My Samsung a70 doesn’t get major software updates anymore. I’m OK with it. I’ll use this as long as possible.

1 of the 👍 points that were brought up was artificial gatekeeping. Many techies know it but I guess many non-techies don’t know it. Phone makers intentionally not putting the newest features on old phones to boost the newest phones’ sales should be widely known. I wonder what the public opinion will be.

I like that the writer thought re climate change. I think it’s been 1 of the biggest global issues for a long time. I hope there’ll be increasing use of sustainable energy for not just data centers but the whole tech world in the coming years.

I think a digital waiter doesn’t need a rendered human face. We have food ordering kiosks. Those aren’t ai. I think those suffice. A self-checkout grocer kiosk doesn’t need a face too.

I think “client help” is where ai can at least aid. Imagine a firm who’s been operating for decades and encountered so many kinds of client complaints. It can feed all those data to a large language model. With that model responding to most of the client complaints, the firm can reduce the number of their client support people. The model will pass complaints that are very complex or that it doesn’t know how to address to the client support people.

Idk whether the government or the public should stop ai from taking human jobs or let it. I’m torn. Optimistically, workers can find new jobs. But we should imagine that at least 1 human will be laid off and can’t find a new job. He’ll be jobless for months. He’ll have an epic headache as he can’t pay next month’s bills.

I’m doubtful. I wanna hear more from security experts.

The 3-nanometer thing was classic anticompetitive behavior right? Will the European union or the American government investigate Apple?

Tsmc surely is in a class of its own. The other Arm cpu makers are lagging.

I’m awaiting the M4 Macbook air. I wanna see the performance comparison between it and a Windows 💻 with a 2024 Intel cpu.

Pixel 8 pro or Samsung s24 ultra

Please view Marques Brownlee’s review of each if you want.

I’m :) that games don’t suck me. I play 1 game only – Stardew valley. I enjoy but I can’t play 3 hours straight.

Please try Alexa.

When I wanted to install Revanced extended on my Samsung a70, there were the easy way (which didn’t involve Termux) and the kinda hard way (which involved Termux). I’m not an Android expert but I thought I would be able to follow a well-written process. So I chose the kinda hard way. It went well. I appreciated Termux.

While the left mouse button is held down, I can put the window on the left or the right. I have no concern. But I noticed the difference compared to Chrome. In Chrome, the new window is there while the left mouse button is held down. In Firefox, it’s a thumbnail.

For many monitors, I never had more than 1 monitor, so can’t talk re it.

I can drag out tabs. What do you mean?

No performance issue on my Firefox too. I have Ublock origin.

I’ve been using Firefox and Ublock origin on my Samsung a70 for a long time. I’m :).

Gmaps wv is if you wanna use Google maps privately right? If Gmaps wv is on an Android (which is by Google) phone, can Google track your map browsing?

Props to Readera for having dark mode and being able to handle very long books. Been using Readera for a long time.

dark mode

native and user-created bookmarks

It’s 👍 but barebones. No dark mode and support for native and user-created bookmarks.

Agree. I think you’ll be :) with the Pixel 7 or 8.

You want your Pixel 6 pro to be bigger or smaller?

The S23+ is my dream. Big screen and flagship Snapdragon. The S23 ultra is overkill for me. Of course, if 1 needs the features that only the Ultra has, he should buy the Ultra.

I’m excited re the upcoming big phones but I won’t be :o if the S24 ultra will be the best big phone of 2024. It seems Samsung knows how to make 👍 big phones.

No ads on my Samsung a70 but there are preinstalled 3rd-party apps. I just disabled those that I haven’t needed.

There are some Samsung apps that I haven’t needed like Radio and Tips. There’s a not-so-easy way to remove those. But those never annoyed me so I won’t bother to remove those.