I’d agree that yyy.mm.dd is probably the best for sorting reasons, but imo dd.mm.yyyy also has at least some logic in an everyday setting. Usually the order of relevance for everyday appointments is the day, then month, then year. Oftentimes the year has no informational value at all, since it is implied, e.g. for an upcoming birthday.
my interest in Android phones
In android specifically or did you just add that since we are in an Android community? Because for me that’s just phones in general. I couldn’t really think of a major innovation Apple has had in their recent iPhones either. It’s all incremental improvements in performance, battery life, display and camera, paired with some minor software features. And in apples case being forced to adapt USB C.
What features would you be waiting for? For me it would be some proper implementation of a Desktop mode (in the lines of Samsung Dex). Since I feel phones have plenty of performance by now, enough where paired with a good dock they could replace desktop PCs for many people.
I never used it myself, but rather than a dedicated alarm clock app, maybe look at tasker?
Looking at their website they actually list your use case as an example of what is possible
wake up with a random song from your music collection
(Third point under “usage examples”)
I’ve had two USB C ports fail on HMD phones.
Yeah, that’s what got my HMD made, Nokia branded, 7 plus. And from a search at the time this was a common problem
The chart also doesn’t specify what hardware the calculation is based on. If it’s “1 year to crack for your average desktop PC”, then a server farm will do so in minutes.
Right, totally forgot about that step.
Haven’t used it myself, but similar to casa os there is also cosmos os, which looking here seems to offer some build in storage management options. Maybe this could be worth looking into?
openmediavault is ok for raid, but the containers aren’t one click wonder like in other NAS OSes
Since OMV also uses docker compose with a build in GUI to manage them, I don’t assume this would be what OP is looking for either? Unless trueNAS also comes with some repository of preconfigured compose files.
I am currently using Openmediavault for my NAS and can confirm that with an official plugin so far I havent had any issue with my ZFS pool (that I migrated from trueNAS scale since I didn’t like their kubernetes use and truecharts, but as someone mentions they seem to switch to docker).
Otherwise I am happy as well, but I am far from a poweruser.
Is the 10 VI Sony’s midrange? It’s certainly priced like one, but within their lineup it would be the lower end, no? The 5 would be their midtier offering.
Yeah, slightly better now, but still lackluster in a phone of this class.
Especially considering that eventually every phone in the EU starting June 2025 will be required to offer at least 5 year updates. You’d think that they could offer that level of support slightly earlier to someone willing to drop well over 1k€ on their phone. Unless of course they plan to pull out of the european market at that point.
Bloat and bad performance aside, you don’t see a benefit in having a all-in-one solution that in a way acts as a drop in replacement for people wanting to switch away from the likes of Google/Apple? I certainly do.
Yes, having a dedicated app selected for each use case will likely give better results. But it also means more management. And many users don’t actually need more than basic functionality.
But yes looking at the complaints, they should look at polishing existing features first.
I don’t understand why there isn’t higher demand for audio phones like there is for camera phones.
I agree that there should be demand for a large enough niche audience, but it won’t be even near the same demand as for good cameras.
For most people smartphone are their primary and usually only camera. And there are plenty of situations where you want to take a nice picture or video.
With audio the trend nowadays is wireless for the vast majority of people. And for that a build in DAC doesn’t really help at all.
Downside might be that this requires a good internet connection, which depending on where OP travels might not always be available.
This seems a bit impractical. 2 phones to keep charged and manage.
Depending in your use case can’t you just get some external USB storage?
I haven’t used it, but maybe look at Cockpit? You could install it on your generic Debian server and it would give you a nice gui and tools, while letting you do whatever you are currently using it for.
I am using openmediavault for my NAS, which seems reasonably lightweight and is debian based. If that fits the bill
To me price and software support are somewhat linked. Supporting their devices for such a short time is unacceptable especially for expensive high end devices. And by the time prices come down over time the phones are already closing in on the end of their software support.
Regarding the cameras in the midrange you are forgetting the Google pixel A series. I think they are increasing the prices with the 8 series, but the 6a/7a are in the same price range as Samsung’s A5x series. And outside of lacking zoom capabilities they offer flagship quality cameras.
3D movies always felt weird to me
I think the big issue is that for most 3D releases it’s more of an afterthought. It is however pretty cool in movies specifically made for it such as the Avatar movies.
Yeah i guess a good case makes a phone durable enough for most people and if you want an iPhone that is your only option anyways.
I’d have imagined that a purpose build phone would still offer some benefits. Like operable with gloves, maybe being the ports better protected against things like dust, or they have removeable batteries. Suprisingly i had to learn (after a quick search) that they don’t seem to offer much brighter displays for better visibility outdoors. I’d have thought that could be another feature.
Of course you also need to know the month, but similar to the year i would argue that there are plenty of times where the month is evident from context. So the informational value is lower than the day.
I don’t want to argue that this is an absolute thing, but i’d say that quantitatively there are more times where you only need the day compared to very few times where you only need the month for example.