You shouldn’t need to do that anymore, batteries are much larger and chipsets are more efficient than when removable batteries were the norm.

You shouldn’t need to do that anymore, batteries are much larger and chipsets are more efficient than when removable batteries were the norm. But even if you do need to charge, that’s why fast charging exists.

This site doesn’t appear to definitively support your statement. The secton on ultra-fast charging, which appears to be written in relation to EVs rather than phones, does state that high temperatures and charging over 80%/keeping a battery at 100% can be detrimental to a battery’s lifespan. However, the “scientific research” it claims to reference is nearly a decade old and so there is no mention of the advancements in cooling and charging technology that have occured in that time. It’s the equivalent of someone basing their opinion on the technology that existed when the Galaxy S7 was a new phone. Most (all?) phones come with battery regulation features built into the software now, and there have been many improvements made to internal ventilation and heat distribution as well as the chargers themselves. I’m not convinced it’s as clear cut as you’re making it out to be and this extremely outdated website certainly doesn’t support your argument.

Do you have evidence to support that claim? Batteries and charging technology have come a long way over the years.

You can still replace the battery. It requires more work but it’s generally not a complicated or difficult process on most phones and you only have to do it every few years. I’m not trying to defend non-removable batteries, but I think sometimes consumers pretend they are more powerless than they actually are over these issues.

I’ve never used an assistant. Aside from the privacy issues, I’ve just always found them massively cringe unless they are being used for accessibility purposes. Sorry everyone in this thread, but when you guys talk to your phone or “smart home” stuff to complete basic 2 second tasks you look fucking stupid.

EDIT: I get it, I triggered you guys. You aren’t gonna convince me by explaining how very smart you are telling your phone to flick a light switch for you.

That was my first thought too. I thought the whole reason Android moved away from animation bloat was to improve performance, but everyone seems to be heading back in the opposite direction now. Samsung’s OneUI 7 also added tons of animations that have no functional benefit.

Yeah that’s exactly what I was thinking, maybe we will start to see this type of thing elsewhere soon. The whole Y2K millennial bait thing is very popular at the moment, lots of people are feeling nostalgic about tech.

I don’t know if anyone else feels this way but the newer design actually looks less modern to me. Blending the colours makes the logo feel more complex, gives me more of a late 2000s Windows Vista kinda vibe. I’m not sure if it actually has a subtle light reflection effect going on as well, but that’s another design trend that used to be a lot more common around that period.

The Sony Xperia 1 VII runs Android 15, with a promise for 4 OS version releases and 6 years of ongoing security fixes

Damn, this is truly great phone now with that extended security promise. It was always the major thing holding back Sony’s flagships, but they’ve addressed it without compromising on some of the things that make their phones unique (headphone jack, microSD expansion, side-mounted fingerprint reader, dedicated two stage camera button, etc).

I guess so. If there is the option I would always get a FOSS app through F-Droid or directly through something like Obtanium for exactly this reason. Sometimes there are differences, and the Play Store version is always the inferior one.

inb4 Bendgate 2.0

It looks like this is functionally a paid app.

Where are you seeing in-app purchases? I can’t find this anywhere in the app, and it’s not mentioned on F-Droid either (normally there is a disclaimer if there are non-free features).

You have to pay to get more icons on your home screen, which is pretty ridiculous.

I can’t find this anywhere in the settings. Every single toggle can be turned on and the number of home apps can be increased from 5 up to 30. Are you sure that you’re looking at the right app?

mLauncher has this feature. It is a fork of Olauncher, available on F-Droid and Google Play (and directly via GitHub). I have used it myself previously, it’s stable and customisable.

If you’re a Sony fan, the hype from the leak probably comes from the fact that the design hasn’t changed. That’s always been one of Sony’s biggest selling points over the years. that they don’t follow a lot of the trickle down market trends driven by Apple.

Have you tried installing those torrents in a sandbox environment first?

Is Acestream still a thing for football?

footybite(dot)to is generally pretty good as an alternative.

Bots attempting to manipulate humans by impersonating trauma counselors or rape survivors isn’t useful. It’s dangerous.

It used to be closer to the former, the rise of The Greens as a third force in Australian politics has been a result of the right faction of the Labor party pushing them away from some of those roots as it desperately tried to win elections. Many Greens voters are former voters from the Labor left. With Labor’s main opponents in complete disarray, however, there is potentially a greater possibility for it to shift left over the next term (and longer, depending on how quickly their opposition regroups).

I can see them go full Trump and get aligned with our extreme right wing parties and billionaires and make their own truth social and just double down hard calling it a hoax.

They might do that but it would mean political extinction. The Liberals simply cannot form government through appealing to fringes on the right, it just doesn’t work like that in Australia with compulsory voting. At this election there was literally a Trump party running in every seat, funded by a billionaire who was spending insane amounts of money (as he has done in previous cycles). He gained absolutely nothing and actually went backwards.