[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago

I just wish the rate of false negatives wasn't so bad. I feel like false negatives have gotten worse too. I've had textbook modern covid for two weeks, and now I'm better, but the cough wo,t go away. Never tested positive, but alternative diagnosis seems unlikely.

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Why did I read this in Scottish accent?

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

This is not only an ad written by a hack, it contributes to widespread gaslighting on what our phones do.

It's well documented that our phones are always listening and sending keywords to advertisers.

Battery life is the single biggest indicator of how invasive our phone are.

If you're old enough to remember flip phones, you know they'd last easily days, to a week, or even longer between charges.

Even as Blackberrys came about with GPS navigation, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc, the battery life stayed about the same. Over time we've expanded the ability of those features, but we've also made them all significantly more power-efficient.

Some argue all the "always-on" features for optimizing signal and spontaneous device pairing is responsible, but these can all be turned off.

Even with all the Android Dev settings optimized for minimum background activity and all apps restricted, an S22 Ultra with 5000 mah battery will burn through most of its capacity in your pocket in a day.

Worth mentioning how tiny flip-phone batteries were too. A 500-900mah battery would take a flip-phone through a week where a modern smartphone with a 5000mah battery barely lasts a day.

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