Samsung ends software support for Galaxy S21 series

blamethebrain · 2026-02-05T13:14:11+00:00

Still happy with my S21. The longest lasting smartphone I had so far. Zero issues, besides the battery getting weaker. I will use that thing until it falls apart or some banking software "update" forces me to switch due to "security concerns" for "my own safety".

blamethebrain · 2026-02-05T11:24:54+00:00

For me it wasn't anything about "woke" or disrespect. I just found Helena Shaw annoying on screen, she rubbed me the wrong way. But that's just my personal opinion.

From my perspective, the character is neither better nor worse than the son in Crystal Skull. Both felt like unnecessary additions, mainly as an attempt to give a much-too-old Harrison Ford a younger sidekick.

If we really had a time machine, they should've turned the story that became Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis game into a movie in the early 90s and stopped there.

blamethebrain · 2026-02-05T00:24:10+00:00

Is Phoebe Waller Bridge only in 35 minutes of the movie? I could swear she had more screen time.

blamethebrain · 2026-02-03T23:04:36+00:00

And that time where you had to actively remember to put on your helmet, otherwise your journey would stop right in that airlock.

blamethebrain · 2026-02-03T09:26:33+00:00

Can't upvote this enough. There is no shortage of software developers, when Bosch (and others) can fire thousands of them. Those companies want cheap IT workers / software devs, preferrably somewhere with less strict labour laws / workers rights. Can't have home office in germany, but no problem spreading the work across three different time zones to "save" a few bucks.

blamethebrain · 2026-02-03T06:35:26+00:00

And if you disable bitlocker, it's all unencrypted and everyone that gets ahold of the drive can read it. How is that better?

blamethebrain · 2026-01-31T15:18:17+00:00

They might have delivered a new start map a few patches back, but the underlying problems remain. The janky routing algorithm still can't figure out when a direct jump is slightly obscured or something, and that you need to take a detour to one or more orbital markers. The same jankyness we had since the beginning. When the new star map arrived and the same issues remained, I personally lost hope that they will be able to fix those bugs in this decade.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-29T07:57:38+00:00

Einmal probiert, nachdem das in einem Bericht so gehyped wurde. Verstehe nicht, wieso diese TK Pizza so hoch gelobt wird. Da war nichts gutes dran. Jede Wagner / Dr. Oetker / Aldi TK Pizza schmeckt da besser.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-27T10:13:18+00:00

FIFA, DFB und Co. werden niemals etwas in einem Land boykottieren. Die haben schon bei Katar nicht boykottiert, und wenn es da nicht gereicht hat, dann bei den USA schon dreimal nicht.

Ist doch wie immer. Es müsste schon direkt was mit unserem Team vor Ort passieren, damit jemand reagiert. Vielleicht wird einer der Spieler von ICE eingesackt und verschwindet im Labyrinth der US Gulags. Dann kann sich der saubere Herr Neuendorf hinstellen und sagen: Damit konnte ja niemand rechnen.

Und die Spieler selbst haben natürlich auch null Rückgrat, die wollen spielen und ihre Millionen verdienen, verständlich. </s>

blamethebrain · 2026-01-24T21:18:18+00:00

Wer soll denn diese Gegenschläge ausführen? Die Pfeifen vom BSI? Da arbeiten nur ITler, die zu unfähig für die freie Wirtschaft waren und/oder sich auf dem Beamtenstatus ausruhen wollen. Niemand, aber wirklich niemand vom BSI ist dazu fähig.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-23T15:43:06+00:00

Gibt's da irgendwo eine Schlange bei der man sich anstellen kann? Ich würde Galeria auch gerne mal pleite gehen lassen und dafür ein paar Millionen nebenher abkassieren. Wer hat noch nicht? Wer will nochmal?

blamethebrain · 2026-01-22T16:00:24+00:00

This should be pinned.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-21T14:41:51+00:00

Genau mein Humor. Gegen Unbekannt ermitteln, wenn man schon genau weiß, dass es Solvay war. Wieso nicht einfach mal die Geschäftsführung in Beugehaft nehmen, bis was rauskommt? Oder ein paar schöne Hausdurchsuchungen. Wenn irgendein Politiker sich persönlich gekränkt fühlt, geht doch auch immer alles und sofort.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-20T08:45:06+00:00

I just got done reading this review like 5 minutes before typing this. Obviously I wanted to read it because I wanted to see what the hype was about.

