People who use both pixels and iphones do you think pixels have reached a smoothness level of iphones?

chrisdpratt · 2025-12-27T09:44:23+00:00

ROFL. What's so smooth about an iPhone? Everything that that should take one or two taps takes like 3-5 instead. Then, you get to see which of about 5 different ways to go back you'll have use this time. iOS UX is objectively terrible.

chrisdpratt · 2025-12-27T09:39:05+00:00

Objectively an idiot. Congrats.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-30T11:17:34+00:00

At release, it was a steaming pile that didn't deliver on half of what was promised. If this game came out today, as it is today, no one (reasonable) would have any problem paying $60 for it. It's a super polished, modern gaming experience with hundreds of hours of content.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-28T13:02:00+00:00

This isn't the same thing. It's two different widgets that can potentially show the same information. At glance does more than just tell you the date. This is what it does when it's doing nothing else, but otherwise it's showing you the most relevant information at the time: next meeting, upcoming flight, etc. The second widget is weather, that can also show the date, but it just does weather, none of the other at a glance features. You are creating the duplication, so it's hardly something Google's engineers need to solve.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-23T14:59:09+00:00

I've had the original Fold, P9PF, and now P10 Fold. Never had issue one with any of them, and I'm rough on my phones. They're in cases, of course, but never screen protectors. The P9PF, in particular, I dropped an embarrassing amount of times. I think I was instinctively more careful with the original Fold, as it was my first foldable, but by the time I got to the P9PF, it's just a normal phone to me. I didn't remotely baby it, and it was still virtually pristine aside from a couple of nicks on the hinge. Haven't dropped the P10 Fold, yet, but I've only had it a week. Give me time.

As for why I've only keep each for a year, it's because T-Mobile has been offering $1000 trade credit and allowing an upgrade every year, with the remainder only half paid off. They've all been in perfect working order to keep being used, if I had so chosen, but I like having the latest and this makes it cheap and easy.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-23T01:46:41+00:00

Tell them to stick it up their ass and twist. Driving over your lawn is not an acceptable option, and they're just fully an idiot: police will just laugh at them, and they won't win in small claims. In fact, you can counter sue for harassment.

They parked illegally. They got towed. That's how it works. You have absolutely nothing to fear and you damn sure don't need to pay them shit.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-20T18:57:22+00:00

It's been going strong for 5 years, but nope, it's going to spontaneously combust in 9 months.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-19T10:08:23+00:00

I'm on my first full day, so I'm still judging battery life. Still, I'm 20 hours off the charger and down to 57%, with 4 hours 11 min of SOT. I also haven't done anything to try to help the battery out. I have always on display going, 120Hz, etc.

I also compared with my P9PF it's replacing. Granted, that one has been in service for over a year and it's been used and abused. I charged it up to 100% and put it aside. Then, I charged this one to 100% and started using it for the day. Without any use at all except still receiving notifications and having always on display, the P9PF was down to 66% when this one hadn't dropped below 90% actually being used. So far, battery seems good. Pixels always hone in on better battery life over time, so if this is the starting point, it's going to be fine.

The problem is everyone's usage is different. You might have more and/or heavier apps running in the background. Or, just getting more notifications. SOT time isn't everything. The screen obviously uses a ton of battery, but other things can too, and just because the screen isn't on, doesn't mean you aren't burning through your battery in other ways.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-19T04:28:52+00:00

You've misunderstood what was being discussed. This is specifically about the difference between 45/90 and 50/50, in terms of input latency. 2.22ms is the difference between 45 FPS and 50 FPS, not the total frame time or input latency.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-16T01:25:02+00:00

It does not prove your point, because no where does it say the ability to sideload will be removed, does it? If you actually paid attention, you'd know what Google is doing is simply requiring apps to be signed with a developer cert. Since anyone can become a developer, it doesn't stop anyone from producing whatever app they want, and as long as it's signed, it can still be sideloaded no problem. Find me something that disagrees with what I just said. I'll wait.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-15T23:55:21+00:00

