Hey, beautiful people of Linux, I need some advice. I’ve been tinkering for the past several weeks on flavours of Plasma DE on Arch and Tumbleweed on my Nvidia/Alder Lake setup. Suffice to say the experience was nothing short of getting waterboarded in Guantanamo by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity high-fiving each other while...
I actually have an old laptop with a GTX 780M and a Core i3 3rd Gen running Arch.
When I tried GNOME on it with Fedora, it defaulted to X11 on login when it detected the Nvidia card. However, mine was also an Optimus laptop, and I could mostly always get Wayland working with the iGPU on the Intel. This is how I mostly ran for a year or two without ever using the dGPU.
I need to chuck in a new SSD on that, but I could check it out let you know if anything’s changed in recent years. I don’t think wayland support for older nvidia cards have even been worked on in the last couple of years. There’s work for wayland on newer nvidia cards, but it’s mostly still spotty.
Yep I second this. I’ve been using GNOME, hyprland and sway interchangeably since 2021 Oct on my system as my main DEs. I recently wanted to give Plasma Wayland a try. Was met with multiple crashes, and freezes that required me to long press the power button to reboot to get it working again.
While the new rootless wayland on SDDM worked fine for me, there are several things in Plasma that still don’t yet have support for Wayland. I could never get screen sharing to be reliable on Plasma Wayland, despite having the right portals installed.
GNOME, Sway, and Hyprland are miles ahead in having a stable system on Wayland.
“The service team reply misunderstood the situation. Unlock tool is unavailable at this moment but we are allowing the possibility to unlock, please stay tuned.”...
IIRC, that is literally just a skinned KDE Connect lol. Probably even just a name change. Never used Zorin, but this is what I remember either DistroTube or Chris Titus saying.
A good friend of mine just asked me if we can have a watch party in the upcoming days over the internet, so we can watch a movie together. They live in another country....
Besides Chrome, Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative is on Android to let apps show you relevant ads in a more private manner. The beta started earlier this year, and Google is now prompting more users about it with new Ad privacy settings.
Back in the day, it was a really great way to find new apps. And by back in the day, I mean when it was still called the Android Market.
Its initial transition to Play Store in the ICS era also wasn’t too bad. It still kept a lot of the good things from Android Market. But since the launch of Lollipop, things have really deteriorated. It might not have really been the fault of Google, but there’s a lot more noise with subpar apps that crowd the store now. There’s also the incessant ads for sketchy apps featured prominently that leaves a bad aftertaste in your mouth.
Like you, I’ve probably spent like 30 minutes on the Play Store over the last 4 years probably. Every app I want today is either on F-Droid, or already pre-installed on my phone. Or they’re PWAs, and it’s easy to install them just by going to the website.
Google’s earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February’s deadly tremor, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found....
Android is struggling to keep its market share in the United States, as Apple continues to take over in the market. But, despite Android as a whole losing ground, Google Pixel phones are becoming a bigger slice of the US market....
The Google Maps app for Android has, for years now, had the same old voice input that’s slow and not as accurate as Google’s latest offerings. Finally that’s changing, as Google Maps is rolling out a new voice input experience powered by Google Assistant.
Yes, most definitely! It’s the reason I avoid Android tablets in general. I have a random Android tablet from Lenovo that runs Lollipop and is stock-ish.
Used it for about a year, and now it sits as a paperweight.
Ten years ago today, Google released the 2nd-generation Nexus 7, just days after a surprise announcement. Back then, Android tablets still felt fresh and exciting. It seemed like anything was possible, and things could only improve from there. Well, we know what happened next. But the depressing state of the tablet market to...
Man, I always wanted a Nexus 7, but it was never easy to get one in my country back then. And then Google officially partnered with Amazon and Flipkart to launch the tablet…right after I’d gotten a new iPad.
Yes, definitely! I don’t have as much use for a tablet these days, which is an unfortunate thing. My phone is big enough to cover most use cases, and my iPad 2017 is too big to be used comfortably for most things - it’s not ergonomic to hold upright in most conditions, it’s slippery without a folio case (and cases are hard to find unless you get an official Apple one which is very expensive), typing on it is a pain because of how thin it is, and the only saving grace it has in terms of typing is the mini floating swipeable keyboard added to iPad OS in recent years.
