The Off Topic Topic

[Threviel]

Yeah, it's a shame that there's no real competitor to Samsung in the phone business. If only there was some high quality alternative...

[Josquius]

Yeah, it's a shame that there's no real competitor to Samsung in the phone business. If only there was some high quality alternative...

Alas there simply isn't.
I'm not sure if Sony are even in the game?

[Tamas]

Yeah, it's a shame that there's no real competitor to Samsung in the phone business. If only there was some high quality alternative...

Alas there simply isn't.
I'm not sure if Sony are even in the game?

I think he means Apple. Although my iPhone 5s's batter died after about 3-4 years and died hard.

My Honor 8X is still going fairly strong though.

[celedhring]

I've never paid over 200€ for a phone, I more or less replace them after 3 years which is when battery starts to die. My current Moto G6 is approaching that deadline.

Since I have a tablet I find myself doing less and less stuff on my phone outside of you know, phone stuff, so the incentive to get a more premium phone is even lower nowadays.

[Josquius]

I go several years between phones but usually get a generation or two behind what the latest and greatest is, seems the  best price to performance point. Though yeah, thinking to drop down away from the premium brands.
Phones really are a point of conspicuous consumption for poor people I found. See the latest and greatest iphone and its usually in the hands of someone who really can't afford it whilst CEOs and the like usually have pretty basic unspectacular several year old phones.

Yeah, it's a shame that there's no real competitor to Samsung in the phone business. If only there was some high quality alternative...

Alas there simply isn't.
I'm not sure if Sony are even in the game?

I think he means Apple. Although my iPhone 5s's batter died after about 3-4 years and died hard.

My Honor 8X is still going fairly strong though.

Apple have all the problems of Samsung ^2.

My partner got one by oppo at xmas, sub-£200 IIRC, and it does seem very nice...

[The Brain]

Doesn't Samsung provide a waifu now?

[The Larch]

Since I have a tablet I find myself doing less and less stuff on my phone outside of you know, phone stuff, so the incentive to get a more premium phone is even lower nowadays.

Same. Since I have a tablet my phone use has gone down dramatically, so I have the feeling that my current phone will last quite a bit.

[Eddie Teach]

Doesn't Samsung provide a waifu now?

She's 17!

[Agelastus]

...With this phone I know for instance my charging port seems itself seems borked with a permanent moisture detected message.

I've double-checked (because I can never remember when Samsung temporarily went off the rails and briefly used a charging port arrangement that could only be replaced by soldering) but it looks like the S9 charging port is just one you screw in/clip in.

I agree it may not be worth replacing it though on something as old as the S9; I certainly wouldn't spend the £178.00 that Wefix would charge you for doing both repairs.

[Sheilbh]

Fuck. Huge fireball explosion at train station near me - Elephant and Castle. Looks really bad, initial reports are it was the auto repair shop.

The arches around the train shop have loads of Colombian cafes and shops.

Hope everyone around there are okay. It looks really bad

[Syt]

[Sheilbh]

Footage of at least one of the explosions:
https://twitter.com/LondonFire/status/1409507279351779336?s=20

Given the location - that is definitely an auto repair shop, I know exactly where that is on that road.

Apparently under control but it looked pretty bad earlier today:


All the roads round there are closed and given that it was under a railway arch I imagine there'll be a fair bit of work to make sure it's safe before the railway lines re-open. But early reports are that there's not many casualties which is very good news and luckily it's not the line/station itself which I imagine would be a bit more likely to spread than a fire in a railway arch.

[Jacob]

Hoping that few people were hurt, given the circumstances

Any indication about the cause?

[Sheilbh]

No - I think they've said there's no indications of terrorism, but nothing beyond that.

Given that it looks like the fire and the explosions were in an auto-repair shop my guess is there was an accident that started a fire and then the cars in the shop exploded.

[Josquius]

Doesn't seem to be trending too in the news so fingers crossed.