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A thread by @Reddit_refugee7834@lemmy.today (cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/3507919 )

This is a guide to a longer lasting Android device, from choosing one to how to preserve the life of the one that you have.

Choosing a long-lasting and repair friendly phone:

To get the best shot at longevity, start with a high quality device from a manufacture with a history of long term device support, and one that regularly releases there modifications to the kernel source code. A device that has an unlockable bootloader (XDA developers Forums is a good place to see about ROM support), and is user repairable (See iFixit's Smartphone Repairability Scores) will allow you to keep the software & hardware going the longest. Both the Google Pixels, and Fairphone's line are a good place to start.

Before you use your phone

• Use a good sturdy case like an Otterbox
• Apply a liquid “screen protector” then a screen protector on top, Sapphire being the best (but very expensive).

Battery

Lithium-ion (LI-on) battery's wear out faster when near the upper and lower charge levels (read why here: Battery University, so avoid charging or discarding the battery fully, aiming for around 20~80% is a good target.

Charging

• Avoid fast & wireless charging. (to reduce the heat the battery endures)
• Use a magnetic charging cable to reduce the wear on the plug (Like Volta), you need a bulky case to have it flush to not make the phone uncomfortable to hold though. 
• When/If you use a regular charging cable don't move the phone when it's plugged in, movement wears the plug much sooner.

Use a charge limiting feature. (Listed in order of recommendation.)

1. If your phone has a built Smart battery charge management feature, use that.
2. If you have Root use ACCA(a GUI for ACC) (recommended, automatic)
3. Buy a cut off switch, like a Chargie by Lighty Electronics that's has an app to auto cut off power based on power draw or charge level. Note that in The newest Android versions restricts the APP from auto enabling Bluetooth, making this a bit of a meh solution. Using an Automation APP like Tasker to turn off a Home Assistant-controlled smart plug when the battery exceeds a reprogramming threshold might be a more reliable method. 
4. Download an APP that alerts you at charge levels, (AccuBattery, Battery Guru: Monitor & Health, etc.

Waking & Locking the screen

Try to avoid using the power button, as it's a common fail point

To wake 

 1. Use the features "Lift to check phone/events" and "Double-Tap to check phone"

 2. Use the fingerprint reader to wake and unlock.   

To lock/turn off the screen  

 1. Use a launcher that support double tapping the home screen to lock it (Nova launcher, Smart launcher, etc.)

 2. Use Googles Quick Tap feature if you have a Pixel or the APP Tap, Tap for any Android to lock the screen. (Note: battery life might suffer)  

 3. Use a short Screen Time out.

TIPS

• Get a new case to get a fresh look and feel when your tired of the one you have

A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told Insider on Tuesday that its soldiers found the decapitated corpses of babies at Kfar Aza, a kibbutz near Gaza.

The spokesperson, Major Nir Dinar, did not say how many babies' bodies had been found, nor how many had been beheaded.

Insider was unable to independently confirm what was found, but Israeli media outlets have also reported the claim, attributing it to soldiers.

The spokesperson told Insider that although he hadn't seen images or videos himself, "soldiers on the ground who are there told me this."

"These people [Hamas] are animals," Dinar added. "They have butchered women and children in worse ways than ISIS."

Reports started to emerge on Tuesday that Israeli soldiers had made the grisly discoveries at the self-sustaining rural community near Gaza.

A later statement from Dinar said: "We can not confirm any numbers. What happened in Kibbutz Kfar Aza is a massacre in which women children, toddlers and elderly were brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action."

Israeli officials appeared to confirm the beheadings, with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant telling soldiers "whoever comes here to decapitate – we will wipe out," according to a screenshot from Israeli news outlet N12 shared and translated on X.

The kibbutz was attacked by Hamas militants on Saturday, with fighting continuing there into Sunday. Hamas targeted multiple kibbutzim near the border with Gaza after the militants broke through the gate separating the territory from Israel.

Nicole Zedek, reporting for the Israeli news station, i24News, said: "Babies, their heads cut off, that's what they [the soldiers] said."

Speaking from Kfar Aza, she added: "You can see some of these soldiers right now, comforting each other."

In another clip, shared on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Zedek said a commander told her there, "about 40 babies, at least, were taken out on gurneys."

In a third i24News clip shared on X, an Israeli soldier at the kibbutz said Hamas is "very bad," adding that "they cut heads of children, cut heads off women."

CNN's Nic Robertson, also on the ground at Kfar Aza, reported on the scene as dead bodies were being collected and counted.

"There were so many murdered members of this kibbutz," he said. "Men, women, children, hands bound, shot, executed, heads cut."

According to the Israeli embassy in the US, at least 1,000 Israelis, most of them civilians, had been killed as of Tuesday.

Reports and videos of Hamas kidnapping Israelis and holding them hostage in Gaza have also emerged since Saturday's attack. Israeli officials have notified at least 50 families that their loved ones are being held by Hamas.

Hamas, in response, threatened that it would publicly execute one Israeli hostage every time Israel strikes Gaza without warning.

Israel's retaliatory airstrikes have also killed at least 830 people in Gaza, The Washington Post reported, citing the Health Ministry in Gaza.

The death toll includes at least 140 children, according to the latest update from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which was posted Monday.

Israel has announced a full "siege" in Gaza, eliminating supplies and cutting off electricity for civilians living there.

(unpaywalled version on archive.today: https://archive.ph/03cwZ)

Interesting figure that comes out of the article: 87% of US teens prefer iPhones. Also the explanations given aren't quite surprising, I guess it's mostly because of iMessage. Teens will feel like outcasts if they get an Android phone while their friends still use iMessage because of the green bubbles.

It's actually hilarious how we allowed consumerism to take us this far and that we have now peer pressure over smartphones.

“You’re telling me in 2023, you still have a ’Droid? [...] You gotta be at least 50 years old.”

ouch 😔

This is about Benjamin Grimmer's paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06324 where he proves under certain conditions that large steps lead to faster convergence.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/811496

Huge news for AMD fans and those who are hoping to see a real* open alternative to CUDA that isn't OpenCL!

*: Intel doesn't count, they still have to get their shit together in rendering things correctly with their GPUs.

We plan to expand ROCm support from the currently supported AMD RDNA 2 workstation GPUs: the Radeon Pro v620 and w6800 to select AMD RDNA 3 workstation and consumer GPUs. Formal support for RDNA 3-based GPUs on Linux is planned to begin rolling out this fall, starting with the 48GB Radeon PRO W7900 and the 24GB Radeon RX 7900 XTX, with additional cards and expanded capabilities to be released over time.

Veloren 0.15 is releasing on 2023-07-01 at 18:00 UTC! Come and join the release party on the main game server, and explore the handcrafted Land of the Dragons to find all its secrets!

and another commercially viable open-source LLM!