I jumped to foldables when Fold 3 hit the market. Never looked back, I really liked that form factor. Tri-Folds are another story, as long screen isn’t hard and scratch resistant as normal glass, I could never even think about getting one.

And there is higher price to pay and some things you need to look out (ex. inner screen) when being early adopter. I knew this and I don’t have issue with that, but it’s not for everyone.

I had to replace inner screen protector ~once a year with Fold 3. Don’t know how Fold 6 will handle that. …tho I never paid a cent for inner screen protector replacement. First time was paid by Samsung (it was under warranty), second time shop broke screen while they were removing protector, so I got new inner screen + battery + screen protector for free. Third time I had to replace that protector, I sold my phone before I could do that and switched to Fold 6 🤷

My only gripe with tri-foldable are those screens.

Even with Fold series, inner screen gets scratched pretty easily compared to normal glass screen. I don’t see tri-foldable screen handling that any better. Otherwise tech is cool.

And start week with a Monday, not a Sunday.

Samsung has removed that functionality on the new watches and phones

At least I got that on my Fold 6 and Watch4 Classic working perfectly 🤔

And seems like S25 also has Wireless PowerShare

Long battery life (one less thing to charge. It’s annoying to need extra cables when traveling)

I can charge my Samsung watch with my Samsung phone while charging my phone with single cable. I still would want longer battery life, but extra cable isn’t the issue for me.

Some users are just petty. Ban TikTok for data sharing fears, then switch to another Chinese app out of spite.

Depends on usage. If you don’t need super fast speeds or low latency, go for cheaper model.

If you need low latency and high speeds (ex. Wireless VR with PC), you need to pay more to get good and stable connection (+ multiple routers as mesh if needed). And more expensive devices have different CPU/RAM which will help you if you have large network + extra security features on.

Meanwhile in my password manager: 727 login accounts 😶

Battle Beast is currently my favorite live band what I’ve seen. Show has always been epic and full of energy, I just love it.

Here’s few of my favorites

Kiuas - Across The Snows

One of my favorites from Kiuas as it also contains part where they sing in Finnish :P More popular songs are “Warrior Soul” and “Kiuassault”.

Turmion Kätilöt - Vastanaineet

2 Times Terror - Ikävässä Paikassa (side project of Turmion Kätilöt)

Battle Beast - King For A Day

Egypt Central - White Rabbit

Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?, also Oops I Did It Again! is epic 😁

Lordi - Devil Is A Loser

Stargazer · Blood Stain Child

Korpiklaani - Tequila

Bring Me The Horizon ft. Babymetal - Kingslayer

Star-Lord band - Zero to Hero (from Guardians of the Galaxy game)

Just to be clear, never said that I used all of those. Just made quick list of most popular apps to use here :P If I had to guess, over 95% of people here just use WhatsApp.

They all have pretty much same functionality what traditional sms is missing.

And US still has very expensive data plans compared to Finland (I pay 21e/month for unlimited 200mbps data, calls, sms). That could also be one factor why SMS is still used there so much 🤔

For voice calls, most use regular phone calls here, it just works better (and VoLTE/VoWiFi is great addition to sound quality). Apps are only used when you are making video calls.

As for messages, it’s much easier to send images/videos via whatsapp/signal than it’s via SMS. + replies/reactions. Probably main reason why people use apps instead SMS (even while many/most of our plans include unlimited data/sms/calls). RCS added those features IIRC, but why switch to another solution while apps works just fine and most of people already are used to Whatsapp 🤷‍♂️

And most of the people here has Whatsapp installed, so usually you don’t have to guess what app to use :P

Just out of curiosity, how much people still use SMS? I can’t remember last time I sent SMS.

Here in Finland we use mainly Whatsapp, FB Messenger, Telegram or Signal for messaging. Almost no one I know has sent SMS in the last 10 years.

Custom ROM has high change to break Widevine DRM L1. And ex. Netflix has better streaming quality on L1 than it has on L3 (1080p vs 480p). At least this was the case few years ago.

And make fine based on income, not just static sum. Works well in Finland.

https://www.messenger.com/ also works (requires to be running as desktop version). Still not ideal but works.

Bonus negative points for games that only check DLC after that button press

Don’t forget games that have you manually press button to dismiss and unlocked DLC.

It’s very fun with games that you buy after few years and have hundred DLC (ex. fighting games) 😅

Usually takes few minutes of just button pressing to dismiss all new dlcs

toto_africa.mp3.exe

Additionally, you would have to uninstall and reinstall the app after you’re effectively out of beta.

Or wait until stable version has higher version number than beta and it should updated automatically.