Zyrxil

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Flip 5, love the form factor and haven't had any screen or hinge problems. The crease doesn't bother me, but I do wish the battery life were better (though it's not much different than my phone before it).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah if that's all that needed replacing. The entire system is ancient, not just the disks, like:

Much more critical than the dated use of floppy disks is the system's loop cable, which transmits data between the central servers and the trains and, according to Roccaforte, "has less bandwidth than an old AOL dial-up modem."

The SFMTA's website adds:

The loop cable is fragile and easily disturbed. This makes subway maintenance more difficult. This also means the system cannot be extended outside the subway, along surface rail, where currently we don’t have automatic train control.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't dislike all the changes but the removal of the left swipe gesture to access current channel information and pinned message is a huge negative change to me.