Not really. Theoretically you can use Google Maps as a compass, but otherwise no. Per the article:
Shockingly, Google is yet to build its own native compass or level tool app for Android. Most third-party phone makers have taken matters into their own hands, but modern Pixel phones still don’t provide a user-facing app for accessing coordinates, altitude, magnetism, and other useful metrics. Thankfully, Compass has you covered.
I think SD card failure rates are way overblown if you’re buying from reputable manufacturers (Sandisk, Samsung). I’m sure they do occasionally fail, but I’ve never experienced one.
You’re right, for really intensive tasks the costs can climb, but I see people asking for ideas for what to do with a junk laptop and the top suggestion is always something like pi-hole or a bookmark manager that could run on a potato.
Like with most things in life, it depends.
Laptop performance when closed is quite variable, but depending on where you live, each 10W of idle consumption 24/7/365 could cost you somewhere around $20/yr (assumes @$0.20/kWh, YMMV). This isn’t overwhelming on it’s own, but it is “cost difference between a junked laptop and a Raspberry Pi” kinda money.
$0.99 for a clean & ad-free app? Sounds like the kind of thing I’d be happy to pay for if I used a compass like ever.
Much like their “no longer recommended” older pixels, it feels like they could likely continue to provide OS updates well into future Android versions. However, without access to the device-specific releases they may begin to lag behind on firmware updates
Lean turd
I have absolutely zero love for PayPal, but a small part of me is hoping this is so they can launch their own wallet app, which doesn’t use whatever crummy “security” system keeping Google Wallet off of GrapheneOS.
It’ll never be my primary form of payment, but as someone with ADHD, my grocery store purchase info 10% of the time is a reasonable price to pay for forgetting my wallet at home again.
Instead of Firefox we need hundreds of stripped down browsers some first year CS students cobbled together in their basement for browsing the web.
Or something like that, I didn’t quite follow either.
Just built a new PC literally this weekend. WiFi mouse and Bluetooth drivers did not work out of the box. I had to spend hours searching through what little info exists out there tangentially related to my problem to find:
WiFi drivers were fixed in kernel 6.10, which fortunately Mint let’s you upgrade to 6.11 at this time with relative ease.
Bluetooth drivers do not appear to have been fixed, but I might have a shot if I switch over to a rolling release distro and relearn everything I’m used to from using Debian-based distros for years. Dongle is on order, but I don’t love having to have 2 bluetooth devices.
It’s unclear if mouse drivers have been fixed in the kernel, but I was able to find a nice set of drivers/controller on github which fixed some mouse problems but only if i used their experimental branch and it did not work with my wireless adapter. Very fortunately I had an old wireless adapter from a mouse from the same brand that was able to close the loop, but that was just dumb luck.
By EOD today I should have everything I want working, but it wasn’t “30s” of searching - to your point, 60-70% of problems may be solvable that way, but having 1/3 of your problems require technical expertise is not going to bring Linux out of the hobbyist domain.
Note: this is not a complaint against Linux, just a statement of fact. These things have gotten a lot better over the years, and things get easier to find as the community grows and these struggles get discussed more openly, but there’s still lots of challenges out there that take more than a 30s search.
The VPN speeds will be throttled pretty substantially, and low ram will result in some instability seeding, but it should run. Good thing about torrents is they’re built for unreliable.
I’ve run a torrent box like described on pretty much every pi generation, and the pi4 was the first one where VPN speed was no longer the bottleneck.
A separate but equal OS is tricky because it will be perpetually teetering on the edge of collapse because of lack of support. These features need to be baked into the major distros (or done in a way that they can be quickly and effectively layered on top). That way your accessibility maintainer doesn’t have to be an entire OS maintainer.
I encourage you to try all of the OS out there, blindfolded, and report back on which were easiest to set up without looking. That would be very helpful content.
I know nothing but in my head I imagine this feature works by having the phone going into “air tag” mode when powered off. Same battery, low power chip running minimal BLE to broadcast a tracker ID.
Edit: after reading the article, both Apple and Google promise their feature works even with a dead battery, so probably a secondary rechargeable coin cell with the “find my” chip. So basically it’s got a built in air tag with a much shorter battery light
Sounds like the app worked as intended and she found the mushrooms she was after.
Doom is the only right answer. That soft pink mist as the light catches the spray of blood from your vanquished enemies.
Takes me longer to unlock my phone than just pull a card out of my wallet
At first glance I thought this was rimworld and you were running some organ harvesting operation of epic proportions.
On the flip side, living in a place Google doesn’t index properly, I’ve found adding stuff to OSM to be infinitely easier than adding/correcting things on Google Maps. Google just has the advantage of already having 99% of stuff on it
Hmm cause… It could be the battery. Or maybe the battery is fucked. If that’s not the case they could probably have a look at the battery and see if it failed.