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Yeah, that's exactly what happened with the Pixel C. A lot of politics around who would own tablets and laptops at the time that meant the winds changed direction ~yearly, hence th…

Wrong Ian -- Ian Hickson wrote about that in a blogpost, this post is about Ian Lance Taylor

You can disable them, which is functionally uninstalling. Actually being able to uninstall them isn't technically possible because their base images live on a read-only partition s…

> When we refer to "log", this is almost always means a camera gamma - an OOTF. Wouldn't this be the OETF? OOTF would include the EOTF, which is typically applied on the display si…

> The ritual to compile, pack and flash super.img into the device is absurd. I typically only do a full flash for the first build after a sync. Afterwards I just build the pieces I…

I'm not the parent you're asking, but figure you might be interested anyways since I could've likely made the same comment: I work on displays within an OS team. Having some basic …

> It seems somewhat silly on a non-realtime OS to grab one frame, request a 15ms wait, and then grab another frame, when your deadline is 16.6ms A couple reasons this isn't as sill…

Skia has been around for 15 years (open source for 12) and is used in a number of high priority projects for Google (e.g. Android, Chrome). It's incredibly unlikely it will be kill…

> At a meta-level, I'm surprised that something with so factual (and testable) an answer can still not be settled. It is absolutely settled, and has been tested over and over again…

It's "Don't be evil" and it's still in the code of conduct: And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up! - https://abc.xyz/investor/…

Some of these exist: > learn how to build Android from sources https://source.android.com/setup/start has instructions. > put some binary drivers from official image https://source…

While the kernel theoretically has the ability to preempt you, it's not supposed to when using a realtime priority thread. Per the RH realtime guide[[1]: """ SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_R…

It was always "don't be evil" [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

Note that 'their "service"' includes the Play Store, which is a not insignificant revenue generator for Google.

Skia does not have a stable ABI, which is a requirement for inclusion in the NDK: https://github.com/google/skia/blob/master/experimental/c-ap...

If the battery does degrade to the point of needing to be replaced, there is a message in the battery settings page: http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/iP...…

> "Google/Alphabet doesnt have to pay them for the content now." When a video is demonetized, only a small subset of advertisers or no advertisers can be shown on that video. If no…

That's not necessarily because you could do it in a single frame; a lot of the old touch controllers would maintain high levels of hysteresis as a really crude technique to mitigat…

Note that you can always mute a tab in Chrome, which I suspect would remove the exemption as well.

Android was also mostly left alone for a number of years.