There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

evo

@[email protected]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

evo ,

Because people don’t understand the difference between using ChatGPT running in a datacenter somewhere via API calls and having a tiny model actually running on device.

Even quantized down to 4bit the best 7B models barely run locally on the best mobile hardware that exists today. GPT4 is ~250x larger than that 7B model lol

evo ,

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. The vast majority of their efforts have to be going into the fully custom (TSMC) G5 for next year.

evo ,

Yeah, I like the camera bump on my Pixel Fold since it shouldn’t go all the way across the back and is still square-ish. These are similar but worse. Pixel 6 was peak design IMO.

evo ,

In case you didn’t know they released an Android TV app over a year ago.

evo ,

Casting from your phone is occasionally convenient but for everyday TV/movie watching it’s way more clunky than Android TV. And you can’t really browse for something to watch together with someone else on a phone.

evo ,

I’m a YouTube premium subscriber with Adguard Home and haven’t noticed anything slow.

evo ,

Yes. I went to my first Google I/O 10 years ago and my second today.

2014: Introduced Android L, Android Wear, Android TV and Android Auto.

2024: Gemini Nano… still not publicly available to app developers. 💀

evo ,

Security-wise that is significantly worse. Google Pay generates a random card number per transaction and isn’t active when the phone is locked.

I keep my credit cards in an NFC blocking sleeves because the passive NFC can’t be turned off. Someone could literally bump into you and cause a transaction.

evo ,

Bummer. Maybe there will be more options when Android 15 launches, it is adding the option to choose the default wallet app.

evo ,

How exactly is AOSP not FOSS and debloated?

Kinda hard to take any of this seriously with those claims…

evo ,

Yes, worst clickbait title I’ve seen in a while. Health Connect was announced 2 years ago…

evo ,

I don’t really get why the M8 is remembered so fondly but the M7 isn’t.

Is it just that way more people bought the M8? The M7 was truly innovative and the M8 was only a small iteration on top.

evo ,

I think so. My partner, a couple friends and I all had them and none of us had the issue though.

evo ,

Couldn’t agree more. I forgot to mention that the M7 also just looked better.

evo ,

Like 50-70% of places still don’t have tap to pay.

Out of curiosity, what country is this?

evo ,

I’m in California and it’s been years since I’ve been somewhere that didn’t have Apple/Google Pay at the register. I don’t shop there but Walmart is the only place I know of that doesn’t have it (because they track users via credit card).

The only real annoying thing here is that restaurants still take your card instead of bringing the machine to your table like they do in Canada and Europe.

evo ,

Not to be a dick, but how/why is that useful? It’s not a package I need to physically go get or something. It’s deposited into an account (super fast if you do your taxes early). This also assumes I’m getting a refund.

evo ,

Sadly that’s sorta lemmy in a nutshell.

evo ,

I switched to Bluetooth earbuds long before phones started removing the headphone jack…

evo ,

A company investing in a startup does not mean they are “involved” in any way.

evo ,

Apparently nobody here realizes that Meet is the video chat app for Google’s enterprise work (and school) suite of apps.

It’s not going anywhere…

Android app dependency? (slrpnk.net)

I have found the translation from camera source feature useful in Google Translate and I use it from time to time. Last night was one such occasion, yet when I attempted to enable camera mode, I received the message shown in the screenshot, “Please install the latest Google app in order to use camera translation”. I...

evo ,

You and I have wildly different definitions of the word “many” lol

evo ,

You can hide them with the normal app. Just click the “x” on your main feed.

evo ,

Rumor is this one (the G4) is the last one based on exynos. G5 is allegedly completely custom and uses TSMC fab.

evo ,

On desktop…

evo ,

To me it’s all about height so foldables are the way to go. My Pixel Fold is significantly shorter than my partners Pixel 8 (not pro).

