Apple tankies: That's because iPhone has superior security features making them entirely theft proof.
Google tankies: LOOOL it's cuz apple sux!!!1
Everyone else: can I take a moment of your time to spread the good word of Arch Linux? I use Arch btw.
Don’t bring up Linux in every post challenge (impossible)
Dude I love club penguin
I used arch btw until i switched to nixos fr. Kind of like a splinter group, a cult if you would. Less aur. More flakes. Still mostly unusable.
nixos would be 10x better if flakes had actual documentation and not jack shit with a generous amount of nothing
Since I switched just a month or two ago yesterday was flakes-figuring-out-day for me. It's terrible in the sense, that the first thing I had to do was actually figure out what flakes even do and what is it you can use them for. The guides didn't help a lot because they assumed I alreary knew that. I think I understand now, but there is an offchance I got it compeletly wrong and that bothers me.
I feel the same. I don't understand what they do but every guide expects me to.
To be fair... Flakes are still marked as an experimental feature, so they are telling you it probably won't be documented and the interface could change. But yes, given how widely adopted they are in the community, it's definitely time to document them better and ideally make it the default for new setups.
err, people rob to sell not to use, and apple has the most overpriced shit today
try selling a locked iPhone
Try selling a locked any phone made in the last 5 years or so. They're pretty much all a brick if you can't unlock them.
Throw them on ebay and just not say they are locked
eBay actually has decent buyer protection policies. You need to sell it somewhere without that like Facebook marketplace
If it was a Pixel 2 or a 4a I'm keeping it, that phone was peak modern smartphone before everything went downhill with no rear fingerprint scanner and fixed focus selfie cams
Don't have a 4a, but big fan of my 5a with Graphene! The last one with both usb-c AND a headphone jack! It has been my phone of choice since my iPhone SE broke, and it is still my main driver.
I'm still on my Galaxy S10e.
The last normal sized phone with USB C and a headphone jack.
sony is trying to fill that role, i like my xperia:3
Ah, I thought the latest ones were going big again. I'll have to check them out.
the 5 series is pretty much just the flagship but in a reasonable size
Not quite sure about that. Wtf is that aspect ratio?
I'll have to figure out of I can see it in person, because it reminds me of those 2000's crappy ultra wide monitors that claimed a normal size but because they were extra wide it ended up being smaller.
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Ah, it was the Asus Zenphone. I was going to get the 10 because that remained <6" and I still might because that aspect ratio on the Sony looks insane. I don't know how anyone could reach the top of that without a ladder.
Anyway, the Zenphone 11 only comes in 6.8". Which is stupid.
everyone i suggest to complains about the aspect ratio, and sony does a terrible job showing what theyve done to mitigate it lol
theres handy sidebars to pull down the top drawer, and a quick shortcut to pull the screen down to reach the top one handed. i got used to it in the first week or so, and love the extra verticality while still feeling like a small phone in my hand. good for doom scrolling and watching a video while doom scrolling
GrapheneOS is the way to go, unfortunately the 5a won't be supported by Google for much longer, only until August of this year. GrapheneOS will probably provide a few extra months of extended support though.
Oof that's really sad
I still use Pixel 4 and the fabric case is so great to the touch, too bad the new ones don't have them.
Loved my Pixel 2 XL. Upgraded to a P5 a year ago tho. Really amazing phone
I have a 4a 5G variant and I can't stand how the "stock" experience manages to be worse than on my old Samsung :-/ The pics are great tho
Say whaaaat. That's an interesting and brave take.
How's the pixel experience worse than Samsung? That's the reason I stopped buying Samsungs way back. All the malware PUPs Samsung loads on being my main sticking point.
Well it's less features for less bloat.
From there it depends how much of those extra features are useful / how much you miss in stock android.
What features? Most of the bloat is just duplicate applications like "Google photos" and "Samsung photos"
I'd say Dex is pretty cool. Thats really all I'd like to bring over to Google Experience personally.
Hoping it drops in 15 for Pixels
Oof, the Pixel 2 XL was hot garbage. I returned mine four times due to speaker issues, and the fourth was no better.
Wild. Had no issues until the 5th QC wise but it was all downhill from there. I'm now considering carrying a dumb phone and some alternative to a smartphone
Yeah the notch was a couple generations back so I'd put it back too, the dynamic island is much better
-Sent from my iPhone
Death to notches, islands, or whatever. Return to full bezel.
Baby reindeer!
With both whatever-apple-is-doing and Android's whatever-it-is-called-that-prevent-factory-reset when you don't have access to the account on the device, I don't see how people still buy "shady" phones and tablets.
Last time I borrowed a relative's phone to run an experiment, I had to contact them to "unlock" the phone after a factory reset before being able to do anything because I didn't remove the account before. Unless people go out of their way to make their phone "stealable", that is.
Theives can still dump them in those shady cash for phones machines and walk away with a bit of cash.
I mean, if you can factory reset a phone to strip the need for authentication, that seems like kind of a bad thing, no?
You can factory reset it, but not really. On first boot, the phone requires a network connection; you can't skip setting up wifi if there is no cellular internet available. And it will ask you to authenticate the google account it expect before even starting the "real" setup process. As a matter of fact, once you authenticate with google, it does start again, ask again for wifi and will not have the account setup at all, as you would expect after a factory reset.
So, while you can "factory reset", the phone still needs the previously registered google account to start. There's probably some phone that gives more leniency, but I was not able to circumvent that using adb (the device being locked, and impossible to unlock without accessing the menu, impossible to access without starting in the first place…)
I have seen several tutorials to skip this step on xiaomi phones through fastboot.
If the phone had is bootloader unlocked, sure. Otherwise, it won't accept the commands. My mistake was on a Xiaomi Mi A2.
The people that designed this feature are not that oblivious.
oem unlocking must be allowed on Xiaomi in order for FB to work tho right? (or shorting debug pins on the motherboard)
No, debug pins are for edl and not needed you can enter fastboot whenever you want when it is unlocked you can do more, but you can use indian servers to bypass it
Oh now we're all in agreement that the notch was awful
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