I’m not sure if the same can be said for the 7a, but a close friend of mine was having awful battery experiences on his 7. I saw a lot of people saying their battery was vastly improved on the Android 14 Beta so I told him to try it and he’s said it’s a night and day difference. May be worth a shot.

For me, it depends on the website.

Twitter to Mastodon is easy. I’ve never understood short form text social media. I never made a Twitter account but I have a Mastodon account so I guess that says something. But I still don’t use it.

Instagram to Pixelfed has been a hard sell. I enjoy photography but have hated Meta. I hated Instagram and ended up making one just because it’s the only real active community, even though it’s compression, resolution, and aspect ratio garbage are all awful for actual photography. I’ve tried 500px, Flickr, Vero, and a bunch of others and they all have problems. Pixelfeds UI and community just both aren’t great so I can’t buy in yet. And I’m not even using Instagram much these days anyway.

Does YouTube count? I don’t comment/post much, but I have very little faith in PeerTube or any of the others ever gaining reasonable traction. So many other attempts at this have failed and the content is too important.

Reddit to Lemmy has been a mix. I completely axed Reddit apps and don’t check it daily and instead use Lemmy. Been having a hard time filling the content void. And when I want hive mind type feedback on obscure things / recommendations / tech problems, you just can’t beat reddits 15 year history of content and opinions. But I am actively posting/browsing on Lemmy instead.

The official one doesn’t. I’ve used a couple others that didn’t.

Ahh, that’s where that went… I couldn’t find it in my apps and figured I’d removed it.

There are a slew of Android TV remote apps that do all this and more, like including home/back buttons, integrated search etc. They also pair easier. The first party Google TV app covers this smoother than a BT keyboard/mouse app.

IMO the thing is that people don’t care about their privacy. Sure, some people around here do, but your average person owns an Alexa, has a FB/Instagram account and constantly posts their location, uses the same password on many sites, uses TikTok, doesn’t block cookies, etc etc etc.

Most people don’t actually care. Some claim they do, but then can’t even be bothered to stop using Instagram etc because of the “inconvenience”… So do they really care?

Some companies (Apple, etc) push their products under a narrative around safety and security, and people will repeat that point as a way to justify a decision they already made, but if they actually cared, they would be doing other things too. But they don’t.

The number of us who do actually care about privacy and security is actually very small.

My point is these are just making you feel better at best. Even a perfectly efficient split system running off a perfectly efficient power source which was manufactured out of thin air without having any effect on climate change is still moving heat around. None of these address the core problem with the climate. Even at perfect efficiency they’re just building you a small bubble to feel better in.

Or, put another way, this is the coldest summer in the entire remainder of your life.

Together we can fight at least 1% of the carbon emissions from top 100 corporations in the world :)

I wish our choices had a 1% impact… That seems extremely generous.

Aircon plus solar panels for the win? Other than the initial manufacturing cost, it’s a fairly good solution.

Can’t tell if you’re thinking this is anything more than an emergency stopgap for people that can’t bear living in their home, but… All A/C does is spend energy to move the heat back outside, and also produce some more heat on the side. So it isn’t a sustainable solution or fix, even if your energy generation is somehow perfect.

And swamp boxes are basically just a fan with extra steps that puts a miniscule amount of heat into the water. They feel a tiny bit better, but they’re not really fixing anything either. That warm water still needs to go somewhere etc.

If this is actually their thinking, why even bother with the Fediverse at that point?

Literally from the “debunking” article you posted:

The only thing they may be good for is that studies have shown the blue light can interfere with our bodies’ light cycle

Googles already been doing this for years.

Pretty sure this is root only. Normal apps don’t have access to the charge controller and I’ve never seen an app that claims to do this without root.

I don’t know why Google hasn’t put this feature directly into Android. It’s honestly one of the biggest pushes away from Pixel devices for me and it’s absolutely silly.

Honestly, this is more bad “charging hygiene” than anything else. I thought this was the case too until like 10 years ago when I learned how Li-on batteries worked, and since then, I’ve had negligible battery deterioration after 3+ year old devices.

The TLDR is don’t charge your phone past ~80% except on rare days you need the extra juice, and by extension, definitely don’t leave your phone on the charger overnight. Most people do exactly that and it absolutely murders your battery health.

If you’re on Android, AccuBattery is helpful with charge alarms and detailed info if you want to learn about it.

If you have a Samsung with the “protect battery” quick option, it’s a god send and makes this all super easy.

Foldables are the only interesting thing to have happened to smartphones in the past like 6-8 years. It’s kind of sad.

As long as the paper is not easy to access then in all ways this is better then software.

You have to log into a website. Enter the password from the sheet of paper. Now log in again with a password manager that has autofill.

Paper is not better in “all ways” and that’s why this thread is being downvoted.