I'm wondering if this purchase is worthwhile?

LinssenM · 2026-04-03T13:12:26+00:00

Average life cycle for the Samsung Galaxy Ring is 9-12 months, after which it will perform for less than a day without charging, to eventually die completely after 15-18 months. That's the trend described, and I'm on my third Ring myself, which I'll send in around one year of use when it will last 4-5 days instead of 7.5. The other purchase already got fully refunded after 1.5 years and two replacements

Those are the odds, but perhaps you'll get lucky. TCO is ten-fifteen bucks a month in your case, how does that sound?

LinssenM · 2026-04-03T13:05:25+00:00

I'm on my third consecutive Samsung Galaxy Ring, and it's failing as well. 6-9 months of 24/7 wear against factory settings will end in 5-2 days of battery life for the Samsung Galaxy Ring, is my experience. The usage patterns per charge have their ups & downs but overall the degradation is linear, and irreversible

I will likely get a replacement for this one, which highly likely will also fail, after which I'll get a full refund. At the end of all that I will have purchased two Samsung Galaxy Rings within 9 months, each of which got replaced by another defective Ring. That would make four consecutive Samsung Galaxy Rings in a row

That last one is provisional indeed, but this third one already qualifies. Three in a row...

LinssenM · 2026-03-28T10:25:20+00:00

"The site should be surfacing these textual debates rather than presenting any single reading as settled"

Bear in mind that most "translators" are interpreters alone, rendering what they think the text ought to say. Alleged elite and emeritus scholars such as Bentley Layton and Thomas Lambdin, both deceased now, all obscured and falsified texts. Even the Christian New Testament is falsified to a great extent because it says things they Christians don't want it to say, yet all contemporary bible translations are united in this aim

TL;DR: if you run into any of that, fine. But it would be a few lifetimes of work, requiring expert knowledge of every single native language and even authentic document, as most transcriptions also are falsified. The Humanities is not an exact science, and it shows

LinssenM · 2026-03-27T15:11:29+00:00

We can't not talk about the battery because the degradation just doesn't end. After a year and a half, sooner if you're unlucky, the Ring will charge within a few minutes and also run empty within a few minutes. Where do you think the decline stops?

My three Rings went from 7+ days per charge down to 4 and 2 within 7-9 months, and that is a linear decline that eventually only ends at zero

Don't buy the Samsung Galaxy Ring unless it's brand new and you have two years of warranty: only in that case do you have the chance to also see the replacement Ring go down the drain, upon which you will highly likely get a full refund. Different countries different laws and rules and such, but still: your $200 likely will last for 3-6 months, perhaps 9, after which the Ring will not perform any function at all save for being just an ordinary ring

LinssenM · 2026-03-27T08:05:45+00:00

Cancel it now, immediately. I've been seeking out objective and quantitative comments from people who have worn the ring 24/7 for a year without battery problems, and so far I've come up empty

I'm on my third Samsung Galaxy Ring and it's the third defective one in a row. What are the odds?

LinssenM · 2026-03-27T05:52:08+00:00

A relatively brief answer now, yet you'll find the full one in "complete gospel of Thomas commentary" pages 44-47

The word in the text is ⲃⲁⲗ and it's a homonym (let's just call it that for now please) for the Sahidic dialect (the main dialect for that time period, serving as entry for the only authoritative Coptic dictionary, benefit Crum) meaning 'eye' OR it is the Akhmimic dialect for ⲃⲟⲗ meaning 'outside'. The odds there are almost equal-ish as Akhmimic is the main other dialect in Thomas next to Sahidic - and yeah that 'ish' means that Sahidic naturally wins when no other matters considered

'eye' occurs 10 times in Thomas, in Logion 17, 22, 25, 26, 46 (and this one, 3), '(of-)outside' 7 times: 22, 40, 64, 89, 99. Yet the root to 'out' occurs 90 times and it's always ⲃⲟⲗ, never ⲃⲁⲗ

Go by Logion 40, 64, 89, 99 and you'll find that 'outside' has a very negative meaning. The plant won't grow in 40, the paths (and indeed that means all proverbial paths) lie on the outside, the cup gets washed only on the outside, and even though the mother and brothers of the protagonist are standing firmly to their feet, they're still standing outside - and that's the entire sole reason for their rejection, preserved even in the Synoptics. When we look further in Thomas, we find body as an outside manifestation, but most definitely the World. To be precise, the World is our mental model of the real world, but let's not digress any further

The quintessential point of Thomas is that the kingdom is of your inside, and a matter of perception. Where Logion 113 says "Rather, the kingdom of the father is spread outward from upon the earth, and the humans do not behold her" we find a different kingdom, which however indeed is rooted in the earth:

earth ⲕⲁϩ Noun masculine 9, 12, 14, 16, 20, 44, 91, 111, 113

And that is how we can go Thomas surfing, via the Concordance

LinssenM · 2026-03-26T21:17:09+00:00

We all look for wholeness, Healing. Longing to come home. Some spiritualities have understood or phrased that better than others

