I do miss “back in the day” when I was a kid, where every phone had its own OS and apps, and it was exciting to go through every single option and button on the phone
These days, bar a few small hardware differences, every iphone is the same as the next, and every android is the same as the next.
I much prefer a standardised OS (android,iOS,whatever) but its not exciting anymore
I just wanted a distro built to my specs, up to date, uses pacman, not run by a for-profit company, with good documentation. The hype is mostly Reddit elitism and gatekeeping. I like that nobody has slipped branding and extra bookmarks into my browser.
The pixel 8 was exciting because it was the 1st android smartphone which broke the usual 5 years of update cycle and jumped to 7 years. Making other OEMs like Samsung and OnePlus to play catchup.
Pixel 9 appears like a minor improvement in comparison. Hopefully, the SOC provides improved battery life due to better modem, and modern ARM cortex cores.
I was always a cheap Nexus/Pixel A guy that traded up when the new budget phones went for sale on the Play store. I got my 6A for like 150 bucks brand new. When the 8A was announced for 500 dollars and barely better than the 6A I jumped to a refurbished 7 Pro and I’ll probably just keep this phone until something really special comes out or I just abandon carrying a cellphone all together [most likely.]
I’m still waiting for a reason to upgrade my 6, so I might skip 9. I think I’d upgrade if we get 20-40x optical zoom. Otherwise, I’m not sure what a more powerful phone will do for me.
I’ve been using Debian for many years now. The hardest part about switching my desktop to arch (partly to try something different, partly for later kernel / tools) was not that arch is difficult, but that I need to type ‘sudo pacman -S’ instead of ‘sudo apt install’ to install new packages. It is functionally the same in my day to day use which is fantastic.
That’s probably an I/O issue. I’ve had this problem when my BTRFS mount options were misconfigured. Also happened to ext4, but that couldn’t do snapshots before apt operations so it didn’t really need to lock the FS as much.
You can try reducing the I/O priority of intensive processes and filesystems and double check your mount options. If they’re optimised for HDDs, your SSD performance may suffer.
In my experience, Windows does a lot better when the system is overloaded with I/O or runs out of RAM out of the box. You can tweak most of those options out of the way, if you know where to look.
Specifically for BTRFS, fsync operations are quite intensive. You can use tools like eatmydata to reduce the impact by temporarily disabling fsync for a specific command (may not work with PackageKit software). Tweaking the BTRFS layout to exclude directories like /var/log and /var/run can also help reduce the impact of things like snapshots and deduplicated operations.
Same. I have come to trust Apple’s commitment and attitude towards user privacy substantially more than Google. I actually know a person that works in a fairly high middle management position in a technical department at the fruit company, and he told me that even their internal handling of user data is incredibly restrictive, even when it makes their jobs harder. I don’t think Apple is perfect, but better than the alternative.
Apple is a locked in ecosystem what is based entirely on proprietary software. I’m not sure how that is good for privacy. They can and are collecting your data. You also can’t get apps outside of the App store which limits your options.
AOSP based Android Like Lineage OS is the only way.
I’ve been wanting to buy a Pixel for a while now (for GrapheneOS), but there’s always something that bothers me too much.
This time around, the Pixel 9 pro sounds like it will be great, but I’ll be waiting to see Google’s custom SoC using TSMC for the Pixel 10.
I could always just get the 9 later at a lower price or used.
Andrew Camerata - building a castle out of shipping containers, amongst other shenanigans - it has good narration, script, and cinematography for a ‘redneck engineering’ channel.
Word of mouth. YouTube. Pretty much anything that isn’t an actual ad because the only games that I usually see ads for are games I do not give a shit about.
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