Wait, did Android 16 QPR 1 remove the charging limit for newer Pixels? My 7a has both the Battery health assistance option and the original optimization modes (off, adaptive charging and 80%).

Wayland does force clients to be able to cope with a compositor that doesn’t do SSD - CSD support is mandatory, SSD optional.

That’s a weird question to ask under a post about an Android update. To answer anyway, the answer is probably yes - there is a GSI variant of Ubuntu Touch now, and there are projects that make your phone always boot into a GSI. If you combine these two things, you should get a Pixel that always boots into Ubuntu Touch.

Not with CGNAT

It’s a crappy clickbait title, I don’t see why it shouldn’t get downvoted

I guess how much people care also depends on whether they tend to use laptops in ways and places that are prone to causing damage to the ports. I’ve never damaged any port on any laptop I’ve ever owned, and it’s unlikely I ever will because I like to keep the cables organized and out of the way (so it would require conscious effort to tug on them), and when I want to pick my laptop up, I always quickly run my hand around its perimeter to make sure everything is disconnected.

I do not claim that this is the correct way to use a laptop or that others should do the same, it is a tool that should be used the way its user needs, I just want to point out that for some usecases, this is simply a non-issue in the same way a non-replaceable CPU is - nothing’s going to happen to it.

Also, my current laptop does have both a barrel jack (probably works, I’ve never used it) and a USB-C charging connector, so it’s not necessarily an either-or proposition.

Also, Google is no longer releasing the Pixel-specific source code, meaning you can no longer just build AOSP for new Pixels and have all the hardware just work - this makes it harder for custom ROM developers and might eventually lead to some hardware being simply unsupported unless you use the stock ROM.

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Your screenshot is misleading - apps installed from alternative marketplaces on iOS also need to be signed by a certificate linked to a known developer by Apple, exactly like Google wants to do it on Android.

Maybe you’ve tried that already, but does the tablet show up as a USB device when you connect it to a computer? Android devices tend to enter fastboot or another firmware upload mode when everything else fails.

Just to be clear, the applets were stuck while the laptop was plugged in? If so, then it might just be the threshold - connected, not charging, not discharging (because the laptop is running off the AC adapter).

For example on my IdeaPad laptop, when I enable the charge limiting feature it will get “stuck” at 59 or 60% while plugged in. It doesn’t have a configurable threshold. Although your laptop might provide a more fine-grained control given that you were able to fully discharge it while plugged in.

Hey, just a tiny note: static and dynamic addresses aren’t mutually exclusive. You can let SLAAC do its thing AND also set a static address on your server. Remember, IPv6 works best when you aren’t afraid of adding more addresses.

I agree, the fact that Meta considers 13 year olds being able to have romantic chats with chatbots to be perfectly fine is disturbing and IMHO the main newsworthy thing here.

However there is no mention of “200 pages of romantic interactions with minors” in the article - that is the whole chatbot guidelines document. Still, it including such things shows how shitty Meta is as a company.

OK, so the whole LLM chatbot arranging dates with people thing is obviously problematic, but this person simply tripped and fell, and the headline vaguely implies that the chatbot is responsible for his death. That seems a bit clickbaity - if it was a real person and they were actually waiting to meet at the agreed upon address, the outcome would be the same.

You can disable the USB printing module if you don’t use it - that’s the one causing this bug. It should be fixed in the next release.

I don’t understand how having a notification is what’s keeping an app alive.

Do you remember notifications that couldn’t be swiped away in older Android versions? Their point was to keep their app alive. They still exist and still work the same way, keeping their app alive until it cancels the notification, except they can now be dismissed like any other notification (which doesn’t really have any effect other than hiding it from you - it will still keep the app alive even when hidden).

It’s possible that it’s broken in AOSP for some reason, but developer documentation says it should work like this and it does indeed work like this on stock Google ROMs on Pixels.

why would swiping away an app not kill it? why would you do that? leave it be until it’s done wtf

Because if an app has a permanent notification, it cannot get killed. Before Android 15 or 14, you couldn’t even swipe such notifications away - the idea was that the app was forced to tell the user it’s running.

Then Android added a list of apps running in the background and allowed users to dismiss the permanent notifications, but the behavior is still the same - an app can keep itself alive until it removes the notification on its own or gets force killed either by doze or from the settings.

So swiping away a browser after you initiate a download is a perfectly valid use case that is intended to work without any problems. If it doesn’t, then it’s a bug either in LineageOS or in the browser.

Also, I can confirm this works perfectly fine on stock Android 16 ROM on a Pixel with Vivaldi browser - the download finished, and then Vivaldi got killed, because nothing was keeping it alive after it cancelled its download notification.

Idk, it surprises me it took so long for TP-Link to get into trouble with how they tend to support every HW revision of their routers for about a year and then stop releasing any security updates for them. That’s awful for a device intended to sit at the edge of your network, possibly having a public IP address.

Like sure, you can look for any reasons you want, but not giving a fuck about security in a device that’s always connected to the internet and also routes all user traffic is bound to get companies in trouble when someone with the power to do something about it notices.

Yep, Droid-ify has an open feature request for it. F-Droid has had this feature since 1.22

It was a Google Play feature (a hack built around modular apps that used App Bundles instead of APKs for distribution) that later got added into Android itself in Android 15. F-Droid supports it, you just have to have Android 15 or 16.

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