I generally don’t spend more than I have to so I stick with mid rangers. Only time that was a bad mistake I’d say is when I bought a pos nothing phone by far the worst android device I’ve ever owned.

Nothing phones tend to reboot randomly it’s pretty much the only Android phone I’ve ever owned that crashes on a daily basis.

I wouldn’t buy from them again personally.

I had a honor 10 before my current Nothing phone I wish I had of kept with Honor despite the spec difference my old phone was much more reliable.

Sadly Nothing seems determined to make my phone worse every single update when it was never very good to begin with.

Seems like a retarded strategy and I hope everyone stops believing their outright nonsense.

I think I’ll probably go back to honor as I’m on a budget but one guarantee is I’m never ever buying a Nothing product ever again.

I prefer them as well but if I want to keep something I usually encode to 576p I still don’t really see any difference on my displays and it’s just something I’ve been doing since I first tried encoding for the Sony Vita.

Call me skeptical I guess but if you wanted a phone that worked as long as lithium say 5000mah using capacitors I think it would be a dozen times larger at least.

Maybe I’ve got it wrong and supercapacitors hold more energy or something like that.

I’d be more suspicious of the router manufacturer or even a disgruntled worker there than anyone else to be honest. An actual hacker I think would be more motivated to turn them into a botnet or similar.

Can’t think of why someone would want to brick them without another motive but I could be wrong.

A Stremio plugin using this would be nice I keep needing to change mine almost on a monthly basis for some reason.

I had a friend whose family owned a video store, while it wasn’t exactly legal he could get me copies of everything and they were completely perfect Pirates.

I mean covers, labels and the actual tapes. They had specialised machines for all of it and they did it pretty perfectly.

Ive tried doing it myself by linking two machines together and the results were watchable but not on the same level as the machines he was using.

One of the reasons but not the main one I cancelled Netflix (to be honest I just thought the originals were bad and any I actually gave a a chance they cancelled almost immediately).

But yeah their selling thing like 4k at a premium and making it almost impossible to ever actually use it. Better off just pirating.

I’ve actually been watching this guy for a while, it’s interesting his homemade rc stuff etc.

Smart Ir was the perfect ir app, but yeah I think they shelved it when the hardware went mostly away on phones.

Sucks we are going backwards and being charged more for the privilege.

I honestly though all phones would have night vision cameras and similar by now but yeah In 5 years we will be lucky if they can make phone calls

What this really is, is only a shortcut to the chatgpt app, they’ve just made a widget which doesn’t even do anything the official chatgpt widget doesn’t.

How this is described as integrated is nonsense and more a publicity grab than anything else.

It really is just an oversized widget that just launches chatgpt.

Sad to see you were downvoted for this, I do have a huawei smartwatch which can go a few weeks and doubles as an mp3 player but gotta love the fact g-shocks basically go forever, are always syncing the time to be perfect and are just tough as hell.

Took me a long time to try a smartwatch but I’m sure my old g-shocks will outlast it.

I’m probably going to do something similar soon, I’ve made a few attempts at stopping my Fire TV cube from updating.

Somehow it still is, and Amazon are really doing their absolute best to wreck it to the point that if I don’t kill background apps after a reboot it will crash within 5 minutes or so.

I think it’s days are numbered sadly people keep posting it on TikTok and everytime it can’t handle it. I’ve a feeling the maker will eventually tire of that then the endless complaints of TikTok users who are really the ones breaking it.

Now there are some alternatives but none that do it as well and its only a matter of time before they face the same.

My guess is I’ll be reinstalling Kodi sometime soon. Lately I’ve even seen people posting about Stremio and torrentio places like the Reddits official Netflix sub, so yeah cats well out of the bag and I think it’s on a timer now.

Just really hope someone with the right skills and resources can fork and host it before it’s gone.

Mine used to look pretty OK but then one day it moved everything into a folder named ironically No Folder and because I kinda need the passwords pretty badly I don’t want to try and risk fixing it.

I’d like an eink device with a battery like this, just mainly out of curiosity I know it would be terrible for videos etc but I imagine you could get a decent amount of browsing and an absolute year or more of just reading.

Yeah I’m skeptical of those claims as well, I’ve never owned a phone that did it a lot until this one and I’m pretty sure it’s Nothing who introduced the vast majority of problems.

Their just too concerned with things like clothing lines and pr stunts to actually fix anything they break

I wouldn’t buy the phone 1 again anyway put it that way.

It was actually great until phone 2 released then they updated it to be very unstable and the cameras also got noticeably worse from updates.

On the plus side I’ve read the custom roms for it are pretty good, I haven’t went that far yet but I know I will eventually.

All I know that really surprised me is I’d been disgusted with nothing phone 1 constantly rebooting for no reason since an update (still does it).

When I complained on a reddit sub about it I got a ton of replies saying it’s normal and not as bad as the pixel phones.

I’ve nowhere to go with that people are defending a completely unstable buggy phone and I’ve owned half a dozen androids before that and never seen any of them just randomly restarting.