I agree, and did not mean to imply they had any good intentions. Just that it wasn’t pure malicious, evil on their part. They should have been transparent, and offered better solutions to users. They certainly could afford to do so.

Thank you for appreciating my contribution. :) And to answer your question, because it happens too fast. Everything powers on, the voltage drops below a critical point, the CPU forgets who it is or where it is, and the reboot begins. I’m sure nowadays they make efforts to anticipate this. But back then, the industry was busy cramming increasingly powerful hardware into devices, and no one had really given any thought to how the batteries would react after years of use. Then environmental factors could make everything worse - coldness can suck dozens of percent off even a healthy battery.

Sadly, very few people seem to understand this. I’m all for seeing a big company have to take responsibility, but the way people just blindly follow this is very disheartening. You can’t have true accountability without accuracy. They hear “throttling old phones” and assume the rest. The supreme irony is, throttling was the only way to keep older devices running longer. When I was doing kernel development on the Note2 and Note4, people constantly reported sudden reboots or otherwise rapidly depleting battery while using the camera. The old batteries just couldn’t handle the sudden spike in demand for near 100% CPU/GPU utilization + full display brightness + camera hardware powered on + heavy RAM/IO use, all at once. So the voltage would drop, even for just a few milliseconds, then the CPU would starve, and the device would reboot. Just like pressing the reset button on a PC. Limiting the CPU was the easiest solution for everyone. Do I think they should have done it silently? No. Do I think they did it to avoid being thrust into the spotlight when more and more of their users were reporting reboots? Yes. I think modern devices handle this much better because they learned from the past. Manufacturers didn’t realize back then what the degradation curve would be years into the future against acute spikes in battery demands.

To be fair, Spotify might suck for artists, but for users it’s a good value in my opinion, and the price was $9.99 for like 10 years. I don’t begrudge them a small increase. In fact, I wish all the price increases we’ve seen lately would be so modest.

The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with sharing knowledge or pointing out best practices. What sucks is people replying JUST to point out the flaws and then gloat, without even fully comprehending what happened in the article. But this behavior has been around way longer than reddit.

I totally agree with you, all this has been just what I needed after witnessing the rapidly escalating enshitification of, literally, everything.

Don’t forget, the Note4 even had a fairly easy to replace aluminum outer frame/bumper.

You are not alone!

I can reproduce it as well. Only on the page that comes up on the center tab, slowly scrolling up and down cause the refresh effect to start erratically.

I’ve used nothing but Firefox on all desktops/laptops since 2004. I really don’t understand how or why anyone would switch away.

$17/year to subscribe to Ultra, or $100/once. That means you’d have to subscribe yearly for almost 6 years to break even.

Ultra is $100, and ad-free (I assume what is called “Pro”) is $20.

Logcat is your friend. Someone on one of these threads mentioned they confirmed via logcat that the dev is correct.

For some people, that’s the price they paid for their entire low/mid-range Android phone.

The option to remove ads has been added - it costs $20 USD. The lifetime Ultra costs $100 USD.

The option to remove ads has been added - it costs $20 USD. The lifetime Ultra costs $100 USD.

The option to remove ads has been added - it costs $20 USD. The lifetime Ultra costs $100 USD.

It is indeed beautifully designed. By far the best looking client I’ve seen yet.

It’s live for me. It appears that the paid version, “Sync Ultra”, requires a $2/month subscription, or $17/year. Seeing as lemmy APIs are free, I am confused why this is so expensive? o_0

Ah, you are correct, I misunderstood the question.