AI companies and investors are absolutely overhyping its capabilities, but if you haven’t tried it before I’d strongly recommend doing so. For simple bash scripts and Python it almost always gets something workable first try, genuinely saving time.
AI LLMs are pretty terrible for nearly every other task I’ve tried. I suspect it’s because the same amount of quality training data just doesn’t exist for other fields.
Leaving ADB open to unverified apps is more than I was expecting. ADB is reasonably straightforward to use even without actually being an Android developer.
There was never any way they’d integrate it to play protect and still allow play protect to be disabled. I prefer this to being required to use play protect personally, though the services do seem somewhat redundant. Presumably the whole point of doing this is to create an Apple style walled garden (which is of course very profitable). Google likely doesn’t want to fully lock it down and risk legal trouble, they just need to make it difficult enough that the masses don’t bother installing unapproved apps that may not act in Google’s interests.
I still hope the EU takes legal action against this anyway.
Graphene is only supported on Pixels for now, but by their own FAQ this isn’t the plan forever. With Google blocking third party apps at their own discretion on Android, there will certainly be motivation to officially support more devices.
To add bootloader unlocking probably isn’t going anywhere soon so at least you have the option to run something like graphene on Android devices.
You can still get some Android phones with relatively easily repaired hardware. And for innovative third party hardware your only option is still going to be Android.
I wish there were some way to effectively protest this decision they’ve made, but I can’t think of anything they’d actually care about unless nearly all developers objected.
I suspect a lot of it comes down to your ISP. Like the original commentor I also frequently can’t pass CloudFlare turnstile when on Wifi, although refreshing the page a few times usually gets me through. Worst case on my phone’s hotspot I can much more consistently pass. It’s super annoying and combined with their recent DNS outage has totally ruined any respect I had for CloudFlare.
Interesting video on the subject: https://youtu.be/SasXJwyKkMI
Even if possible, a $50 old office PC will be more reliable with no risk of the Android OS killing whatever software you end up running on it. And you can use SATA HDDs directly with such a setup. The power consumption is likely a bit higher than running on a phone, but for the ability to run any docker container out there it’s likely a worthwhile tradeoff. Alternatively if you can hunt down an Atomic Pi or similar old atom based SBC you can trade some performance for power savings while still running an OS truly intended for networking.
The total amount of active content on Lemmy is nowhere near the amount on Reddit, for limiting the time you spend in app this is actually quite good. And unlike Reddit there are third party apps available for mobile.
The quality of content on average is significantly higher, but many local niches don’t exist here that do on Reddit. Depending on how you use Reddit this may make it hard to switch - unless your niche is Linux or open source software.
The USB type C connector itself is amazing. I’ve never broken the physical connector, the problem is electrical only. The connector is capable of delivering a very high 240W of power, but the device/charger negotiate the power and voltage requirements to find the highest both can support.
But there are actually four parts of the system limiting the negotiated power:
The problem ultimately comes from the negotiation as many devices don’t use USB-PD (the theoretical “standard” for this) to save cost or allow different electrical configurations. This can lead to chargers incorrectly identifying devices as capable of accepting higher voltages than they can. Or devices can incorrectly identify themselves as capable of accepting higher voltage than they actually can.
If you’re using reputable decides from reputable companies using the included charger/cables, this will never be an issue. It’s only problematic when you want one charger for all your USB type C devices, as it now needs to support multiple communication protocols and voltage standards, hoping that no device identifies itself incorrectly.
PC lacks portability and battery life. The many generic ARM Linux game consoles fix both of those problems.
Nah a generic “K36” game system I bought for just under $20 in China. It played everything up to PS1 games flawlessly with a beautiful IPS LCD which was extremely impressive for the price. It even did one full recharge from a dumb charger without issue before I tried using my normal USB-PD capable charger on it, releasing the magic smoke.
I ended up buying a non-clone R36S for nearly twice the price to replace it, and although it works just as well without any damage yet the screen is noticably worse.
Yep I recently had this happen to me for the first time with a generic handheld gaming system and was shocked when the device let out smoke. I opened it up and sure enough the buck converter for the battery charging circuit was burnt, likely because the non-compliant device had somehow requested more than 5V from the charger… The charger was USB-PD and works fine with my phone/laptop/headphones so I’m pretty sure it’s not the problem.
Nah, USB-C is plagued by non-standard electrical configurations, non-standard charging protocols, and non-compliant cables. Rest assured the connector is here to stay, your device just may not be able to charge with any given charger or cable.
My pixel 6a screen stopped working (the glass isn’t even broken), but I was able to use talkback to get my IMEI and $100. What a win.
I’ve always been able to decline overdraft when opening a bank account in person. Banks argue the fee is preferable to the embarassment of having the transaction declined, but with how often credit cards flag fraud the embarrassment when it happens is practically zero.
How? I’ve been noticing buffering the last few days with 1080p60 videos and up even using the suggested app version in Revanced.
They’ve gotten a bit better with this lately I think. Although it has certainly gotten slower over the years, my A52 4G is definitely still usable despite being released over 4yr ago as a mid-range phone.
Has anyone seen customs ever actually search an electronic device before? I travel internationally nearly every month and have never seen this before, even in China.
Thank you for clarifying that this removes the requirement to spend the money where it was allocated. This answers my question and could indeed be worse than a shutdown.
I also always call him Dear Leader. We can’t normalize these behaviors from a president, and using the “Dear Leader” title makes it unambiguously clear that his selfish actions are not presidential.