More "security" bullshit when all they want to do is secure their control over us.
Not falling for it anymore. Fuck Google and the rest of Big Tech.
Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
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Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
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Considering this is all about Android adopting a very similar feature, it doesn’t sound like “Apple being Apple”…
It's Apple being a trailblazer and leading the industry. Sometimes that lead is in a bad direction.
No, Apple adopted GrapheneOS feature 3 years after it was first introduced there.
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The rest of the industry are adults and can be responsible for their own decisions though.
Doesn't seem like it. I remember when Samsung ads mocked Apple for the camera notch and removing the headphone jack. For obvious reasons those ads are long gone...
Sure, but my point is that blaming Apple for another brands decision to follow is just weird.
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Never happened on my samsung.
I've woken up to a rebooted Samsung phone. (And it has been problematic for me at times when this happened.)
On every Android I've had, Samsung included, it's an option. I believe they're all enabled by default, but can be disabled.
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https://xkcd.com/1172/ Don't think old Androids will get this update.
I generally like XKCD but dislike the message in this comic. If that's that guy's workflow, they don't have to actively support it, but he should be given the option to disable updates so he can continue to use his tools in the way he sees fit.
The comic doesn’t say anything about mandatory updates, and it’s EMACS. The user can install whatever version they like.
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Same here, using several old androids as hotspots here and there. They stopped receiving updates long ago though, so I'm not worried.
Its not an OS update, its a Google Play Services update .. so if they still apply you would get it I found it strange that things like 'prettier settings screens' and 'improved connection with cars and watches' would be included in Google Play Services. Surely those things are part of the OS not part of a thing which helps you access the Play store? I've been using a LineageOS (prev. Cyanogenmod) phone for years and…
Its an anti fragmentation measure
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#227This is a Google Play Services update. For GrapheneOS users without GApps wondering: A similar feature is already built-in: https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot
Heh, my first thought was “Don't they do this already?”, but apparently GrapheneOS was ahead of the curve there. Nice.
How would an OS taking over your hardware would be ahead of the curve or nice?
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#228What if just while that occurs I need to make or receive an emergency call?
Sometimes it feels like tech is going backwards. Rather than rebooting, just develop a proper method to unload/uncache, without making a device useless while that happens. Or use that multicore arch to swap the “dirty” instance with a clean one, in realtime.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#229This is a Google Play Services update. For GrapheneOS users without GApps wondering: A similar feature is already built-in: https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot
Typical lazy Ars reporting. The feature originates from GrapheneOS, not iOS.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#230Why would it reboot instead of just power off?
So you could still answer a phone call or have your phone reachable for "find my phone".