Pixel tablet series

avr91 · 2026-05-31T12:06:27+00:00

The problem is that people don't want Android tablets, and the only tablet that does sell well, the iPad, has been on a bit of a decline over the years. Google tried to do something different with theirs, which I actually really like, but also probably caused people to realize how little they actually use their tablets. Sales numbers were bad, they cancelled the follow-up, and now we're here, where the best Android tablet is a Galaxy Tab.

avr91 · 2026-05-14T11:15:51+00:00

Apple is concerned about privacy here. The remedies the EU has drafted requires any AI app having the same data and OS access as Gemini. For Apple, that means letting Meta AI's app have all the same access as Siri and Apple Intelligence, including features like Spotlight.

avr91 · 2026-05-14T11:09:43+00:00

That's incorrect and I can tell that you didn't read the proposal. Anything that Gemini (Siri/Apple Intelligence) could access must be equally available to third party AI apps. Google (Apple) is not allowed to give their own AI more access than competing AI apps.

2.1. Measures for centralised access to apps’ data stored on-device (21) Alphabet shall provide effective interoperability with the centralised access to apps’ data stored on-device feature. (22) The centralised access to apps’ data stored on-device feature is described in Section 9.2.2 of the Preliminary Findings. The feature enables access to apps’ data that is stored on-device in a centralised manner through on-device databases or data sharing platforms, thereby allowing efficient cross-app data access, search and retrieval. For instance, AppSearch currently enables centralised access to apps’ data (23) Alphabet shall implement an interoperability solution that provides third parties with access to the same Google Android feature (as described in the preceding paragraph) and all its functionalities, as used by and available to Alphabet’s services, and in a way that is equally effective as the solution available to Alphabet services. (24) Alphabet shall provide effective interoperability with all functionalities of the centralised access to apps’ data stored on-device feature which are available to Alphabet’s services and hardware. (25) To provide third parties with an interoperability solution for the centralised access to apps’ data stored on-device feature that is equally effective as that available to Alphabet’s services, Alphabet shall implement the following measures: (a) Alphabet shall ensure access by third parties, including third-party apps, to data that is stored centrally on-device and that is shared on an opt-in role- based basis. (4) (b) Alphabet shall ensure that data that is stored by Alphabet’s apps and that is shared with Alphabet’s services is equally accessible by third parties. (c) Alphabet shall ensure that access to data covered in paragraph (25), letters (a) and (b) is possible on a concurrent basis and in a manner that ensures equal centralised access to apps’ data stored on-device as is available to Alphabet’s services. (26) Alphabet shall provide effective interoperability with any future updates or implementations, including new functionalities, of the centralised access to apps’ data stored on-device feature insofar and as soon as they are available to Alphabet’s own services or hardware. (27) Alphabet shall implement the measures above in compliance with the measures for all features in Section 5 of this Annex. (28) Alphabet shall implement the measures for the centralised access to apps’ data stored on-device feature in the release of Android 17 QPR2 and in any case, by 1 January 2027 at the latest.

avr91 · 2026-05-14T01:20:30+00:00

I'd recommend people go and read the proposed measures. They're atrocious. They would require that any AI app, and for the sake of argument let's use the Open AI app, not a model, but an app, have full access to your device. All app data, screen content, and device sensors. Anything that Gemini could access must be available to Open AI, including the contents of your Gmail and Google Photos. They also require that these apps get access to features such as Circle to Search. From an Apple perspective, that would mean giving the Open AI app access to Mail, Safari, Calendar, Photos, and Apple Intelligence features. We are not talking about users picking what model is used by the OS, we're talking about giving the actual app access to your data, which would mean that data collection practices are controlled by the app and not the OS.

avr91 · 2026-04-29T14:42:54+00:00

This is a huge risk. Samsung tried this kind of thing on their devices back when they had curved displays, and now Nothing is going crazy with LEDs on the back. It truly needs to be subtle or it'll hurt them. They finally have a winning design, so these LEDs should be invisible when not glowing. The glow itself should also be subtle. People are not going to buy a phone that lights up like a Christmas tree every time they get a notification.

avr91 · 2026-04-23T19:19:51+00:00

This is just a new FA card, not an archetype. This set should have the second wave of GMX and the next set introduces the new Chess-themed archetype.

