Yeah, I won’t trust Google on that unless they actually deliver. Too many canned projects by that company.

The iPhone 6S got iOS 9 to iOS 15, so 7 years of mainline software support and as of now it’s still getting security updates - 9 years later (latest version as of now is 15.8.3 released end of July this year). The iPhone XS entered year 7 of mainline software support with iOS 18.

Sure, some phones only got 6 years of mainline software support, namely the iPhone 7 or iPhone X. They’re all still receiving security updates though.

Google just now promised to more or less match that starting with the Pixel 8 series, but they didn’t retroactively apply that policy to their previous devices. The Pixel 8 now has just shy of 6 years of mainline software support to go to fulfill Google’s promise and we’ll see how long they’ll release security updates after that.

Thanks for letting me know, I just updated to v5 yesterday.

Technically the Pro Max already starts at 256 GB (starting with the 15 series iirc). But they simply removed the 128 GB option from the price stack.

If the apps wouldn’t be slow React Native or whatever “multiplatform framework” crapware, then I’d actually say that well designed, native Swift UI (iOS) or Material (Android) apps can enhance the user experience for a lot of services that are otherwise offered via website. Native integrations with shortcuts, widgets, fully supporting accessibility features of the OS etc.

The problem is most apps are just low-effort web app conversions.

AI assisted Notepad is a thing?

Oh I’m not trying to imply otherwise.

Suspicious!

You can use most VPN services via the Wireguard or OpenVPN apps though, or even via some of the protocols natively supported by iOS not requiring any third-party app.

Kind of relatable. I go with the smaller sizes (regular Pro) as the Max is too large for my relatively small hands to use one-handed but at the same time it’s not large enough to enhance what I can do with the device.

So what I do is I always have my phone with me and optionally I take my 11" iPad Pro with me, although I’m hoping they’ll release a new iPad mini in October as I’d like something a bit more portable (and I also want the variant with mobile data, while my 11" Pro is Wi-Fi only).

You mean as a phone? Its modem only does data, yeah.

Which isn’t even close to an iPad in size, not even the iPad mini in terms of actual screen real estate.

I just use whatever is included with the desktop environment. On KDE and GNOME launching an application involves pressing the Super (“Windows”) key, typing the first couple of letters of the application I want to launch and pressing the return key.

I might be missing something here but I don’t know how other launchers could possibly make this a simpler process.

• ASUS’ and MSI’s motherboards, not AMD’s.

iOS/iPadOS: Safari + AdGuard (+ Vinegar (optional))

macOS: Safari + AdGuard or Firefox + uBO or FreeTube

There is no definitive roadmap.

Let’s see if this really affects all Linux systems or if the stars need to align for this to actually be exploitable.

x86/x64 code is pretty much 100% compatible between AMD and Intel. On the GPU side it’s not that simple but Sony would’ve “just” had to port over their GNM(X) graphics APIs to Intel (Arc, presumably). Just like most PC games work completely fine and in the same way between Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs. But they have to do that anyway to some extent even with newer GPU architectures from AMD, because PS4’s GCN isn’t 1:1 compatible to PS5’s RDNA2 on an architectural level, and the PS4’s Jaguar CPU isn’t even close to PS5’s Zen 2.

Other than that, you’re right. Sony wouldn’t switch to Intel unless they got a way better chip and/or way better deal, and I don’t think Intel was ready with a competitive GPU architecture back when the PS5’s specifications were set in stone.

How do you not do that? It’s all in your local network, how would it not work offline…?

Yeah, duplicate flags should just be ignored.

To be fair, a big portion of the work that goes into Linux (at least the kernel) is done by paid developers working for big corporations.

The difference between H.265 and AV1 at the same bitrate (assuming both files were encoded with a good encoder) usually isn’t huge.

AV1 is great, but the “hype” surrounding it is mostly comparing it to lowish-bitrate H.264 (live) streams.