[–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

I bought a Switch 2 and used it to play Donkey Kong and Mario Kart. They were fun, but now there's no more games for it really.

There's no new Switch 2 games even lined up right now as far as anyone's concerned. And they decided it's better to remake Star Fox again rather than make a new one, it felt like a big middle finger.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    At this point in time, with how expensive the Ayn Thor has gotten and the downgrade from UFS 4.0 to 3.1 (WITH a simultaneous price increase), that console is dead to me personally, unless prices return to normal (which won't happen).

    However, the future of portable gaming is absolutely in ARM based consoles. Given that the upcoming Steam Frame will come with ARM to x86 translation (FEX), I think that Valve is also aware of this, and that the Steam Frame is the tip of the iceberg and will act as a sort of testing ground for ARM.

    I'm hoping that Valve creates a variant of the Steam Deck that runs on an ARM-based chip, in addition to a true Steam Deck successor console running on a normal AMD processor and GPU. I think that Android also adds unnecessary overhead when gaming (latency and CPU cycles), and SteamOS is a great answer to that problem.

    While I think Ayn is currently out of reach price wise, more competitors will begin to pop up making similar things (e.g. Retroid Pocket Flip 2).

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Disgusting. This is my representative, I unfortunately voted him in.

    Our president is a pedophile and we still get the "for the children" bullshit. How about making a law requiring tracking the data on the Epstein class phones instead?

    I sent a letter to him, hopefully enough people do.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I never trusted ProtonMail. Right when you sign up, you're constantly bombarded with advertisements to upgrade to pro. They're plastered everywhere with obnoxious banners.

    I get that they're a business and they need money to operate, but the ads are so obnoxiously "in your face" that in my mind their priority isn't your privacy, it's your money.

    Tutamail is the better service.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago

    MediaTek or Qualcomm chips will be used probably, but to order cutting edge chips they'd need to order pretty high volumes to keep prices down, so the chip they order will probably be older. Though the Pixel 5 was one of my favorite phones, so if they can keep that level of speed on Android 16 then I'm all for it.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Part of what pisses me off is that Tesla doesn't use LiDAR, it uses cameras. So in sub optional conditions, like the ones where it kills people, LiDAR would resolve those outlier cases.

    But he'll never do that because he likes how his own farts smell.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's hilarious though ngl

    But this man never needs to worry about anything anymore. I'd probably "work every day" knowing that I have the pleasure of stopping whenever I want, and having everything you could ever want right at your fingertips at any given moment.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24607994

    Currently, you are unable to view the APKMirror web page. Instead, you get the following message shown in the screenshot below.

    Tiktok downloads are currently blocked in the United States due to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.

    The link in this statement leads to the following page, containing the bill that was passed:

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521

    This sets a dangerous precedent going forward for the Android community which sideloads applications onto their phones, being that APKMirror is the largest mirror of APKs for Android phones. It's also possible for them to add more apps to be included under this bill, and possible for another bill to be passed which may act as an even more broad blanket to target specific groups of people (e.g. LGBTQ+, people of color), messaging applications that are truly secure (e.g. Signal), and so on.

    Then of course there a very real possibility of our president forcing the integration of software updates into both Android (and possibly even iOS smartphones) that can forcibly remove applications for the "sake of national security".


    Blocked APKMirror links:

    https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/tiktok-pte-ltd/tik-tok/

    https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/tiktok-pte-ltd/lemon8/

     

    Currently, you are unable to view the APKMirror web page. Instead, you get the following message shown in the screenshot below.

    Tiktok downloads are currently blocked in the United States due to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.

    The link in this statement leads to the following page, containing the bill that was passed:

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521

    This sets a dangerous precedent going forward for the Android community which sideloads applications onto their phones, being that APKMirror is the largest mirror of APKs for Android phones. It's also possible for them to add more apps to be included under this bill, and possible for another bill to be passed which may act as an even more broad blanket to target specific groups of people (e.g. LGBTQ+, people of color), messaging applications that are truly secure (e.g. Signal), and so on.

    Then of course there a very real possibility of our president forcing the integration of software updates into both Android (and possibly even iOS smartphones) that can forcibly remove applications for the "sake of national security".


    Blocked APKMirror links:

    https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/tiktok-pte-ltd/tik-tok/

    https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/tiktok-pte-ltd/lemon8/

     

    Use the following device key to interpret the January 2023 changelog for the Pixel 8 and other supported devices:

    • [1] Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8

    • [2] Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8, Pixel Fold

    • [3] Pixel 5, Pixel 5a (5G), Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro

    • [4] Pixel Tablet

    Camera

    • Fix for users facing Camera crashes in certain conditions *[3]

    User Interface

    • Fix for users facing flashing black screen when playing video in certain conditions *[1]
    • Fix for users unable to exit Setup Wizard in certain conditions *[4]
    • Fix for Wallpaper on home screen showing black in certain conditions *[2]
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/googlepixel@lemmy.world
     

    Hey guys!

    It's almost time again for the latest and greatest iterations of Pixel devices, where Google will show off their newest hardware and software upgrades to the masses.

    The event will debut on October 4th at 10 AM EST (https://dateful.com/convert/est-edt-eastern-time?t=10am&d=2023-10-04), showcasing what's to be the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, and likely the Pixel Watch 2.

    Rumors indicate signs pointing to a new Tensor chip in the Pixel devices, temperature sensors, Magic Audio removal features for video clips, and even a Qualcomm-based chip in the Pixel Watch 2.

    Feel free to watch the event and sign up to be notified when it's live, at the following YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxlaUCJZ27E

    See you all soon!

     

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5176306

    Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.::With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.

     

    Looks like Google falls further behind as they fail to properly design and update newer iterations of Pixel phones. Rather than have a superior TSMC chip within the next 13 months, which would have a higher quality manufacturing process and significantly reduce power consumption, it looks like it'll be closer to 25 months if we're lucky.

     

    Samsung phones have DeX widely available across their flagship devices, allowing users to plug their phones into a screen, connect a mouse and keyboard, and work as if it was a laptop or desktop PC.

    Do you find features like this fitting into your workflow? How would you feel about a Google equivalent?

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