• expatriado@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      i am fairly good at keeping my electronics and machines working for long time, but i don’t think any of my cellphones made it to the 4th year

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        5 days ago

        What? How? Are you starting from an old phone already? I’m typing this from a pristine iPhone XR.

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        iPhone longevity was one of the things that convinced me to switch. With all my Android phones I usually couldn’t wait to upgrade after 2 years, because they tended to get sucky when the manufacturer gave them their last update. Then I had a Pixel 2 that, other than having to ship it in for a warranty replacement about 18 months in, was still going strong after 3 years when Google stopped supporting it. I looked at my stepdaughter with a 6-year-old iPhone (her mom’s old phone) still getting updates, still easy to get repaired locally with parts readily available (needed when a kid is using it!), and wondered why I was spending so much money on something that would be abandoned so fast by the manufacturer.

        I’m glad Google is promising longer support now on newer Pixels. It might someday switch me back, but my iPhone is working fine and has years of life left.

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          I upgraded from my pixel 3a last December after 5 years. To be honest, most of the performance gains are unnoticeable to me as I don’t game and use pretty light apps.

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    5 days ago

    The timer is just the difference between the timestamp when the timer was started and the current timestamp, but I don’t know of any timer app that let’s you import/export timestamps as easy as that would be to implement.

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        4 days ago

        Does it show the “laps” and their times? If not, I think it can still be implemented by storing just two values - time delta before previous stop and timestamp of previous start/un pause.

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          It does, those can be a list of timestamps with a lap flag. Pauses can be a pause/resume flag.

          Fairly easy data structure to build.

  • Nate@piefed.alphapuggle.dev
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    5 days ago

    I used to start a stopwatch when I’d get a new phone so I could see exactly how long I had it. Can’t say I ever tried to move them to a new device though