I built a gaming PC for the first time since ~20 years ago. Decided to dump 64gb into it for no good reason other than ram is cheap and I figured I might as well.

8gb…jeebus.

don’t even live in the US, so what the actual fuck?

I live in the US and the Google play store says this app isn’t available in my region.

Probably because an option like soy milk costs over twice as much per volume when compared to cow milk at the consumer level, so therefore any rational person would expect a drink made with the more-expensive non-dairy ingredient to cost more.

To me it’s not defending Starbucks as much as it is defending common sense.

What if they removed all reference of the word “dairy” from their products and made the consumer choose the beverage ingredients item by item, and each ingredient has a different price relative to the cost?

The creation can possibly have monetary value, thus the protection. How much is up to society.

This isn’t a good argument for UBI.

I used Sync with Reddit, so it was a very natural transition for lemmy.

But I also noticed that between it, Connect, and Jerboa, it’s the only one that has smooth scrolling in the comments. Connect and Jerboa are really janky even scrolling comments.

*Lose

You could literally destroy me financially or other ways by just gaining login to my gmail.

Sounds like you need to start using MFA.

No, you can see from the license plates that this is not in the USA.

I feel like, for some weird reason, nobody on lemmy knows how meme templates are supposed to be used.

I couldn’t care less if foss app users or developers are butthurt because closed apps are suddenly available and gaining popularity.

Sync for lemmy landed and it has been more stable and has more features than any of the other lemmy apps I’ve tried.

Maybe if the foss apps were stable and feature rich more casual plebs like me would use them, but at the moment they all feel kind of broken.

Also, I would take issue with jerboa here. Jerboa is there but not Connect? Lol…

7 pro since launch day here. Always had really disappointing battery life.

I used mine for very trivial tasks. On WiFi virtually all day, indoors most of the day. I use my phone casually–no video games, no video chat apps. I will take it off the charger at 7:45am and use it for MAYBE 2.5h of screen time over the course of 11-12h during the day and I’ll be at 35% battery left. If I do ANYTHING just shortly taxing and I have to charge it midday.

Google soc and hardware choices are very power inefficient.

My wife has a 7a and also had disappointing battery life.

Google isn’t on a good path so far I’m my opinion.

For the first time I’m completely disinterested in what Google is doing with their pixel phones. I went to an S23 ultra and battery life has been nothing sorry of amazing, and the concerns I used to have with camera on Samsung phones isn’t really an issue to me anymore.

Their recent addition to support wearOS made me consider a subscription (wearOS version requires subscription). Until youtube music recently added support for podcasts, so I didn’t bother although I can’t say the podcast feature in youtube music is all that good so far but it will let episodes get downloaded to my watch.

Personally, re. google podcasts, it lacks a lot of useful features that other podcasts apps have.

I’ve found pocket casts to have the better set of features and functionality (for the unpaid version) compared to other podcasts apps. I don’t use spotify, but it’s definitely better than the recent and awful implementation of podcasts in youtube music. I tried a couple other podcast apps, most recently podcast republic, and I found podcast republic to be buggy, certain settings don’t stick or work as expected.

Did you already try restarting the phone?

I wish google would have tool parity between what shows up in the Google Photos app on a phone and what shows up on photos.google.com. Even as a Google One subscriber that has access to the features/tools that are otherwise pixel phone exclusives. There’s still no object eraser on the web. And I do wish google would change what tools are made available for a photo. For example, one photo I have, in the “tools” section of photos.google.com, has the “Blur,” “Sky,” and “Color Focus” options. Another photo has “Portrait Light,” “Blur,” and “Color Focus.”

The inconsistencies are annoying; I don’t want to be relegated to doing everything on my phone when it comes to playing with photos in google photos.

I’ve gotten every generation of pixel phones. I was very excited for the 7 pro given the shortcomings I had with the 6 pro (very horrible cellular, disappointing battery life, prone to thermal protection scenarios)

I also go between google and samsung phones, most recently used an S23 ultra.

I had mostly stuck with pixels because of the camera, but to be honest, I feel like google has regressed still camera results since about the pixel 4/5 timeframe.

