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AbsolutEnduser

AbsolutEnduser

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Blankpage said:
Guess no one other than me has ever had a card get damaged and yet still had to pay for something. Would be nice having a backup without that backup being another $100 a year card. Not old school enough to carry cash.
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My (old) Android phone - I used electronic pay since 2014-2015 :later

BTW zuzzo at some point prior, contactless credit cards didn't exist (here) . Also they are weaker, at least when contacting some .. square ..terminals, weaker than the phone
 
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yodaisgod

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JesasaurusRex said:
i really don't wanna "learn" a new OS
i'd probably have tried an iphone by now if every single thing that plugged into it wasn't also proprietary. Which is in itself silly because what's the cost of another charger in the grand scheme of things? It's the principle though :x

It was between the oneplus, v60. I considered the pixel 5 but 4000 mah battery vs 5000 and a slower/older processor with a higher price tag made it not in the final running.

Oneplus and the v60 really just came down to price.
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Nothing much to learn on Android vs iOS really.

Got me there on the plugs. Apple REALLY should go to USB-C on the iPhone but they make money on licensing Lightening cables. Wireless charging is a thing now so jump on board. Even wireless charging pads are available for cars so the whole "plug is proprietary" is becoming a lame excuse especially since you can connect many things via BT.

The main thing that bothers me about Android is, unless you get a pure Android phone, you are beholden to the manufactures for software updates. 2 or 3 years at most. Now, some people don't hold on to their phones for that long. But, with ever increasing prices, people are holding onto them much longer.

iOS 14 supports the iPhone 6S...that came out in late 2015. I could be wrong, but Android 11 doesn't support anything older than 2017. To be fair, is that a good metric? Not sure. But, for those owning older phones, having the latest software and security updates seems pretty important.

I don't know...at the end of the day, buy what you like. They all do the same shit anyway. Just keep reminding your friends/family with iPhones that you are the green bubble guy. :laughing
 
AbsolutEnduser

AbsolutEnduser

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yodaisgod said:
Nothing much to learn on Android vs iOS really.
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that's true, when you come from a restricted interface you can just continue to use it in a restricted way on Android


now, if you go from Android to iPhone you're ffd! everything will look like an Apple ][ interface to you
 
yodaisgod

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JesasaurusRex said:
Does apple still use weird file formats for media or can one hook an iPhone up to a windows computer without issue now?
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For photos/videos, Apple default uses the high efficiency HIEF/HEVC format. However, you can change it in the settings to JPEG/H.264 But 4k @60fps and 1080p @ 240fps require the higher efficiency format at the very least I believe. Again, that's with the default camera app. I'm sure you can find a camera app in the Apple Store that can use the format you need at the resolution you like.
 
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rodr

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My last couple of phones have been Google. They are really good about keeping them updated.

No way I'd switch to Apple. F'ing walled garden.
 
yodaisgod

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Eldritch said:
Last I heard they were still a complete disaster and unable to operate with any other kind of machine.
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If there was only away photos and videos can be uploaded into the cloud like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Box, OneDrive, or even a personal cloud storage device and then accessed via whatever computer one has to use later. Wish someone would make this happen.
 
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BillSmith

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Advancing the 'old computer user' thread jack theme, my first laptop...

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Eldritch

Eldritch

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yodaisgod said:
If there was only away photos and videos can be uploaded into the cloud like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Box, OneDrive, or even a personal cloud storage device and then accessed via whatever computer one has to use later. Wish someone would make this happen.
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Holy fuck, what lunatic would allow their photo documentation to be stored to the cloud? Direct transfer from storage drive to storage drive over a wire connection or GTFO. :x
 
Alan_Hepburn

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mrzuzzo said:
5G is way slower than LTE also. If I knew that when I was buying I probably would have looked at other phones too.
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I recently replaced my old Galaxy S5 with a Galaxy S20 FE 5G - I never thought to check the speed on my old S5 but the S20 is giving me a download speed of 134.19 Mbps according to speedtest.net on Verizon. It's certainly faster than the old S5...
 
yodaisgod

yodaisgod

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Eldritch said:
Holy fuck, what lunatic would allow their photo documentation to be stored to the cloud? Direct transfer from storage drive to storage drive over a wire connection or GTFO. :x
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If only personal cloud storage existed. But, let the hate flow through you...
 
JesasaurusRex

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What's funny is I backed up the majority of stuff on a cloud storage setup but there's still things I did not that may have been more important than I thought before my phone broke. Haven't done it yet since I can't find my USB to c adapter but the fact that I can still plug my phone into a computer and get off it what I deem important without the screen functioning (I hope) is pretty nice. Sure I could have avoided all of this by backing everything up, but still.
 
Eldritch

Eldritch

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yodaisgod said:
Yeah. And...

Look, I know what you are getting at and I'm just being a shithead here.
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That is beautiful. :love

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JesasaurusRex said:
What's funny is I backed up the majority of stuff on a cloud storage setup but there's still things I did not that may have been more important than I thought before my phone broke. Haven't done it yet since I can't find my USB to c adapter but the fact that I can still plug my phone into a computer and get off it what I deem important without the screen functioning (I hope) is pretty nice. Sure I could have avoided all of this by backing everything up, but still.
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Yeah, it is super handy to be able to get in that way and I have saved my stuff more than once like that. I also have a couple old cell phones laying around the house that I occasionally use to narfle something I want to tinker with on android that I do not want to risk my usable phone with.
 
AbsolutEnduser

AbsolutEnduser

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yodaisgod said:
If there was only away photos and videos can be uploaded into the cloud like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Box, OneDrive, or ...
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well apple iphone users certainly can't figure that shit out, I have hundreds of 640x480 images sent from amazing iphone users who cannot use anything else on the internet aside from I-Message.

couple that with the 240dpi videos sent over (oh remember when it didn't exist, only for apple users?) MMS

even today, I got one SMS from a guy and then the next message was over Slack. Why? "I can't send the image over the text, so I used Slack". :facepalm
 
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