“I didn’t do anything to deserve this. The phone sat on my desk while I wrote about it, and I would occasionally stop to poke the screen, take a screenshot, or open and close it. It was never dropped or exposed to a significant amount of grit, nor had it gone through the years of normal wear and tear that phones are expected to survive. This was the lightest possible usage of a phone, and it still broke.”
This can happen to any phone of course — there are numerous threads on reddit of faulty S23 phones that are only days old, and of course the first Galaxy fold phones were problematic — but still. Rough start!
I’ve never really liked tablets - I much prefer a real computer. That probably explains our disconnect.
tbf, it’s not like I use tablet as a computer replacement, only for media consumption. having an extra screen real estate when you need it is convenient
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Dang, you’ve got eyes of steel. I could never read books on an LED screen - the eyestrain is just too much. E-ink doesn’t have that issue.
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I do already use dark mode (Dark Reader ftw) but for me, any emissive display seems to cause eyestrain over a long enough period. I rarely use the backlight on my e-ink reader, so it reads like crisp print on paper.
Maybe you were using really low-res/first gen e-ink? Or perhaps we’re just built different :p
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Honestly, I’m jealous. Being a programmer means I spend a lot of time staring at LED displays whether I like it or not 🙃
Do books make your eyes strain as well? I see no difference between a printed book and a high ppi e-ink display. I can read for hours on one and be strained af after 30 minutes reading on an oled display. Weird!