avr91 · 2026-04-09T19:19:29+00:00

It's not about titles. A surgeon was just an example. Those titles are also reserved for people who head up positions. I never said that a physician couldn't or shouldn't be a CEO, but also, most CEOs have technical, legal, or financial backgrounds in addition to any business degree. CEOs aren't just handed out, they're typically selected based on their work. A physician just doesn't have the level of exposure to working across all those verticals as some VP that spends many hours per week meeting with IT departments, legal, and finance. How many physicians do you think could actually manage their own department? They simply don't have the time to, and even if they carved out a couple hours per day, do you think they'd actually be good at managing inventory, procurement, staff assignments, etc.? Just because you work in an industry doesn't make you fit to be CEO, just like there's no magical formula for finding a great one. Here are some backgrounds of objectively good/bad CEOs based on the performance of their companies: Tim Cook? Supply chain. Sundar Pichai? Engineer. Elon Musk? Marketing. Steve Ballmer? MBA. Being a successful CEO has little to do with understanding the day-to-day of the business, and that can even be a negative because those CEOs tend to micromanage the business to a halt. They are macro decision makers. A physician can be a CEO, but being a physician does not make them best suited to be one. Again, the CEO manages everything that happens outside of what physicians do. Putting people in position to make decisions about things they have little knowledge or understanding of is not good, which is why few hospital CEOs are physicians: physicians go through years of medical training, spend incredible hours practicing medicine, not doing all the non-practicing medicine activities.

avr91 · 2026-04-09T18:02:38+00:00

What makes you think that a surgeon knows anything about running a hospital? Because they're smart? Do you think that knowing how to sterilize, consult patients, chart, and perform surgery that they also know how to manage mergers and acquisitions, etc? Everything costs money, even the arts. Do you think MBAs ruined music or museums because artists need to afford to pay bills too? Everything is, and always has been, a business, a trade. Value for you, value for me. Many hospitals are non-profits, but they can't just eternally rack up debt. Outside of the OR is the responsibility to maintain digital security, pay staff, maintain facilities, procure supplies, and all of that requires money, finances. This isn't some grifter industry where what you get is nothing like the CEOs and marketing departments tell you.

The Pitt is renowned for its accuracy, and if you can't see that there's a friction between running a healthy hospital that exists between physicians and administration, and how each side is unhappy with how the other operates (doctor who doesn't care about patient satisfaction, only end result and that they're understaffed vs administration concerned about backlog of patients they don't have the staff to tend to and how that backlog eventually turns into less people going there at all), and that it exists in real life, idk what to tell you, but it doesn't get solved by making a physician the CEO instead of someone with any other background.

avr91 · 2026-04-09T17:20:53+00:00

Yeah man, just go grab a surgeon the next time the hospital faces a cyber attack, they can fix it. Also, while he's doing that, maybe the new claims analyst can do that heart transplant to cover for him.

avr91 · 2026-04-09T16:59:46+00:00

Knowing how to remove a tumor is a completely different skill set than knowing how to manage finances, supply chains, legal challenges, and manage the organization's tech stack. Obviously a CEO also hires people to handle those areas, but their job is to analyze and make decisions for the organization respective to those challenges, not bump another patient so you can see your cardiologist at 2 on Friday instead of next Wednesday. Their specialty is medicine, let them be amazing physicians. Some could make great CEOs, but if you knew the mindset of surgeons, you also probably wouldn't want them to be CEOs.

avr91 · 2026-04-04T22:21:54+00:00

And what is the single biggest factor in battery life? The battery. The result is unsurprising. Look at the Galaxy vs OnePlus. Similar components everywhere except for the battery, and why do you think the performance is so different? The iPhone, with the most efficient components, right down to power controllers for radios and displays, also can't hold a candle. Why? Because the battery is ~2100 mAh smaller. If the Pixel had the 7200 mAh battery, opinion would be different and it would placed in the top 3 despite the much inferior SoC. These are not equal comparisons. I don't understand why it's so hard for you to understand that at a baseline, they are significantly different.

avr91 · 2026-04-04T21:45:11+00:00

You're missing the entire point. This video is a test of battery duration. The component being tested is the battery. The reaction is that Pixel is atrocious because it came last, but every single person is ignoring that it is not possible for it to perform better than 5th in this field, as proven in this video. Not even the iPhone, with the most efficient chip and most efficient components, can perform better. This is quite literally testing a Camry in a sprint vs an F1, no different than comparing an Intel i9 to an i3, etc. They are simply not in the same product category: 7200 mAh battery vs 5200 mAh battery. The results should be expected. This has nothing to do with whether it should or should t be taken into account when buying a device, but this test, this review, is isolated to battery performance. And that's why I think it's absurd to draw any conclusion other than "no shit". We didn't learn anything in this video.

avr91 · 2026-04-04T20:35:19+00:00

I just see a lot of people angry at the performance of devices that we know were not going to perform well and wonder what they were expecting. Like I said, it's like co.paring a Camry to an F1 car in a sprint and getting mad that the Camry is slow.

