Yup. It could also be hardware failure in the sense of a flakey power button. Either way, it’s probably not people intentionally pushing the power button a lot

While not great as a general file manager, I use this app to launch into the hidden, built in file manager in Android. The major benefit is that it can access apps’ data directories. Every other file manager is blocked from that (at least without root).

My view on this, at least for higher end devices like laptops, tablets, phones, etc, is that the OS must be secure to threats already because they all support cellular connections, where you will not have a home router to block incoming connections. IOT is, of course, a different story.

The other thing we should all hopefully know is that a lot of threat vectors don’t involve incoming connections. Browser zero days, for example.

BTW, all that said, I still don’t see why Xfinity can’t just provide a better set of knobs on the firewall.

Oh, I had missed that. That’s great!

I assume you mean S24 (because we already have Snapdragon S23 in the US). My concern, admittedly not something I’ve done a lot of research on, is that if Samsung was using Snapdragon for the CDMA or 2G/3G modem, that might no longer be a concern with the networks aggressively shutting down those older technologies. I’m not sure if that was the only thing holding Samsung back from Exynos SoC in the US, or if overall performance or other concerns were factors. However the prevalence of Exynos in the EU shows that Samsung considers it worthy of the Galaxy brand.

Hoping for snapdragon s24, at least in the US!

Who’s your ISP? I’d suspect it’s the ISP treating tethering traffic differently. I notice that on my phone (AT&T postpaid), my phone and tethered computer even get different IPv4 addresses. I’m not saying performance should be identical if they are sharing an IPv4 address, moreso just showing that ISPs can handle tethering traffic differently.

EDIT: just saw you’re on Orange, oops! I don’t know how they operate, they could be handling tethering traffic differently from native mobile.