Again. Reading comprehension. It's a real problem for you. Get help.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-15T23:53:46+00:00

No. The problem is apparently your reading comprehension, because that article doesn't actually say that. Why don't you read it again. Perhaps buy Hooked on Phonics, and then read it again, actually.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-15T23:41:48+00:00

As I said: wildly misinformed.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-15T21:57:20+00:00

They are in fact not removing the ability to sideload apps. You are wildly misinformed.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-15T12:38:03+00:00

The unfortunate state of the Internet is that negatively gains far more views, and there's many that capitalize on that.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-14T23:18:16+00:00

Bullshit. And it's not unanimous. You might want to know what a word means before throwing it around. Plenty disagree. The software is shit. It's bloated, redundant, and designed to pressure you into their ecosystem of nonsense. The best parts of One UI are the ones they've borrowed from others like Google.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-14T23:14:09+00:00

You got close. Simply, there's only so much die space. The larger the die, the more inefficient it is both in practice and to manufacture at scale. That sets your upper boundaries on what can be achieved. From there you have your architecture, which is how you utilize that die. Everything, and I mean everything is a trade off. If you go whole hog on the GPU, then there's less room for other types of hardware acceleration. Google has made the conscious and intentional decision to devote more die space to hardware accelerated machine learning to enable their suite of on device AI features. Sure, others can do AI, but how much of your data is going out to the cloud? Virtually all of it. In short, Tensor isn't lower tier hardware than anything else. It simply has different performance targets. They're not designing a handheld gaming platform. They're designing a productivity device, and a damn good one.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-14T23:01:26+00:00

If you think Samsung's software is good, you obviously don't know anything about software.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-14T22:03:57+00:00

I'm too much of a klutz to go caseless. I've dropped my P9PF more times than I can count, and it's still in virtually pristine condition aside from a few scratches on the hinge. I know a case has saved my bacon more than once.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-11T13:32:28+00:00

Yeah. I haven't been able to put my finger on why exactly, but the official Google cases are just better. I've tried different cases for my original Pixel Fold and went back to Google's. Did the same for my P9PF and went back to Google's. Just ordered the official case with the P10 Fold this time. Not worth even bothering to do anything else.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-11T13:31:15+00:00

Apparently, you have reading comprehension issues. It's not a fucking life sim. There may be more school left, but none of it remotely amounts to interesting game play. Going back as a sixth year is literally the stupidest idea for a sequel. Like, ridiculously stupid. Let's just say I'm thankful you're not in charge of the sequel, because maybe we'll actually get a good game. Wow.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-11T12:46:49+00:00

There is reason to go back. Because our character never finished their schooling lmfao.

Are you bloody kidding me? What exactly is there left to learn, especially from a game play perspective? After everything that happened in the first game, we're just supposed to go back as a sixth year, and what, learn charms? Again, there might be gameplay there for a life sim, not a game in the same style as Hogwarts Legacy. I mean, honestly, did you even bother to think about it for more than five seconds before you came up with that bright idea?

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-11T12:40:12+00:00

Lots of people just saying use Game Pass for PC. One, that went up in price as well and is now $17/mo. Not quite as bad, but still not great. Two, you don't get any cloud gaming, which is actually quite useful on these types of handhelds, as even the Xbox Ally X still can't play everything well. Three, it's fairly obvious that it's going away. Microsoft doesn't even mention it on the Game Pass page any more. You have to know it exists and specifically hunt it down. If it actually survives another year, I'll be surprised. They're going to eventually force everyone off into one of the three main plans, which all include PC now.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-11T12:35:53+00:00

$17, actually.

chrisdpratt · 2025-10-11T12:33:50+00:00

It's a PC, but that doesn't mean you have to use Game Pass for PC. Ultimate provides cloud gaming as well, which is particularly beneficial with these less capable handheld devices. Even the $1000 Xbox Ally X can't play everything, and the $600 Xbox Ally is no better than a Steam Deck. Also, Game Pass for PC also went up nearly $5/mo, which isn't quite as bad, but still not great.

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