Bob

What could they possibly have 270GB of source code for? 3.6M files for what?? Wordle?

Oh I didn’t know about termux x11, I will check it out thanks!

oh, if that means i can use native linux apps on there like on regular chromeos, that would be so cool

Google is out there fixing Microsoft teams

Id really like to use revanced while paying for premium if it means it doesn’t get borked every x months and I don’t risk getting banned, kind of like Spotify tolerates 3rd party clients as long as they are premium accounts

Couldn’t bother really, game companies nowadays make such bad games anyway. The only good ones are the Playstation and Xbox exclusives ported to PC, because those games have to be good to be a selling point of the console. Meanwhile EA Ubisoft and friends just rely on using the same franchise name to sell copies

Couldn’t they just find out via triangulation (which is a way that high precision location things work already, by using 3 points of a known location like antennas and looking at the connection strength to each tower)

I didn’t watch or read anything yet, but there’s one thing I know about Asus phones: they look great on paper, they kind of suck ass in the real world. Heres why:

Shit software support with updates that break stuff every single time, and after the first year it’s even more of an afterthought for them

They promised over a year ago they would bring back bootloader unlocking, we still have nothing

Hardware can brick itself overnight (look for Zenfone 8 Ramdump issues, this is due to a bad soldering of ram chips iirc, they did nothing to address this publicly)

They are sold in like 2.5 countries

Lots of people complaining about their customer service

They are very expensive for what they offer

Would not recommend. My Zenfone 8 lasted a year and a half before I could not use it anymore because of the worn out battery, and I kept it between 20 and 80% as much as I could. You may tell me that’s normal for batteries to wear and that this phone was not the best on battery, but my point is more that there is virtually no way to get replacement parts outside of shady sellers on AliExpress, and I am NOT putting an AliExpress battery in my pocket.

I’m getting tired of every tech article using a shitty AI generated image. No image is fine if you don’t have one and don’t need one

So Bob… We meet again

I just wanna use my Samsung as a webcam like the pixels I couldn’t care less about dex or using my phone as a mini computer monitor

Heh, they get 4 years OS (5 total) but the thing is after the new device generation is released, the previous year immediately falls behind in terms of update speed and overall optimization.

It’s about the battery life and heat output for me. I couldn’t care less about peak performance, but I do care about efficiency. I had a phone (Zenfone 8) with the SD888 (Samsung Foundry like Tensor) and I will say, this was perhaps one of the worst phones I’ve used. I could barely get 3h of screen on time after 1.5 years (while taking care of the battery). My S23 gets double or more the battery life while having a smaller battery. I also care about device aesthetics like the even bezels on the screen. And the ultrasonic fingerprint scanner on the Samsung’s is just leagues ahead of any optical sensor both in terms of speed and accuracy

And that’s not to mention the bad signal issues

Pixels are so damn tempting, but their in house SoC is just a deal breaker sadly. If Google made the software for Samsung phones, they would be perfect in my opinion, the samsung software and software support is a bit meh in my opinion

FYI, Mishaal is also on Mastodon, and the posts are the same as on Xwixxer so it might be better to post those posts instead in the future https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman