Samsung Galaxy S24+

I have a S24+ and Anubis often runs poorly for me and fails. I tend to frequent tech related sites so browsing on my phone has been miserable the last couple months. I checked the value of navigator.hardwareConcurrency on my phone and it returns 9... I guess that explains it. It looks like setting light performance mode in device optimisations (I don't game on my phone) turns off the S24s sole Cortex-X4.

I'm generally annoyed with the amount of processing going on in modern phone cameras, they often take pictures that "look fine" on the screen, until you zoom in to native resolution and discovered most of it is some fever-dream of approximations, it's amazing that we (people) are accepting this.. Lots of fine memories degraded by cheating cameras.. It's annoying especially because at a glance, the pictures taken by my S24+ look just fine, and it sometimes makes me not pull out the aging DSLR.. but then when I get the pictures onto my PC and want to actually look at them.. I always regret my mistake.. Even a 10 year old DSLR on automatic no-flash mode kicks its butt so bad it's not even a comparison..

I just this weekend """upgraded""" from an S9+ to an S24+, losing the 3.5mm jack, but not without the exact sentiment of the author. I looked at every possible option to retain my jack, but ultimately found myself forced into either a new Samsung or Pixel due to their commitment to an actually reasonable-ish update lifetime promise of 7-ish years. (I'd really expect 10 at this point, but c'est la vie). I upgraded ONLY because I'm uncomfortable not having security updates/patches. Otherwise, frankly, I can't even tell the difference. Upon quick tests, I think I even prefer the camera on my S9+. I absolutely, passionately hate Bluetooth. I hate not being able to share the jack in the car. I hate spotty connections. I hate needing a dongle. I hate the subtle loss of high end frequency content's quality. I hate the pain in the ass of pairing. 3.5mm had its share of problems, but this was a cartel making a cash grab and I am absolutely livid I have to play the game. I've ran a poll in a lot of the tech group chat's I'm in multiple times. Over 40%, each time, is willing to pay $50 more to have the jack back. The manufactures know this, but know it pales in comparison to the profit of some new bluetooth headphones. We don't need monoplolies to negatively impact tech, just a few big players to intentionally normalize boning their own customers. We need consumer protection laws that reflect that normal.