Use the Aurora Store!

I wish Google would implement what Apple does, when you click the lock button five times to dial emergency services it will also disable biometrics. I don’t think doing that disabled biometrics, only calls emergency services on Android. Even better, install “Duress” from F-Droid and you can set a decoy pin that resets the phone (or just reboots it)

I will say, my used Pixel 6 (GrapheneOS) has worked beautifully so far, with no hardware defects. If I had to complain, the speakers aren’t particularly loud, but I’ve had no hardware issues with it. I agree with other people, it sounds like it could be a bad motherboard? It would be interesting if you could post a video of the issue

To be fair, you should always think twice about devices like that. At the very least, put them on their own VLAN, or at least have Pi-Hole running

As do I, it is odd that he just guided them in though. At least, from the very grainy security footage he showed me a year ago

I would also suggest looking into GrapheneOS if you’re looking for something new. I’ve been running it for 6 months on my pixel 6, and I have really enjoyed it. Apps just work, you can still use Google Play services in a sandbox, it’s smooth and gets good battery life. The only downside that I have run across is the lack of Android auto support, but everything else just works

BattleBots for the win, fantastic action!

Godot is going to see a massive migration, I can already feel it. No huge company behind it, waiting to do a rugpull.

Isn’t this the idea of having a chipset (Northbridge/Southbridge) on the board, to handle some of these IO tasks?

Also, I recently saw the Cathode Ray Dude video on Dell’s Brain Slug, where down basically hijacked the system with a low-power ARM SBC. I almost wonder if something like this would be possible, it would obviously require a revision but it would theoretically allow for suspended downloads, invite notifications, etc. It would also be fairly expensive and complex though

I’m pretty sure he stepped down right after the controversy, but I’m too lazy to look it up to confirm

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I’m pretty sure he stepped down right after the controversy, but I’m too lazy to look it up to confirm

I agree about the Nintendo exclusive games, but the price is about the same. 320 US dollars gets you a refurbished 64 GB steam deck, which is basically the same price as the standard Switch and even cheaper than the OLED model. Not to mention all the great sales and cheap keys you can get

Edit: I do own both, I’ve had a switch since launch day, so I recognize the power that the first party exclusives have. I certainly don’t hate on the switch by any means

Theoretically no, they want people to ignore those built-in sponsorships, so the advertisers go straight to Google’s ad service

Church is meaningless if it’s not provided at a useful voltage though. What people truly care about is usable energy, which is what Watt-hours or Joules tell us. For example, I don’t care if my portable battery pack is 1000 milliamp hours, it’s meaningless unless I also know The battery chemistry used (nominal voltage) and the number of cells so I can figure out the actual potential energy.

Also, as a phone’s battery ages, if I’m not mistaken it truly does hold less “charge”, but I still believe the more useful metric is actual energy stored. That’s how it’s done in the EV scene, you use kWh to see how much energy is left in your battery. As the battery ages, “100%” represents slightly lesser energy (kWh)

I don’t find that to be a particularly compelling argument though. If you go to buy a lead acid battery for solar usage, for example, they give you the capacity based on a 20-hour discharge (or, 1/20th C rate). The same could absolutely be done for primary batteries

They both tell the same story, but one requires extra information you don’t have. You don’t say that the latest i3 pulls 6 Amps, you say it pulls 65 Watts. Also the voltage does change as the battery discharges, that’s why you use the nominal voltage of the pack. mAh is also not a current

SwitchBot makes a retrofit deadbolt controller that straps onto the inside

Same here, I’m in my early/mid 20s and still see almost all of my high school friends multiple times per month. Plus we play games on Discord at least once or twice a week. I moved about a half hour out from town a few years back, which is probably the only reason we don’t see you each other even more often

GrapheneOS is also another good option - I’ve been running it for 6+ months so far and I’m loving it! The only downside I can think of is the lack of Android Auto support, although that’s never been a thing that I’ve used