Madis

I meant like the elderly might still be using a dumb phone, but not a CRT screen or analog connection.

Why couldn’t you turn off 3G on that old phone via that same hidden menu? Or how come the phone didn’t even recognize that it can fall back to 2G…

Well, they shouldn’t turn it off any time soon, just like they don’t turn off analog radio. TV is one I can understand where turning off old methods makes sense, because people upgrade their TVs and use IPTV/SatTV/cable TV much more likely anyway.

These are all good points and indeed I considered them. I’m curious though, how many 6th gen foldables have you had to repair yet? I know their 4rd gen was the most problematic and 5th, 6th got new hinges again.

I get that too. It helps to put it in perspective:

• 870€ is about 45% of the official original price
• the phone was used for 2 months and in a very good condition (saw it firsthand)
• valid warranty etc

I absolutely agree, luckily I got mine used for 870€.

So, a smartwatch? Pretty sure someone has made “badge” holders for some models by now, just like you can get a brand new iPod.

I switched from OP 9 Pro to a Z Fold 6 to get the best of both worlds - a small, TV remote-like phone by default and a square-ish tablet for media and multitasking. Couldn’t be happier.

At the same time, I do understand people who thought the width of Samsung’s Folds is too small - my first consideration was OnePlus Open anyway, but upon actually holding it in store, I realized that Z Fold 6 is just more comfortable for me to hold closed.

new technology comes along

I believe the RAZR foldables allow you to do almost anything on the front screen, and in the latest iterations the front screen is larger than Samsung’s.

So how do you find actually private services?

As long as the brand new one is legally binding, why not. And it is at least in California.

Are there any checker apps to see which of user’s installed apps have this? Looking up “Play Integrity API” only finds the checkers for the phone itself…

They used to be? When?

Sure, if it is already private. But if it is not, then it gets copied to different instances and so if the original post gets removed, it is up to each instance to follow and when.

Frankly, decentralized networks make it even harder to take content down.

But sideloading and OEM stores (Samsung, Huawei) have been available for years?

I don’t understand the second one “Distribute third-party app stores as apps, so users can switch app stores by downloading a new one from Google Play, in just the same way as they’d install any app”.

In real life you don’t see big supermarkets spread their flyers in competitors’ stores, how does that make sense digitally?

But it would use less energy afterwards? At least that was claimed with the 4o model for example.

Yes, by default every Chromium browser is affected. It is just a matter of

• whether they want to extend it to the enterprise time (which Edge and Opera won’t do IIRC)
• whether they’d try to keep it working after enterprise time (maybe Brave and Vivaldi, but it could take a lot of effort)
• whether they even have an alternative place to download extensions from if CWS takes MV2 extensions down (Brave has some workaround for few extensions, not sure about others)

Maybe there will be some devs working on Ungoogled Chromium to keep the support, but they also have to think where users would even get the extensions from.

We will now [Oct 9] begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable. This change will be slowly rolled out over the following weeks. Users will be directed to the Chrome Web Store, where they will be recommended Manifest V3 alternatives for their disabled extension. For a short time, users will still be able to turn their Manifest V2 extensions back on. Enterprises using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will be exempt from any browser changes until June 2025.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline#october_9th_2024_an_update_on_manifest_v2_phase-out

So there is no single date for normal users, but June 2025 is fixed for enterprise (and expected date for Brave, Vivaldi)