Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Thursday 11 December 2025
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 week ago
A relative brought a five-year-old iPhone from work and I am comparing it to my Samsung. My Samsung is three years old and not that shit, but it freezes a lot and the camera fails often. The battery also dies quickly. And it’s still young.
This Apple phone though. I like how you can use ad blocker in Safari. Apple Podcasts is a bit mid though. Bit drab looking and also not as easy to use as Spotify. Couldn’t rewind a podcast using my earbuds.
The worst part is trying to watch a movie. AirPlay does not support subtitles on my pirated movie site, whilst my Samsung just mirrors the screen. No AirPlay bullshit.
I think I’ll just do a back up and factory reset of my phone and that should make it go faster.
The only reason I got a new phone is my old one couldn’t support new apps or app upgrades. I only use it for a few things, music, taking photos, calls, messages, weather, and some specific Mandarin language and art apps.
Apple doesn’t support tor/vpns, I had to get an android phone for that.
Yeah I intend to use this phone until it breaks. They offered me to take the phone to Japan so that I can get an e-sim and digital Suica but I don’t know if that’s worth the hassle.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I use VLC for movies on my Android. It can access my NAS storage on the home network.