Again another banger of an episode. My favorite moment of the episode is this:

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Who else thinks her “my graduate ghosts are elsewhere” is just a bluff? 🤔

Yep, turns out the renders just didn’t contain all the details.

I guess it might matter to people who’d like to stream their games from their console to their phone using some remote play app.

Pixel 7a here. I’m going to keep it either until it breaks or until the guaranteed updates stop, whichever comes first. So if I’m lucky and this lasts until 2028 I don’t think the new phone I’d buy is going to be a Pixel 8 😁 but it will likely be another Pixel.

I do hope that in a few years Pixels will have replaceable batteries (especially as the EU is requiring smartphones to have replaceable batteries by 2027), that will make me stick even longer with them!

Honestly surprised that it really runs Android

Yeah that’s the biggest turnoff for me personally, it sucks how we are always expected to pay a fat premium for something more sustainable. There should be some small government subsidies for phones like these, just like there are on e-bikes and EVs in many countries.

if the device was also connected to something else no audio would play from either device

I believe that depends on whether the device supports multipoint connectivity? I have Pixel Buds A earbuds and I know I can’t have them connected to more than one device because they don’t support that.

As for the rest, I think it’s highly likely that you got a faulty unit.

Can you elaborate on those glitches? I haven’t had any noticeable issues with my 7a. As for Chromecast, I haven’t tried yet so I can’t really say.

Seconding the Pixel 7a (which I own right now) 😁

At $450 you get literally a high-end phone that’s priced like a mid-range one because it does not feature a glass back (which is a plus IMO, as that’s one thing less you have to worry about breaking) and doesn’t have an optical zoom (can be a deal breaker). The size is also just right, as it’s the most compact one out of the Pixel 7 series.

You also get guaranteed updates until May 2028. And as with most Pixels, you have the best support for ROMs like GrapheneOS.

As for battery life, it seems to be due to the Android 13 version. The Android 14 beta yields a much better battery life thanks to the optimizations that they did.

No case for my 7a, I like to live dangerously 😎

Arrr! 🏴‍☠️

This is seriously fucked up, but won’t closing lemmyshitpost just lead them to target other LW communities?

Probably unrelated but I once saw that community get attacked with scat porn, it could be the same person.

There’s also another issue. If you upload an image to Lemmy but then cancel, the image is still hosted on the Lemmy instance and one can still access it if one copies the image’s URL before canceling. This basically means that there might be other illegal stuff that’s being hosted on Lemmy instances without anyone noticing.

Just as novel as the whole graphical desktop concept which they claim to be the ones who invented it but always forget to state that Steve Jobs stole it from Xerox? By Steve’s words, everything Apple does today is a “stolen product”.

patiently waiting for it to land on Arch

Seems no one here tried the Android 14 beta on a Pixel Tablet yet 👀 Looks like you’re the one who’s gonna share your experience with us if you decide to try it out! 😁

Slightly off-topic but I’m using the 14 beta on my Pixel 7a and so far I haven’t encountered any issues. I feel like the battery optimizations are really effective as I’m charging my phone way less now, but I sadly forgot to do some tests before installing the beta to quantify that and show some before/after numbers.

is that a real knife?

Hopefully they also release the unlock bootloader

A while back many people thought that that wouldn’t be the case but it turns out the support staff was just confused and that bootloader unlocking will be availabe:

The service team reply misunderstood the situation. Unlock tool is unavailable at this moment but we are allowing the possibility to unlock, please stay tuned.

Let’s hope they don’t fire the people working on it too 😬

Yeah it looked too good to be true, guess it’s going to be one of those “good hardware, mediocre support” phones.

Does it support sharing and syncing over something other than nextcloud?

You can dump your notes in the form of zip files, which you could then share using any file sharing method. As for automatic syncing, the only supported syncing service is Nextcloud.

I’d say go for AMD because their APUs are excellent, but they will be expensive. You can find used/refurbished ThinkPads in really good condition for very cheap (~$200, see this thread where I learned about this), and most (all?) of them have Intel CPUs.

Anyway, right now Linux works perfectly well on both of them*.

*: If the kernel version is greater than 5.19.9 (issue first appeared with the 5.19.10) and less than 6.4, you’ll likely have an annoying keyboard issue with Linux on new AMD Ryzen laptops, as typing will be extremely slow. That has been corrected now and with an up-to-date kernel you shouldn’t have any keyboard issues on an AMD laptop.