It’s basically a really well polished app to browse the website on Android. It has a lot of features and also very good customization options since it kept adding features over the years.
Having a Lemmy client that good will make it much easier to use on a phone.
That depends, if you buy a flagship device then in 5 years it will probably still be quite usable, but the battery could already be shot.
My phone (not even a flagship model) is coming up on 4 years old and it’s still pretty fast and on the newest Android version (yay custom ROMs), but the battery now struggles to get me through a regular day, so it will probably need to be replaced soon.
I’m running Evolution X on my Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro and have been for the past 3 years or so. The main maintainer uses this phone so it has always been pretty polished and feature rich.
Their stance on some things is maybe a bit too drastic for some, but they already have one of the largest communities for certain topics like gaming (at least last I checked), so we may lose out on the content that would help people stay long-term, which is sad.
Well, technically, it is decent at being a currency even by your definition, just not in our society. I do think in something like a post apocalyptic world crypto would be a pretty good payment method, provided the technology worked to an extent where it would be possible to maintain.
I also refuse to believe it was invented to be speculative, I think it was basically a thought exercise to see if you could make a digital currency in a world where you can’t trust anyone.
Though the fact that right now it’s an unregulated currency that can be exchanged for regulated currency does allow for some pretty spectacular scams.
That sounds like SaaS specifically. In any case, I agree with you, it sucks that you don’t get to actually own a piece of software, even though I understand the benefit of a constant revenue stream for the developer so they can continue to push updates (and the second reason why they do it is probably preventing piracy, even though it’s still a bit hit or miss - with Adobe CC it’s still pretty easy, but Office now can’t be cracked IIRC).
I think the best middle ground would be to do what Sketch does with their Mac app or what Photoshop used to do, where you pay a flat fee for the app in its current version, get a few free updates on top and then after some time have to pay again to upgrade to a newer version.
I’m currently using a Mi Band 6 (with a nylon strap that’s real comfy), but I wish the Pebble still existed. The e-paper display, the nice UI and tactile buttons, with good battery life and the ability to make apps was great.
Once my Mi Band breaks, I’m torn between Garmin (since they check almost all of the Pebble boxes, even if I don’t do fitness and they’re more fitness oriented) and a Galaxy Watch with the rotating bezel, since that was really cool to play with, plus the Android integration might be nicer.