potustheplant @ potustheplant @feddit.nl

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I just looked it up on ebay and found quite a few sellers that had touchpad replacements so I'm not sure what you're talking about...

There are tons and tons of websites where you can create an account with just your email. I wouldn't expect a third party account to be mandatory. Specially from a product like this one.

Maybe this is a pet peeve but it's a vpn tool that forces you to log in with an "identity provider". Yeah, no thanks.

You're missing the forest for the trees, but ok.

Except that something being profitable doesn't make it any more or less embarrasing. e.g. Landlords make lots of money yet we all hate them.

Again, the most common problem in those cases are crappy drivers/fan curves. I have a laptop with W11 on it and fix/maintain laptops for friends as well and this is not an issue with any of them. The only time I had this problem was with a specific laptop.

Honestly, of all of the things you could criticize about windows (and there are lots), this is the one thing that is simply not an inherent OS problem.

Exactly this. I used to have an HP Omen 15 laptop with a 10th gen H variant i7 cpu that would constantly make a noticeable fan noise and would ramp up and down for no reason but the problem was the laptop. Everyone complained about it. The current one is an Omen 16 and it doesn't have that problem at all. Even when gaming.

I don't get why people exaggerate this much. I have a laptop with a 7840hs and 32gb of ram so it's also "overpowered" but it's whisper quiet and consumes 30-45w while doing simple tasks. Consumption only increases if I'm running code, playing games, etc which makes total sense.

Windows is not a well optimized os and the telemetry sucks but you're just flat out lying with your claims. It's either that or your laptop has the worst possible cooling.

They didn't even correct it this time, so I'm not keeping my hopes up.

*indie

You're missing the forest for the trees. It's one thing to have your phone stole but it's another completely and unrelated thing to have someone force you to do something on your phone at gunpoint.

How the hell is any type of security system ever going to be able to help you in the scenario you described?

In case you don't know what your type of comment is called, it's "moving the goalpost".

There's a significant difference between your phone being stolen and this random scenario you just made up.

you don't need permission from the company to model your own replacement parts. It's nice if they provide the models but it's not necessary.

You keep using a service/app that you know doesn't work the way you want it to. Do you know the definition of insanity? xD

I have 7500 songs downloaded on my phone (actually downloaded, the .opus files) and I use Poweramp to listen to them. It consumes less battery, the quality is the same or better and the shuffle option works as expected. I also don't need to log in to anything.

If you don't like it, stop using it. There's no one to blame but yourself.

I’ve also had to replace phones for broken USB ports which in the grand scale is probably more wasteful than the extra power use.

On one hand, yes, your port can break at some point. On the other, why would you throw away the whole phone if the usb port can be replaced? Going even further, you could always use your usb port for charging until it breaks and after that you could start using wireless charging. For data transfer there are plenty of apps and ways to wirelessly transfer data so that wouldn't be a problem either. At the end of the day, you're barely using your usb port and you're also wasting twice as much (or more) energy that you would if you used a wired charger.

Wired turbo chargers are bad as well. However, although I don't know about iOS, Android lets you plan your charge cycle. That makes my phone take about 8 hours to charge while I'm asleep.

Or you could just not use a fast charger and not worry about that. Either way, you're moving the goalpost. Not all phones support fast charging and not everyone has a fast charger. I'd wager most people charge their phones with lower power (15/20w more or less).

I'd be interested to see how you measure that. It's also not really a matter of opinion. Even though you may not notice a wild difference, your battery did degrade more than it would've, if you'd used a wired charger.

Also, the inefficiency is bad enough for me to rule it out. You literally waste at least twice as much power compared to a wired charger (source). Although we're not talking about a crazy amount of power, it's pretty selfish to waste it just because you don't want to plug in a charger.

You do realize that wireless charging is also very inefficent and reduces your battery lifespan, right? It's also kinda weird that your port goes bad after such a short time. Maybe you should clean it more often and make sure not to put any tension on it when you use it. I even have a 10 year old phone and the port (micro usb) still works perfectly fine.