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I'm a software developer and I do some DevOps. I've gone back and forth on the pendulum of AI. Code completion, having it generate code, write tests, scripts, even tried vibe codin…

Maybe something like https://ceenr.com/ ? I've never used them personally.

I was accused for the first time of my writing looking AI-generated. I tend to be overly verbose and use a lot of ordered and unordered lists. On top of that I'm used to documentat…

Here's the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20281420

Google has finally pushed the source of the Pixel 4a battery update: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+log/refs/heads/...

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892352

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892352

You can run this: adb shell cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/serial_number Requires adb: https://developer.android.com/tools/adb

Wow, that is exactly what I was hoping to do, but I wasn't able to figure out more than 1 or 2 of those steps. Thanks!

Image.lz4 is definitely a Linux kernel, and it's definitely changed: https://android.googlesource.com/device/google/sunfish-kerne... Would changes to external closed-source binary …

Why not? The kernel seems to handle low level charging and battery logic, for example: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/refs/heads/and... I'm not hoping to argue, only…

I'm going through the kernel with Ghidra but not very good at it and not having much luck. I do have an idea about what it's checking to determine if a battery is affected, but I d…

I looked through all the sunfish repos first, which is how I found this: https://android.googlesource.com/device/google/sunfish-kerne... But apparently sunfish-kernel only contains…

I'm trying to figure out what the actual latest update is doing regarding the battery. I found an update to the kernel binary but it doesn't seem the source has been updated. Can I…

The closest I've found is the Pixel 8. Surprisingly, the 8a and 9a are bigger. But the 8a is still bigger than the 4a: https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=10123&idPhone2=.…

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Here are a couple open-source budgeting apps that can be self hosted: - https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii - https://github.com/actualbudget/actual-server I'd be curious wh…