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Comment Re:Elimination of data caps (Score 1) 56

1TB is tiny. 4k streams or game streaming like stadia or nvidia's solution can eat through that fast. Just my apple tv uses 400GB a month. As we get more 4k content available, it increases. It should be at least 2TB for home users. It's totally possible to hit that with a family of four watching a few hours of 4k video a day per month.

I have a business account without a data cap. I'm already at 1.56TB this month.

Comment Re:Inkjet printers ARE A SCAM (Score 1) 323

If they were HP, they had new print heads in the ink cartridges. Most other brands had the head in the printer. Those type fail a lot. Canon and Epson had a lot of problems with them. I've personally had to get warranty work on a canon (BJC-600e) because of this. It was a pain in the but and several hours of travel.

The print head would dry out not the ink typically. It would get blocked up and no ink would flow through it.

Once you go laser, you never go back.

Comment Strategy needed (Score 1) 35

As others have said, their earlier products had reliability issues. They also need to promise updates for 3-4 years on all models of devices. I tend to keep phones for at least 3 years now unless it's a dud and I need it to get security patches at least.

I've looked at previous LG phones and carriers tend to push like one or two models and nothing mid sized and fast. It's always a phablet and a really cheap model. The only player in the mid size space with android is Sony. They usually have some feature gaps and like no carrier works with them in the US market anymore. LG could actually entice people like me if they marketed to that segment. I currently have an iPhone but my last device was a Sony Xperia X Compact. It worked good for about a year but the battery life really dropped off and it got very slow with the last update. I don't want a phablet. I don't want a $1000 phone either. Something with a decent CPU, mid range RAM, 64GB of storage and a semi-decent camera (at least 8MP) and i'm in.

I did own a LG android tablet and it was underpowered and stopped getting updates after a year. The android build was decent on it but only got one big update. That's a whole other market that is dying. A decent 200-300 dollar android tablet would be awesome (even 8 inch). Samsung is the only player in town now in that market.

Comment Re:Switched 6 months ago (Score 2) 254

For a period of time, chrome was faster and lighter weight. It also had less memory leaks. Granted, most leaks were due to third party add-ons in firefox and mozilla killed half of them with the rust downgrade.

I switched because of the following:
* chormecast support is only in chrome.
* browser sync between platforms. Google had a better implementation early on. Firefox for iOS sucked in the first attempt. The android version is OK but has a few issues on some sites.
* Until version 28, there were decent patchsets for chromium on *BSD. Now it's getting very hard to even get it to build. This meant i could use chrome on EVERY OS I use. I couldn't with firefox.
* Developer tools. I prefer the layout and usage of dev tools in chrome over firefox or safari. It's more like the old safari setup.

I recently tried firefox on mac os. It's faster than chrome. It's more responsive too. There is still one big problem in that they still don't listen to users.

For me to switch back to firefox:
* User friendly, prominent setting to disable cloudflare DoH. I don't mind DoH, but I don't want to use cloudflare. Honor my OS settings! Ask on fresh install or update.
* Make it a bit easier to setup and manage the bookmark syncing. They did fix some issues with this in recent versions though.
* Chromecast plugin/hack to make it work. This isn't a deal breaker, but I don't like having to use two browsers to do it.
* Mozilla needs to get off their branding high horse and actually make the damn thing portable again. Get it working on more operating systems. Put pressure on LLVM and Rust devs to make their stuff portable so firefox can be built. Mozilla pushed Rust on us and they need to own that.

Right now, I think i'd have the best best using midori or epiphany (gnome web) cross platform. Webkit is the most portable of all the browser engines.

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