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BonoMan posted:godDAMN I'm so tired of this stupid loving super slick phone backs. This is your fault.
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bull3964 posted:I still don't understand how that's a thing. I've been using optical fingerprint sensors since the OnePlus 6T and I've never seen the light from the sensor on any device. Maybe they use their pinky finger?
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Don't forget that the Pixel 8 will have sick trade in deals and discounts in a couple months. Last year I upgraded from a 6 to a 7 for $100 after the Pixel friends $100 off and trade in.
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Bourricot posted:GrapheneOS looks intriguing and might make me buy a Pixel 8. How's your experience with the compatibility of the sandboxed Google Play (especially banking apps)? And is the camera quality just as good as before flashing? I've been running it for a couple weeks and my only complaint is no NFC payments.
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gourdcaptain posted:Which isn't really so much a GrapheneOS-specific issue as "Google et. all are jackasses about having the stock OS for that." Yes totally, I should've been more clear. For content I will admit that I tried going for multiple users over the past two weeks and gave up. Its real annoying switching between different users for different sets of applications.
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Chinook posted:Weird question, seems unlikely that I'll get a satisfying answer after googling has failed me, but here it goes: Your best bet is probably to try and get Google to give you access to their account. Backed up photos, contacts, etc would hopefully be available through that route.
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Oct 17, 2023 02:40
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Your phone camera absolutely has a minimum distance and any photo inside that distance is going to look worse/be unfocused. I worked on some check scanning/photo apps and if you're taking a photo less than 12 inches away you're likely to get a blurry shot.
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Avian Pneumonia posted:
https://www.lively.com/phones/jitterbug-flip2/
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AlexDeGruven posted:I love the automatic transparency. Last night at the gym it was activating a little too easily, but after hitting go again a few times, it calmed down. Since conditions didn't change, I'm assuming it was learning. It stopped triggering when I cleared my throat, etc as well. Do you do anything special to keep them in your ear? They fall out easier than the Pixel Buds A's for me and even those fall out of my ear once in awhile at the gym.
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DesperateDan posted:did you try the largest size tips/do a fitment check? Yea I've tried them all. Without the fin like the A's have they just do not like to stay in :/
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Black Friday deals deliver. $150 off a Pixel 8 and $280 trade in on my Pixel 7 with 128gb.
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Digital Jedi posted:Grabbed a 8 Pro. My current 6 pro's battery is shot. Was only holding a 25% all weekend and just now got up to 100% (after being plugged in for 95% of the day). Not sure what happened but it's not good and it scares me it will just fully break or something They must be getting lots of orders. My delivery date is around Nov 20.
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Funnily enough my new Pixel 8 seems slower in various things than my 7, especially loading up a mobile game.
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ShoogaSlim posted:my pixel 8 google pay has been declining payments pretty consistently where my 7 never had a problem. i was thinking the face unlock would make things more smooth but it's been pretty fuckin wonky. With my Pixel 8 in hand I am now strongly considering just returning it. General performance feels worse and I too experienced my first every Google wallet decline yesterday. drat do I love the smaller form factor though compared to the 7. withoutclass fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Nov 20, 2023 |
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ShoogaSlim posted:
Maybe it was a Square issue , the declined payment I had was also on a Square terminal and my physical card worked immediately.
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Pvt. Parts posted:Just turn your adblockers off or get YouTube premium. I don't understand how 5-10 seconds of ads is such an impossible price to pay for all the amazing, often "grassroots" content on YouTube. Expecting all of that for $0 is just pure entitlement to me. Because to me the content is not worth it and should it be paywalled or vanish I would not be worse off for it.
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butt dickus posted:lol "it's not worth 50 cents a day but it's worth complaining about" Humanity.txt
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Nov 21, 2023 19:50
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Pvt. Parts posted:Yes, and TV ads can be annoying and obnoxious too. But that is the price you are paying to consume the content, which was produced by other humans, and does not fall out of the air. Otherwise you are effectively stealing the content, or stealing the use of the content, to be pedantic. I'm not saying I'm some perfect saint, I still Like anything, it's up to the consumer to decide what the value of something is. It's also up to the consumer to decide how they feel about ads. For me, I watch maybe 1-2 videos a week and there are other avenues from which I could glean the same information. I have a similar issue with traditional media in that the vast majority of it is formulaic and really not all that great and I'd be fine if 80% of it ceased to exist. I don't expect anyone else to feel this way, but for me, I ain't paying and I ain't watching ads.
