Oh! I quite like that change. I guess it’s similar to apple in that it’s separatated notofocations from quick settings, but doesn’t apple have a swipe up and swipe down? Or is it double pressing the home button? I haven’t held an iPhone in many years now, so i can’t remember. But how you access the two menus is different. I dont think an apple user who tried android for the first time would intuitively know how to access the two menus. So i wouldn’t say samsung had copied apple. Rather, they have been influenced by the idea. Plus, i believe stock android has this as an option in versions 15 and 16

That aside. You can go into your settings and swap back to the old notification shade.

That’s pretty cool! i never had the S5. Looks like a good solution. It looks like it would work on a lot of phones today.

Although, i think there are design changes to consider on newer phones with more powerful hardware. I believe they contain empty space that is there to aid with cooling the phone so the solid body of the S5 shown in the link might not work, meaning there would need to be a specific cut out space for the gasket to seal against.

I appreciate that its probably not the most challenging problem to overcome, and i would very much appreciate companies spending more money on solving the issue. But i don’t think its a “one size fits all” solution in a world of vastly differing design choices, folding phones and modular phones.

Having said all that, i would much prefer for there to be less makes and models of phone and for the focus to be on designing something that won’t be useless in 5 years. It should all be about longevity and reducing e waste.

Isnt the problem with a swappable battery, like you describe, that the phone will lose its waterproofing?

Dont get me wrong, i dont think they should be welded to the internals like they are these days, they should be easily removable, but getting into the phone shouldsnt be super simple unless they find a decent way to waterproof a removable back plate.

I dont keep up with apple products anymore, what did samsung do to mimic them in one UI 7? I thought they just added a couple of nothing features from stock android.

Do your access rules work in both directions? Do you have any strange routing going on? Do you need to configure a static route for the returning traffic?

Sorry, knowing very little about your setup means i can only suggest vague possibilities based on networks i work with.

HDD for long term storage. More reliable, has a higher number (essentially infinite assuming the drive never fails) of read/writes before failing. Cheaper and higher capacity than any ssd or m.2. Also if you dont keep applying a small electrical charge to an m.2 they eventually lose the data. HDD doesnt really lose data as easily. Also data recovery is easier with HDD. Finally you know when a HDD is on its way out as it will show slower write speeds and become noisier etc.

I used to work in a service desk looking after maybe… 4000 desktops and 2000 laptops for a hospital and the amount of ssd and m.2 failures we had was very costly.

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