I’d definitely love to run something like a Nexus 7 again! Perfect form factor for most things, including media consumption, reading books, and much much more!
There have been very few good affordable Android tablets: both the variants of the Nexus 7, and then the only other one I can recollect is the Amazon Fire Tablet 7, which launched probably sometime in 2015 or 16.
Dish Network (DISH.O) said on Wednesday its unit Boost Infinite had partnered with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell postpaid wireless plans through the e-commerce platform in the United States....
The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF) is a collaborative effort by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom “to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map products”. This is their first open map dataset.
I add it through their web interface. I signed up several years ago, but I spent 2020 and 2021 updating OSM for my city to be as good as Google Maps for major places, posting their open and close times, better pin placement and such.
Google has been making a big push for big screens lately, with the debut of Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet behind it. Now, though, Google is apparently “considering” a combination of the two with a foldable Pixel tablet....
We were apparently too focused on Samsung’s new Galaxy Flip 5, Fold 5, and Galaxy Watch 6 announcement, because Google just dropped what may be the last Android 14 beta update. Beta 4.1 is currently rolling out to eligible Pixel phones, and it could very well mark the last pre-release update before Android 14 debuts as a...
Interesting, I saw some of this UI on my Android TV last week. Unsure if that’s how it’s always been or if they were doing some A/B testing. It was refreshing to use a UI that was intuitive, NGL.
Seeing screenshots of ICS makes me feel pretty nostalgic about my old Galaxy Nexus. I don’t remember having any complaints about it. Anyone else feel the same way?
Android tablets are just hard to come by in a good configuration. Last time I found decent ones were in 2013: Nexus 7, and before that the Motorola Xoom.
Both had great support for custom ROMs.
There’s also the fact that modern Android has simply gone away from the design philosophy that set android tablets apart in Honeycomb.
The last phone I tried it on was a Redmi Note 8 back in 2021. I waited for a year using the stock ROM, and finally applied for the bootloader unlock. Got my code fairly quickly (7 days), and unlocking from there was a breeze. I don’t think the process has changed much these days, but yeah, it’s a pain having to go through that to unlock your bootloader.
[Advice Needed] Wayland on GTR7 Pro 7940HS/Radeon 780M?
Hey, beautiful people of Linux, I need some advice. I’ve been tinkering for the past several weeks on flavours of Plasma DE on Arch and Tumbleweed on my Nvidia/Alder Lake setup. Suffice to say the experience was nothing short of getting waterboarded in Guantanamo by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity high-fiving each other while...
Fuzzel: A great dmenu and rofi alternative for Wayland ( mark.stosberg.com )
The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant ( utcc.utoronto.ca )
In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software...
Samsung’s emoji are bad - 9to5google ( 9to5google.com )
Yeah they aren’t great. But at least we have the blob using emoji kitchen.
The era of cheap streaming is officially over ( www.cnn.com )
Big Gboard 13.3 update preps stylus handwriting, mini voice typing UI, gen AI stickers, more ( 9to5google.com )
Any recommended products for Network Attached Storage?
Hoping to set up a general location to throw files....
Mishaal Rahman: ASUS is NOT killing off bootloader unlocking for its phones ( twitter.com )
“The service team reply misunderstood the situation. Unlock tool is unavailable at this moment but we are allowing the possibility to unlock, please stay tuned.”...
Tip: Nearby Share can send entire folders from your Android device to other Android devices, Chromebooks, and Windows PCs through the Files by Google app
From @MishaalRahman:...
Google Assistant rolling out Lens-powered ‘Search screen’ that reliably appears ( 9to5google.com )
Easy to use apps for having a watch party?
A good friend of mine just asked me if we can have a watch party in the upcoming days over the internet, so we can watch a movie together. They live in another country....
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S9 accessories betray its e-waste promises ( www.androidpolice.com )
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/304805...
More details leak about the Galaxy S23 FE's camera ( www.androidauthority.com )
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/304616...
Android rolling out new Ad privacy settings ( 9to5google.com )
Besides Chrome, Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative is on Android to let apps show you relevant ads in a more private manner. The beta started earlier this year, and Google is now prompting more users about it with new Ad privacy settings.
