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Coherence, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

I also miss the little light

S_204, in What is your earliest memory?

I was like 3. We were moving into a new home, my brother and I are sitting on the front steps and the driveway is just gravel and rebar, no concrete yet.

Nothing special about it, just a memory of sitting there with my older brother on a warm day. I’d bet we went to the park afterwards but can’t recall.

I have vague memory of the house before that. The curtains in my room for some reason. Nothing particular, just them moving in the wind. .

The brain is weird.

fmstrat, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

AodNotify almost replaced the LED for me. It always locked up my display black every few days so had to stop using it.

crimroy,

I use it with no issues. Pixel 3 though, maybe it doesn’t sit well with newer hardware/software

CaptainBasculin, in The year is 2025. President-for-life Trump watches the Hunger Games on Netflix for the first time and decides he wants to see it in real life. Which tribute do you place your bets on?

Hunger Games works in quite a dystopian setting that politicians in US wouldn’t allow; so I can see Trump being impeached immediately after this suggestion.

However, assuming that this isn’t implemented as a life-in stakes Battle Royale and instead as a sports event improved with Augmented Reality (all weapons are simulated, no real deaths); it could be a fun event to watch. I could see myself betting on athletic people.

ilmagico,

I think the whole premise of the question is: trump somehow seized power and become the “supreme leader for life”, democracy is now dead, elections are a sham just like (russia/china/iran/your favorite autocratic nation), so this is exactly the kind of dystopian future where Hunger Games were set. He just made Trump be the ruler.

Yeller_king,

He might be impeached but not removed as Democrats won’t control enough of the Senate to convict.

If Trump wins again, he is fully above the law.

RobotDaniel, (edited ) in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

Headphone jacks and small phones

PizzasDontWearCapes,

I picked up a Jelly Star which takes small to the extreme, and has a headphone jack

It’s been good so far, minus the lack of 5G which means it won’t work with my Android Auto adapter

TheInsane42,
@TheInsane42@lemmy.world avatar

I still miss my 4-4.5" phones… maybe dust pff the Moto G’s that still work. (See if there is an update on Lineage images)

rockandsock,

Mine still worked a couple of years ago but 8gb of storage doesn’t get you very far these days.

owatnext,

I kinda of like big phones. Me and my poor eyesight enjoy being able to crank the text scale up without loosing too much screen real estate.

GiuseppeAndTheYeti, in What do the symbols next to usernames mean on Lemmy?

Took a couple of days to get familiar, but you should switch to Voyager if you want to search the content of posts across lemmy. I used Jerboa for 6 months and finally decided to check out Voyager after a few bugs in Jerboa and comment sorting default not being a thing.

It’s been much better since switching for me. Text formatting needs work but that’s pretty minor in the grand scheme of things to me.

bartolomeo,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Aggravationstation, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

The notification light would also let you know what type of notification it was by colour on my old Samsung Note.

Mog_fanatic,

An app called aodNotify brings this back for you if you don’t have an iPhone. May take a little tweaking to get everything how you want but it’s very customizable

HiddenLychee,

Is there anyway to use this without having the full always on display? Having all of that, which includes notifications, sort of defeats the purpose

Bartsbigbugbag,

I had an always on display that illuminated the outside of the display when I received a notification but otherwise stayed off, and I’m on iPhone, so I can’t imagine you don’t have more options on android than I did.

fastandcurious,

Which app?

Bartsbigbugbag,

I was jailbroken, I can’t remember the name of it sadly.

Agent641,

Wait they took that away? I have an S9 and I rely on this to know whos messaging me. Blue is textra, purple is whatsapp, white is insta, green is signal.

cjsolx,

I had an S8 a couple years back and upgraded to an S10 when it first came out. The notification light went away and it was a huge bummer. I now have a Pixel 7 and it doesn’t have it either, so I’ve learned to live without it.

DudeDudenson,

Because taking away features passes for innovation these days

Reverendender,

Hey man, it takes courage!

/s

JimmyBigSausage,

Or take it away and charge a subscription fee to have it back in some form or another.

original_reader,

Sony still does that.

bazingabot, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

Replaceable batteries, real keyboard, headphone jack, notification light

Bytemeister, (edited )

Sounds like what you want is a netbook.

Entertainmeonly,

Real keyboards where overrated, swiping is so much quicker. My s22ultra now lights up around the intire edge so again better than a single light. I have had this phone for over a year now and never even noticed it no longer has a headphone jack until lookingfor one at this moment. I will agree with the replacement battery as I would have continued using my note 5 and then my note 9 if the battery hadn’t worn out.

Hamartiogonic,
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

Yeah swiping is nice if it exists in your language. Seems like a basic feature, but Apple doesn’t mind being 10 years behind everyone else. Still waiting for that awesome swiping feature to roll out. Probably not going to happen any time soon.

SnipingNinja,

But imagine notification light on the back, or just look at the nothing phone (though that’s a bit much, which is why we need options)

Entertainmeonly,

Ya, after reading a bit about the notification light and thinking back to older phones, I’ll agree. The edge lighting is neet but not continuous. It also does not change color depending on the type of notification. A back version is also a good idea.

corsicanguppy,

Real keyboards where overrated, swiping is so much quicker.

And, ignoring the comma-splice, I see where the accuracy fails.

deweydecibel,

I have had this phone for over a year now and never even noticed it no longer has a headphone jack until lookingfor one at this moment

Why do you believe your use case and your habits are a relevant argument against the necessity of the jack? People who want it actually use it, what difference does it make if you personally don’t need it?

