This is not a Samsung issue. Your carrier is doing this because you have a carrier locked phone. To prevent it, buy a carrier unlocked phone and it won’t happen.
As long as the difference is $2000 for an unbranded phone vs $20 for a carrier version, I’ll keep putting up with the bullshit (or rather installing a custom ROM). But you are absolutely right. This is mostly a carrier thing. Though of the two times I got an unbranded phone, one of them was the Galaxy 4, and it still had bullshit I couldn’t get rid of or didn’t want. It also was one of the hardest to install custom firmware to. I would never buy a Samsung phone carrier branded or not.
I have a Samsung phone atm (never been loyal to a brand before…I’m always hopping around), and it doesn’t have anything too weird on it.
One minor annoyance is Samsung’s insistence on having their own version of an app for everything…so I have two messaging apps, two file browser apps, two photo gallery apps. At least you can simply disable or hide apps you don’t use.
I will say every phone brand has their own flavor of custom apps they decide to pre-load the phone with. Some just have more than others. I don’t know if any phone brands nowadays have truly and completely stock android on them. Google used to AFAIK, but I think even they have their own custom shit too nowadays.
They're close enough to the wall that it looks like you could probably screw some kind of hook or support to the wall to hold the controller itself, and still loop the cord above for aesthetics (but no weight on it)
Tortoises are the best. And English sucks for not using “sea turtle” and “land turtle” like plenty of the Germanic languages because turtle is a better word than tortoise.
"In other words, the lost storage in the case of a 512GB S23 would be around 35GB after subtracting 477 (the actual available capacity) from 512 (the total advertised), while the actual One UI installation size of S23 Ultra comes out to around 22GB when we deduct this 35GB from the 57GB reported in the original article."
Its neater than my rats nest of a rack that was neat when I built it then a year of changes and additions have resulted in something more resembling something lovecraftian.
This is so cool, I’m so uninformed about Plex. I just heard about it on r/Piracy days before the Reddit shutdown. I’m getting ready to sit down and learn how to do all that, the hardware will baffle me I’m sure.
I recommend Jellyfin as well. Open source, local accounts, and no features locked behind a pass. The Jellyfin TV clients are a little more bare bones but the server software itself is pretty much equal nowadays. I have the lifetime Plex Pass but I have moved away from Plex completely now after the direction they’ve been heading in the last couple of years.
Same, I migrated from Plex to Jellyfin about a year ago. It’s just as solid without any of the bloat, local authentication just in case the internet goes down, and transcoding isn’t locked behind a membership.
Is there a master guide for Jellyfin setup from hardware to software? I am having trouble finding something as a server novice who wants to set it all up for my home.
I just set up jellyfin last week. I am using a refurbished Dell optiplex 3050 micro running Ubuntu as server. I followed instructions on jellyfin documentation for installation. It was super easy, I was done in few hours.
I also used TecHuts Ultimate Jellyfin Media Server Guide for reference. Jellyfin have updated the installation process, so instructions on the video is slightly outdated. 1 command installs everything.
To just get started I’d take a trip to your local thrift store. Some decent old PC tower and a large harddrive is more than enough to get started, play around and get it working. Opt for an intel CPU with “quicksync” if you can as it will do hardware trans coding without a dedicated GPU (like I have).
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