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Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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pawelduda wrote: post #102
etra0 wrote: post #92

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My experience, sadly, has been the opposite. I had an iPhone 13 Pro Max with 120hz, and switched to a S22 Ultra, and although I can see the animations at 120hz, most of the time they feel stuttery. I always was an Android user until that iPhone, I had it for about a year, and switched back to Android again because I thought I was missing some stuff, but I was wrong, I don't miss a thing of current Android, I think cu…

Years ago, back when Androids had even worse animations, I would just speed them up to the maximum (via developer settings), or disable entirely. I got used to it and still do it today. Action feedback is faster, and I don't need my device to be visually awesome anyway.

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Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by iSnow »

Yizahi wrote: post #68
TetOn wrote: post #61

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Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the "back" function with or without the presence of a "back" arrow at the top-left corner.

You can't swipe across the opposing screen edge with your thump without letting go of the full grip on the phone and holding it only partially, risking it to fall. Glass phone body only makes things much worse. You can do it with a back button in a sane position though, without compromising a grip. Android allows navbar gestures since ver.10 and I never enable them because buttons are simply better, even though they…

I switched to iPhone 13 Mini because there's no recent and small Android phone anymore. On the Mini, you can easily reach that screen edge. Which just drives home the point that those gigantoscreens are a bad idea.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by codetrotter »

codetrotter wrote: post #50
the_common_man wrote: post #42

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Video does not play - Too many requests

I recently added HAProxy in front of my PeerTube server. Probably the config for HAProxy is set a little bit low or something. But try again now. And then try again a little bit later if it continues to not load.

I've had time to look a bit more now.

So when I proxy with HAProxy I was not forwarding client IP. And so Nginx and Peertube ended up thinking all connections came from same source. And this was probably leading to overly aggressive rate limiting at times.

I have now fixed parts of the configs so that now Nginx and Peertube are aware of the real client IP address.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by wiseowise »

KomoD wrote: post #128
wiseowise wrote: post #121

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Half-assed ecosystem and OS is the reason why I left for iOS. So yeah, they couldn’t even make it proper, which reinforces my belief.

Samsung couldn't make a proper web app so therefore Android sucks, love that logic

Samsung is one of Android vendors.

If the biggest vendor can’t make it right, who can?

I love Android, it’s a great scaffold to base your product on, but all implementations just suck.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by realusername »

cassepipe wrote: post #120
TetOn wrote: post #61

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Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the "back" function with or without the presence of a "back" arrow at the top-left corner.

Dedicated back and home button is the reason why I always buy a refurbished Galaxy S7 after I break/lose it. This is my third is six years. I like that the price to pay to maintain the same experience actually goes downwards. Who knows how long it will keep working like that? Hopefully I will be able to put lineageOS or postmarketOS on it when the software eventually stops working. Maybe some day I get to be an amazi…

> Who knows how long it will keep working like that? Hopefully I will be able to put lineageOS or postmarketOS on it when the software eventually stops working.

You'll be fine, if I break my current phone, my next one will be a Galaxy S4 as well, some people do run Android 12 on it nowadays, the battery is replaceable and the phone is so cheap used that it's not even worth worrying about.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

stronglikedan wrote: post #110
tiffanyg wrote: post #95

The incessant Apple (iOS) / Google [and manufacturers] (Android) sniping is truly a sight to behold. People going out of their way to declare (or at least make clear with varying degrees of intensity) just exactly which feudal overlord they're ready to "bleed for" (i.e., give money, personal data, and free promotion to). People who often act as if they have an appropriately suspicious view of corporations in just abo…

The best thing about us Samsung fans is that we get to give our personal data to both Samsung and Google!

My theory is that if everyone has my data it becomes useless.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

rvcdbn wrote: post #83

Kind of wish this actually worked as a phone by running Android in the cloud. Would be really useful to have a second phone inside an app for all sorts of things.

That's how yet another service ends up hosting a bunch of malware and crypto farmers.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by cglong »

TetOn wrote: post #61
Toutouxc wrote: post #57

IMO it's fine. I had a Galaxy S9 a few years ago for two weeks (had to return it because of hardware issues) and it felt nice to use, smooth and modern. I've used many kinds of phones in my life, dumb phones, Symbian, Windows on PDAs and smartphones, Android from 1.6 up until now, and even though I'm firmly team Apple at this moment, I have to say that not having a dedicated "back" button or gesture and only occasion…

Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the "back" function with or without the presence of a "back" arrow at the top-left corner.

As a leftie, I really appreciate that on Android you can pull in from the rightmost edge too.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

Y_Y wrote: post #103
tiffanyg wrote: post #95

The incessant Apple (iOS) / Google [and manufacturers] (Android) sniping is truly a sight to behold. People going out of their way to declare (or at least make clear with varying degrees of intensity) just exactly which feudal overlord they're ready to "bleed for" (i.e., give money, personal data, and free promotion to). People who often act as if they have an appropriately suspicious view of corporations in just abo…

> "From my tutor, [I learned] to be neither of the Greens nor the Blues, the Parmularius nor the Scutarius; to bear hard work and have few needs; to do my own work and mind my own affairs; also — have nothing to do with gossip." That's Marcus Aurelius in the ”Meditations" talking about supporting teams at the chariot races and gladiator fights. It seems very human to get all tribal about something subjective and inco…

> People going out of their way to declare (or at least make clear with varying degrees of intensity) just exactly which feudal overlord they're ready to "bleed for"

What about people who hate their overlord?

> (I have a phone that just runs Alpine Linux, but I know better than to try and tell anyone about it.)

I wish you would! That sounds interesting!

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by pyr0hu »

Yizahi wrote: post #68
TetOn wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the "back" function with or without the presence of a "back" arrow at the top-left corner.

You can't swipe across the opposing screen edge with your thump without letting go of the full grip on the phone and holding it only partially, risking it to fall. Glass phone body only makes things much worse. You can do it with a back button in a sane position though, without compromising a grip. Android allows navbar gestures since ver.10 and I never enable them because buttons are simply better, even though they…

Dropped my iPhone 13 around 4-5 times, on the floor, in the bathtub without water, on the desk. Not even a scratch. I was afraid of the glass back but this thing _is_ sturdy. "Risking to fall" was a good reason about 4-5 years ago, but since then the devices got much better protected from falling IMO
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