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Re: I/O 2022

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Post by karmakaze »

cogman10 wrote: post #20
lkxijlewlf wrote: post #11

I popped in for a few minutes to verify something. I'm ... over this whole annual what's new presentation stuff. I just don't care anymore. And honestly the three presenters I saw didn't even seem like they rehearsed at all. They just read from the prompter and tried to put excitement in their voice at the same time and it just fell flat.

They've become really disappointing. When Google IO started it was a nice fun tech presentation with a lot of side classes showing devs how to work with these new google technologies. Now, it's mostly just google introducing new products to the press.

Okay so it wasn't just me. The I/O event in the past always had much interesting content. I was surprised to find that not a single one made me even consider reading about it.

Re: I/O 2022

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Post by rpmisms »

clolege wrote: post #199
drusepth wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendations? I've been holding off on upgrading my shattered-screen 3a for almost 6 months assuming I'd get the 6a when it released, so pretty much anything would be an upgrade at this point. I'm really just looking for a good camera, a headphone jack, and a good battery.

Another option to consider might be supplementing the best single-port phone you can find with a Dongle Dangler [0], which allows you to keep a dongle on your keychain. I use it with an iPhone 12 Mini (which has good enough camera/battery for me) and it solves the wired headphone problem, albeit with adding some extra steps. I would prefer to support manufacturers that are keeping the jack, but at a certain point I f…

Still can't charge and listen without yet another dongle.

Re: I/O 2022

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Post by rpmisms »

sorenjan wrote: post #159
rpmisms wrote: post #50

Pixel 6a dropped the headphone jack. Great. Gotta find another brand now.

Sony launched their Xperia 1 IV (yes, it's the fourth version of the 1, ridiculous name) today. It's probably around twice as expensive as the Pixel 6a since it's a flagship, but it still has a 3.5 mm jack, and it introduces optical zoom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Xperia_1_IV Only two years software upgrades though.

Looks amazing, honestly. The big draw of the Pixel a-series for me was midrange phones with normal features, headphone jacks, and stock Android. I don't think that's an unreasonable ask.

Re: I/O 2022

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Post by clolege »

rpmisms wrote: post #202
clolege wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another option to consider might be supplementing the best single-port phone you can find with a Dongle Dangler [0], which allows you to keep a dongle on your keychain. I use it with an iPhone 12 Mini (which has good enough camera/battery for me) and it solves the wired headphone problem, albeit with adding some extra steps. I would prefer to support manufacturers that are keeping the jack, but at a certain point I f…

Still can't charge and listen without yet another dongle.

If you used wireless charging like MagSafe, you’d still be able to use the port for audio, right?

A friend of mine swears by the MagSafe experience, but I’ve yet to try it.

Re: I/O 2022

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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

rektide wrote: post #3

So far it's been a lot of "look how smart we are: we make things easy!" It brings me to a pretty forlorn place, that there is such high & mighty technology, but delivered in such preconcieved, packaged products. Technological goods have become much better distributed, but the art of technology keeps evaporating upwards. Subliming up into the cloud. Part of the allure of the personal computing era (RIP) was that it in…

The same thing happened with cars. A half century who, anyone with a bit of an interest used to be able to understand pretty much everything going on under the hood of a car of the era. Today no one person fully understands the symphony between all the mechanical, hardware, and suffocate systems in a given brand new vehicle.

As technology matures, the underlying systems that drive it increase in complexity, but the user experience improves and simplifies. A mechanical pocket watch is much more complex than an hourglass or sundial, but vastly more useful.

Re: I/O 2022

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Post by TheRealNGenius »

systemvoltage wrote: post #69
staunch wrote: post #44

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> What’s with so much hostility? There's a popular and cynical meme that people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are just marketing bullshitters that don't actually do anything useful. It's laughably false and easily disproved. And yet it seems to comfort cynical/pessimistic/unhappy/ignorant people, of which many exist, and so it prevails.

Hmm, weird, I find Steve Jobs and Musk truly inspiring.

Nice to know you find this guy "truly inspiring"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517707521343082496?ref_...

Re: I/O 2022

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Post by twofornone »

three_seagrass wrote: post #191
twofornone wrote: post #161

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This common argument is disingenuous. You hide behind the term "inclusive" as though everyone is treated equally but simultaneously believe that >Excluding skin color and gender is being blind to prejudice, not fighting it. Which implies that historic and current prejudice must be corrected with more prejudice. Which is inconsistent with inclusiveness and equality. And we've all seen how this works in practice - cert…

Equality feels like persecution to those hold all the privileges. I'm not sure why having different colored emojis has triggered an essay to redefine inclusivity as persecution for some hypothetical "dominant" demographic, but you are proving my point. By using weak words to avoiding naming the demographic you feel is actually persecuted here, you're turning a blind eye to centuries of prejudicial conflict and injust…

>To correct historic injustice we are obligated to immediately dismiss any grievances from white people, bonus for snark and sarcasm. When minorities complain, all claims are immediately valid, but if whites (and sometimes Asians, when politically expedient) raise legitimate concerns, they're just being fragile.

You didn't even read my post.

>Equality feels like persecution to those hold all the privileges

This is carte blanche to be racist to anyone defined as privileged by the socially/politically dominant group. You're playing with fire. Only a matter of time before, as in the past, the ire is directed at you and the people you think you're fighting for. How far down the privilege totem pole are you?

It's marxism through and through, except the proles and bourgeoise have been replaced with racial classes. I encourage you to at least read the communist manifesto and see the direct parallels, right down to the language of "oppression".

s/petite bourgeois/white adjacent/g s/proletariat/minority/g

Don't forget, they also usually have a little discussed special category for lumpenproletariat, where competent true believers go when they outlive their usefulness.

Re: I/O 2022

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Post by systemvoltage »

TheRealNGenius wrote: post #206
systemvoltage wrote: post #69

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Hmm, weird, I find Steve Jobs and Musk truly inspiring.

Nice to know you find this guy "truly inspiring" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517707521343082496?ref_...

I thought that was pretty hilarious.

Re: I/O 2022

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Post by nojvek »

jabo wrote: post #126

Almost all the comments so far are negative! So let me change that: I'm excited that something I'm working on, Typesense, was mentioned by name and logo during the developer key note! [1] https://twitter.com/jasonbosco/status/1524483471988727809?s=...

Typesense is truly a magical piece of software. Thank you for building it.

Re: I/O 2022

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Post by disillusioned »

The_Colonel wrote: post #149
bsimpson wrote: post #56

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I work at Google and I don't always know which phone is which. It's a phone. It does phone things.

I wish. Pixel 6 (Pro) often has trouble doing "phone things", like making calls or transmitting data.

It's really astonishing to me how deeply bad the radio in the P6Pro is. It's such a huge step back from the Pixel 5, likely owing to them moving off of the Qualcomm radio and on to... Tensor? Some Tensor/Samsung Exynos hybrid? Either way it's misery salad. Drops calls. Can't handle wifi transition. Can't manage low-signal 5G, so just... stops working instead of falling back to LTE properly. Can't handle the UWB transition. Hot as hell when it's actually backing up anything large. Awful all around on that front.
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