Mobile JAD
Commenting since January 2025
On Sample news article - Android Authority ·
Call me crazy, but ive never been too excited about getting a folding smart phone, they seem neat, but are probably only useful for students or business travelers. If I were to get one, the only use I would get for it would be to have more screen real estate for watching movie's and such, and for that I could just get a cheap tablet, or hook my existing phone to my TV. And yea, folding smart phones have a history of breaking hinges and cracking screens...
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On Anker is dropping Soundcore, Eufy, and others to anchor everything under one brand ·
Am I the only one here who only owns their power banks and never even looked at their other products? They make really good power banks, but omg is the electronics and gadgets market filled to the brim with brands I never heard of before trying to sell me everything under the sun, but also brands I have heard of before trying to sell me something I never knew they even made. Is this what consumerism burnout is about?
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On Google is starting to show ads on Pixel phones — here's how to turn them off ·
And this is one of many reasons why I always run custom firmware on my phones.
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On YouTube may be blocking background play on third-party browsers (Update: Google confirms) ·
Gotta love Google for paywalling really basic features in YouTube
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On It’s been 8 years of phone AI chips — and they’re still wasting their potential ·
What this article touches on, is part of the reason why many consumers have felt that AI has failed to live up to its hype.
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On I spent a good week with LineageOS, but I'm happy to be done with it ·
About the only thing that I agreed with the author on the short comings of using Lineageos on my phone is that banking apps get Really fussy if your phone is rooted. Otherwise things like having video with phone calls and using my phone as my wallet for paying in stores is something that I won't be using anytime soon. I'm not a photography enthusiast, so I don't feel the need for any camera features that aren't included with the Lineageos camera. That being said I do often see people in Lineageos discussions talk about installing other camera apps to make more use out of their phones cameras. Either way I have been using Lineageos since it was called Cyanogen Mod and am in no hurry what's so ever to go back to using a stock rom for my phone.
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On Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Updated: Clarification) ·
As someone who has used Android phones for years, I feel spoiled by all of the features they pack in along with your account, and with YouTube being a part of that Google experience, I have tons of hours spent watching along on its platform, I have tons of content creators that I love to watch on it and prefer supporting them directly through memberships. But my god Google, along with its obsession with harvesting user data and its insane war on ad blockers, I find myself more and more wishing I could cut myself off from Google and move onto other platforms. There are versions of Android that are stripped of Google features and even Linux phones (also I guess there are iPhones too, but I only dislike Apple slightly less than I dislike Google) but the more your life gets wraped around Google, the harder it is to separate from it. I just wish the content creators I like to watch on YouTube could post their videos on other platforms... but unless other platforms start offering nice monetization options, that becomes difficult to separate from too.
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