I have smart downloads and pip window and redesigned desktop watch page without being in the US.

Wow, when you thought things couldn't get any worse.

Who is watching YT videos through this app?

The general populace at large? The amount of ads getting plastered and blasted makes me cringe when I see the non-premium YouTube app. I use adblock and also have premium courtesy of YT music subscription so I'm immune for the most part.

But, non-techy people do not know addblock is an option and also prefer not paying for subscription.

In your case. Consider using newpipe, revanced, invidious or even firefox with ublock-origin. Also, disable the YouTube app to remove the app opening.

The list of supported phones is limited to pixel and samsung smartphones but you should be able to sideload from apkmirror and get it to run with some limitations depending on your phone hardware.

Supported on phones running Android 13 or later. Samsung Galaxy S23, S23FE, S23+, S23 Ultra Samsung Galaxy S24, S24+, S24 Ultra Google Pixel 7, 7a, 7 Pro, 8, 8 Pro

For more detailed info check the app website: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera

Stupidity at its finest. The whole point of cheap 3rd party apple accessories is to use workarounds to get past apple DRMs and use them without paying the apple tax.

Blame apple foremost for creating such a market in the 1st place. You don't need such workarounds in other phones because they just work.

What good are 5-7 years of updates? If you don't let us repair our phones when we need. Assuming, everything else is fine.

I disagree. If google hadn't opened up, manufacturers wouldn't have bothered. We also have great UIs like oneui with useful quality of life features not found in stock android. Not to mention a longer update cycle than even Google the developer of android.

The firm’s first device running Esper Foundation is the Lenovo ThinkCentre M70a, an all-in-one desktop PC fitted with an up to 12th-Gen Intel Core i9 CPU, alongside 16GB DDR4 RAM and up to 512GB SSD. It’ll be followed by the Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q, M90n-1 IoT, and the ThinkEdge SE30 v2 machines by the end of 2023.

What are you going to do on such a device running android?

Esper Foundation is based on Android 11 and has customizable branding, peripheral compatibility, quarterly security patches, and three years of support. The MDM system, meanwhile, remotely deploys, manages, and updates devices from a single view.

It's based on 3 years old android. Promises quarterly security updates and provides only 3 years of support. I fail to see why any business in their right mind would get this instead of a decent specs chromebook or even a windows computer.

Android already has a setting for that. Disable battery optimization for apps you want to run in the background. Samsung goes much further with their sleeping, deep sleeping, and never sleeping lists.

Absolutely, unacceptable. Shouldn't have been made to stable at all. I guess OS versions being higher quality than previous ones did not start at all.

Android is catering to the general public. The average user would easily understand fast, slow and normal. 20w, 68w, 5w not so much. But, I agree not having to use apps or 3rd party cables just to see the charging watts would be great. Even a Dev flag to enable the feature would be cool.

You need to drill a 3.5mm hole to get it

I'm a paying YouTube premium subscriber and use adguard. But, I have been experiencing the YouTube app being slow in loading comments for some reason.

The fuss is that 3rd party apps need a persistent notification to stay alive. But, because Google owns pixels, it can skip that step and be less intrusive/visible, which others can not.

This is for the Google play system updates. Not the Play services app.

You can check your version in settings, security and privacy, Google play system updates. It should say November 2023 as the latest. Those on January recived the bad update.

Pebble was the best smartwatch maker to date. It's unfortunate no one is capable of replicating the features, battery life, and community support like them. I like snazzy fast displays like anyone else. But, I also like weeks long battery life. A pebble like smartwatch with E-ink displays should be resurrected in the near future some day.

Yeah, they could've bought this in 2020. Even the budget smartphones were strong enough to do this.

Android will continue to support RISC-V. Due to the rapid rate of iteration, we are not ready to provide a single supported image for all vendors. This particular series of patches removes RISC-V support from the Android Generic Kernel Image (GKI).

Basically, they still support it. But, won't provide a GKI. So, vendors will need to do more work if they intend to run android on a RISC-v CPU.

If you clicked the link. It says experimental technology. It's not mozilla's fault Chrome is adding features that are not standard. Sites like Discord for utilizing non standard API's.

It's there so the repair technicians can check if your phone works fine without actually getting access to your personal information.

According to the article, it launched with android 10. So, just android 11 and android 12L. Giving an android 13 update was the least they could've done, considering android 14 is around the corner. Oh, well. Do not buy products from companies that do not guarantee to provide one.

Idiot google policy banning a 12 year old account, which doesn't even violate its policy. Maybe something a human review could've helped to cross-check if it really needed a ban. Either way sucks for the dev.

You didn't get lucky. They pulled the update. The news is atleast a day old. Here's mashaal's toot on it: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111807173437858958

Lemmy is the new way of life. Reddit is the toxic ex.

Fuck this copilot/gemini shit. At this rate I will need a filter in my social media and news sources to remove everything related related to them.

Not just root. Some even detect if you have usb debugging enabled and warn or refuse to work unless you turn that off.

You can if you check his mastodon: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111942706749831438

Good. Hopefully, samsung smartphones can enjoy this QOL improvement.

Yeah, lol. Who has the time to type a passcode or pattern unlock when a single click or glance can unlock your phone within a second.

5 years of hardware support with 8 years of software support is starting to approach desktop class software updates. It would be superb going from android 13 to android 18, 19, and maybe even 20. The snapdragon should easily hold out for at least 5-6 years.

Stupid if you ask me. Youtube is not, should not be the platform for games.

Games, apps, music, media and all that need storage. I can make do with 256gb if it's expandable. Otherwise, I need high internal storage space to make it work.

The camera should be better. But, what midrange smartphones still provide a headphone Jack? I have all but seen it disappear alongside fading sdcard support.

This is old news, 5 months old. I thought they meant more manufacturers apart from google and samsung.

Yes, for that 5-10% battery improvement.

That would be a liability, and they would go after the parent company crying foul play.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Chrome is already a system app on most android devices. Be it pixel, Samsung, oneplus, etc.

Nintendo lawyers: Thinking if they should send a cease and desist to lineageOS devs in this case.

Awesome. This should get the gears going for other manufacturers like Samsung unless they want to be left in the dust by Google and fairphone both.