Currently on chapter 85 of Pierce Brown's Light Bringer, the latest installment of the Red Rising series! Granted, I'm listening to the audiobook, but audiobooks are still books. And man, like the rest of the series, I can't put this shit down!
After this? Not sure yet. Still waiting on Sanderson's next book in his Stormlight Archive series. Maybe I'll re-listen to The Wheel of Time again while the final books of these two series wrap up.
I was coming to this thread to answer the same. New Vegas was probably my favorite game of all time, with it's unique charm and creative blend of stories and character mechanics. I couldn't make it past 5 or 6 hours of the FO4 (I really wanted to give it a chance), before I dropped it for good. Bethesda wanted to make an action shooter with a twist, and they did a good job of that, but it lacked the creative "it" factor that made me sink 600+ hours in NV across multiple playthroughs. Just talking about it makes me want to boot it back up right now!
My favorite notes app has been UpNote. Has most of what you're looking for. Folders (and subfolders), cross device syncing, cross-platform, offline access, and search. It's also smoother than it's closest comparison, Zoho Notes and OneNote, each of which had stutters and microlags when I used them, especially as you accumulate more notes. There's also a lifetime purchase if you don't like subscriptions.
Cookies & Cream is my go to, but so far this summer, I've been eating more high-end strawberry ice creams from local shops, and the fresh strawberries make all the difference.
I said it before and I'll happily say it again. Removing hardware features while increasing prices will always cause stagnation down the road. When software features, camera bumps, and folding screens are all you have to offer, people will just keep their phones longer and use a $3 app to fill in the missing "feature" on One UI 6, Pixel's exclusive feature drops, or even Apple's Dynamic Island.
I promise the teen angst evaporates quickly! I honestly believe it was meant to dissipate as the main character's perspective gets rocked to the realities of life. And by book 2, it's as somber and grim as anything GRR Martin would write!
Shouldn't the author of Red Rising be Pierce Brown? But I can't wait to listen to it! Just waiting to finish the last book of the Stormlight Archives first!
We obviously disagree, so I'll just conclude with these last few points. With a 6-4 deficit (and getting worse), can you afford to lose ANY features that might drive your customers to your competitions? What is Samsung going to do if Apple decides to suddenly introduce an SD card in their phones (far-fetch, but they did do it with their MacBook Pro)? Bring it back and hope the people who left will come back? That's a gamble on its own. Enthusiasts are also more likely to shill for your feature-complete phone (I know I talked/recommended several friends into the Note series back in the day). And honestly, other than a folding screen, has enthusiasts have anything to be excited about? Even their folding screens are losing their luster with the lukewarm introduction to the 5 series, and with new competition from Google and Motorola.
At the end of the day, I'm just a consumer. I'm not a shareholder or in Samsung's C-Suite, so I can only give my opinion as a frustrated user, so I don't really care about their revenue earnings. I just don't want to keep losing features for the sake of quarterly earning calls, and I don't understand people who defend their practices without a financial stake in their company.
There's nothing wrong with Aegis, I just preferred the extra features on Authenticor Pro. Before I switched, I was hoping Aegis would implement WearOS support, but apparently the developer wasn't interested.
You're talking about the sales of a phone line that has virtually $0 in advertising in the US Market as a sign of flagging sales of feature-complete phones compared to Apple and Samsung's marketing team?
But let's say you're 100% right. Lets say 95% of people don't care about headphones jacks, SD Cards, etc. You're STILL losing to Apple 10% YoY, and they haven't even released the iPhone with USB-C or forced to open their OS to yet. It's 6-4 iPhone majority today. Are you really going to continue the same strategy that got you to this point? How are you, if you're Samsung, Google, Motorola, going to entice customers? Suddenly, that 5% of power users look pretty important for your shareholders.
How can the data show that these phones are selling less when no phones are selling them at all? With the exception of Sony's Xperia line, who made a profit for the first time last year, what other mainstream phone sold in North America (a direct Android to Apple sales comparison where Apple has grown 10% YoY) has both of these features?
I moved from Aegis to this, and it has been seamless! And for those who care, it has Material You theming, and most importantly, the WearOS app is stellar.
Not surprising, and many Android enthusiasts called this a few years ago. Other than folding devices (some of which costs enough to buy an Iphone Pro Max + iPad), how is Android differentiating themselves from Apple on the hardware front? The few things they could have done to separate themselves, like SD cards, headphone jacks, etc. are now gone with some niche exceptions. And now that Apple is finally adding some customization on iOS, plus being dragged kicking and screaming by the EU to conform to universal standards, the feature set differences continue to diminish.
Copying Apple only benefits Apple, and we're seeing this occur quarter by quarter. Pixels may be the exception simply because they cost two-thirds (half, during their generous sales) as much as Samsung's. But if they continue their trend of raising prices, I think their sales will eventually stagnate too.
That's actually genius! I didn't even think it had that much functionality! I wish I could include things like "please add sources and Yelp links to all recommendations." That would make it 10x as useful, but if it were to happen, it would probably be paywalled.
Tried it yesterday - first time trying any sort of Chat AI, actually - and the app is smooth, if barebones. I've actually found it to be pretty useful as a suggestion bot - best sci-fi books, best zombie movies, etc.! It fills the +Reddit Googling I did before. I'm just hoping for more user customization going forward!
I started off with Kbin, and it was great because it was initially more straightforward with a more sensible UI. But since they didn't release an API quickly enough, apps like Voyager came in, so I've switched to Lemmy.
It also looks like the UI/UX hasn't changed much when I logged into Kbin, so it feels significantly more stagnant. And once Sync for Lemmy hits the Play Store, I'm probably going to stick with it.
Wasn't Samsung holding ~30% share in the US? I was trying to find more concrete numbers, but Google isn't Google anymore. What I could find says that North America is their #1 revenue producing region, which leads me to believe that the majority of their revenue is coming from their S series. This is conjecture, but absent more public data, it's what logically makes sense to me. And since the US is the major market to not be on universal contactless payment systems, I would assume would benefit it's customers the most.
SD Card - The consumer has about as much control as trusting their data to cloud storages or even at-home NAS or hard drive set ups. They could get robbed, or they could have another daily data breach somewhere. Safety with your SD card contains similar risks. And like you said in your other response to another user, Samsung already mines your data, Knox or not. So why not include an SD card, so that people can save $200 on storage teirs (corporate greed aside)? If the hacker really wants my SD card data anyways, they'll get to indulge in my vast library of audiobooks, podcasts, music, movies, and files that would make absolutely no sense to them, even if they were corporate spies. So congrats to them. Pictures and videos would be painful to let them peruse, but that could be said about any stolen phone or data breach.
It doesn't have a SD card slot, unfortunately. At the moment, only Sony Xperia still carries it on the flagship level, so I'm eyeing that one for now. Fortunately, my N20U is still going strong, so I'll see what the field looks like when I upgrade. I guess whichever OEM decides to include a $0.50 piece of hardware will probably get my $1K+.
Currently on chapter 85 of Pierce Brown's Light Bringer, the latest installment of the Red Rising series! Granted, I'm listening to the audiobook, but audiobooks are still books. And man, like the rest of the series, I can't put this shit down!
After this? Not sure yet. Still waiting on Sanderson's next book in his Stormlight Archive series. Maybe I'll re-listen to The Wheel of Time again while the final books of these two series wrap up.