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Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I...

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It's not supported. According to the devs rooting defeats the purpose of Graphene OS.

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What is the patching process when running with Majisk, without OTA? It looked like quite a PITA to me, but I'm using Graphene for the same reason you are.

Edit: I found this

https://grapheneos.org/usage#updates-sideloading

After sideloading an update I'd probably have to do what Trevor posted.

Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....

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They don’t use trackers, they are not targeted and they respect your privacy.

In that case it won't matter to anyone that I skipped them.

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"Whatever stage of development it may reach, China will never pursue hegemony or expansion, and will never impose its will on others.

Meanwhile, in the South China Sea: https://apnews.com/article/south-china-sea-disputed-second-thomas-shoal-f702d9b9b84f9019083fb4d530fdf970

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But only in Europe. Is there any way the rest of us can do this too?

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We kind of sort of do, but it's called Android...

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I'll check in again when there's an Android exclusive of any note.

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Giant Pandas are overrated, if you ask me. Red Pandas are much, much cuter.

Steam Deck Owners: What’s been your favorite game that you first discovered on Steam Deck and now you can’t seem to put down?

Looking for those games that you may have heard about but never tried until you got a Deck. Or old games on systems you never had that you’re trying for the first time. Or new AAA games that just released in the last year or two that you picked up for the first time specifically to play on Steam Deck and have kept you glued to...

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I rediscovered and fell in love all over again with Phantasy Star Online on the Steam Deck.

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I haven't tried playing PSO2 on the Steam Deck, just the original.

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A game that receives updates in a regular manner. There is an expectation that players support these updates by buying things, and to encourage this live service games tend to have things that try to be habit-forming or are available for limited periods of time, such as battlepasses.

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What is your job?

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Being able to carry my entire collection with me is incredible. Before I'd have to select a few to bring on vacation or when visiting relatives.

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LinkedIn says it's not a breach:

"This was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in what we’ve been able to review."

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I'd have bought an iPhone a long time ago if it had Firefox. Unfortunate.

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Since Android Webview is Chromium, this reads to me like it's making it into Chrome anyway.
It's behind some restrictions, but now that it's deployed Google can

  1. test it in live environments, making sure everything works
  2. more easily enable it for Chrome proper with fewer to no restrictions
    They'll probably do this in the future using a staged rollout similar to what they did for Youtube and adblockers.

The fact that it's making it into production means the only concession Google made was admitting that they know that some of us vocally oppose it.
I'd continue encouraging friends and family to use Firefox.

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The robot in the picture looks like a Unitree Go1: https://www.unitree.com/en/go1/
This is remarkable because according to the Unitree website they are a Chinese company.

HangZhou YuShu TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD All Rights Reserved 浙ICP备17044557号 浙公网安备 33010802011921号

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This is mentioned in the article:

The critical thing to remember during all these benchmarks is that Qualcomm matches or beats the competition (as of today) at all these CPU and GPU tests, but at less power than the others, sometimes up to 70% less power than Apple or Intel.

Even against the M2 Max from Apple, which will beat the Snapdragon X Elite on most benchmarks (except single-thread), the Snapdragon X Elite still consumes 30% less power when matching Apple's single-threaded peak performance.

Looks like a 30% efficiency improvement, although the article doesn't detail the performance against M2 besides in writing. We'll have to wait for more benchmarks.

On the more familiar and widely used Geekbench 6, both configurations easily beat Razer’s Blade 14 (2023) powered by the AMD R9 7940HS. The MacBook Pro 13” with M2 processor came last (compared to our best gaming laptops) with 2,658 single-thread and 10,088 multi-thread. By comparison, Qualcomm pulled off 2,940 ST, 15,130 MT, 2,780 ST, and 14,000 MT at its lower TDP configuration.

Cinebench 2024, which replaces Cinebench R23, hasn’t been used a lot by us yet as it’s brand new, but the new version, which is compiled to run ARM natively, still shows the Snapdragon X Elite way ahead of the competition with 132 ST and 1,220 MT for Config A. The MacBook Pro with M2 could only muster 121 ST and 572 MT and was still easily beaten by the Config B model with 122 ST and 950 MT.

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Apple says the M3 is 50% more efficient than the M1, and since it's on a 3nm process it's likely at least competitive, and probably more efficient than the Snapdragon at 4nm.

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Someone made this point above, but if that were true this would've been implemented in every country, not just the ones with GDPR.

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I wonder if this'll also affect Tinnitus?

Google app being flagged as a virus by Huawei phones (stackdiary.com)

I’m seeing a lot of reports from users of Huawei and Honor devices have reported that their phones are incorrectly identifying Google apps as Trojan malware, specifically labeled as TrojanSMS-PA. According to the alert, this “malicious software” has the ability to send SMS messages without user consent.

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conflate a company from a country with the government of that country

It's actually okay to do this for China, because just about every private enterprise has a CCP cell now. It's important to understand how state capitalism works with the CCP and China.

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Were the hackers before not highly skilled? Moderately skilled hackers, perhaps?

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Completely unsurprising considering the draconian censorship in China. There is no way the CCP would tolerate any datasets containing material that would've otherwise been blocked on the Chinese internet.

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The cunning thing is that the preview doesn't really change the random boxes. You still don't know what's in the next one.

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