Pixel 10 Phones

Post by dmd » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC

SweetSoftPillow wrote: post #784

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I'm calendar-driven to such an extent that I joke that all it would take to murder me would be to insert "jump off a cliff" in my calendar.

I never use a calendar; most days, I don't even know what day it is. So, your approach is very interesting to me. Could you please tell me more about what your day looks like on the calendar? How detailed is it, and do you do this even on holidays?

    [todo/home] clean air filters
    [todo/home] take out trash
    [todo/home] refill [daughter]'s medication
    [work] 9:30 meeting with [person]
    [home] 10:30 doctor appt @ 313 river
    [home] 11:30 [daughter] dropoff at middle school orientation
    [work] 13:45 meeting with [person]
    [home] 16:00 [daughter] cello lesson
    [todo/work] 16:45 check if zpool is done resilvering
    [home] 19:30 ?outdoor contradance @ c?

Post by frollogaston » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC

StopDisinfo910 wrote: post #481

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The single thing that solidifys it for me is that every Android device I have ever used has suffered from noticeable micro stuttering. Their current top of the line TV device drops an entire video frame every couple of seconds while watching 60fps content, cause very noticeable jerking.

Could you remind me which brand still sell a 60Hz screen on their 1000$ phone?

Post by dns_snek » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

littlecranky67 wrote: post #846

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This myth that you're not being tracked in very similar ways if you use an iPhone is nothing but genius marketing and PR. Do some research about the type and quantity of telemetry that's sent back to the mothership from your iOS device, it's not materially different from regular Android. > Both iOS and Google Android transmit telemetry, despite the user explicitly opting out of this. When a SIM is inserted both iOS a…

Not saying there is no spying, but Google is definitely a worse offender, by orders of magnitude. This, plus the lots of nagging + nudging dialogues a stock Android phones tries to get you to allow data collection. Google Maps is a prominent one, that by default tracks your each and every move and sends it to google. Web+App cross ID fingerprinting is also something Google has no issue with. Safari on iOS defaults to…

Post by bitwize » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:35 PM UTC

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Apple said the mini iPhones underperformed, but they were not some sort of commercial failure. They sold millions of units. Numbers most Android OEMs could only dream of for a single flagship model. Current day Apple is all about optimizing and determined that still wasn't enough, and I imagine the manufacturing for small, specialized display panels certainly took a chunk out of those margins, so Apple decided to pul…

The number of people who aren't vocal tech people who actually want a smaller phone is a very small part of the market. In HN-like circles they're a notable minority but among the general population they are a smaller percentage. Especially when you consider huge segments of the market where your phone is your only computing device: a smaller phone is a massive anti-feature in large parts of the world. Plus almost ev…

Post by craftkiller » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 3:01 PM UTC

blehn wrote: post #711

xenadu02 wrote: post #383

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The number of people who aren't vocal tech people who actually want a smaller phone is a very small part of the market. In HN-like circles they're a notable minority but among the general population they are a smaller percentage. Especially when you consider huge segments of the market where your phone is your only computing device: a smaller phone is a massive anti-feature in large parts of the world. Plus almost ev…

Manual transmissions have no practical benefit aside from arguably being easier to repair. A better car analogy is pickup trucks (and cars in generally really) — they've gotten huge over the years, compact pickups have disappeared, and you hear the same arguments about it being a niche audience. The reality is that as soon as something sells well (big trucks in this case), these big corporations go all in on it and a…

  1. engine braking
  2. being able to jump start a car with a dead battery by pushing it down a hill while turning the ignition and shifting into 2nd gear (which my sister successfully did after school one day).