I have an 8 Pro just sitting on my desk unused because the Fold is just so much more manageable. I can’t go back to something that tall.

evo ,

I know exactly what you are talking about. I’m just hoping they come to their senses and go back to the better form factor of the original one for the 3rd (that will presumably have the completely custom Tensor G5)

evo ,

I respect what they are trying to do here. I just replaced the batteries in my Sony WF-1000XM4 earbuds… it was not a trivial process.

evo ,

Despite widespread misinformation, that isn’t actually true. You DO NOT need to declare the Internet permission in an Android app. Google removed the requirement about 10 years ago when they realized pretty much every single app used the Internet permission. You only need it now if you are using sockets

evo ,

I don’t have a reputable source (only stack overflow) because Google’s docs are misleading. They say you need INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permissions but it simply isn’t true. I wonder if they regret the decision but can’t change it now because it could break older apps?

evo , (edited )

The UI strings make it pretty clear this is an option the user can choose.

evo ,

I think he is referring to the rumors that the Tensor G5 (not the G4 releasing year) will be a complete redesign built on TSMC’s 3nm instead of Exenos.

evo ,

It’s not an assumption. They obviously have telemetry that shows the vast majority of people never turn Bluetooth or WiFi off.

evo ,

Wut. Why would they bother when your cellular connection is constantly pinging all towers to literally triangulate your location? Why do something much more complicated to get data they already have?

The real answer is they are a multi billion dollar company with telemetry. Obviously, the vast majority of people never turn off WiFi or Bluetooth. Most people want quick access to connect to a WiFi network or Bluetooth device, not to toggle either off.

evo ,

Damn, somehow this place is more toxic than Reddit used to be.

evo ,

It’s actually even better than that. Because this is an OS provided picker the app only gets access to the photos you select, instead of all of your photos.

evo ,

Good. Android 6 came out in 2015 and 98.4% of devices in use now are at or above that level.. The only reason developers would have to target an API level that low in 2024 is to exploit something.

evo ,

Then you are fine. Marshmallow, API level 23, is the minimum. This would be a problem if it targeted API 22 or lower.

evo ,

You seem to be misinformed about what’s actually happening here. If there is a super old app you need you can still install it via adb.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the play store and its requirements. This is about preventing malware (which is typically written to target super old API levels to exploit things that weren’t patched yet) from being installed unknowingly by the user.

The design here is good. If you are tech savvy enough to use adb you can install anything you want. But this protects somebody that mistakenly thinks they are installing something safe from accidentally infecting their device.

evo ,

Again, this has literally nothing to do with the play store. This is API 22 and below we are talking about here… you can’t even find apps that target API levels below 30 on the play store today afaik lol.

Keep in mind this isn’t the minimum supported version, it’s the target/compile version which is typically pretty trivial to update. 99.9% of users in 2024 will never need to install an app that targets a version of Android released 10 years ago.

evo ,

Again, you appear to be misinformed…

Currently, existing apps (across mobile, Android Auto, Android TV) must target API level 31 or above by August 31, 2023 (target API 30 or up API level 33 for Wear OS). Otherwise, they will stop being discoverable to all Google Play users whose devices run Android OS versions newer than your app’s target API level, as your app wasn’t built to meet the safety and quality standard that these users expect from newer Android OS versions.

  • Apps with a target level of Android 11 (API level 30)* or lower will not be available to new users running the Android OS higher than apps’ target API after August 31, 2023.
  • Apps with a target level of Android 10 (API level 29) or lower have not been available to new users running the Android OS higher than apps’ target API after November 1, 2022, or May 1, 2023, if your app had an extension.

Source

evo ,

They added a bunch of keyboard shortcuts last year.

And wouldn’t the OS take any keycode you type? Any keyboard worth using should let you type non English characters if you want.

evo ,

Fair enough. The OS should handle these characters automatically based on the selected language and I would expect Android to; I just don’t know for sure that it does.

My point was simply that these characters/symbols are Unicode so a keyboard running QMK or similar should be able to send them directly. However, you are correct that it shouldn’t be necessary.

evo , (edited )

Swipe up to continue: Fold your phone and swipe up on the front display to continue using the app, or wait a few seconds for the screen to lock

That’s an interesting option I might try, but I honestly think I’ll set this to “never”. I’m always happy when we have options on how to use our devices but for me personally closing the phone when I’m done using it is the most natural.

Does Graphene OS maintain the privacy of notifications from being recorded by third parties?

I remember reading an article where the government and Google were able to read notifications and record them from every android device. I wonder if Graphene might have patched this problem, and if not, do they have any plans to do so?...

evo ,

There is nothing stopping you from encrypting the payload instead of sending plain text.

evo ,

I don’t believe has an option to encrypt notification content either.

This is not an option you would actually want from any service.

You don’t want to be giving the plain text message to anyone to encrypt. Instead the notification contents should be given to the service provider (FCM or anyone else) already encrypted and only able to be decrypted by the app.

evo ,

??? The person I responded to literally is…

evo ,

Seems like it. I think it’s called “Offloading” on iOS.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •