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Comment The solution is so simple. (Score 5, Funny) 256

Just return Earth's axial tilt from 23.5 degrees back to 0 degrees -- the way it used to be before all this nonsense of changing daylight and "seasons". That way everyone will get the exact same amount of daylight in their respective geographic location every single day of the year, local schedules can be adjusted accordingly, and parents will never have to worry about their children going to school with any different amount of light in the sky. I'm sure it will have no negative unintended consequences.

Comment Subscribed 1 month then unsubscribed (Score 1) 49

We subscribed to watch Hamilton around July 4th. Cancelled yesterday because I've seen everything I want to see and no reason to keep paying. I know others have done the same, e.g. signed up to see The Mandalorian, but that's it.

Point being, I won't be surprised if their subscription numbers do an about face.

Comment Re:You're buying the wrong "low-end" smartphone (Score 2) 393

Motorola (Lenovo) has all but stopped making phones with removable batteries: from 2018 to present, the only Moto phones released with removable batteries have been the Moto E5, E6 and variants. They're good budget phones, but no dice if you want more than 2GB of RAM or NFC.

They get security updates longer than most, but they'll still stop after a couple years. To me that's the bigger issue than battery death. (Custom ROMs, if available, can present their own problems.)

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 117

Having switched to Kubuntu 20.04 after previously using Linux Mint KDE, God I wish they'd support it again. I've had a bug where the Chromium minimize / maximize / close buttons just disappear (not consistent enough to reproduce) forcing me to restart the browser (annoying when you have 40+ tabs open), and I've never been asked to restart the system this often (after system updates).

Comment And then there are none (Score 4, Insightful) 30

Faster updates is great until your device stops getting any at all. I have a high-end Sony device (XZ1 Compact) which is still under warranty (purchased a year after release), but stopped receiving updates last year (2 years from release). Everyone here likely knows this is a common occurrence, and a huge, inadequately addressed problem with Android.

Submission + - Serious Android Bluetooth vulnerability will go unpatched for many (engadget.com)

gaiageek writes: Engadget reports about a new, serious vulnerability in Android:

Security researchers at ERNW have detailed a vulnerability, BlueFrag, that lets attackers silently deliver malware to and steal data from nearby phones running Android 8 Oreo or Android 9 Pie.

The problem, as you might imagine, is that many of the affected devices have either lost software updates or don't receive them consistently.

As the owner of two Android devices purchased in late 2017, one Sony and one Motorola, both of which have stopped receiving security updates, it is beyond shameful that a product which is still covered under the manufacturer's warranty (24 months in Europe) will remain unpatched, leaving users with only one true safeguard of not using Bluetooth — an advertised feature which consumers paid for.

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