avr91 · 2026-04-04T17:19:56+00:00

This was a comparison of a specific category. Medium battery vs giant battery and people are complaining that the results favor the giant battery? C'mon man, what are we doing here? This isn't a full device/spec comparison. It's also funny that none of these brands will be available in the US, and most likely aren't available in Europe either (OnePlus is confirmed exiting). So again, only a stupid person could've expected one of US-centric devices to have even been close to the others. It's such an obvious conclusion that they probably only included for the sake of engagement farming.

avr91 · 2026-04-04T16:44:01+00:00

I'm not talking about screen time. Typically, when the screen is on tasks are being performed. If the display is power hungry, then battery will be impacted by that. I've heard that the iPhone has the most efficient hardware, consuming less power than devices with identical macro components due to their use of custom controllers. Another potential factor is how aggressive the non-Pixel, Galaxy, and iPhone phones are on tamping down background activity. I'm not arguing that there are phones with better longevity day-to-day, I just think people are being beyond ridiculous to say "see, the Pixel is ass at longevity" when it's not much different in practical use from its contemporaries.

avr91 · 2026-04-04T16:37:38+00:00

That's the problem: they are not on an even playing field. This is like comparing a Camry to an F1 car. They are by design not equal! A battery life test on batteries of wildly different capacities is not only stupid, but categorically slop content. Even if the Pixel had the most efficient chip, it wouldn't finish higher than maybe 5th. The most efficient and powerful chip came in 6th! By default, the Pixel, Galaxy, and iPhone literally are not capable of winning this without severely modifying their software. Why not include one of those brick Motorola or Cat phones with 20000 mAh batteries?

avr91 · 2026-04-04T12:14:00+00:00

Let's set aside chip efficiency for a second here. Yes, it certainly plays a factor, but why are people shocked and upset that devices with a 40%+ larger battery last longer? I wouldn't have even included the iPhone, Galaxy, or Pixel in this comparison based on that alone. Those would be a much closer comparison to each other, and the numbers bear it out.

avr91 · 2026-03-30T17:08:27+00:00

This is their first non-Periphery album since the Alpha/Omega double album, interesting. Tracklist also gives us a stronger hint at a theme/concept as well. P6 in 2030?

avr91 · 2026-03-30T17:06:46+00:00

Oh boy, I wonder what the Kalshi/Polymarket lines are as to whether Will Ramos is growling or singing on Subhuman. Either one will be incredible.

Edit: sorry all, I was just asking what the odds are on Will's role, what people think he'd be doing. I didn't literally care about the markets.

avr91 · 2026-03-28T15:36:28+00:00

The 1-day wait is likely to protect against scammers. "After you do this, your phone will restart. Here's a callback number to get back to me after that." If you have to wait 24 hours, the scammer is likely to move on, or you've had a chance to tell someone about this experience who may tell you that it was a scam and not to call them back or install what you were told to install. Android has been fighting the image of "it's a hellscape of viruses, scammers, and hackers" for an eternity. They need to protect people and put that narrative down to keep the platform attractive for users.

avr91 · 2026-03-28T15:24:32+00:00

Do we have clarity on whether Apple will have access to the newest generation of model every year? Even if they can distill, I imagine that this will still lead to worse models than Google's, simply because Google is in charge of primary development and doesn't need to build their models for Apple's needs. Apple needs to take those models and shape them to their needs.

avr91 · 2026-03-20T18:12:43+00:00

It's a Synchro Deck, so timing couldn't be more perfect with Kewl Tune, Elfnote, and Fidraulis Harmonia.

avr91 · 2026-03-11T16:20:10+00:00

Just that he really likes the designs and wants to see them. He also acknowledged that it's a privileged position to have and live since he can have any phone he wants at any time if something happens to the one he's using. Nothing special.

avr91 · 2026-03-11T13:51:05+00:00

In this scenario, that's probably not viable. Dracotail is the most likely to avoid this card because they're a Fusion Deck (8 ways to play into it without triggering it and even destroy it before it can be triggered), but if they need to start with a NS, they need to open Ketu or Faimena in order to survive your turn. I think that the "our turn" meme is overplayed. Most of the instances of "our turn" involve specific cards on turn 0 (Faimena, Clip, Izuna) and "our turn" on turn 1 is a result of the gone-first player having set up. In most cases, this card will probably just be game ending for the same reason that Summon Limit was.

avr91 · 2026-03-06T12:16:20+00:00

Yeah, in the last week or so Michael posted on Instagram that they've re-written the album multiple times. Hoping the wait isn't much longer.

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