1100€ for a phone with 128gb of storage is absurd.

man, i just hope my pixel 7 lasts long enough that a viable alternative emerges. i just cant go back to a stockrom filled to the brim ai bullshit, other bloat and spyware.

hey, i just run in the issue again today where an file would have taken several hours. instead i tried the app zarchiver and it was done in under a minute. idk if its the best app for that matter. but it worked for me.

hell yeah! thanks

https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community.

These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.

As a result, many contributors teamed up and forked the project, establishing CoMaps, a new alternative focused on openness and being not-for-profit.

But from user perspective there arent much benefits yet. I like the new muted green a bit more i guess haha

Comaps for navigation. Replaced Organic Maps

Öffi for finding public transit connections. Sadly replaced Transportr which doesnt work anymore for me

Bura for weather forcast. Replaced Geometric Weather which stopped working quite a while ago.

Etar as a calender. Idk i dont use it too much but its enough for my needs.

Quillpad for note taking. Its a fork of a fork of apps which didnt get support anymore. Best notetaking app i came across so far. Love it. Looks good. You can keep it simple but it also has more than enough extra features.

KDE Connect Comes in super handy for quick transfer of files or just the clipboard between the PC and phone. Remote input and mediacontrol is also pretty sweet.

Material Files Best file explorer i know of. I tried so many over the years and its always the app which stays forever on my phones. Its not perfect but so far i found it better than anything else.

Silicone Calculator A simple and pretty calculator

VLC for local playback. Works well with folders which is a must for me. VLC just works for me on whatever device for 20 years.

Too lazy for the rest, sorry: Accrescent as an alternative appstore. From there: Ironfox as browser and ri music for streaming… music.

Pixel Camera, Google Photos and Snapseed are the only non open-source apps on my phone. Need to spend a bit more time with ImageToolbox. Maybe its enough to sunset Photos and Snapseed.

In my experience the unzipping speed roughly matches my expectations of a phone unless the archive contains thousands of small files. I have a phone with a Snapdragon 870 SOC, 8GB RAM und UFS 3.1 storage and a Pixel 7 with Tensor G2, 8GB RAM and also UFS 3.1 storage. Performancewise they’re roughly the same. On both decompression is fairly speedy for phone hardware. But when i tried to decompress texture packs for PS2 games with thousands of small texture files time to complete exploded up to several hours. I uneducatedely believe UFS3.1 is the bottleneck here? Decompression scales pretty well with multithreading so i dont expect the SOCs to be a problem. Maybe something something how android handles blocks of data, idk?

Yo, thats an sick app i never heard of and needed in my life! thanks

edit: Aw, man so many cool tools i always wanted in one app.

I’m still kinda salty about the missing headphone jack starting with the FP4. But mostly because with that they also released their unrepairable bluetooth buds. Like what? These things are unsustainable af. Every company is and was jumping on that bandwagon because of the insane profit margins of those things. Made me really suspicious of their claimed mission statement of beeing fair and green. All their messaging since then just reeks of bullshit in that regard (imho).

Back then atleast i could still find phones which fullfilled my hardware wishlist. Today its a different story. So all things considered the FP6 seems to be a solid phone in the current market conditions. Something, something perfect is in the way of… and my life with an usb-c dongle on the Pixel 7 isnt too bad tbh. I had issues with phones in the past where the usb-c port started wear out after a year or two and couldnt hold a solid connection while in the pocket with an adapter. The Pixel 7 port is super solid in that regard so far and with a Fairphone you could easily get a spare usb-c port. So i think its time to just move on for me on that matter.

The only thing which rubs me the wrong way this time with the FP6 is that it only has an USB 2.0 port. Which is a downgrade compared to the last two FPs. I regularly connect my phone to other devices for different reasons. No USB3, no buy(for me).

Fair point,

i try to keep that in mind for the future.

Eh, it isnt a front against you guys? Power posters keep lemmy alive. You dont write the headlines.

But yeah, i will comment next time again if i come accross a stupid headline.

I’m talking about the headline and the problem is that it isnt just summarizing. The headlines as is implies that the emulator itself got major performance and compatibility improvemnts. Which is inaccurate. If not bending the truth a bit too much. “Dedicated community keeps PS2 emulator for Android alive with another update” There you go notebookcheck.

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Oh, fuck off. Clickbaiting pieces of shit.

Here are the patch notes without the bullshit sensationalizing: https://github.com/Trixarian/NetherSX2-patch/releases

Back then i still clinged to the few active forums which were still around. I slowly started to switch to reddit 2016 i think.

Because these glasses are quite powerhungry. If i remember correctly from a review a steamdeck used 5W more with the glasses plugged in and the built in steamdeck screen off compared to the steam running regularly. IDK how much the oled screen of the steamdeck consumes but the glasses consume those 5W on top of that!

A built-in battery for an adequate runtime would make those glasses even heavier, bulkier and goofier then they already are.

Coordinated astroturfing on reddit isnt even a new thing. I had the chance to watch how the whole marketing efforts for the Burnout Paradise remaster unfolded from the very first minute . That was back in 2018. It was so blatant how all the posts popped up on the same minute on several different subreddit and then slowly filled with obvious shill comments which got unnatural ammounts of upvotes. I mean there was also some natural engagement. Its still a beloved franchise. But that made it even easier to pick out the tonedeaf marketeer comments since the remaster wasnt that great and it already showed in the prerelease footage. Astroturfing was probably a thing from the very beginning of reddit. But thats the first example i noticed because it was just so obvious.

True, but thats still double to triple what i’m willing to pay for a phone. 8-900 is fair for the provided hardware though.

Gotta love the sony hardware. It would be the perfect phone for me if - and thats a big if - i had the money to throw 1500€ at a phone. But yeah, SD-card slot, dual front speakers, headphone jack, sick camera setup, no punchholes, no stupid 4k screen anymore and now even with acceptable software support. I think they also still have unlockable bootloaders and the camera wouldnt be crippled by it anymore like 10 years ago? But 1,5k… nah, i’m good.

My dear lemmings. Remember there were exactly two reputable Switch emulators. Yuzu and Ryujinx. Both got shut down by the big N in one way or another. I’m sorry but everything since then was based on the work of the prior mentionend projects without major improvements but was filled with shitty drama. Wait it out. Thats my take. There might be a real alternative on the horizon. But so far all of them just burned out in the stupidestest way possible.

fr, facial recognition was a concern with fb 15 years ago. wtf is going on? i cant take it anymore.

/i answered my own post like a boomer for effect btw. i know. no worries.

i’m shocked.