PEBKAC

Convenience

Thank you for the effort!

This is one from 2 days ago…

PS: it’s not some accounting trickery, if I load a few reddit comment threads to read on a plane the battery really lasts forever.

Yeah, that’s my point. 40m on screen 8.4% if battery.

I didn’t use it that much yesterday, but we can extrapolate…

Interesting, TIL.

I doubt it’s on purpose, many other non-Samsung apps run fine, even when a samsung alternative exists, it’s specifically the browser that is weird. Which is a pity, since I do use Firefox on my desktop and laptop, but the mobile experience is just frustrating.

Relatively new Samsung S24 Ultra, similar as you: “old” flagship bought used. The scrolling on the Samsung browser is like an iPhone, with Firefox like a windows 95 :(

Happened with a previous Samsung as well. On my old oneplus everything was kinda choppy.

I used retro arch a decade ago, and when setting up a emulation pi last year the consensus seemed to be batocera. No idea if its better, but it’s as easy to use as I remembered and my kids are still enjoying it, so not too unstable.

But it kills the battery on mobile, even scrolling it choppy.

I switched to the Samsung browser a few years ago, I don’t know what black magic they do but it’s super smooth and light on the battery. It has some plugin support but I don’t use it so can’t comment much about it. It’s chromium based.

Many Samsung TVs use tizen, a Linux (non-Android) OS.

With YouTube 55% of the money goes to the creators (and they don’t need to pay hosting costs).

I love when two conflicting conspiracy theories meet online.

I work with banks, insurance companies, telecoms, manufacturers and ocassionally retailers in Europe, they all use Oracle for well over half of their applications.

That’s some funky code, pagination is much easier than that, unless there’s something else going on.

Is this hyperbole? I really doubt someone can be a SWE for even 2 years and not know what oracle does…

They are doing something wrong. Say what you want about their commercial strategy, the product itself is pretty good. It can definitely do pagination, and I hope they are not doing skip and limit.

It hasn’t been popular? I guess you mean “cool” or “trendy” but well more than half of enterprise applications work on oracle, closer to 75% in fact.

Yes, plenty of companies are exiting oracle but it will still dominate for at least a decade. Sometimes there’s just no good equivalent, and no, Postgres cannot compare even tho it’s a great DB for many use cases.

Lawyers are always in demand!

Thinkpads are usually acquired as enterprise retire their stock, 2 or 3 year old devices for a fraction of the new price.