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It's funny that companies like Google have stopped giving chargers in the name of being 'environment friendly' but in spite of conforming to USB PD standards, third party chargers can't still charge the Pixel Pro to it's maximum capacity, so you are essentially forced to buy one.

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Check the Software part for this device. Funnily, it's listed as Android 15.

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Wear OS (discuss.tchncs.de)

Can one rant about Wear OS here since it's technically still Android?

When Samsung was making watches on Tizen, they released products like Frontier (boasting upto 3 day battery life), original Galaxy Watch (boasting upto 4 days battery life). Cue they switched to Wear OS with GW4 and with the 40mm variant, the battery life doggedly remained at a pathetic 1 day with AOD on.

Even with release of newer generations like Ultra, they are barely hitting 3 days with ~590mAh battery. Why is Wear OS such a battery hog?

I own a Galaxy Watch 6 and the watch OS uses like 6 GB storage and 1+ GB in perpetual RAM. Is it really so that displaying time and running couple of apps in the background takes more memory than GNOME 46?

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Has some good features like UFS 4.0 support (the entry Pixel 9,IIRC lacks it) but is marred by Techno level software support(read: one OS upgrade)

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[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago

Not all phones listed are equally bad though. Nokia Pureview suffered from bad camera quality but I can live with that. What probably is unlivable is exceptionally short battery life, like on the HTC one. Still, an interesting opinion piece, if nothing else.

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An old article but provides a detailed view on the choice of removing the old XUL addons

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An old comic still relevant (discuss.tchncs.de)

Work by Ron Cobb

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They aren't necessarily silly, but these options were definitely quirky, especially LG Wing.

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 months ago

I used it in the past on Linux and liked it's relatively small memory footprint though I am currently on Strawberry ( a fork of Clementine).

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

Isn't medical tourism a thing in the US too; like you can fly to a developing country, get your treatment done by top specialists there and fly back to US and the cost would still be lower than what it would have taken to do in home country.

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

An old person is carrying a placard that says Thank You comrade Stalin for a wonderful childhood. A party member takes him aside and asks him how that is possible because Stalin wasn't born when he would have been young. The old person replied, "That's exactly why I am grateful".

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

Where's the meme in this?

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago

I still can't roll my head across the reason as to why a vaccum cleaner needs an account? What is next, account for using the faucet or toaster?

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 months ago

I just tried Tubular, a NewPipe fork and it works properly.

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 months ago

Use nicotine as the client instead. It's arguably more user friendly and also stuffed with features. Most nix distros have it in their repos. You just need to share stuff on Soulseek(primarily music though some people share films as well).

Soulseek is filled to the brim with music, especially flac versions of songs.

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 months ago

uBlock Origin Lite is a Manifest v3 compatible extension and was intended to be the successor of uBlock Origin on Chromium based browsers.

However, it is not at feature parity(and will likely never be due to restrictions in Manifest v3). One restriction is no element picking on websites and then adding them to custom filters.

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 months ago

Gone with the Wind was backward looking even for it's time frame. It's depiction of the South as a happy place for everybody wasn't agreeable by many films even then. Meanwhile, Star Wars is just a science fiction film, set in a different universe with little direct connotations.

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 months ago

I don't understand everyone's problem with getting this sleep schedule. I, for one, clock exactly this. I go to bed at 10 AM and wake at 6 PM; just like it says!

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 months ago

Same here. I have Prime but only for their Amazon Prime delivery services, not for their video or audio thing(Amazon refuses to unbundle their stuff in my country). To make it worse, Amazon Prime Video, Atleast last I tried didn't go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux, so there is no point to it.

And there is hardly an ethical concern to it. I am paying for a service but getting my hands on the material; just via a different supply chain because Amazon sucks.

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