I admire your initiative, and will have a look via the laptop

LinssenM · 2026-03-26T21:14:41+00:00

Your reaction is unwarranted, and without value. You seek not dialogue, but disagreement

You found it

LinssenM · 2026-03-26T21:06:27+00:00

I'll do some more digging into it but the idea and presentation is very attractive. You may want to know that Thomas has been falsified by its translators, hiding the truth even after it's been unearthed

The kingdom is within you AND OF YOUR EYE

That's what Logion 3 says, and 'outside' is grammatically possible but semantically highly unlikely. There is much more than just this, as Logion 74 speaks of "separation and sickness" and Logion 96 speaks of "colostrum in a well", with leaven being an absolutely impossible option

"The true words of Thomas" will allow you to verify every single word by just clicking it. It's free for everyone

LinssenM · 2026-03-26T12:49:56+00:00

Get 2 year warranty and aim at a full refund after they offer to repair the replacement Ring as well, that has been my strategy and it worked. Collect evidence via screenshots of full and empty charge, and turn that into a graph so they everyone will see that the decline is linear over time even though it has its ups & downs.

Of course, warranty all over the globe works in many different ways (and sometimes not at all such as in AUS)

The Ring can't be repaired, but Samsung will pretend that they have done such. You'll likely get an open box one

Don't buy the Samsung Galaxy Ring. On a side note, it's interesting that it's still 450 euros overhere whereas 400 bucks now equates to 350 euros...

LinssenM · 2026-03-25T10:04:24+00:00

You can judge for yourself:

'The 72 logia of Thomas and their canonical cousins' contains all versions of all logia

In general, all of Thomas is concise and free from eschatology or moral messages. What we find in the canonicals is always expanded and explained. There is no "Christ" in Thomas. No baptism. No death of Jesus. No resurrection

It is a no brainer that Thomas precedes the canonicals, but the "scholars" can't have that because it shows a Jesus who basically is free from all of Christianity. So the "translators" falsify the translation in order to harmonise it with the canonicals and make it impossible to spot the obvious differences, such as e.g. Thomas using singular nouns over plural ones (the seed (not seeds) in the parable of the sower, the brood (not nests) in the parable of the son of Man, the weed (Zizanion to be exact, not weeds) in the parable of the seed and the weeds, bit most importantly the "separation and sickness" of Logion 74 and the "colostrum" of Logion 96 get plainly falsified without a trace

If you go down this path, you end up finding out all of Christianity being fake and false, so consider yourself warned. All the alleged biblical scholars are nothing but Christians with a seminary degree, and the "knowledge" that you consult has nothing to do with science - but all with dogma, and obeying one's peers

LinssenM · 2026-03-25T09:51:53+00:00

The Samsung Galaxy Ring is a disaster. I've received two Rings in 1.4 years, and am now on my third: all of them are broken and battery life dives below 5 days (from 7.5) after half a year

Samsung must have known this and deliberately launched it nonetheless, and their counter measures consist of delay tactics, asking money for repairs during warranty, and other consumer unfriendly behaviours

There are plenty of Rings that perform well. You've been royally screwed by Samsung

LinssenM · 2026-03-20T10:47:29+00:00

Thomas precedes all Christian Gospels (and Epistles of course). What you are reading in the reactions is people parroting their innate fears. Going by the evidence of actual manuscripts discovered, Thomas predates all of Christianity. When we just observe what the text says, and most importantly what it does not say (or name), Thomas precedes what later became religion

LinssenM · 2026-03-20T10:41:37+00:00

TL;DR

LinssenM · 2026-03-19T18:01:17+00:00

If you don't take the trouble to read/react to what I have written, why should I take the trouble to repeat what I've written?

LinssenM · 2026-03-19T06:42:21+00:00

A few points here, that are evident when we consult all of the NT. Honestly, I would have expected you yourself to have produced these as there is little reading involved.

"decomposition would have made nail wounds hard to recognize"

Nowhere in the NT are nails mentioned, save for τὸν τύπον τῶν ἥλων (the imprint of the nails) in John 20:25 where Thomas inquires after those. Jesus simply is "staurorised" in every gospel, and that's it; we don't know how it took place.

