Phones have been getting bigger over the years because people want to see more (whether for video, games, or just reading), the limit is that most people don’t want to lug a tablet around with them. A folding phone that provides a bigger screen and fits in your pocket doesn’t seem like a crazy concept to me, that’s why I’d quite like one (though I can’t justify the cost).
lack of a clear reason to exist
Isn’t the reason that you can have a big screen which you can fit in your pocket?
Wow, that’s a huge number!
Obtainium has its own list of apps you’ve added, you could just use that as a list so you don’t forget about them?
FYI Lemmy already supports RSS, for instance I could add this feed to any RSS reader to follow you
What do they do about devices that are still getting minor updates or fixes but not new major versions?
Say you released version 2023, 2024, and 2025, all of which are in support at the same time. It’s 2025, but your latest release might be 2023.2, which looks like it’s out of date to a user.
Date-based versioning sounds great in theory, but if you have more than one version in support at once then it can get ugly quickly
Copying my own comment from when this was posted last year:
Every time I see this quaint but misleading image reposted it’s necessary to make the same comment: the words attached to each image are do not exclusively represent those images. “Equality” could apply to all but the first; nobody uses “equity” this way; and most people use “justice” to refer to criminal justice and punishment.
Imagine you went through the pain of learning it to make a web front end. You want to make back end things too, but they all require knowing different languages. You’re not learning another language, learning this one was hard enough! Easier to keep using the same horrible language for everything, of course.
Maybe I have had failures and haven’t even noticed!
Yeah I’d definitely agree with not using them for critical backups. I think they’re generally fine as long as they’re never holding your only copy of something, but then I’d probably say that about every kind of drive…
the chance of your USB stick failing when you try to read all the data off it after your SSD fails is fairly high
Out of interest how high is “fairly high”? I don’t think I’ve ever had a USB flash drive fail!
What did you do to get the nice terminal output with the colour display and fedora ASCII art? Just a copy+paste in bashrc?
If your phone is encrypted and you factory reset it I believe the encryption key is wiped so the data is gone (unless MI5 are really keen on spending a lot of time piecing it back together, I guess)
Hmm good point. I would have thought if they’re still selling that phone after the rule comes in then they should have to comply, seems like a bit of a loophole if they can keep selling old devices that break the rule, right?
How’s that a bad thing? Unless they’ve already stopped selling that model then you’ll benefit!
I assume low sales are because they’re ludicrously expensive, which makes sense for early technology. Apple are generally slow to adopt new things, they like quite a lot of polish (and to come up with some marketing so that they can claim they invented it!)