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I'm also one of those individuals. While my iPhone 8 Plus is in need of replacement there is no way I will pay for the 15 Pro just to get proper high-speed USB-C... I'll wait for a 4th generation iPhone SE, the iPhone 16, or maybe just switch to Graphene OS (which would mean rejecting a lot of smartphone features and apps).
Curious: outside of people who take lots of high res video, what do people need high-speed USB C for?
It's hard to feel positive about upgrading my phone when every new phone seems to remove things I want while adding stuff I don't care about. My S10e is a reasonable size in my pocket. It has a headphone jack. It has an SD card slot. Any new Samsung phone I buy will be missing these things, and I'll be forced to pay hundreds of dollars extra to increase the on-board storage that will still be far less than the 512GB…
I don't see how I would benefit from things like 100Hz or more screen refresh rate or even tinier pixels. 5G, I would not use since that would increase the amount of wireless data so much that i'd need a more expensive plan.
I guess a lot of phones in use are sitting on a 'more than decent' plateau. It's a good thing.
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The storage on the device is portable when the device is portable. There are very few instances where I'd find an SD card acceptably portable but a phone not so. Phones these days come in hundreds of gigs of storage. My current phone was a decently cheap one and had 128GB of storage, easily >100GB of usable space. On Android one can easily mount the storage as a USB drive and transfer data at high speeds. And given i…
> Why save it locally when it can trivially be streamed? If you usually have a network connection, then most of the time streaming is fine. However, not everybody does. About 50% of the time I'm not home, I have little to no service, and even sometimes when I have a strong signal, it will randomly just stop working unless I toggle airplane mode off and on to reforce a handshake with the tower. If we all lived in a bi…
There's an extreme minority of Bluetooth audio devices which have apps. And even in those extreme outliers, the app is optional. The headphones still pair to Bluetooth devices without issues, or else it is not using Bluetooth. I've used >50 different bluetooth audio devices over the years, 0 ever needed some kind of app to pair. Suggesting Bluetooth has some baked-in spyware is absolutely untrue; There's no baked-in spyware to the Bluetooth audio stack. The Bluetooth audio stack has no built-in way to enforce the app.
It really shows your extreme biases though stating such wild untruths like Bluetooth has baked-in spyware and DRM.
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> That's true, though I kind of don't care. Many people of course do care. My risk tolerance is higher than most. It shouldn't be - common smartphone malware attacks now steal banking info, personal info, and even look for sexting pics that are used as blackmail. > I suspect companies like The Google hold security over people's heads in order to effectively inject code and encourage buying new phones The former is no…
> common smartphone malware attacks now steal banking info, personal info, and even look for sexting pics that are used as blackmail. > All it takes is a service you use that embeds a webview (tons of them), to get SCA'd or injection attacked, and you've got a huge problem. Can you provide some evidence of these attacks actually being used in the wild?
But as mentioned above, webview malware is rare today, largely in part due to fast patching and updates!
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You got really lucky on your maintenance then. Unless you're doing the oil changes yourself, those alone should have run you at least $1,000 (and probably more because you should have been changing your air filters too). And it sounds like you never had to do brakes (which come up sooner on ICE cars because EVs have regenerative braking). But to be clear you're an outlier. Most 2003 cars can't get away with such low…
> You got really lucky on your maintenance then. I keep hearing this. I've apparently been lucky for 20 years and with 4 cars. I'm a really lucky guy. Or, perhaps, I research which cars are reliable, and get a good mechanic to check them out before I buy them. > Unless you're doing the oil changes yourself, those alone should have run you at least $1,000 In that time period, an oil change was $20-30. Yes, it costs a…
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Do you track your car expenses? I do. Here are numbers from 2011-2018 for a used 2003 car: Gas: $7200 Maintenance/Repairs: $2300 Note that maintenance includes things you'd do for EVs as well (e.g. new tires). That's $9500 in 7 years. Total spent on the car (including purchase price): $18500. The extra cost of a comparably sized EV is significantly more than my gas and repair costs. The numbers for my other cars is s…
You got really lucky on your maintenance then. Unless you're doing the oil changes yourself, those alone should have run you at least $1,000 (and probably more because you should have been changing your air filters too). And it sounds like you never had to do brakes (which come up sooner on ICE cars because EVs have regenerative braking). But to be clear you're an outlier. Most 2003 cars can't get away with such low…
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> You got really lucky on your maintenance then. I keep hearing this. I've apparently been lucky for 20 years and with 4 cars. I'm a really lucky guy. Or, perhaps, I research which cars are reliable, and get a good mechanic to check them out before I buy them. > Unless you're doing the oil changes yourself, those alone should have run you at least $1,000 In that time period, an oil change was $20-30. Yes, it costs a…
What's the (first) 2003 car? You've got me really wondering
Let's just say it's one of the top Japanese auto manufacturers.
Generally, Toyota and Honda will give you good results for their signature cars (Corolla, Camry, Accord, Civic). Subaru, for some years and models do as well. I think Mazda and Nissan are a tier lower, but there may be exceptions (in model/year combination).
One tip: Try to avoid cars with chains. That's an expensive, mandatory maintenance.