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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 -
How to stay safe online and prevent phishing with FIDO2, WebAuthn and security keys
5 votes -
A new funding model for open source software
19 votes -
NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
7 votes -
Think you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you.
18 votes -
The story of the team behind the 6502
4 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 -
Australia's idiotic war on porn returns, this time using facial recognition
16 votes -
EU passes “Right to repair” Law to make large appliances easier to repair starting from 2021
31 votes -
I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
36 votes -
Facebook and Instagram ban usage of "commonly sexual emojis" along with solicitations for nude images or sex
10 votes -
NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
16 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 -
"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 -
Twitter announces that they are stopping all political advertising globally
42 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 -
Recent advances in 3D content understanding
4 votes -
Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
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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 -
New method promises advances in 3D printing, manufacturing and biomedical applications
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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 -
One Year of ProtonDB
16 votes -
Google owner Alphabet has made an offer to acquire wearable device maker Fitbit
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When AWS, Azure, or GCP becomes the competition
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Pando sold to BuySellAds - Sarah Lacy reflects on 8 years building the company, and 20 years in tech journalism in Silicon Valley
6 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 -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
4 votes -
Firefox to get page translation feature, like Chrome
11 votes -
Rock climbing and the economics of innovation
8 votes -
There is no algorithm for truth
16 votes -
The sad saga of Purism and the Librem 5 (Part 1)
19 votes -
Tutorial on how to enable RCS on any carrier/device with Android Messages
7 votes -
Tor Browser 9.0 is released
13 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
13 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News
27 votes -
US Department of Defense announces that Microsoft has been awarded the $10 billion JEDI Cloud contract
8 votes -
In a new report, Penn State political scientists suggest that radicalization on YouTube is driven by communities that form around right-wing content more than the recommendation engine
11 votes -
Applying BERT models to Google Search
6 votes -
Inside /r/Relationships, the unbearably human corner of Reddit
10 votes -
The Pixel 4’s 90Hz display only works at high brightness levels
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Olympic destroyer - The untold story of the 2018 Olympics cyberattack
6 votes -
New release: Tails 4.0
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Can anyone help me with home security systems?
I could use some clarity, as I feel like most of what I'm reading regarding home security is either FUD or marketing. I don't trust most of the comments I read online, as almost everything about...
I could use some clarity, as I feel like most of what I'm reading regarding home security is either FUD or marketing. I don't trust most of the comments I read online, as almost everything about this seems predicated on creating fear in me so that I'll pay up.
Simplisafe and Frontpoint are supposedly easy (and Simplisafe is quite cheap), but reviews online are mixed, and many people seem to think a self-installed wireless system is garbage no matter who it's from or who's doing the monitoring. Is this true, or is this just stratrgic doubt trying to drive me to a different or more expensive solution? I don't know!
Also, ADT sent me an ad that was a straight up lie. The person on the phone had to guess at how they might be able to stack discounts to even get close to the price I was looking at on their flyer, and the best she could offer was ~50% higher than what was shown, with their higher tiers costing well over double the price in the ad. I politely terminated the call.
My home security needs are simple. All I need is basic protection, and, honestly, I'm less concerned about a break-in than I am a fire. That's what I'd want to make sure I have solid monitoring for. My stuff can be replaced, but my home itself and my dog cannot.
Can anyone help me cut through all of the crap out there and just give me accurate information? What's my best bet?
13 votes