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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • If you don’t care about the newest Android features, it doesn’t matter much.

    As for security, this is just my habit, but I don’t trust my banking apps on phones that don’t have the latest security update. I also won’t put anything important in it like work stuff.

    I have older phones and they work fine without updates. I still use my stock Pixel 2, which is 7 years old and didn’t have updates for 4 years, for browsing and gaming.



  • Black Friday and the Holiday season is coming up. You might be able to get as s24 for a little bit more but this does take patience.

    The upgrade for the s23 to the s24 isn’t really that great hardware wise but if OS updates and security updates matter to you, the s23’s security updates stops in 3 years while the s24 stops in 6 years. Note, the phone will still work after that time but it just won’t get updates anymore. To me that’s worth an extra couple hundred bucks. I don’t like switching phones.

    Both phones have extra dim. They also both have a bunch of other visual features too. I’ll list them out:

    • Extra dim
    • High contrast fonts
    • Color inversion
    • Color filter
    • Color correction
    • Adaptive brightness
    • Dark or light mode
    • Eye comfort shield
    • Adaptive color tone
    • Natural and Vivid screen modes
    • Adjustable font size and style
    • Screen resolution (1560x720, 2340x1080, 3120x1440)

    On top of these, you can set Modes and Routines if you want to have a different set of settings so you don’t have to fumble through all the setting again. Like let’s say you want Light mode, change the brightness, screen resolution and change the font size. You can set that to one custom Mode.











  • Email is message exchange with a person or group of people. They can reply at any time.

    IRC is a chatroom. You go to it when you want to chat. A lot of software have support channels. You probably don’t know most of these people. Unless you are saving them somehow, you don’t have a history of the chat room.

    I’ve never used Matrix but it’s a instant messaging protocol that allows voice and video.






  • I am definitely not trying to defend the manufacturers here, only point out that there are solutions for those like myself who want to continue using their wired headphones with newer phones.

    Understood.

    I agree with you with the SD card too. That one probably annoys me more. It made everything so much more difficult. Transferring files, backups, swapping out music, seeing pictures from a camera or drone… Made the device less like a computer in everyway.