As big a sucker me, lol.

I bought my S20 FE to get away from OnePlus for a change. I’ve been looking to get a smartwatch, and decided I don’t want a Mi Warch or anything that’s a glorified fitness band, so realistically a Galaxy Watch was my only choice. It just so happened that the Watch 5 got released and Buds 2 (non-pro) were bundled for preorders of the watch.

Just like that my single Samsung device turned into three. Then I decided to get a tablet, and at that point it was obvious I’d get a Galaxy Tab, thus completing the Samsung ecosystem lock-in. This shit does work, especially the nearly seamless reconnecting of earbuds between phone and tablet. Not nearly as good as what I’ve seen Apple could do, but honestly, I’m happy.

And now whenever I think about a potential future phone upgrade, Samsung appears to be the best choice. Fuck me haha. Not that I don’t enjoy those toys.

The ecosystem problem is true even if you don’t use apple products. I’m in the same boat, everything’s Samsung here, I’m scared to leave.

Not even gonna give this a click. Of course it’s still q contender. It’s the top of the line offering from the biggest Android OEM on the planet. It will be a contender 12 months from now and it will be a contender 24 months from now.

Hi Mishaal. Asking this for your future review.

1. How’s the vibration motor?
2. How do you find the “gimmicky” Nothing cable, any quality concerns?
3. General fingerprint reader experience
4. Any issues with cellular reception/calls?

And these I believe you could answer before the embargo.

1. Favorite feature of the Nothing OS 2.0
2. How comfortable is it to use when laying in bed? Particularly when holding it above yourself and typing.
3. How big of a difference does it make to use the entire glyph interface vs just the flashlight? Not just for the camera experience but like, looking for stuff under the bed etc. And how easy is it to use it like this (one toggle or digging deep in the settings)?

https://f-droid.org/packages/me.ash.reader/

Read You is a beautiful app with material you design. Works great, but the tiny thumbnails, and the fact that not all thumbnails load (whereas in Feeder they do) is my major point of complaint. Still I like using it.

I mean it’s in the second sentence of the article… Current Tensor chips are based on Exynos, and Google’s end goal is an in-house designed one.

While I am positive overall, I do not like that some bad habits from reddit are resurfacing here, mostly not being able to have different opinion without someone insulting you.

This is humans were talking about. Humans on the internet. This is inevitable and I wouldn’t specifically attribute this to former reddit users. You have this on Twitter, you have this on Instagram. The “my opinion is the only correct opinion” sentiment is prevalent everywhere today. Sadly.

Performance and stability can be ironed out. But the UI itself is already really solid. I love the animated comment collapse. This app is gonna be great a few months from now.

Honestly, that’s kind of where need for speed is at. For all its faults (and there are many), if you don’t want to go towwrds the sim racing type, that could be your option.

Oh this looks like Forza Horizon all over again. They’re gonna have to do something actually different to sway people from Microsoft’s offering. Not saying it’s gonna be a bad game just for that, but its popularity will heavily depend on how much it’s gonna be its own game, rather than a clone, I believe.

At the very least it’s a big fuck you to spez.

For half off definitely give it a try. It’s long been patched and when i played it early this year my only problems were two times the game randomly closed.

Gun play is extremely satisfying, sound design included.

Driving is… better than in watch_dogs, worse than in GTA. But traveling through the world is a bit disappointing. Rich map with little life.

Side missions are fun and fill up the time nicely. The missions are creative and not necessarily “go from point A to point B while killing waves of enemies”, but those are there as well.

My cats will gladly walk into carriers as long as there’s no human nearby. In that scenario it’s a good place for a nap. But if we need to go right now, there’s no way in hell I’m getting them into carriers without a fight.

Ads? Now that’s a curious one. I’ve been using my S20FE for over a year and haven’t noticed any ads besides things like a banner in settings that introduces a new functionality.

What ads were you seeing?

Well they must’ve done the numbers and determined that enough of moderstors use their app/website that those revolting are negligible. That, or they really need to squeeze this thing dry before IPO, no matter what.

It’s a bittersweet kind of reaction for me. I’ve been aware of how shit reddit’s been for a while, and how shit it’s been habit-wose for myself. So maybe it’s the push i needed to get away. That’s the sweet part I guess.

The bitter part is, I moderate a relatively small community (181k) that’s been a passion of mine for literal years. Still is. If i have to moderate that with the official app, I’m out, I can’t do it, I tried. I know reddit doesn’t care about me or my community. It’s all a rounding error. But this situation applies to bigger communities as well. And it’s just a big slap in the face after being exploited. Reddit absolutely needs moderstors, needs this free labor. And they just said fuck you to those people.