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10 votes
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Tell me about your smartphone!
Currently I have the Moto G5 Plus that I purchased a little over two years ago for $200. For the most part, it has been a good phone as the gestures to turn the flash light on, turn the camera on,...
Currently I have the Moto G5 Plus that I purchased a little over two years ago for $200. For the most part, it has been a good phone as the gestures to turn the flash light on, turn the camera on, and use the finger print sensor as a swipeable button, has had me pretty satisfied. This was a lower middle range phone when I purchased it so it has lately started chugging even doing basic tasks like internet browsing. Couple that with the battery dying pretty quickly, and battery saver making the phone even slower, and now I am in the market to buy a new phone. Right now I am looking at the OnePlus 7t but the price looks pretty hefty to me at $599. I could make payments but in general I don't like going into debt for small purchases. I'm curious if anyone went from low-tier phone to mid-tier or higher and if you felt the purchase was worth it?
Some other general questions:
- What is your phone?
- Did you finance it?
- Are you looking to upgrade?
- What features are the most important to you?
29 votes -
After three months offline, 8chan returns as 8kun
24 votes -
Few-shot Video-to-Video Synthesis
7 votes -
The Project Jengo saga: How Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll – and won
6 votes -
I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
36 votes -
ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
15 votes -
Hackers can use lasers to ‘speak’ to your Amazon Echo or Google Home
10 votes -
Chinese professor sues wildlife park after it introduces facial recognition entry system
6 votes -
Australia's idiotic war on porn returns, this time using facial recognition
16 votes -
Firefox to hide notification popups by default starting next year
22 votes -
The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
12 votes -
Five things you didn’t know GPS could do
13 votes -
Why is dark mode such a big deal?
Dark mode being added to an app can make headlines on several tech sites. Why do people feel so strongly about dark mode?
12 votes -
How my dumb mobile game got 400k downloads
10 votes -
Think you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you.
18 votes -
Tutorial on how to enable RCS on any carrier/device with Android Messages
7 votes -
How to stay safe online and prevent phishing with FIDO2, WebAuthn and security keys
5 votes -
NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
7 votes -
EU passes “Right to repair” Law to make large appliances easier to repair starting from 2021
31 votes -
The story of the team behind the 6502
4 votes -
Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
21 votes -
A novel example of namespace clashing in competition between bots
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems. Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who...
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems.
Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who calls it in a reddit comment with the phrase "RemindMe!", has been cloned and iterated upon by another bot, Kzreminderbot, which responds to the exact same trigger phrase. Both bots reply to the comment threads where they are summoned. Kzreminderbot has slightly more diverse features, including email/text notification, but the interesting thing here (I think) is the impotence of the response from the creator of RemindMeBot, who has added a link in their comment replies to send annoyed feedback to the second bot.
We talk occasionally about the scramble for usernames on new services, but this is an slightly novel example of the cascading hierarchies of website design. A feature which reddit lacked is added by a bot, but that bot is too provisional to cover the hole which it was meant to fill.
8 votes -
NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
16 votes -
Facebook and Instagram ban usage of "commonly sexual emojis" along with solicitations for nude images or sex
10 votes -
Twitter announces that they are stopping all political advertising globally
42 votes -
After the release of "Notepad++ v7.8.1 : Free Uyghur" Notepad++'s GitHub issues page is being flooded by trolls
Developing topic, don't see any news sources on it yet. Lots of pro-CCP troll issues being opened, as well as people starting to open issues going against the original trolls. (e.g. pro-HK...
Developing topic, don't see any news sources on it yet. Lots of pro-CCP troll issues being opened, as well as people starting to open issues going against the original trolls. (e.g. pro-HK protester messages)
24 votes -
"Facebook is wrong and I have receipts"—Jedd Legum provides proof Daily Wire is gaming Facebook's algorithm
@juddlegum: 1. UPDATE: So in response to my report that The Daily Wire is gaming Facebook with a network of 14 large pages Facebook released a new statement. Facebook says these are "real pages run by real people" Facebook is wrong and I have receipts https://t.co/z5s3LsOMm3
11 votes -
Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters
@mikebeas: Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters. https://t.co/QMDJyc4uRO
9 votes -
Recent advances in 3D content understanding
4 votes -
Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
5 votes -
New method promises advances in 3D printing, manufacturing and biomedical applications
3 votes -
The internet at 50: It has enabled many wonderful things, but we have to fight to keep it that way
6 votes -
Inside the iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A completely new camera
5 votes -
The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
6 votes -
Recent Study Estimates That 50% of Websites Using WebAssembly Apply It for Malicious Purposes
10 votes -
Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification
22 votes -
Apple reveals new AirPods Pro, available October 30
9 votes -
This video is sponsored by ███ VPN
38 votes -
The sad saga of Purism and the Librem 5 (Part 1)
19 votes -
One Year of ProtonDB
16 votes -
There is no algorithm for truth
16 votes -
Google owner Alphabet has made an offer to acquire wearable device maker Fitbit
9 votes -
When AWS, Azure, or GCP becomes the competition
7 votes -
Pando sold to BuySellAds - Sarah Lacy reflects on 8 years building the company, and 20 years in tech journalism in Silicon Valley
6 votes -
Tor Browser 9.0 is released
13 votes -
Firefox to get page translation feature, like Chrome
11 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
4 votes -
Rock climbing and the economics of innovation
8 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News
27 votes