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I love seeing these comments that completely ignore the southern hemisphere

And also because Google doesn’t sell data.

Looks pretty good. I’m a sucker for pill based categories and control panels like yours and Android’s. Wish I could do something like this on KDE (you can pry Plasma out of my cold dead hands)

“More reasons to Avoid the Raspberry Pi”

I didn’t know we even had reasons to avoid it

I really appreciate you saying “if your situation and use case allows it”. I’m sick of people “suggesting” these kind of things by just saying “don’t do this” “stop doing that” while completely ignoring that not everyone has the same use cases, preferences and possibilities for such.

Found the gnome developer

C and B are definitely happening in the next months, A will start by the end of next year, as support for Bard dwindles and Google moves on to the next AI assistant that has half the features and polish of the previous one.

Absolutely nothing.

Watch out mate, you’re going to bring out the deniers

We’ve been hearing about Apple coming back to the gaming market for quite a long time now and absolutely nothing happens. The iPhone 15 isn’t going to change anything in this regard, it’s going to be a party trick with a handful of popular games ported to it and then nothing else.

Google does not take anything as seriously as they should.

I have the same “issue” on my galaxy watch 5 pro. I can see the dents on walls I accidentally hit, but the watch hasn’t a single scratch.

And being pedantic, it’s not sapphire glass, it’s sapphire crystal. Glass is a wholly different thing. Sapphire glass would be when Apple claims their products have sapphire in them, but in reality they just mix the tiniest amount of sapphire in the glass so they can technically call it sapphire glass, but it doesn’t offer any extra resistance or hardness.

The galaxy watches are pretty good, and as usual, Samsung carried Wear OS on its back while Google was planning on killing it, up to a point that Google then decided to have their own smart watches.

“A little jarring” is being very generous. For me, Skyrim’s map is one of the worst maps I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. Skyrim is a grey game with grey landscape, and the map really emphasizes how grey everything is: grey land with grey icons on top and grey clouds covering most of the landscape (such a great idea). I don’t mind that the map is 3D, but the camera angle limits is what pisses me off, they seem to choose the worst possible angles to showcase the map. There are no road markings whatsoever, and the LOD is so low that you can barely make out any feature on the map (considering you’re lucky to find a patch in the map that isn’t covered by the grey clouds).

I know that Fallout’s maps are bad as well, you can barely see shit in them except for the markers, but at least it’s in theme with the game, so it gets a pass. Starfield’s is in theme and is pretty much like the Fallout maps, but the fact that there’s literally no other features make it terrible as well, but I much rather have a completely blue screen with some markers spread around than trying to navigate Skyrim’s map.

Oblivion’s where it’s at. They should have expanded on what they did there: simple 2D maps that are in theme with the game, clearly depicting main roads and some minor paths and simple depictions of the main cities’ walls.

“I don’t want these Signal encrypted Matrix protocol messages on my Signal encrypted Matrix protocol messaging app, it’s a gigantic security risk”

Ony 3080 with a 5900x I’m constantly getting 60fps at 1080p (unfortunately for now that’s the only screen I have), meanwhile BG3 would dip to low 10s after a few minutes of playing every time

EDIT: I would also like to add that I didn’t use DLSS or FSR in both games, since my hardware is more than capable of running both on maximum quality at 60fps 1080p.

There’s always the under-the-hood changes from Android upstream, and Samsung keeps adding customization options every update. Without rooting or 3rd party apps*, no other OEM comes close to OneUI’s customizability. For me, that’s a huge plus.

*I meant specifically 3rd party apps, because Samsung has the Good Lock suite of apps, which needs to be installed from the store. They work somewhat as a beta testing of features or advanced controls for existing features, and many of the features are added to new updates, for instance, the quick settings easy access up to One UI 5.1 (Android 13) is only available via Good Lock’s Quick Star module, but seems to be built-in on One UI 6 (Android 14)

The “Quick Panel” […] in terms of the look, it’s a pretty shameless copy of iOS’ Control Center

What is the penchant for these journalists to say everything looks/is copied from Apple? The quick settings menu looks nothing like iOS control center, unless they’re talking about both having buttons and a blurred background. Also I believe Samsung’s design is older than Apple’s, at least first iterations of it.

Samsung

Apple

People tend to forget that they aren’t the centre of the universe

I think this is a rare time that Google remembers the rest of the world exists. In here in Hungary, android 13, and the setting was available and was already on.