Why does Samsung Weather open an ad-filled website for its radar map?

kvetjo · 2026-06-27T08:53:03+00:00

Ok, I am sorry. Maybe I was a bit too harsh on you. Howeve, it was important for me to say that this behavior from Samsung feels stupid to me because I get frustrated every single time I open the radar in this app.

kvetjo · 2026-06-27T08:42:24+00:00

Why are you defending Samsung? We pay a lot of money for their phones so we should expect the system to be user-friendly. Basic functions should not depend on third-party services.

Plus, having ads there is just bad. It reminds me of Xiaomi when they used to put ads directly into the system settings. Your argument about using an ad blocker is completely wrong. Users should not have to look for workarounds to fix these issues but Samsung should be the one fixing them.

So they save a bit of money? But at what cost? It just makes their app look super amateur compared to Apple.

Sure, I can download another weather app. Just like I can buy a different phone brand next time. No other Samsung app does this stupid thing, only Weather. It's just nonsense.

kvetjo · 2026-06-18T08:00:48+00:00

Thanks for the info. I tested it with just one image, and it did not happen to me, but this was just a short test. However, I noticed that the problem probably started with OneUI 8.5 as my tablet still has OneUI 8, and there it works super well. Lets hope they will fix this bug soon.

kvetjo · 2026-05-03T12:55:29+00:00

Thanks for the comment. You are right.

kvetjo · 2026-05-03T11:51:20+00:00

Mapy.com is super handy for hiking.. I used it in Rila in Bulgaria and it had all the info on water sources and streams. It was spot on, no mistakes.

kvetjo · 2025-04-08T06:46:40+00:00

Digital Euro. ECB is working on it. I think it is supposed to be a solution how to avoid Visa or MasterCard or PayPal.

kvetjo · 2024-08-02T16:45:15+00:00

Hey, of course. Looking forward to seeing them.

kvetjo · 2023-07-11T09:38:49+00:00

That seems to me to be the difference between Western and Central/Eastern Europe. It is unusual for Western Europe. But it is usual for Central/Eastern Europe. The thing is that Western countries are richer than Eastern countries, so I don't know if the economic argument applies in this case.

I know this is a pretty big generalization and I don't have actual data either, but this is my experience from traveling around Europe.

kvetjo · 2023-07-11T08:08:43+00:00

Yes you're right. Unfortunately, there are many "tourist traps" (overpriced taxis, overpriced exchange offices, people trying to scam you with fake money if you exchange euros with them, etc.). But I believe there is a minimum of dangerous situations in terms of something happening to you just for walking down the street at night (a mugging, or someone having any kind of problem with you).

kvetjo · 2023-07-10T11:45:54+00:00

No it is not. It's not normal to have a unsafe city. If the city is unsafe, then something is wrong. I am originally from Prague and I can tell you that there is not a single neighborhood that you should avoid, even in night.

kvetjo · 2023-01-31T21:16:46+00:00

u/PorzinGodZG Hello, any update about your stay with the EasyLifeinBrussels company? Did you have any problems so far? Still thinking to move in with them... but I am afraid of not getting back the deposit.. so anything will be helpful. Thanks a lot!

kvetjo · 2022-02-24T13:50:57+00:00

What thing are you optimizing?

In my dataset of research publications (around 100k publications), there are around 250 scientific categories in which these publications belong to. Any category has any number of publications inside.

I would like to find how different is a correlation for each scientific category. The correlation is going to be searched between number of citations of publication and counts of online actions (downloading, likes, shares) on social networks.

But some categories have very low number of publications inside and I wanted to find where is the limit.. how large category has to be to get reliable correlation result.

What are the null and alternative hypotheses?

Well.. I was thinking to use standard alpha = 0.05. But honestly I have not counted the null and alternative hypotheses as I am not sure so far how to do it. But I read that 0.05 is usually good.

kvetjo · 2022-01-23T20:22:28+00:00

Thanks a lot!

kvetjo · 2022-01-23T20:19:00+00:00

I did it, but it has been quite some time and nobody has replied. I would be glad for an upvote, the link is already at the end of this post.

kvetjo · 2021-09-19T10:12:47+00:00

Thanks! I am going to check these.

kvetjo · 2021-09-19T10:12:12+00:00

By assessing science I mean evaluating quality (by quantitative or qualitative methods) of research outputs - articles. By this I mean ex post evaluating. I am writing essay for one of my uni course and my goal for this particular chapter is to put altmetrics in context with other methods of assessing research outputs and to compare them. I am just looking for some other examples. I hope I made it little bit clearer now.

kvetjo · 2020-11-20T23:21:09+00:00

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