Linux sucks on ones especially from a security and usability perspective

Linux runs on like 99% of the servers that power the internet, and can do so rather securely.

Maybe try that again.

[CalyxOS] won’t receive any updates for the foreseeable future.

And yet, from Calyx’s own article that AA linked:

[W]e have determined that it may take up to four to six months for us to provide the level of security maintenance we aim to deliver.

AA is just fucking trash clickbait bullshit at this point.

Skill issue?

The day my Pixel 9 Pro XL came to my door, I unlocked the bootloader and rooted it. Yet, somehow, all of my banking apps (Venmo, Fidelity NB, a national bank, and a local CU) still manage to work just fine.

“baCk iN mY dAy I UseD to RoOt mY gALaXy s2 bUt pHoNeS aRE sO GoOd tOdAy iTs pOinTlEsS nOw”

Fucking lmao, I remember people saying that a decade ago when I had my Nexus 6P.

Shit like this is part of why I maintain a small Proxmox cluster. I can just log into the web interface, spin up a quick LXC, VM, or even a Docker container, and run whatever script or web app I need. All without even touching the actual hardware.

Oh hey, I backed that one. Almost forgot about it 😅

Fire OS is Android.

If you’re considering Graphene, I would recommend checking out Calyx instead. They support basically the same devices. Except one isn’t led by a dickhole.

My daughter’s Motorola has the fingerprint sensor on the power button. It drives me nuts 😅

Good timing. I’ve been putting off the Android 16 update on my Pixel, waiting to see some news just like this. I’ll continue waiting and watching.

Private space is nice, but what if we could access it without Google’s shitty launcher and file browser?

I haven’t used it at all, specifically because I run a different launcher and file browser.

Your bank has a website, I assume?

For now. Google didn’t release the Pixel-specific stuff with the Android 16 release.

Idk about that, I rooted my Pixel and now Google won’t let me play with the built-in AI apps.

And nothing of value was lost.

Yeah, I just noticed that it was released in 2023. Not necessarily a bad thing, really, but damn I’d like one of these devices if not for that form factor on its own. Still has official LOS support, too.

“Hey guys, check out my new Black Slab! Its better than the other Black Slab because of artificial software limitations!”

For what it’s worth - that principle is part of why I root my devices. But damn I do miss the neat various hardware features that each brand had.

F(x)Tec Pro¹ X

Super-weird formatting aside, that looks pretty interesting. Out of stock though.

The Nexus 6P’s front-facing speakers were pretty sweet; that device was near-perfectly symmetrical when turned sideways for watching media/playing games, and your palm didn’t cover the speakers.

My current Pixel 9 Pro XL has stereo speakers, but one of them is the downward-firing speaker on the bottom. Makes for an odd effect if it’s covered.

You make some valid points, but that kind of engineering costs money. Like I said in my other comment, I would genuinely like to see more progress made in that area. The OP7P’s pop-up camera was a neat bit of engineering.

Don’t conflate that with the actual anti-consumer bullshit, though. A notch/holepunch camera is not the hill to die on when your argument relates to that, it’s not even close to the same thing.

It certainly doesn’t cost more than an under-screen display where you need to both engineer a tiny screen of less dense see-through pixes AND the right setup to counter the blur you induce on the software side.

But that’s my point. It’s cheaper to just build the screen around the camera.

See what I did there? The camera never removed screen real estate. The screen never had that real estate to begin with, unless it was engineered in a way that allowed it, which is not common yet.

I used to hate the notch - until I bought a OnePlus 6. Only then did I understand that the camera didn’t cut into the screen, rather the screen grew around the camera. The holepunch is an evolution of that. Apple made it work for them with the whole “dynamic island” thing, and at this point nobody really seems to care about the cutouts anymore anyway. Except for a few overly vocal morons online.

Don’t get me wrong here - I’m not arguing for holepunches and notches to stay forever, and progress in that area should be appreciated and more widely adopted. That said, I’m getting really fucking tired of seeing the same “holepunch/notch bad because Xperia exists” argument hashed out over and over again. That Xperia is $1500, and the fact that it’s not a Galaxy or iPhone puts it at a massive disadvantage already. The average person has never heard of Xperia devices, and refusing to consider that viewpoint puts your argument at an even further disadvantage.