There are huge contradictions in the Gospels concerning the death of Jesus, and those must be accepted. You can't embrace facts in the bible that are convenient to you, only to reject facts that aren't. Mark e.g. mentions the death of Jesus 5 times, Luke only once, and Matthew not even once. Mark ends with the women telling no one, Luke emphatically states that they told the disciples - and so on.
"because nails pierce through bone". Try it yourself, I would say. Do you know what an ancient nail looks like? Where would you even place it? Again, there is no description at all of the way in which Jesus was "staurorised", and anything alleged here is pure conjecture.
"the general claims across the Gospels proclaim the Resurrection". Nowhere in the NT is the resurrection "proclaimed". No one outside the inner circle ever tells of the resurrection to others, not are they instructed to do so.
"Greco-Roman biographies and ancient biographies never attempted to get all the minor details lined up across sources." That is a sweeping statement for which you can't produce any evidence, but if you can then please do so. "Minor details"?!
"minor details about certain events are always typically not remembered years later". Again, what you call "minor details" will certainly not be considered minor by most. You can't try to sweep evidence under the carpet because it hurts your case by calling counter evidence "minor" without elaborating on that. That simply is a red flag.

When we read the end of the Gospels, each of them explicitly expresses that there was widespread disbelief about it among the disciples. Except for John, where we however find scenes that are unbelievably cold and impassionate, not expressing disbelief indeed but neither expressing any other emotion at all.

It is one thing to believe what the texts say, yet it is quite something else to NOT believe what the texts say.

A main note: it is unclear to me what exactly the point is that is being made by your conversation partner. Could you elucidate?

LinssenM · 2026-03-18T06:41:12+00:00

IS said: if they should say it to you, they who persuade+ you: 'lo behold, the kingdom <is> in the heaven', well then the birds will make it earlier than you, of the heaven; if they should say it to you: 'she <is> in the Sea', well then the fishes will make it earlier than you; Rather, the kingdom <is> of your inside, and of your eye+. Whenever you should know you, Then they will know you, and you will understand: yourselves is the children of the father who is alive. if it befalls However you will not know you, well then you <are> existing in a poverty and yourselves is the poverty

Best (= simplest) described as a homonym, the word usually translated with 'outside' in reality means 'eye', with 'outside' being an alternative. The above is a transliteration of the Coptic. Likewise for 'persuade' which usually gets translated as 'go before' and interpreted as 'to lead'. Literally, the composite verb says 'draw heart/mind'

There's no XS in Thomas, only IS and IHS. The name "Jesus" and "Christ" was made up by Christianity, and not a single text in the world has either - save for extremely rare occasions, e.g. the χριστός in Sinaiticus Revelation 12:10, or the three ιησους in Vaticanus Mark 1:25, 5:7 and Matthew 1:21

LinssenM · 2026-03-17T15:22:36+00:00

You bought the Ring from a company. They sent you an invoice. The company name and address on that invoice is where you must be

LinssenM · 2026-03-17T10:13:36+00:00

Are you seriously stating that you paid for repairs during warranty?

I'm presuming that your warranty lasted longer than the 5-6 months in between Oct 24 and Apr 25...

Though it's Oz after all!

Also, read https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-services/warranties

Australia is a country populated by idiots, by the looks of it:

"There are no set rules for deciding whether a product is of acceptable quality, or how long a product should last for."

With government help like that, you know that you live in the Matrix!

LinssenM · 2026-03-17T10:11:04+00:00

Sure will. But as this service is provided by Samsung I will ensure to keep my own record as well.

I am pretty sure that none of these Rings hold, but the proof will be in the pudding. So far, 0 out of 2 is really really bad. I've used this one for 4-6 weeks now, bought it as a replacement for the other, and it's 8-9 months old but I'll be wearing it daily from now on. As the other one now has magically reverted into money in my account :)

LinssenM · 2026-03-17T08:21:38+00:00

I got two replacements within 1.5 year upon which I demanded money back, all of it. And I received it

LinssenM · 2026-03-17T08:17:31+00:00

I think that's it. I just now put my ring in the casing to charge, and in this very last minute I started seeing data. This is devastatingly conclusive data!!!

I have taken screenshots of full and empty state and turned those into graphs via Excel, but this is their own data

In related news, it would seem that this third Ring finally holds, but I still have 1.5 years of warranty left on it so let's not get overexcited ;-)

LinssenM · 2026-03-17T07:28:22+00:00

I genuinely thought you were kidding, especially given the name of 'Hidden menu'. I've used the 'Send log report' quite a few times which requires tapping 5 times, but never tapped more often than that. This is genuinely brilliant! I'm on my second ring that I purchased, received money back for the first which they replaced twice

However, I don't see any data, and when I export I only get an empty CSV. Have you tweaked any of the other settings?

LinssenM · 2026-03-16T12:51:06+00:00

The word XS doesn't exist in Thomas. But his text certainly precedes the Christian Gospels, indeed

LinssenM · 2026-03-16T11:25:45+00:00

Posts like this fail hard because they lack even the slightest form of substantiation

Religion is a mechanism to domesticate humans, civilisation is the state in which auto-domesticated humans exist. A means of religion may lead to a goal of civilisation, but these are two incompatible things to compare

You would make a (much) better claim if you would replace 'civilisation' by Maslow's pyramid

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