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Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 from 2014 in great condition

 

Was thinking about flipping it cheap on marketplace for like $40

 

Netflix, Prime, YouTube all work fine. Browsing is a bit slow. 

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Basement TV Desktop: 7800x3d @ stock, 64gb DDR5 @ 6000, 4080 Super, x670 Asus Strix

 

Laptop: Dell G3 15 - i7-8750h @ stock, 16gb ddr4 @ 2666, 1050Ti 

 

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1 minute ago, Andreas Lilja said:

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 from 2014 in great condition

 

Was thinking about flipping it cheap on marketplace for like $40

 

Netflix, Prime, YouTube all work fine. Browsing is a bit slow. 

If you can get $40 for then why not

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if compatible could use it as a second screen or a stream deck utility , I use a old chuwi trablet with deckboard app I don't remember the price but the app is one time purchase on my desktop to open quick files , control volume, open Spotify playlists, open tabs things like this its a neat recycle option imo and can be worth trying 
I know a friend who play truck sim and use it for controlling things in games can have multiple purposes 

 

otherwise sell it still get some money out of it 

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Looking at the specs, yeah it is. Keep your $40.

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14 hours ago, Levent said:

Looking at the specs, yeah it is. Keep your $40.

I'm selling actually. 

 

And someone bought it two minutes later for $50 kek

Desktop 1: 7800x3d @ stock, 64gb DDR5 @ 6000, Asus 5090 Astral OC, x670 Asus Strix

 

Basement TV Desktop: 7800x3d @ stock, 64gb DDR5 @ 6000, 4080 Super, x670 Asus Strix

 

Laptop: Dell G3 15 - i7-8750h @ stock, 16gb ddr4 @ 2666, 1050Ti 

 

Laptop 2: Intel i7 12700k, 3080TI 32gb DDR5 Ram

 

Laptop 3: Intel Core Ultra 9-275HX, 5080, 64GB DDR5 5

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On 11/29/2023 at 2:33 AM, Andreas Lilja said:

Netflix, Prime, YouTube all work fine. Browsing is a bit slow. 

Nope, not e-waste.  It has 3 GB of ram, so that's twice as much as the tablet I use and 3 GB is the same amount of memory on my seven-year-in-use smartphone, also running android, oreo.

 

So you can actually put LineageOS on the device:

 

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-unofficial-13-lineageos-20-for-samsung-galaxy-tab-s-10-5-sm-t805-sm-t800-chagalllte-chagallwifi-alpha.4577223/

 

That gets it up to Android 13.

: JRE #1914 Siddarth Kara

How bad is e-waste?  Listen to that Joe Rogan episode.

 

"Now you get what you want, but do you want more?
- Bob Marley, Rastaman Vibration album 1976

 

Windows 11 will just force business to "recycle" "obscolete" hardware.  Microsoft definitely isn't bothered by this at all, and seems to want hardware produced just a few years ago to be considered obsolete.  They have also not shown any interest nor has any other company in a similar financial position, to help increase tech recycling whatsoever.  Windows 12 might be cloud-based and be a monthly or yearly fee.

 

Software suggestions


Just get f.lux [Link removed due to forum rules] so your screen isn't bright white at night, a golden orange in place of stark 6500K bluish white.

released in 2008 and still being improved.

 

Dark Reader addon for webpages.  Pick any color you want for both background and text (background and foreground page elements).  Enable the preview mode on desktop for Firefox and Chrome addon, by clicking the dark reader addon settings, Choose dev tools amd click preview mode.

 

NoScript or EFF's privacy badger addons can block many scripts and websites that would load and track you, possibly halving page load time!

 

F-droid is a place to install open-source software for android, Antennapod, RethinkDNS, Fennec which is Firefox with about:config, lots of performance and other changes available, mozilla KB has a huge database of what most of the settings do.  Most software in the repository only requires Android 5 and 6!

 

I recommend firewall apps (blocks apps) and dns filters (redirect all dns requests on android, to your choice of dns, even if overridden).  RethinkDNS is my pick and I set it to use pi-hole, installed inside Ubuntu/Debian, which is inside Virtualbox, until I go to a website, nothing at all connects to any other server.  I also use NextDNS.io to do the same when away from home wi-fi or even cellular!  I can even tether from cellular to any device sharing via wi-fi, and block anything with dns set to NextDNS, regardless if the device allows changing dns.  This style of network filtration is being overridden by software updates on some devices, forcing a backup dns provuder, such as google dns, when built in dns requests are not connecting.  Without a complete firewall setup, dns redirection itself is no longer always effective.

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