Yep.

Rather than try to single-handedly re-engineer an old protocol to be secure, I just use it for stuff where security isn’t a big deal. Including messages with links to secure resources (and send credentials via a separate system).

Lol, Play is an exploit.

After 30 years in IT, I’ve seen 100x more systems taken down by updates than by exploits.

Actually, I’ve never had a system taken down by an exploit, 100% of outages have been caused by borked updates or changes.

I’ve had friends who’s clients have been taken hostage by exploits, and 100% of those have been because of poor security practices and phishing - neither of which is preventable by updates.

Here’s a question, if almost no-one sideloads or uses FDroid, where do people get the millions of malicious apps from? Play Store.

So where’s the problem again? Oh, yea, Play Store.

Nah, then stuff breaks.

At idle, SSD is usually better (like you said if the SSD has proper power management, and that takes research to know).

Spinning platters are generally still better for power per gig/terabyte, because write time they consume less power than SSD.

I dont really look at drive power consumption, because even with ~10 drives running in my environment, a single cpu doing anything moderate blows away their power consumption numbers (I’ve tested, not that it was needed, heat dissipation alone makes it clear).

I have a ten-year old 5 drive NAS that runs 24/7, and it’s barely above room temp. Average draw is a few watts (the number was so low I put it out of my mind, maybe 5 watts - Raspberry Pi territory).

My SFF desktop is 12w at idle, with either 2 small SSDs (500GB each) or a single large drive (12TB). So much for SSD having better idle power.

SSD isn’t necessarily less energy hungry than spinning platter.

It really depends on the specific units and use patterns.

Generally SSD has better idle power, and HD has better read and write power, but that doesn’t even always hold true.

If your device sits idle long enough, SSD is better for power, but the write time to get to idle could easily consume the power differential.

https://www.edn.com/power-vs-energy-ssd-and-hdd-case-studies/

Beat me to it. I always have the page up.

Scans for open ports run continuously these days.

Ten years ago I opened a port for something for a couple days - for months after that I was getting regular scans against that port (and others).

At one point the scans were so constant it was killing my internet performance (poor little consumer router had no defense capability).

I don’t think the scans ever fully stopped until I moved. Whoever has that IP now probably gets specifically scanned on occasion.

And just because you don’t run a business doesn’t mean you have nothing to lose.

DMZ should be enough… But routers have known flaws, so I’d be sure to verify whatever I’m using.

I’d rather have bezels - they make holding a phone easier.

So, they’re smaller, right? Or is that not how measurements work?

This whole argument is nonsense, and doesn’t change the pint that 6.3 is not “compact”.

That we can find any phone smaller given the market today, means it isn’t compact.

The Samsung S4 Mini was compact compared to the S4, by design.

Plenty.

And that’s an irrelevant strawman and goalpost move all rolled into one anyway. I’m currently running a Pixel 5,which is noticeably smaller.

6.3 is not compact.

Android isn’t Linux, Android is a Java implementation using a Linux kernel (IIRC) - the Linux part isn’t even “complete” - when you root you find there are tools you need to add to get typical Linux capability (busybox, init-d, etc). .

So you’re not going to install an Android APK on Linux or anything else, uess it emulates Android.

I guess we’re making up our own definitions these days… 6.3 is now compact?

If I understand you correctly, the developmental changes occurring between releases (every little step change/test) won’t be visible to us, just the final results in the form of the release code? (All corrections/clarifications accepted, hell, requested). We’d still be able to compile, but we wouldn’t necessarily have code for those small, incremental changes.

About every 3 days or it gets wonky.

Newly setup too, about 2 months ago, Android 13

I want proper use of swap/cache by default, not something I have to root to get.

Why is my browser reloading pages because I switched apps, on a 6gb phone?

I could prevent this on a 2gb phone in 2017 with root by configuring it properly.

Anuto is fun, I really like the back-to-gradeschool graphics

Ok, now this looks impressive, since they publish the API and CAD files for you to build your own add ons.

I can’t think of add-ons I’d want - I’m more for smaller phones today, so the bulk doesn’t really appeal to me. But I’m eager to see what people create (may already be some stuff posted on 3D printing sites, I haven’t looked). Maybe an add-on battery that’s the size of the back but really thin?

Edit: LOVE that it’s a plastic phone. Please, more plastic phones, they’re lighter and tougher.

Lol, nice.

Not that it matters, really, as it’s all about battery chemistry, and there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Apple may do something differently than Android manufacturers, but they all have the same choices - tweak the voltage/current profile, manage temp, limit recharge bounce when a phone sits on the charger.

Actual answer: fast charging will always do more damage than slower charging. It’s all tradeoffs, and I will trade my battery longevity for fast charging when I need it. When I have time, slower charging is fine.