I have MoonReader installed since >10 years... Rarely use it but it does PDF and ePub fine

Oh i dont mind converting, I'll check it out thanks!!

I use Librera, and it works great for books and comics.

Mihon with a local library us by far the best. Problem is it doesn't do pdf, so you'd have to find a way to convert to epub, or ideally cbz.

10-15 years ago I'd have given an Android-based OS a fair chance, but today... nah.

I reviewed a PR the other day that added new test cases and was +40k LOC. It was the same file copy/pasted >400 times with a few strings changed each time. Guess what "super intelligence" wrote it

did they pull the update? I just got qpr2 beta 7, qpr3 beta 1 nowhere to be seen...

Oh goodness

the iPhone is right there, you can get an SE for ~499?

The 11 which came out pre-covid still gets regular updates alongside the other phones.

This is a uniquely Android problem.

Yeah but if nobody can run their rubbish they won't survive for long

All they really mean, but won't say, is that memory makes them more money than phones - so they no longer give a fuck about phones.

Samsung Mobile division is complaining here that memory is so expensive they can't afford to put a phone out at a set price for more than a few weeks without starting to lose money.

Samsung Memory division meanwhile: our profits are so obscene that we've raised the entire company profits 800% this year.

Its literally two divisions in the same damn office, their directors sit in the same boardroom - Samsung Electronics.

Nope, sorry. They're slopping everything with AI now so it has seven different subroutines that all do the same thing and are undocumented, and three different libraries have been imported with overlapping functionality.

They can go f*ck themselves.

I stopped using Samsung products when they locked the bootloader with the One UI 8.5 update and before that I probably only skipped a couple of generations of Galaxy Note and Ultra phones.

I understand wanting to keep customers inside your ecosystem, but that should be done through convenience, not by holding hostage the hardware I already paid for.

Or make phones that just phone. It wasn't that long ago they were like that. People didn't carry around direct access on demand and we didn't fucking die, we just didn't have instant gratification.

It would suck but we'd survive it.

This but also not requiring a smartphone for banking in general.

That would require security updates etc to be done longer for phones so banking software and the rest will carry on working.

With more companies claiming this and prices going up, could we go back to not requiring everyone has a newish smartphone?

The reason for the reduction is, of course, the surging price of memory.

Maybe this will finally force lazy developers to optimise their programs a bit more. For decades we've had computers getting significantly faster every year so you didn't need to bother optimising your code for lower resources.

Ah, it's "AI" bullshit all the way down. Yep.

How Google’s Pixel Watch 5 left me no time to write this headline

https://archive.li/QToxG

I believe ya I just will never intentionally click on you tube, you porn yes, you porn no

https://piped.video/ exists, but it's always so slow.

I am not really a massive smartwatch fanatic. I use a Garmin Fenix 7 and have done for a few years. However, something with the Google Pixel Watch 5 has me seriously impressed for a watch that doesn't look like it should be such a powerhouse. Aside from the design that I wish was more traditional in style, this is probably the best smart watch you can buy right now. This is my Google Pixel Watch 5 review.

Just don't click on you tube, for a place thats antigoogle too many links to youtube

Please don't share lame ass clickbait titles