r/TechNook

Whenever I get a new phone, the very first thing I do is put on a screen protector and a case. I don't trust myself enough to use it "naked," even for a day 😅...After that, it's just the usual transferring apps and logging back into everything.

What's the very first thing you do after buying a new phone?

I remember everyone talking about the chip shortage in 2021 because it was affecting things people actually wanted to buy. Now it feels like there's another shortage, but it's mostly data centers and AI companies fighting over GPUs instead of regular consumers.

I'm wondering if this ends up having an even bigger impact in the long run.

This one came through my feed and I had to fact-check since it sounded far-fetched in the beginning. For some time already Amazon had been working with sound detection, including detecting such sounds as a baby crying and dog barking and performing certain routine actions on their behalf. This new feature assumes that Alexa will be able to recognize adult crying and react in a way that would provide some comfort to the user instead of not responding to the stimulus or misunderstanding the command. This is consistent with the overall trend of creating a more humane voice and more emotionally intelligent Alexa.

I must say that I am somewhat torn about this development. On the one hand, this technology may actually help the person alone who is having a tough time. On the other hand, having an AI listening all the time for emotional stress and responding with predefined messages is quite creepy, especially considering how much of this information will be analyzed or stored somewhere.

It all sounds unreal if one does not know the events from personal experience. Jobs co-founded Apple, was fired by the board in 1985 after losing a battle with the CEO hired by him, and departed leaving nothing to the firm he created. Far from going into hiding, he founded NeXT, the computer company which failed commercially but developed an operating system that would prove much more important than it was supposed to be at the moment. Apple bought NeXT in 1997 simply to gain the technology and to return Jobs in the office rather than to give him control again.

But he returned, and after that, the iMac, then iPod, iPhone, iPad appeared, and Apple grew to become the world's largest company in terms of market capitalization. This is one of those few success stories in high-tech where a man driven out of his company returned and managed to create something even more successful than his first creation.

what's a tech product everyone seemed to love, but you regretted buying?

maybe the reviews were great.maybe everyone around you recommended it.

but once you actually used it, it just didn't live up to the hype.

curious what product made you think i should've skipped this one

the internet going down is one of those things that doesn't sound like a big deal

until it actually happens.

you quickly realize how many everyday things quietly depend on it.not just. entertainment payments ,navigation, work

even devices sitting in your home.

it's strange how one connection became the foundation for so many parts of daily life without most of us really noticing

It happened during a trip.

I'm mid-video, phone dies on storage. Not battery - storage.

I spent 20 minutes crawling through Settings > Storage > Manage > app by app trying to figure out what was eating my phone.

Found nothing obvious. Deleted a few random things. Got maybe 200MB back.

That's when I realized the problem isn't cleaning - it's that you can never see what's actually there.

Every cleaner app I tried just gave me a number. "You have 1.2GB of junk." Cool. What is it? Where did it come from? Which category is the real problem?

So I built SpaceClear.

It scans your phone and breaks storage down into a visual chart - junk files, duplicates, cache, large files, everything - by category, by size, all at once.

You see the problem before you fix it. Then one tap cleans it.

Still pre-launch. Trying to get to 500 early downloads before we push wider.

Anyone else frustrated by how blind the current cleaner apps make you feel? Curious if this resonates or if I'm solving a problem only I had.

Usually it’s the other way around, but I’m curious about the reverse case—things that feel cramped, slow, or annoying on mobile but you still end up doing there anyway.

I was looking through my expense tracker today and realized how much my monthly subscriptions were adding up…It’s probably not a lot compared to most people, but as someone who’s pretty frugal, having three subscriptions already feels like a lot: iCloud, Netflix, and a gym membership.

If I had to keep only one, it’d honestly be the gym membership lol.

How many subscriptions do you currently pay for, and if you had to cut them down to just one, which would you keep?

I am still on windows 10 myself. I have tried win 11 once and genuinely couldn't find anything good about it. They moved start menu, locked a lot of usefull settings, half the stuff i used daily got removed or difficult to acess and they added a bunch of slop softwares to slow you computer. felt like i broke my own computer just by updating. I downgraded to win 10 immediately after that

microsoft officially ended support for windows 10 this year and there are still millions of people just not moving. security patches gone, end of life, still not enough to make most people switch

11 didn't solve any major problem and added more problem/restrictions, it feels like more of a downgrade than upgrade from last gen

To me, it is a very good power bank. It does not need to be something fancy or the type of powerbank that has more than 30,000 mAH lol, but ever since I started bringing it everywhere, I have been saved countless times, making it a necessity for me. I do not even think about going out without one now.

What one device do you recommend without any second thoughts to all your friends?

I’ve had enough. I’m using an iPhone running iOS 26 and it’s vile. The mod at iPhone is a jerk, I got banned for using a literary device called an abusive analogy. Dang culties.

I think I’ll just use the cheap end Lg android phone that my dad gave me a few years ago, because I seriously want to abuse and destroy this phone, who is innocent, the iOS 26 is the culprit.

It can’t be worse right? HAHAHAHA.

I can’t revert the iOS to iOS 24 right?

How long till Apple stops eating its own excrement and starts being decent with Ux? 20 years?

Today, I lost work because this iPhone is not a capable device. It’s got bloated software that I can’t change or stop, and it’s lagging behind most Android devices on many technical power-user levels.

Flew recently and noticed the seatback screen just would not go dark. No option to turn it off completely, it just sits there glowing at you the entire flight. And when I finally went to watch a movie, there was an actual ad playing before it started, like a mini pre roll ad on a screen you're stuck staring at for hours. Felt so out of place for something that's supposed to be entertainment on a flight you already paid for.

I get airlines want more revenue streams, but at some point it feels like they're squeezing money out of literally every inch of the experience. First it was charging for wifi, then legroom, and now even the screen in front of your face isn't ad free. Kind of makes you miss the days of just bringing your own tablet or book and ignoring the seatback screen entirely.