That’s not so great because now you don’t know when an app is running in the background.
It also makes it harder for notifications you actually do want to persist like OPs - I use AccuBatterry and don’t want to be able to dismiss by accident.
It helps that Apple doesn’t have such a huge marketshare here.
You want an Xperia. No removable battery (there are almost no “normal” phones with removable batteries) and instead of a popup camera you get a regular front camera in a tiny bezel (so assuming you don’t want a stupid hole/notch in the display that’s what you want). But they are overall solid phones with excellent DACs and very clean Android. And it’s still a mainstream, non-Chinese brand.
The only disadvantage is price, but they target a niche audience. If you can take a deal with headphones or such it’s very much worth it.
Best part about a simple AM receiver is that it doesn’t need a battery… For emergency situations it’d definitely be best as it’s dead simple to construct, you can boost gain in radio station for more reach / power to the battery-less receivers, etc. and the transmitters are simple, too.
For emergencies it’s also not a bad idea to have an offline copy of Wikipedia.
The problem is that you have to make the line somewhere. Sure, one small feature is kinda miniscule, but you could easily name dozens, and that starts eating into costs and/or other actually useful features fast.
There’s also the fact that when you have a “swiss army knife” of phones chances are it doesn’t do anything really well.
Humans are efficient, and there are also huge losses in converting the energy from work to electricity, and then further converting this to whatever voltage you actually need, while also likely first charging a battery somewhere so you can use it at a different time than you are cranking/pedaling…
However humans are also strong and can think of mechanisms that help with leverage and whatnot; for example an elliptical machine would probably be better than a bike.
With that being said the power you can generate is still pretty small; around 100Wh is floating around. If you worked out more you’d make more, obviously, but that might not be feasible.
It’d still be more than enough for essentials like charging your phone though.
It costs effectively nothing. There are no downsides to it. For a phone aimed at enthusiasts and people who don’t want waste it’s an odd and shitty choice.
I mean there’s really no reason to stay loyal to a phone brand of all things. All phones are pretty much the same so pick the one you like. OnePlus used to make some decent phones. Nothing might too. So why not? And when they fuck it up you can buy something else.
I think your definition of decent charger&cable is just different from me then I guess.
I expect to get a charger that has the fast charging for the phone (not necessarily the top spec, but high enough) and a usable cable, let’s say a 0.5 to 1 meter, that can also do basic data transfer.
If I wanted a charger with 4 ports I’d buy it. If I wanted a braided cable I’d buy it. I don’t want either - but I want a charger that I know works fast enough with my phone, and it becomes my travel charger. Everything else I can manage.
This will be less of a problem as power delivery becomes the norm, but most people probably don’t have a decent PD charger several times over at home. Worst case you’ll have an extra charger where an old one dies, which seems to be common especially with some peoples’ cables.
Or, you know, alternatively do actually discount the phone by $60 or however much they act like it costs (it’s obviously way less than that, but chargers are still a significant expense largely because they need to have many different SKUs for different regions so the logistics are more complicated).
All Sony phones are overpriced by about 20% when you compare them feature-wise. You pay for the unique combination of features and form factor.
Pack-in chargers and cables always suck. I don’t get how people use them, especially those cheap rubber 1m long cables. Utterly useless.
Any decent company will give you a high-spec charger and a decent cable with your fucking $1000+ phone.
Deciding to ditch the charger is only to inflate their bottom line, especially if you look at what they then sell the charger for separately.
Just FYI paying for Premium gives out money to creators - way more than they’d get if you just watched the ads.
…what exactly did you install? I’d be very weary of installing anything other than official builds from their website/GitHub.
It’d be a good way to get your Google account stolen.
Yep… And you can’t donate to Firefox development. You’ll only fund the nonprofit and its goals, the money doesn’t go to Mozilla Corporation who do the actual development.
Yes, you have those enter a hostname not an IP. Not sure why
Because it’s DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), so it wants a URI, not an IP.
Firefox doesn’t even accept donations. Mozilla Foundation does, which is a related nonprofit, but it crucially does not fund any firefox development and legally cannot do so.
How Elon didn’t get jailed for market manipulation when he first did it with crypto is beyond me.
At least this time it didn’t work out… Probably because when you proclaim intent publicly like that you actually have to follow through, it’s a verbal contract effectively. And I suspect that they told him he’s either buying it or they’re nailing him for manipulation.
…except it will still be worse than a regular “chat app” in many ways.
Worst of both worlds, yay!