What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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Moving from iOS to Android...
Honestly wasn't ready to but events have transpired to move things along.Not sure how I feel about it.
I liked it when I did it. And then regretted it when the instability and hardware problems came, and the lack of vendor protection. It's weird the things you don't think about in iOS are often the killer features. From an interface and usability standpoint, I liked the Android better.
The whole vendor support thing really irks me, as some vendors support for their phones varies by model.
Luckily(?) I'm got the use of a Pixel phone and updates are good (just got Android 14 today!).Even Pixel update support sucks monkey ****. They're great at getting updates out for supported devices, but devices are only supported for 3 years from the first day the device was sold in retail. For those of us that don't update phones regularly, that still blows. Apple has Google beat hands down in this area.
I say this while my personal phone is still a Pixel 3a XL. It works fine, but I've been growing more concerned over lack of updates for a while now. While I know I should upgrade, it's working great still.
Root it and install a custom rom? I've done that when I've managed to keep a phone beyond it's usual updates.
I've been looking, but haven't decided on a rom yet.
i've always had android, since smartphones began. just can't make myself get an iphone. now i no longer care, purchasing is based on cost. recently had to get, didn't want to, had to get, a new phone. hard to go past a samsung with more features in it than an iphone for only $AU350.00.
not saying android is better than iOS, I don't care, but I am saying that spending $350 is way better than over $1000.
I go for what is cheapest per year of having a phone.
If you can get a deal on a latest Samsung Android phone, it can be like $120-ish - $200 per year for 4 years (I got a new Samsung S23 for less than $500 locking myself in with TMobile for 2 years after I traded in my old one). I say 4 years because that's how long they (Samsung) typically support phones, providing security updates and such. Being what phones are today, it's a requirement to always use a phone actively receiving security updates.
Sure, you might be able to get an S20-S22 for like $2-300. But then you have to do it again in a year or 2 years or it will go out of support. Thereby increasing the per year cost of having a phone.
I saw, after complaining about it, that Google is going to support phones for 5 years now starting with the Pixel 7. So that's vastly improved, but I don't want to pay for one of those yet. The plan we use doesn't comp phones, so it's way cheaper in the long run.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Moving from iOS to Android...
Honestly wasn't ready to but events have transpired to move things along.Not sure how I feel about it.
I liked it when I did it. And then regretted it when the instability and hardware problems came, and the lack of vendor protection. It's weird the things you don't think about in iOS are often the killer features. From an interface and usability standpoint, I liked the Android better.
The whole vendor support thing really irks me, as some vendors support for their phones varies by model.
Luckily(?) I'm got the use of a Pixel phone and updates are good (just got Android 14 today!).Even Pixel update support sucks monkey ****. They're great at getting updates out for supported devices, but devices are only supported for 3 years from the first day the device was sold in retail. For those of us that don't update phones regularly, that still blows. Apple has Google beat hands down in this area.
I say this while my personal phone is still a Pixel 3a XL. It works fine, but I've been growing more concerned over lack of updates for a while now. While I know I should upgrade, it's working great still.
Root it and install a custom rom? I've done that when I've managed to keep a phone beyond it's usual updates.
I've been looking, but haven't decided on a rom yet.
i've always had android, since smartphones began. just can't make myself get an iphone. now i no longer care, purchasing is based on cost. recently had to get, didn't want to, had to get, a new phone. hard to go past a samsung with more features in it than an iphone for only $AU350.00.
not saying android is better than iOS, I don't care, but I am saying that spending $350 is way better than over $1000.
I go for what is cheapest per year of having a phone.
If you can get a deal on a latest Samsung Android phone, it can be like $120-ish - $200 per year for 4 years (I got a new Samsung S23 for less than $500 locking myself in with TMobile for 2 years after I traded in my old one). I say 4 years because that's how long they (Samsung) typically support phones, providing security updates and such. Being what phones are today, it's a requirement to always use a phone actively receiving security updates.
Sure, you might be able to get an S20-S22 for like $2-300. But then you have to do it again in a year or 2 years or it will go out of support. Thereby increasing the per year cost of having a phone.
I saw, after complaining about it, that Google is going to support phones for 5 years now starting with the Pixel 7. So that's vastly improved, but I don't want to pay for one of those yet. The plan we use doesn't comp phones, so it's way cheaper in the long run.
Google pixel 8,if you had to pay full price, then it'd cost ya $140 per year. That isn't bad. If you can do a trade in with your carrier and/or get a discount or promotion through them, even better. I'd go that route if possible and would switch myself to that phone when this one is done just for the extra year and potential lower cost per year to have a phone.
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@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Enjoying the solar eclipse. It peaked at 69.14% at 09:26 here.
Did you get yourself a pair of these?
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So,… many,… printers,…
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My latest coffee discovery - Amazon's brand is really good and reasonably priced. Their medium roast Columbian beans are excellent. And when I restocked recently, I decided to try the 'Donut Cafe' blend. Also medium roast and excellent. That is all.
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@gjacobse Slegehammer and go all OfficeSpace. Printer problems gone!
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Slegehammer and go all OfficeSpace. Printer problems gone!
If only,..
We do global shipping to the tune of (rumored) $6mil,.. that’s just UPS fees..
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Got to head over to another site today.
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Home for the day...This week has been a series of shit sandwiches. Monday morning, I got off the elevator and I could smell that smell... Hydrogen sulfide. We have multiple UPSes that are OLD, but there were no warnings, flashing lights, beeping, no alerts of any kind. I unplugged what I could and swapped everything over to a single unit. Fingers crossed. And then yesterday we had visitors (customers) in the office for training, which meant that I had spent multiple days trying to re-mount a projector and find 2 working desktops I could use. Beer-thirty over here.
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Was supposed to be getting a vaccine for yellow fever in Managua today, but they don't do it on Fridays. So going Monday.
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Brrrrr... it was around freezing this morning here... clearly the end of days is upon us. Unless it goes back to 90F for a week, then it's a normal Georgia fall.
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just thought i'd post something.
got a 4 day weekend (pretty much) coming up this weekend.
sat & sun, then no one goes to work on mon coz the melbourne cup is on, on tue, so that's a public holiday, so i'll be doing bugger all for 4 days.so, as merle says, '..think i'll just sit here and drink...'
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Learning Microsoft365 administrator - have to say this is pretty nice - Much like google workspaces admin stuff it's pretty intuitive and easy to get around.
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CloudFlare having issues this morning.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
CloudFlare having issues this morning.
I've been so busy on so many calls, what kind of issues?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
CloudFlare having issues this morning.
I've been so busy on so many calls, what kind of issues?
Look at your Telgram feed, it's already been posted there.
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Was in North Carolina for work the last few days. Was close enough I decided to see the sunrise over the Atlantic.
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Playing some Project Quarm Everquest.
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Early rehearsal today, then more work on my new home studio space.
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Starting down the road of developing a personal .NET MAUI hobby project.
