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Re:Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:21PM (#49469062)
All Pixels have the hardware, it's only activated on Japan-based skus. You can root and change the sku to the japanese model and it works. Allegedly the Pixel 11 is only the US sku and the international sku, so all international 11s should have it activated unless they do some serious shenanigans.
Are we the same person?

I subbed to Wired last year during a sale and uh... I was never given a premium account linked to my email and support would never answer me. I signed up for the print edition as well and never received any of those. I was getting their newsletter though and that was new. Then I emailed to cancel when I got a billing notification to my email and they were able to cancel it just fine so apparently I did have an account? And then like two weeks ago I received the latest print edition.

Truly have no idea what that was about, but anyway glad to see someone else out here supporting almost all the same news orgs as me (404media is amazing!)

Samsung trackers also use their own network.
Re:Introducing Galaxy XR, the first Android XR headset on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:10PM (#45674526)
The Pixel Slate actually did run ChromeOS and then could run Android apps in a VM haha.

And those aren't rumors, there is a pretty big effort to get Android ready for ChromeOS and get feature parity. Which to me is really unfortunate, CrOS has such a nice linux base.

Re:Google Pixel 10 series review: Don't call it an Android on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @07:11PM (#45110319)
This only happens if the AICore app is installed. Since it isn't on Graphene then the full 16gb allocation of ram is available for the entire system.
Re:Android 16 Is Here on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:45PM (#44240664)
And just to clarify, Material 3 Expressive is not shipping in these builds, that will be in a quarterly release build in probably in the first week of September.
Re:Android and Wear OS are getting a big refresh on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @04:29PM (#43977344)
You can expand or shrink every tile now instead of only being able to swap position of the tiles. So more tiles per page.
Re:Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii on Monday April 21, 2025 @11:01PM (#43758712)
Haha what? I simply must know more about how you achieved that!
Re:The Egg (By Andy Weir) on Monday March 31, 2025 @01:43PM (#43537649)
You might enjoy some of qntm's work[0].

Maybe start with this short ("I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is a Big Responsibility")[1] since it is similar to The Egg in my opinion.

[0] https://qntm.org/fiction [1] https://qntm.org/responsibilit

Re:Two new PebbleOS watches on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:17PM (#43403701)
The Daylight computer DC-1 isn't e-ink it's a reflective LCD by the way. Different screen technology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457491

Re:Top links on Bluesky, Updated Hourly on Sunday March 09, 2025 @05:13PM (#43313906)
I had the same question and I found the repo link in an about page linked at the bottom!

https://github.com/georgemblack/blue-report

Re:All Kindles can now be jailbroken on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:34PM (#43083514)
It runs a custom Android 13 based skin with access to the Play Store.
Re:This website is hosted on Bluesky on Monday November 25, 2024 @02:30PM (#42239355)
Cool yeah. I think the thing I was most interested in was interacting with Bluesky through rust. Is there a decent sdk for that?
Re:This website is hosted on Bluesky on Monday November 25, 2024 @12:05PM (#42237925)
Do you have that code posted somewhere by chance? I would be interested in browsing through it!
Re:The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy on Thursday November 14, 2024 @09:44AM (#42136553)
I actually have a copy that I stumbled across recently at a book store near me. I'm sure it won't be like the old days, but it was really cool to pick a hard copy up while out and about in town.
Re:We’re ending production of Chromecast on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @01:44PM (#41173254)
In 2021 they praised the device as having good performance at a price point that is ~$30-40 less than what Google is launching their device at. The second gen of that Fire stick is selling for $40 right now on sale with Wi-Fi 6E. I saw some benchmarks posted of this chip and some others (with a Pixel 6 thrown in arguing that using a bunch of older Tensor chips might have also been a good idea.) And also a Shield TV which is 5 years old at this point.

Single core:

Fire Stick - 140

Shield TV - 279 (99% faster, twice as fast).

Tensor G1 (Pixel 6 Pro) - 1007 (619% faster, seven times faster)

A15 (Apple TV) - 1684 (1103% faster, 12 times as fast).

Multi-core:

Fire Stick - 491

Shield TV - 971 (98% faster, twice as fast).

Tensor G1 (Pixel 6 Pro) - 2541 (418% faster, five times faster)

A15 (Apple TV) - 4489 (814% faster, nine times as fast).

Re:We’re ending production of Chromecast on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @10:51AM (#41171393)
Google finally started parsing those in 2022[0].

[0] https://www.xda-developers.com/google-messages-imessage-reac...

Google is also currently experimenting with booting ChromeOS inside a VM on Android.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/V...

Every time someone finds "lost media", I always wonder how much media is lost to time because the wrong people went to the garage sale and did not know how rare a find was and it gets thrown away at the end of the sale.
Re:Why I use Firefox on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @10:49AM (#39539514)
Is this still a valid complaint since they have a new interim CEO? I think we should wait and see what Laura Chambers does and then the new pick after this year.
Okay so it's not just me. I feel like the map issues have been absolutely infuriating recently. There are also offline maps that are downloaded as well so I don't understand how the maps are so awful. I don't remember it being this bad in 2019/2020.
I should have said "specific chargers around the area" probably since there were other locations with issues. But still, I had no issues charging in the Chicago area though.

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