Il talking more in terms of performance and power consumption, I would never go back to a Samsung fabbed chip on a mobile device, unless they can prove they match TSMC But yes more competition is always welcome. Unfortunately the only real option right now is realtek but they are very closed chips with close to no custom ROM support
Fair point, it should get better for the pixel 10 though because iirc they will be switching to TSMC from Samsung foundry
Any year that Samsung struggles with Exynos is good year for consumers
To 99% of people, battery life matters much more than it being 8% faster compared to last year’s model. Though it can be argued that the pixel’s efficiency sucks and that it affects the battery life significantly. For example on my phone I would gladly use the low power mode that reduces the cpu perf to about 70%, except it also forces the display to go to 60hz
The last time I used arch it worked fine for 6 months then it needed to be scrapped because the network fully stopped working after an update. I’ve been on fedora ever since without a single issue. Arch is fine for personal devices where you can afford to spend half a day on troubleshooting a package that is too recent and straight up doesn’t work because there’s no real testing being done. I wouldn’t put it on a work device simply because it’s not a just works distro
No, but some are better suited for programming, because each distro has different packages in their repositories. I find Fedora to be very good when it comes to having basically every dev tool available in their repos. Arch is good too but too unstable for actual work. But keep in mind in most distros you can add separate repositories that contains the software you want. You can also use Homebrew that contains lots of dev tools as well
Android 18 🍑
Yeah everytime I open it for updates it shows me a popup ad. For the VPN my only reference point is Proton VPN premium servers, when using it the downloads don’t move, disable it, and it starts going instantly
It goes to my pile of reasons for not using it, currently, I have:
That’s the worst part, it was offered at launch and it was very easy: simple APK install and the click of a button! But suddenly they decided to remove it without any prior warning, and now, after a year or two of promises of BL unlock coming back “in a few months”, they simply said fuck you
What the actual fuck.
If some are interested, FUTO also has their own keyboard app with word suggestions, swipe typing and some of the best voice to text I’ve seen period. And it runs locally as well
Not sure what happened, I deleted my comment almost immediately after posting it, and it seemed to still appear so I edited it. Maybe my client is bugged
And the wording is fucking terrible as well
I usually to in the developer tools and manually disable the thing preventing the paste action. It’s usually a string to remove some JS or something or an Event that you need to uncheck
Been working fine for me on 130 beta
So I really wrote this
Uh
This could actually make Samsung dex/desktop mode actually useful