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on occasion if media is very difficult to find through legitimate means. But to have "I never want to see an ad on this content I pay literally nothing for!" as a policy is utterly bewildering and like I said, entitled, to me.
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Given the option I'd rather listen than read and the dude is fairly entertaining, but getting video game news has no lack of sources.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/the-pixel-tablet-is-actually-just-a-few-spare-parts-in-a-half-empty-body/ It's a pretty weird device. I'd be more interested if it was in the $299 range I think.
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bull3964 posted:There's literally no difference. I know the motherboard is set aside, but that's because they are showing the vapor chamber which when you are looking at the disassembled device, fills the void visually if the mainboard is in or out. There's still a huge amount of empty space on the bottom and on the right hand side of the device. I certainly feel a bit silly posting now!
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Nov 24, 2023 19:13
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The December update made my status bar bigger for some reason and now there's entirely too much vertical padding around the time/battery status etc.
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bull3964 posted:I haven't seen any UI padding changes on any of the Pixel devices I have. Wonder if it's because I run a smaller display size with a larger font. I should fiddle with it I guess.
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Zet posted:I just made the jump from Android 10 to 13: Wow, these quick settings tiles are gigantic? Went from 6 tiles up top to a 2x2 grid? 1. Turn display size down 2. Turn font size up to compensate. By doing this you can have not enormous tiles.
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Kia Soul Enthusias posted:That's stupid Nah, being able to set the two separately is a heck of a lot better than getting alerts in 2 places or 0 places.
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People find themselves identifying with plenty of things and the type of phone they use is no exception. If you can, best not to cling to things that aren't you.
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I converted all my iPhone having people to Signal and it solves all the problems Apple has created.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Yes, it's always hilarious when people just spout "switch everyone to signal" or some poo poo when these conversations come up. They do not live in the real world Not only do I live in the real world (whatever that implies), but it's exactly what I did and it worked!
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Bottom Liner posted:Literally no one I know uses WhatsApp. Or signal. It's all text or discord. Have you considered living in the real world?!
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Pixel 8 feels small enough to even use a case on it.
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ShoogaSlim posted:i hate using a case and never bothered in the past, but with the 8 it isn't so bad and i've been using one for a little over a month-ish now? it feels good. Yep I feel the same. I grabbed a Bellroy case and it feels great in the hand. Both the Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 just felt too big in my hand to run a case on them.
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repiv posted:i was put off bellroy phone cases after seeing how extremely thin the leather layer was, with examples of corners wearing through completely, but i think that was in the pixel 6 days so maybe they've improved I had one for my 6 for a bit and a single drop was enough to tear the leather. It's definitely more of a "finish" I think. It gives it a great hand feel but you're right it's pretty thin. My main complaint is the lighter colors get dirty really fast, so I went with black for the 8.
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Samsung has always wished it was Apple. That's why they have all their own crap like the Samsung store.
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spincube posted:They've already started to poo poo up Photos with that Memories garbage, which as far as I can tell is 'look, here are some pictures you took on the same day in roughly the same place, bundled together in your photo stream'. Memories owns but I guess you could wake up every day, then go back through all your albums by hand and then look at photos from this day too.
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spincube posted:I'm struggling to phrase this in a way that doesn't come off as petty, or Fair enough! I haven't seen what you're experiencing with these being inserted in the list of photos, only a small carousel at the top of the photos tab which isn't too intrusive to me
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, but I've absolutely no interest at all in looking at auto-generated slideshows; because I'd prefer to interact with pictures I've taken, that I find meaningful, by myself. Meanwhile, the app is now generating and stuffing those FEATURED <day> / BEST OF <month> / TRIP TO <place i took a picture of a road sign for some reason, a few weeks ago> tiles in amongst the stream of photos I've taken anyway.
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Lord Stimperor posted:Are phones getting appreciably faster/better these days? I have a Oneplus 8. When I look around at new phones they don't really seem to be a significant improvement. Is the phone space stagnating? It's been stagnated for 5+ years beyond incremental improvements.
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sleepwalkers posted:sarnsung'd again This was my exact thought. They've been doing bizarre bad things since inception. That's kinda their thing.
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other people posted:Does anyone know of a way to turn a phone into a device that only runs one app all the time? As a Tidal user, you should be able to download music from them at any quality. You could pick up something like a Sony Walkman and put music on there that way. I know it's not quite what you're asking for but just wanted to throw it out as an option.
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