It's about the OS. While iOS is not palatable for my device, it is a hell of a lot better for my wife and kid. With my Samsung S5, I had samsung interrupting EVERY aspect of the device. Once I reloaded it with Cyan/LineageOS, it works fine.

On the iPhone, while the experience is a walled garden, it is not interrupted by bixby / samsung crapware / wireless crapware every five seconds. If the iPhone had replaceable batteries and a headphone jack, I would upgrade my 4 y/o phone. Until then, no reason to.

So the callousness in which you treat the general population is quite amazing. If the two candidates where identical, you might be right. But this was black vs. white. There was no common ground between the two. If you are saying that 100K of advertising is all it takes to tip someone from black to white, then our "election" process is beyond repair. Really, people made the opinion early on, and disregarded information based on their bias.

This fantasy world that people live in where obviously the Russians are the ONLY reason Trump is president is amazing. Admitting Hillary was a flawed candidate would really help the democrats swing centrists, but instead they prefer to go off the rails.

Sounds more like a Debian issue. Iâ(TM)ve had headless systemd based RHEL 7 running under KVM for years.

Granted, I have never needed any kind of tampering or corruption mitigation in my log files over the last 20 years of Linux administration. So the value for at least my usage of journalctl has been sum negative because I don't see the value in a command that by default truncates log output.

So the answer for systemd is to workaround it by using a "legacy" service to restore decades of functionality.

SMF was the death knell for Solaris (along with the Oracle purchase), and it feels like systemd is going to be the anchor which drags Linux into the abyss.

So, while I appreciate the theme of being able to run a full blooded Linux environment, it doesn't fix the fact that the basic OS provided by Samsung is complete crap and not worth keeping on the phone. Unnecessary processes and constant unwelcome intrusions are the main reason that I replace the OS. Adding a compatibility layer doesn't remove the underlying problem that Samsung's out of the box OS experience is craptacular and abusive.

I'd run a pixel over this any day.

I like to think its more of an experience thing. IE - we've seen so many of these conspiracy theories that the current Russia fever seems way out of touch.

Somehow low effort trolling and phishing campaigns are somehow becoming hacks. And they are massively diverting money and attention away from the real crimes. Podesta gave his password to a foreign agent. That affects a single person. Someone stole VA/OPM/Equifax data on millions of Americans. Yet we are see nothing happening, going to happen, or any changes whatsoever.

So, he gets to take a huge write off on his taxes for the donation, and then his sole sourced installers get money for the installation of not only the batteries, but also any solar to supply them.

All while quietly locking everyone else out of the market. In the name of "humanitarian" needs.

http://www.wral.com/business/s...

But russia hacked the DNC, so impeach Trump!!!!

Seriously, the reaction to these "hacks" is so imbalanced. The OPM hack, while not as large as Equifax, included much more detailed information on subjects. I consider at this point that the information that Equifax has on me is "public." Considering all of the letters I have gotten from the VA, OPM, Target, Home Depot, etc...

Curious if that was before the "forced" merging of good and bad banks. Buffet may have been talking about the older WF, and not the influx of sub-prime mortgage managing people.

Instead of investing time on this, just go to reddit / 4chan and wait a few minutes. This whole "fake news" debacle is really just the same old trolls with new outfits.

Unless you travel, and most cars still only have aux in / no bluetooth. Or you ride in airplanes and listen to music on 5+ hour flights. These are just the reasons I used the headphone jack in the last week. There is no valid reason to require yet another cable for just simple audio out.

I'm not asking for new features. I'm asking for a return to the level of service I had 5 years ago. It wasn't until the iPhone lead the charge into obsolescence that user serviceability died. They even took that mentality, and transferred it to the laptop realm with inaccessible components. I had to trash my daughters MB Air (1st generation) due to battery death. And the whole premium service fooey is crap. My daughters iPhone had a battery recall, scheduled an appointment, and was told they would have to ship the phone out. I wasted 2 weeks on what can only be described as the single worst support case in my life, and I had Comcast for 5 years.

So yeah, the "feature creep" argument doesn't hold true here, when the only "innovation" Apple has provided is less and less user service. We've had better.

Haven't noticed it on my 4 y/o phone. Maybe you had the "daylight" stuff on and mistook that for screen damage? I also replaced the case (not bolted an ugly ill fitting cover on top of) with a folio (fold over cover), so maybe that adds a layer of protection?

Like removing user replaceable batteries and removing headphone jacks and not including features.

Yeah, the only difference between Apple and landfill is the price tag. They led the race to the bottom, and now my 4+ year old phone is probably the last phone I will own due to their "innovations."

Samsung S5 - replaceable battery / rear case. Wireless charging. Waterproof. OLED display. Lineage OS support (think free as in speech).

Maybe 5 years ago. I use to subscribe to WaPo, and there has been a significant decline in their reporting to the point where the current output is primarily "opinion" pieces meant to scoop sources like buzzfeed.

It used to be that you could read the actual facts about an article in the 2nd paragraph. But recently (even before DJT), I had to go back to google to find an AP/UPI feed to find any kind of facts. If I need to do research on the article, then what is the point?