Counter-counterpoint: The battery saving features on my past 2 phones (Poco X3 Pro and Ulefone Armor 24) have been absolute shit. I am talking about randomly killing the music player, and even alarm.
And it’s also been unstable as fuck. I avoid updates once I learn all the bugs… and learn problems from others. I’ve had the X3 Pro motherboard fail 3 times, lasting 9 months on average. And after repair, instead of EEA version, I received a Chinese motherboard, with different software, and different set of bugs I had to learn to work around. And I heard MIUI 13 made everything even worse. Plus I lost the option to opt-out from tracking, because after the repair I was no longer on EU version of the software.
And what I can do is limited.
Arch isn’t exactly a stable experience. Every update seems to bring some random bugs. But it’s typically the same thing for everyone, you can probably search around, and somebody has experienced it, and you can change things in your OS on your computer, because for the most part, it is YOUR computer. Can’t do that with a phone.
When I was unlocking my Motorola, I had to agree to a license agreement stating that I will not resell or otherwise transfer my phone to a different person, and that I will be held liable for any damages or bodily injury including death caused by the device. Please corporation, have mercy, let me use the device I paid for.
Also if the phone fails, I just lost everything at once.
Plus I have to replace it a little too often. There’s a lot of old electronics that only gets unusable because the plastics have already started decomposing, and either it’s extremely brittle and falling apart, or a sticky mess (fixable with IPA in the sticky case).
Counter-counterpoint: The battery saving features on my past 2 phones (Poco X3 Pro and Ulefone Armor 24) have been absolute shit. I am talking about randomly killing the music player, and even alarm.
And it’s also been unstable as fuck. I avoid updates once I learn all the bugs… and learn problems from others. I’ve had the X3 Pro motherboard fail 3 times, lasting 9 months on average. And after repair, instead of EEA version, I received a Chinese motherboard, with different software, and different set of bugs I had to learn to work around. And I heard MIUI 13 made everything even worse. Plus I lost the option to opt-out from tracking, because after the repair I was no longer on EU version of the software.
And what I can do is limited.
Arch isn’t exactly a stable experience. Every update seems to bring some random bugs. But it’s typically the same thing for everyone, you can probably search around, and somebody has experienced it, and you can change things in your OS on your computer, because for the most part, it is YOUR computer. Can’t do that with a phone.
When I was unlocking my Motorola, I had to agree to a license agreement stating that I will not resell or otherwise transfer my phone to a different person, and that I will be held liable for any damages or bodily injury including death caused by the device.
Please corporation, have mercy, let me use the device I paid for.
Also if the phone fails, I just lost everything at once.
Plus I have to replace it a little too often. There’s a lot of old electronics that only gets unusable because the plastics have already started decomposing, and either it’s extremely brittle and falling apart, or a sticky mess (fixable with IPA in the sticky case).
You’re pouring beer on sticky plastic to fix it? /s