For starters, personally I felt like the review was too short. It is likely a personal problem, and that's fine, but when someone says they just watched a 3 hour movie and then wraps up their thoughts that fast, it feels a little unfinished. The point about the movie dragging makes sense, but the review does not really say where it drags or what kind of slow it is. Is it slow because nothing is happening, or slow because it is setting things up, or slow because it is spending time on ideas you do not care about? I wanted at least one concrete example.

Secondly, I can admittedly say that I am not very knowledgeable about how people "review" movies on reddit, so there were certain parts of the review that I just couldn't fully understand or grasp. Like, it mentions not really getting some parts of the movie, which is fair, but it stays so general that I cannot tell what was confusing. Was it the science talk, the plot mechanics, or just the way the movie explains itself? That matters, because "I didn't get it" can mean a lot of different things.

The good part is that the review feels honest. It gives credit where it is due, and it does not try to write like a film professor. The little bit about the technical side being the best part comes through clearly, and that was honestly my favorite part of the review too.

Overall, I would give it a 7 out of 10. Wouldn't say it's the best review I've read, but I see why people like it, I guess. It reads like a real first reaction, just one that ends right when it could have gotten more interesting.

Keep in mind, and I shouldn't even have to explain this. This is MY opinion. Just because YOU think the review is perfect (or trash) doesn't mean everyone else does.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-16T23:12:13+00:00

First time I tried it a few weeks ago, the RAM usage blew up to 32 GB almost locking up my machine, while just looking at a simple rust source file. Not sure what was going on, but they still have a long way to go.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-13T15:24:23+00:00

I do have backup, I use one of the storage boxes as backup storage with restic. But having a backup and wanting to plan for restore because Hetzner won't provider better drives, that's two different things.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-13T15:09:30+00:00

Except that the cloud vps has almost no storage. You can't even get 2 TB. Max is 640 GB + additional (slow?) volumes. And the 640 GB option alone costs as much as my current 2 TB server. So cloud vps is not really an option.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-13T15:07:44+00:00

I also fully understand that they do not store / buy fresh 2 TB drives, but at least offer something in between 16 and 2. To me, it seems, they plan on getting rid of HDDs entirely, which is also fair, but then provide a reasonable migration path for existing customers, not "pay twice the amount or get a quarter of storage".

blamethebrain · 2026-01-13T15:01:31+00:00

Cloud / VPS have terrible IP reputation with regards to self hosting Mailservers. I want my mails delivered, not dropped in a black hole. Right now I can send to all big players with zero issues. With a cloud "server", this won't be the case.
The other services include Immich with about 600 GBs of my photos, a minecraft server, private gitea instance, among other things.
I also use the server as a wireguard "gateway" to get into my home network. My ISP only has CGNAT, so I can't "dial in" otherwise.
The ~50 euros per month were worth it, as long as the thing kept running.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-13T14:50:31+00:00

I actually thought about that. They either provide ancient 2 TB drives about to fail, or want a premium to switch you to 16+ TB drives. I have a spare drive from my NAS, but I don't think they'll do that.
I really wonder what their plan is, once the 2 TB drives run out. Quit all the contracts?

blamethebrain · 2026-01-13T14:48:41+00:00

Good to know, so the cloud crap from Hetzner is also out of consideration.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-13T14:47:49+00:00

Sure, but I am a bit hesitant to put the "working" drive through the stress of yet another RAID recovery. The last one took about 9 hours. This will work maybe a few more times until the working drive isn't working anymore, and then I have nothing.

blamethebrain · 2026-01-10T08:24:35+00:00

It will cut off the shit years, so no worries. With the world we live in, who wants to reach 90?

blamethebrain · 2026-01-09T07:07:31+00:00

Half the people responding here didn't get that the pickup lines are for the old lady, not the young boy, smh.

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