point of the statement you took issue with.

What about autocomplete? Face detection? Virtual assistants

How much of that is really built-in vs. offloaded to their cloud then cached locally (or just not usable offline, like Assistant)?

Wallet is just NFT and the screen.

NFC? Pretty sure if they incorporate NFTs as a form of payment, it’ll be a whole thing.

The worst part of the 6P battery stuff was how shitty Google/Fi support handled it. There was a class action lawsuit, and I just needed to show records of my replacement (and then replacement of my replacement) for that issue. They straight up lied to me in chat about having never contacted support about the issue. I had an interaction that was literally:

You can confirm this is my third Nexus 6P, yes?

Yes.

You can confirm they all came directly from you?

Yes.

You can confirm I only purchased the first one?

Yes.

Why did you send me a second and third phone?

We do not have record of this.

Fortunately, I still had the phone and recorded a video of the phone powering itself off at 65% and was able to provide that as evidence…but I’m still salty about it all. It’s why I have not and will not own a Pixel or use Fi ever again.

Lucky.

I had a Nexus 6P that’d power down at 70% battery remaining, a Note 4 that stopped accepting input from the (undamaged as far as I could tell) screen, two other Samsungs with unreliable fingerprint readers, one of those also had a camera that stopped autofocusing and basically became useless. The Samsungs also had a myriad of charger issues from the phantom water detection to one that started getting super hot and melted a USB cable and nearly caught fire while mounted in my car.

Interesting. I’ve got a 1 III that I pre-ordered from the first batch. The only issue I’ve had is that the fingerprint scanner totally stopped working at this point, but I haven’t found any indication it’s software over the thing physically failing. Was damn near perfect before that, in my experience anyway.

I had mine remapped as far back as the Note 4.

The 256GB storage is expandable via microSD cards up to 1TB. Both phones have 3.5mm headphone jacks.

Different guy, but I jumped from GPM to Plex/Tidal back when GPM died. While I mostly listen to my own files via Plex, the Tidal integration and it’s playlists are most of what I use for discovery now, and my only complaint is that it doesn’t integrate into the Plex/Plexamp apps like the bulk of the library does.

There’s a “Daily Discovery” playlist that mixes new (to you) artists + new (to you) tracks from artists already in the library, a “New Arrivals” list for new (to exist) releases from artists you listen to, and ~5 rotating mixes based on artists you’ve listened to lately. I find the latter to be the closest to GPM’s “I’m feeling lucky” though. They’re a bit more narrow in scope, but there’s 5 of them so there’s usually one that goes into the direction I want at the moment.

Having a Plex library, Tidal also opens up options for on-the-fly “radio” stations built into Plex. It has things such as “artist radio” which will play similar artists, which is also an option depending on how much music discovery you’re looking to have available.

(Sorry for the long-winded reply, but you’ve got good opinions elsewhere in this thread and were asking a question I’ve put entirely too much thought into over the years, so figured I’d aim for thorough).

I’m on an Xperia 1 III for the same reason. It’s been a fantastic phone, and I’m only now realizing how old it’s gotten by noticing they’re up to V.

I don’t trust a man that doesn’t have something strange going on about him, 'cause it means he’s hiding it from you. If a man’s wearing his pants on his head or if he says his words backwards from time to time, you know it’s all laid out there for you. But if he’s friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span, more often than not he’s done something even his own ma couldn’t forgive.

-No-bark Noonan, FNV

or that it’ll work well if it’s actually released.

I’ve seen a few different posts about this, and none of them have had commenters showing any hope of it working out well. Seems pretty universal that folks think it’ll lead to a worsening of their current bot problems.