However, for most people, the 5-a-day limit might actually provide a better framework for taking high-quality images. This limit makes you think more about your shots, so it could be useful to improve. your composition, timing, and framing.

See, it’s pro-consumer. Lol

OK, so the current dev implementation seems to make accessing notifications one-handed nearly impossible? You need to reach somewhere to the left half of the upper edge to pull them down - the top right corner is already far enough from my thumb most of the time to be a bit inconvenient to pull down on.

And I hope they bring back some quick toggles to the notification screen, it would be awful to have to go to the full quick settings menu just to turn on the flashlight, lol.

If you keep your Pixel plugged in for a few days, it will give you an option to limit charging to 80% (or maybe just turns it on on its own, not sure about that). There’s no other way to activate it currently, but that should change soon (the Adaptive Charging option will have three options instead of just on/off).

Pixels never had the SD card slot

Since the phones have water resistance, they are technically designed to work under water

Oh, so a device that offers no warranty in case of water damage (because you’re not supposed to expose it to water) can use an IP certification as a loophole to completely avoid this law? That’s not good

It’s likely the same sensor that is included in the rest of the Pixel 9 Pro Fold.

I see proofreading the first paragraph is too hard these days.

Don’t know about the rest, but…

Does reflashing a ROM fix it?

The phones appear to be simply dead with no response to anything. No way to connect ADB, no way to connect fastboot, nothing.

Also the bootloader allows flashing over the cable only when it’s unlocked (at least on Pixels; I couldn’t find anything relevant in the Android documentation). The vast majority of Pixels should have their bootloaders locked, and it is only possible to unlock it through the system settings, so it’s pretty safe to say that most Pixels cannot be recovered if Android fails to boot because you cannot unlock the bootloader if you can’t get into settings.

I don’t think it supports displaying HDR at all? The GitHub issue regarding HDR is still open and it definitely doesn’t switch to HDR mode when I open HDR photos with it.

The hardware supported it ever since adaptive charging was introduced, so that’s not surprising.

The work profile seems like a better place for that, and it was available since Android 5

Maybe developers will finally start implementing predictive back now that it’s not hidden behind developer options. It’s kinda nice when you can just peek at where the app wants to take you when you go back, and it currently ironically tends to be implemented only by apps that already have decently made navigation.

Also private space seems nice, finally a way to use the work profile sandbox natively without having to install third party apps that pretend to be work profile managers.

Yeah, this seems properly configured. No clue why it isn’t working for you.

The only app that doesn’t auto-update for me is Fdroid itself (ironically), because it targets an old Android version. Running Android 14 on a Pixel, so with the strongest Google fuckery.

Are you sure your Fdroid client is up to date? The new API was implemented in 1.19, and apparently I even misremembered and all you have to do to enable Fdroid to auto update its apps is to manually update them for one last time (so no fresh installation required).

Another long shot: there’s an option to force the old installation method hidden in expert settings - maybe you could check if that isn’t enabled?

On a normal unmodified phone you have to manually confirm each app you want to install. so no auto-updates in the background etc.

Background app updates are possible since Android 12, Fdroid just took two years to implement the new API (and you have to do a fresh install of the apps - apps already installed using the old API still require confirmation on each update). There is still friction on the initial install though.

It is for their non-flagship devices - those were always kinda left behind with software support.

Both? It’s pretty well explained in the rest of the text (you don’t even have to click a link)

It was up to the Commission, which has exclusive powers to set the bloc’s commercial policy, to break the gridlock and ensure the duties go through.

The European Commission made the decision after the member countries failed to agree on how to proceed.

What error? It gave you a string of tokens that seemed likely according to its training data. That’s all it does.

If you ask it what color is the sky, it will tell you it’s blue not because it knows that’s true, but because these words “fit together”. Pretty much the only way to avoid this issue is to put some kind of filter in front of the LLM which will try to catch prompts that are known to produce unwanted results, and silently replace your prompt with something like “say: sorry, I don’t know”.

I’m being very reductive here, but that’s the principle of how these things work - the LLMs are not capable of determining the truthfulness of their responses.

This is the a model, it won’t have optical zoom either way.

Yay for another boring slab with zero distinguishing features!

No, it will fast charge to 80%, then restart charming just in time to hit 100% when your alarm goes off (or when it thinks you’re going to wake up). There’s no automatic slow charging other than thermal throttling.