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    6. I hate phone updates

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      I don't think I've installed an update on my phone and felt like it was an improvement over the old version. Samsung just pushed their new firmware onto my phone and added a whole bunch of...

      I don't think I've installed an update on my phone and felt like it was an improvement over the old version.

      Samsung just pushed their new firmware onto my phone and added a whole bunch of annoying AI stuff that I don't want and additionally decided for me that I no longer want the bluetooth signal in the statusbar unless I open up the notification menu, with no way to reenable it. I turn off my headphones when I don't need them and it was really useful to see at a glance that if they were connected and I had forgotten to turn them off.

      45 votes

    8. I just acquired a Samsung phone. Is there an operational benefit to registering it with Samsung?

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      My previous phone was a pixel. My tech life generally is a weird mix of things that are bad for privacy that I accept for convenience but also in other ways I choose to sacrifice things to protect...

      My previous phone was a pixel. My tech life generally is a weird mix of things that are bad for privacy that I accept for convenience but also in other ways I choose to sacrifice things to protect privacy.

      Does not registering the phone with Samsung actually cost me any functionality as a user?

      11 votes