Google pulls the AI Test Kitchen app from the Play Store ( www.androidpolice.com )
Another one bites the dust less than a year after introduction
EXCLUSIVE: Lenovo is working on a Windows PC gaming handheld called the 'Legion Go' ( www.windowscentral.com )
According to our sources, Lenovo is gearing up to enter the handheld PC gaming arena....
Google Play Store tests semipermanent bottom bar ( 9to5google.com )
Google is testing a curious change to the Play Store on Android that sees a somewhat persistent bottom bar.
Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 2 shows up at FCC, revealing new design ( 9to5google.com )
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/280217...
A future Android phone will finally have a rival to Apple's Cinematic Mode ( www.androidauthority.com )
Several Android brands offer portrait video, but one brand will finally offer something like Apple’s Cinematic Mode....
Google alert failed to warn people of Turkey earthquake ( www.bbc.com )
Google’s earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February’s deadly tremor, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found....
While Android as a whole continues to shrink in the US, Google Pixel keeps growing ( 9to5google.com )
Android is struggling to keep its market share in the United States, as Apple continues to take over in the market. But, despite Android as a whole losing ground, Google Pixel phones are becoming a bigger slice of the US market....
Google Maps for Android rolling out much faster voice input powered by Assistant [Gallery] ( 9to5google.com )
The Google Maps app for Android has, for years now, had the same old voice input that’s slow and not as accurate as Google’s latest offerings. Finally that’s changing, as Google Maps is rolling out a new voice input experience powered by Google Assistant.
Google Pixel Tablet gets support for LineageOS ( 9to5google.com )
If you were hoping for some additional software flexibility on Google’s new Pixel Tablet, you’re in luck as LineageOS support has just been added....
Android Auto gets a Google Maps redesign with sidebar ( 9to5google.com )
Google Maps is preparing two updates including an Android Auto redesign that’s rolling out now....
HONOR to launch flip style foldable and bring Magic V2 to South Africa ( reframed.co )
There’s been a lot of hype around the foldable segment of the smartphone industry which currently sees Samsung as the the dominant brand....
Lenovo Tab P12 Review: Lenovo’s latest tablet packs a massive screen on a budget ( www.androidpolice.com )
An Android tablet with a 12.7-inch 3K display and octa-core MediaTek chip for just €399...
Xiaomi reveals first Mix Fold 3 details: Everything the Z Fold 5 isn't? ( www.androidauthority.com )
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/199934...
10 years ago, Google launched the 2nd-gen Nexus 7, and no tablet has captured its magic since ( www.androidpolice.com )
Ten years ago today, Google released the 2nd-generation Nexus 7, just days after a surprise announcement. Back then, Android tablets still felt fresh and exciting. It seemed like anything was possible, and things could only improve from there. Well, we know what happened next. But the depressing state of the tablet market to...
Dish Network partners with Amazon to offer wireless services ( www.reuters.com )
Dish Network (DISH.O) said on Wednesday its unit Boost Infinite had partnered with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell postpaid wireless plans through the e-commerce platform in the United States....
Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset (backed by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom) ( overturemaps.org )
The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF) is a collaborative effort by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom “to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map products”. This is their first open map dataset.
Report: Google is ‘considering’ a foldable Pixel tablet ( 9to5google.com )
Google has been making a big push for big screens lately, with the debut of Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet behind it. Now, though, Google is apparently “considering” a combination of the two with a foldable Pixel tablet....
Wear OS is getting an official Audible app ( 9to5google.com )
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/188686...
Android 14 Beta 4.1 is here with an impressive list of last-minute fixes ( www.androidpolice.com )
We were apparently too focused on Samsung’s new Galaxy Flip 5, Fold 5, and Galaxy Watch 6 announcement, because Google just dropped what may be the last Android 14 beta update. Beta 4.1 is currently rolling out to eligible Pixel phones, and it could very well mark the last pre-release update before Android 14 debuts as a...
Introducing a new Play Store for large screens ( android-developers.googleblog.com )
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Throwback Tuesday: Remember Ice Cream Sandwich? ( developer.android.com )
Seeing screenshots of ICS makes me feel pretty nostalgic about my old Galaxy Nexus. I don’t remember having any complaints about it. Anyone else feel the same way?
Xiaomi Pad 6 Review: The Best Value in Android Space ( www.gizmochina.com )
cross-posted from !xiaomi:...