Until a few years ago, it was common for Android devices to stop receiving features after about 1 year and then stop receiving security updates after 2 years. Unless you’re getting security updates another way, which may not work correctly and may even require you to build Android yourself, you should not use the device for anything important after that point. The batteries would be next to useless by that time. Now it seems more common to get three years, which isn’t great either. iPhones last longer, but they come with all the iPhone problems.
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- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones1·11 days ago
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns121·1 month ago
The start menu being React Native is irrelevant. If it were React in an Edge web view that would be a different story.
Opening the start menu should cause a spike in CPU usage. You want the CPU to open the menu ASAP instead of dragging out the process so the CPU usage is more flat.
But everything in Windows these days is wasting time stealing your data, loading ads or other unnecessary data from cloud services, and interacting with “AI.” Performance is one of the lowest priorities, somewhere between software quality and privacy. Since mid Windows 10, Microsoft consistently replaces things with modernized, but worse, versions and never returns to finish making the new version as good as the previous version that evolved over decades. It’s a really expensive way to ruin a product. They could make a React Native start menu where people wouldn’t complain about the performance. They probably did and people are only noticing now because of a recent regression.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•Google hits back after Apple exec says AI is hurting search9·2 months ago
That’s part of it. The other part is that Google, and other search engines, assume you’re clueless and try to “fix” your query for you, and you can’t stop it because they’ve been removing support for searching exact words or using boolean expressions or excluding words.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoretrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•Someone Experimented With a 1997 Processor and Showed That Only 128 MB of Ram Were Needed to Run a Modern AIEnglish3·2 months ago
In the 2020s we have new active USB to PS2 dongles like HIDman.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish2·2 months ago
I’m less hopeful. People would just switch to the formatting tab and use that. Most people center text on a title page by repeatedly hitting the enter key to go down and then the space key to go right and then they get to the next page by pressing the enter key until they get to the first line of the next page like they’re using a typewritter.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish8·2 months ago
In Markdown and HTML and TeX and even Microsoft Word you’re supposed to just use the Heading 1 style option instead of manually changing the style of the paragraph text. There are times when you don’t want to use Word, most commonly because you’re managing your documents as text files in a source code management system or because you’re an LLM and you’re incapable of anything besides Unicode text, and it has some limitations that make it unsuitable for typesetting, but it’s not bad for word processing, and the file types aren’t that terrible to work with anymore. People just don’t know how to use it.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal MessagesEnglish21·2 months ago
Amazing. Is it a trojan?
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages3·2 months ago
Is there evidence that this is actually a US government fork of Signal for archiving messages? Maybe they just downloaded some other Signal fork from somewhere else.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages7·2 months ago
That’s interesting. If you’re forking the Signal client to support archiving, you could also remove autoexpiration, the computer linking feature that is used when hijacking somebody’s account, and the ability to invite random people without clearance into your group chats. That would make it a reasonably secure and appropriate tool for communication over public infrastructure. We know they didn’t do at least one of these things.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup15·2 months ago
Didn’t they start doing that decades ago? Did they stop at some point?
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Trump reportedly suspends Nvidia H20 export ban plan after $1 million dinner with Jensen HuangEnglish15·3 months ago
It involves buying a politician.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump raises tariffs on China to 125% but announces 90-day pause for other countries – business liveEnglish8·3 months ago
Probably less. He could change his mind at any time.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump's 104% tariffs on China to take effect at midnight, quashing earlier market gainsEnglish9·3 months ago
He “learned his lesson” so he was allowed to stay in office. He learned his lesson alright. He learned he can do whatever he wants because the federal government is overrun with traitors.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoWorld News@lemmy.world•EU offers Trump removal of all industrial tariffsEnglish49·3 months ago
This isn’t caving. This is the deal they originally wanted, before Trump intervened in his first term. Trump will refuse, and then the EU can say “I thought you wanted fair trade” before retaliating. Maybe it’s embarrassing for the US.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internetEnglish1·3 months ago
Trying hundreds or thousands of hashes against the servers of random unconsenting people on the internet is beyond what I would be comfortable with. People have been prosecuted for less. It’s not the same as a crawler where you try a few well known locations and follow links. You’re trying to gain access to a system that somebody did not intend for you to have access to.
These endpoints probably don’t have protection because they were never designed to and it’s hard to add it later. Theoretically, if the IDs are random that’s probably good enough except that you wouldn’t be able to revoke access once somebody had it. The IDs probably aren’t random because at some point only the path is used. It’s how software evolves. It’s not on purpose that somebody may be able to guess the ID to gain access to it.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass productionEnglish2·3 months ago
Some microprocessors in deep sleep mode can consume less than 100 microwatts, so I guess it could be possible with this version, but you’d need to charge for a long time. The power consumption of an active ESP32 can reach 700,000 microwatts.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting OldEnglish11·3 months ago
This article is very confused. America definitely isn’t banning TikTok because it’s unpopular or unimportant. American billionaires are stealing TikTok because it is more profitable than their apps.
- i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.detoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff reliefEnglish2·3 months ago
He has amazing levels of energy for being a fat old man who can’t walk down a ramp. It could be the drugs.
You mean Crowdstrike? Cloudflare is a different problem.