The latest Chinese smartphones use new S/C batteries. They have a capacity of 6000-7000 mAh with even less overall weight.

Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge can go from 0% to 100% in 15 minutes. And it’s a 2021 phone.

These are my own observations. Of course, I can put up with these shortcomings, but why should I if I can just use Firefox? It is the only non-Chromium browser that is more flexible thanks to css support.

Brave Browser Caught Redirecting Users Through Affiliate Links Also, I found Brave to be bloated with crypto/AI features. That being said, I see no reason to use it instead of Firefox.

android, and I mean all of them, lags like hell on 2Gb RAM

False. The key is the software you use. I use Lineage OS without Gapps, most apps from F-droid and my mid-range Samsung runs pretty smoothly with 2GB of RAM.

Google Pay is the most underrated product in terms of privacy. Just think, you’re disclosing your financial status and consumer habits to the world’s largest advertising company.

and … no offence guys but probably more likely to rely on porn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvLmRbOmvyE.

For some reason, I thought Ubuntu touch was EOL. Probably because I tried it on a Redmi 5 and it was an unofficial 2018 build. Is the Morph browser still supported? I checked the Github page and the last changes were 3 years ago.

Pornhub’s 2024 statistics show that almost 5% of traffic came from Linux devices. This number doesn’t include PCs that are used purely for work (probably).

Enshitification in action. During 2024, Telegram declared war on rooted Android alongside WhatsApp and Viber. This means you can’t log in to your account if you have root access or if you don’t have Google services.

Ubuntu touch is dead. Are there at least native browsers for it?

It’s a video

Marketers manage to convince tech-savvy people that their device is almost unusable by manipulating percentages. For example, “50% brighter screen, 30% more energy efficient”. It even worked for me when I didn’t want to buy a previous phone model just because the latest generation had a 50% brighter screen. But then I realized that I was perfectly happy with the screen of my 4 year-old phone.

“Just Google it,” they said. So, you Google it. You find one result. It’s a forum post. From you.

It’s pretty clear. Facebook is now full of crap created by artificial intelligence (and not only).

Where are my weather widgets?

I use Parabolic on Linux and YTDLnis on Android. I chose them because of the consistency of design with the OS.

There are many GUIs for yt-dlp.

There is no Android build. Screenshot shows Plasma Mobile.

Some Google Maps links containt actual coordinates,

http://maps.google.com/?ll=XX.XXXX%2CXX.XXXX

They are usually generated by 3rd party apps. Like taxi or delivery apps. But links shared from Google maps themselves are encoded on the server side and look like this:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/GJq5XvqhJnJsS8pU8

I don’t see any reason to encode locations in this way, except to make life difficult for users of other maps. This should be considered anti-competitive behavior.

P.S. I just realized that Google Maps generates a unique link for each share and tracks every user who clicks on that link.