I haven’t broken a single phone in the last 20 years :) Not even a screen crack.
My old phones all still work, including a Galaxy S, OnePlus One, OnePlus 5 and now my Galaxy S22. I have even older phones, but I can’t remember their names.
Damn Galaxy S22 scratches like hell though, making the glass softer was a mistake.
That was released 6 years ago… so what you have might be a bug that has been long fixed. Or the phone using WiFi for location services (to help GPS).
Either way, you need to update (custom ROM maybe?) or get a new phone. Using Android 8 is a security risk.
I did try custom OS in the past (Even overclocked my original Galaxy S), but they all had issues. Or were slow on updates and so on. Out of the box works best for me, I already tinker enough at work, I want my phone to just run :)
Not a fan of screen protectors, they all don’t have great reviews, even the expensive glass ones. I also use the phone without a case, so the protector would make the handling of it worse unfortunately.
Thunderbird on Windows, I have used it as far as I can think back (10+ years).
On Android currently FairEmail because the native Gmail app sucks. But it’s very much a power user app that’s a bit complicated at first, but then works like a charm (It also has a one-time purchase of $5.99 for extra features, no ads, no tracking, no data sent to the app developer).
Hey, just a heads-up: You accidentally selected “English” as post language.
Galaxy S22, iPhone is too locked down for me.
I went with the S22 because it’s decent and looks great, also one of the smallest high-end phones available.
Samsung sucks though, there is far too much bloat you have to get rid off. The Galaxy store also likes to hijack updates from a few of my apps.
I’d say there still is no perfect phone unfortunately. Maybe a Google Pixel that looks like a S22 and has a more scratch resistant screen. My screen already has two scratches just from being in my pocket. They made the glass more drop resistant, but now it still shatters if you drop it and it scratches more easily :-/
Lemmy just had a massive update today, give it time.
The update fixed my main gripe: Posts continuing to load while I’m reading and being unreliable. That’s now gone :)
Performance also got a big jump.
Even worse when you browse /r/all, find an interesting post about some topic, join the discussion, type out a long reply, hit send…
And 3 seconds later you get an automod message that your comment was removed. Because you aren’t a subscriber to that (default!!!) sub, or you aren’t verified, or you used a word they don’t like.
And even worse: You join a discussion, got some good points back and forth, everything is great. You try to reply to the latest comment in that chain to keep the conversation up and suddenly your comments get blocked. Because it was a /r/blackpeopletwitter post (you didn’t even notice as you found it on /r/all) and at some point they only locked it down for verified black users, kicking you out of the discussion.
I mean sure, have your own space on Reddit (even if it’s basically racism), that’s fine. But then subs like these shouldn’t be default subs on /r/all when they constantly lock down threads.
Too lazy to type it myself, so from Google:
The 3-2-1 backup strategy simply states that you should have 3 copies of your data (your production data and 2 backup copies) on two different media (disk and tape) with one copy off-site for disaster recovery.
“Disk and tape” is a bit outdated, but you get the gist. A good strategy could be your main computer, your phone, some cloud drive (so it’s in another location).
Gated communities on Reddit suck.
A thread hits /r/all, you type out a long comment in reply to someone, hit send… then get an automod message that your comment was denied. Because you aren’t part of that subreddit, or you aren’t verified in that subreddit.
Probably the worst example was /r/blackpeopletwitter. They have open threads where you can talk with people. Then at some point they lock down their threads (make it verified black users only) and your next comment in a chain of replies simply gets nuked. Even though you had a civil discussion and just wanted to continue it.
Often those threads aren’t even about race, just general things happening. Reddit has shitty support to lock things down where the UI doesn’t get greyed out. So you already type a long reply, hit send and only then you get kicked out. I had to block several of those subreddits because I kept running into this issue when browsing /r/all.
I’d say free will exists. Sure, you are shaped by your environment, your genetics and so on, but in the end you can still decide what you want to do. In theory I could simply quit my job tomorrow, wander off into the sunset and then drown in the next ocean. Or as someone brought up criminals, you could stab someone just trying to disprove the universe is being deterministic.
If you know every single atom in this moment and had unlimited computing power, you’d probably be fantastic at telling the weather. Or if you map every neuron in someone’s brain you might know what they are about to do next. But at this point you are just looking at the present data and can maybe calculate the next few seconds (but not even that is 100% sure, just a very good guess).
The question is how far forward would you be able to look just based on current and past data? A minute? A day? A month? At that point the whole thing breaks apart in my opinion. It’s like looking at the stock market where you have tons of past data and think you can predict the future simply based on that.
There’s so many complex sources of randomness, the most likely solution is that things are just that, random. And you can decide what you want to do with your own life, at least until you die (or don’t, who knows what the future brings). Honestly the whole question is dumb, there is no single being that knows everything, so it really doesn’t matter. In the grand scheme of things even humanity is just a tiny blip on the timeline and we’re with very high probability not unique. Just based on numbers there is a high chance other life forms have existed before us, might exist right now with us (somewhere else in the universe I mean, there’s also plenty on Earth) and will exist in the future.
No, I’m clumsy as shit, I nearly broke a toe once running against a door frame.
With my older phones I always used cases, so even if I did drop it (which happened rarely) nothing happened. With the S22… I’m going without a case, so far only tiny drops (like out of my jeans when sitting down on the toilet). Knock on wood, it survived so far.
Next phone gets a case again, damn screen scratches :)