EvokerKing, in Will ublock Origin be blocked on chrome soon?💀💀💀

Manifest v3 has been out for a while now, they are just blocking manifest v2. There will probably be a way to fix it, but there is always other browsers like brave that have built in adblockers that block basically anything. While people were worrying about whether they will be blocked from YouTube and ublock was having issues that were soon fixed, brave never got a single pop-up asking to disable your adblocker once. Also you can use some VPN adblockers that work through blocking it from your network like AdAway.

Lunar, in The year is 2025. President-for-life Trump watches the Hunger Games on Netflix for the first time and decides he wants to see it in real life. Which tribute do you place your bets on?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Donebrach,
@Donebrach@lemmy.world avatar

Hello, 2020 Fox News Viewer.

Lunar,

What!? Lol

garbagebagel, in What is the goofiest Christmas present you received this year?

My sister got me these Tiny hands.

Turns out my mom is very very freaked out by them so I had a great time.

Unforeseen, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

My phone is 4 years old and this sounds like a horror story to me. I have no idea what I’m going to do next.

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Replace the battery and use it for 4 more years.

Unforeseen,

My issue is that I no longer get updates for a over a year now, I’d be happy using it until it no longer works otherwise.

Jakeroxs,

Might be able to get a more updated ROM, idk if Xda is still the best place for that kind of thing or not.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I had to use my Moto G5s Plus again for 2 weeks when my current phone (Poco X3 Pro) was broken. It made me realize how usable it could still be, it’s just that the battery is basically dead. Also the micro-USB connector is so worn it doesn’t work with some cables anymore, and it is soldered-on. Well, OK, there’s a few more problems. It only has 32GB of storage, screen gets burn-ins within 3 minutes now, the main camera’s focus is mostly non-functional (it just makes weird noise while shaking the view, but if you hit it just right it can be used), it’s very laggy, it keeps losing cell signal,…

OK, it does have a few more issues, but I could still use it if both the micro-USB and battery were fine. The bezels and navigation button/fingerprint scanner are a large enough positive. But I can’t do micro soldering. I don’t even have money for a soldering heat gun…

Timecircleline,

Man I did this to my S10, forgot, dropped it in water. Bummer. I wanted to have it at least 5 more years.

TheInsane42,
@TheInsane42@lemmy.world avatar

I’m still using my '18 Nokia 6.1 and '16 Samsung Tab S2 8". As phone I see no alternative apart from fairphone, haven’t found an alternative yet for the 8" tablet. (There are no 8" left it seems)

Main tablet is a Lineage running Samsung Tab S5e, no alternative found for that. No 10" (or slightly larger) tablet that has an alternative rom. (Or one I can start developing for with another device as base)

Czarb, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

Headphone jack. Next to my bed is the one good Bluetooth headset, the two crappy backup sets for when it is charging, and the gigantic earmuff yardwork set for when the good one is still charging and the 2 shit ones have already died.

Blue_Morpho,

Just buy a dongle and you can use regular headphones.

ooterness,

Counterpoint: Put it inside the phone, where it belongs.

Aux,

Fun fact - mobile phones didn’t have 3.5mm jacks until very recent times.

Blue_Morpho,

Does it actually belong in the phone? Putting the adc chip outside the phone gives the opportunity to upgrade your sound rather than depend on what the manufacturer bundled or even screwed up. (Nexus phones were notorious for bad headphone output.)

RampantParanoia2365,

Every single phone I’ve owned dongles stop working eventually while charging still works fine.

Katzelle3,

Get the Fiio BTR5. It costs about $100 and has Quad-DAC from ESS just like one used in flagship LG phones. It can switch between Bluetooth and USB inputs, so you can use standard headphones to do phone calls wirelessly for example.

corsicanguppy,

Just buy a dongle

Soooo sick of this “let them eat cake” bullshit.

theUnlikely,

That’s gotta be the slowest charging imaginable. 0.00001 Watts?

waz, in What hobby do you have that no one else in your family shares?

RC cars, amateur radio, sailing, 3d printing, cooking/baking, sewing, camping…probably more.

I’d say my kid has a mild interest in some of these, but probably wouldn’t if I wasn’t also doing it. My wife and I mostly just watch tv together.

umulu,
@umulu@lemmy.world avatar

Your wife doesn’t try to get started any of those activities?

waz,

She’s willing to go camping and will ask me to 3d print stuff for her, but doesn’t really have much interest in being more involved in that.

Generally speaking, she is supportive of all me doing all of these hobbies, just not interested herself.

umulu,
@umulu@lemmy.world avatar

Interesting. Same with me.

I don’t think I could live without any hobbies

paultimate14, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

A lot of what I’m seeing here is included on my Sony Xperia.

Headphone jack, notification light, SD card.

I do miss having a replaceable battery like my older LG phones had and stereo fromt-firing speakers like my HTC One M8.

Emi621,

Replaceable battery is gonna be mandatory for phones in the future so that’s good.

skai,

I love the Sony phones. If they sold the Xperia 5 V in my market (or even if the global version was compatible with my carrier’s G5 bands . . . ) I would probably buy it in a second. They seem to be deliberately betting on only releasing the 1 V in some wealthier markets though (likely because the 5 V would undercut demand) – but I refuse to spend 1 V prices with only a couple years of guaranteed updates.

Sony phones though are by far my favourite on the market these days, and it’s a shame that they aren’t more popular (or have enough developer interest to have LineageOS support).

original_reader,

This is why I still buy Sony. If they don’t change this, plus add replaceable batteries, which they have to… most is good.

Still miss FM radio, though.

And double tap to wake.

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