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.

“Personally, I think there is too much swearing. I don’t want my five-year-old grandchild listening to that sort of language.”

Then don’t let your 5-year old child watch the fucking press conference.

Yes, he did.

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.

Missing built-in FDE is one of my main gripes with SteamOS. It’s why I don’t really do anything besides gaming on the Deck. It’s a portable device that could easily be stolen or lost, so this seems like a major oversight.

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?

Well, then you can’t be the next Tim Sweeney :(

-0.05% might be insignificant, but do you think it has to do with more games requiring kernel-level anti-cheat?

You have to sue every single storefront first as well and go cry to the press that companies don’t want to do business with you when you break their ToS.

Okay, it now seems to happen more frequently.

Man, I had so many issues related to standby and VRR seemingly caused by the amdgpu driver most of the time that I’ll definitely reevaluate whether an AMD GPU is the correct choice for Linux in the future.

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.

They can and they are making their own chip designs to do the job.

The cloud part of Apple Intelligence runs on their own designed hardware.

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.