I’ve never experienced this and I’ve only had budget android devices since 2018. My partner has had whatever the most expensive iPhone was every 3 years or so. Haven’t noticed a difference in performance for our uses, which aren’t particularly resource intensive, just web browsing, social media, and communication mostly. Light games like stardew valley occasionally. I think you must have gotten unlucky with a bad device.
Yeah my essential ph1 and now pixel 6a both lasted longer than either my iPhone 4 or 6. I think most devices are multi-year now, more a matter of a 5 year or more than 5 year lifespan
The article claims (though without citation except promotional material) that they’re smaller ground footprint, cheaper, and much more portable. Also they can generate more electricity per unit because they can be higher altitude with more turbulence. Interesting concept, and I think as many novel alternatives as possible that can all work in tandem are useful!
I think machine compatibility plays a huge role, some machines do mostly ‘just work’ while others are a pain. It also definitely requires some tinkering, though mostly on setup or on the first week or two in my experience.
Also, ymmv and a lot of people swear by them but I’ve never had good luck with Ubuntu based distro, they’ve always been super buggy with hard to track fixes for me. I like fedora a lot better and it similarly has decent (though not nearly as extensive) community support for weird bugs, but I know people swear by many things.
So sick, huge props. Will have to test this out once I have time to (a) find and dig out my old Wii stuff, and (b) set this up