What I’ve noticed about my 7 pro, and I’m also disappointed with it, but different from the video, I did not keep using it in spite of the issues:

• Battery life has been really bad. From 100% charge at 7:45am and using it for very basic usage on wifi during a working day without taxing apps like games or video chats, I will use it for up to 2.5h SOT and it will be down to 35% battery left after 12h. Wifi almost all the time, and I have cellular set to prefer LTE (no 5g). I use it incidentally throughout the day for MS Teams text chats, some outlook (limited), some text chats on discord, checking gmail, and (in the past) some reddit usage, and maybe 45 minutes of bluetooth audio streaming. That’s it, and only 2.5h SOT with 35% battery left is awful.

• I disagree with him re. screen brightness outdoors. Screen does not stay bright when outdoors for a significant amount of time. I was glad that google started using brighter displays, but for me it feels like after 30 seconds the screen brightness drops to the point of being difficult to read outdoors.

• Cellular–while better than the 6 series, it’s still not great. I’m not talking the difference between 500mbps and 900mbps, which is insignificant in terms of overall normal usage. I’m talking the difference between a stable and reliable cellular connection with no drops or lag in usage. Between my 7 pro and S23 ultra in the same location along a local ‘main drag’ area, and in many places my 7 pro will have an unstable cellular data experience and the S23 ultra has no issues. When my 7 pro disconnects from cellular, like in a parking structure, it takes quite some time to re-establish connection to cellular. My S23 ultra reconnects almost instantly.

• Charging speed–I’m not asking for more than 25w charging, or even 65w or 100w like other phones (for example). But the throughout-battery-range charge speeds are too conservative and slow, especially when, in my experience with the 7 pro, it drains battery very fast and needs intermittent top-ups at times. Even on 18w USB-PD charging, my 7 pro charges much more slowly from the 40-100% range compared to my S23 ultra; to the point where it takes twice as long. This is frustrating and I wish google would at least make it an option to charge faster.

• Front facing camera is bad. That’s the best way to put it. So disappointing that google didn’t maintain the auto-focus camera system on the pixel 3; the best front camera experience I’ve had on a phone.

I had a recent weekend trip for an outdoor wedding and was using my 7 pro at that time. Battery life was bad. I had to charge up from a battery pack in the middle of the day and it was frustrating. Also, being outdoors, I was taking reasonable shots and videos of the wedding and it was almost impossible to see the viewfinder because the screen brightness dropped due to temperatures. It wasn’t hot outside; it was 68f and sunny with a bit of overcast/light clouds on occasion.

I have been using the S23 ultra since early May. I was pushed mostly because battery life on my 7 pro for a regular day was basically unusable without necessary interruptions to charge. Battery life is crazy better on the S23 ultra–with the same usage that takes my 7 pro down to 35% on a normal, basic, untaxing day, my S23 ultra is never below 70% battery for the same time/usage. Cellular performance is so much better as well. I also like many of samsung’s software additions including but not limited to things like Modes & Routines, attention to sound settings (individual app volume settings, ability to route simultaneous sounds to different outputs), attention to video settings. Better video recording and audio recording quality. Samsung software experience is a polarizing topic, especially among pixel users, but overall it’s never bothered me.

I continue to prefer the still camera results from google camera on a pixel, but the differences are much smaller now than in the past between google and samsung cameras. I also noticed that subject motion blur–something that I was always disappointed with samsung cameras–is better on the S23 ultra to the point where it doesn’t really bother me in the context of whether to use a google or samsung phone.

And then there’s other aspects–Samsung pays more attention to having an integrated ecosystem experience. What I mean by this–take the example of the video where he mentions nice features on the 7 pro like reverse wireless charging, and he sets the pixel buds on the back of the phone. He also has a pixel watch in many shots of the video, but google did not build in the proprietary charging protocol to reverse wireless charging on the 7 pro, so you can’t use it to charge the pixel watch. With samsung they have built in support of charging galaxy watches with their battery share feature, so if you are going on a trip or something like that, you don’t need to even worry about or think of bringing your watch charger. It’s that sort of attention to the ecosystem that I think Samsung does a better job with than where google currently is. Google’s devices don’t feel very integrated outside of the industrial design and color schemes they chose.

Overall I’m disappointed with the 7 pro. Mostly because of the battery life. Google does need to re-invigorate the camera experience. They have challenges with their SOC and cellular modem choices and I’m disappointed that their first ‘non-qualcomm’ approach has been disappointing. When even samsung doesn’t use their own SOC design and SOC manufacturing and opts for their competitor then you know there must be a reason, and plowing ahead despite that is a pretty poor decision.