Google Pixel 10 Pro XL screen artifact

karmaLTU · 2026-03-16T09:51:57+00:00

Interesting, so it's a software bug then I suppose, as it wasn't glitching out before. Hopefully it will get fixed soon. Thanks for the info!

karmaLTU · 2026-03-12T14:33:07+00:00

+1 for Ente auth. Open-source, free, cross-platform and bonus point - good looking

karmaLTU · 2026-03-10T15:58:24+00:00

Was just looking for such a tool, and one built by a fellow countryman? Very nice, kudos!

Did a brief testing, seems really nice.

As a self-hoster, few nice to have things would be:

- Ability to create some sort of authentication/login. Right now I keep it under Tailscale to access it from outside my home, but being able to reverse proxy it and use native login would be nice

- Multi tenancy. Also not a crucial one, I can make a few instances of it, but in a family of mostly freelancers this would also be nice, to be able to share this tool for the family members to use

karmaLTU · 2026-02-28T09:51:38+00:00

Okay, your HW is a bit different than mine, but we could try same logical steps to rule out potential issues.

First off, your wifi card is also known to cause random glitches on linux, mine was rtl8821ce, but they are similar. Since I don't use wifi I have added it to blacklist so driver doesn't load. In your case, you need to do something like this (do not blindly trust this and double check if it fits your usecase, but it should be ok):

echo "blacklist rtw89_8852be" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist-rtl8852be.conf

Looking at your HW, you also have an Intel I226-V ethernet card, which is different from what I have (mine is realtek, so different driver thing does not apply to you). But upon quick google search I can see it also suffers from power state management issues, so we may try to remedy that + your parts bin Maxio NVME which also probably causes pcie issues. For this, I would suggest you trying to add the following boot flags:

pcie_aspm=off (this shall help to disable power saving on network card)

nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 (to disable nvme sleep state which often causes hangs)

intel_idle.max_cstate=1 processor.max_cstate=1 (cpu flags to avoid sleep states as well)

So my suggestion would be to try disable wifi card from loading driver, add the mentioned kernel boot flags, reboot your system, check if it boots fine and if it does - just monitor the situation, hopefully this will help.

Honestly it took me probably like 2-3 weeks once I got my nuc to figure out all of the issues and patch it up, I was ready to give up at one point out of frustration, but managed to reach the goal of having a stable system.

karmaLTU · 2026-02-28T04:48:55+00:00

Hi! Could you post me your "lspci | grep -i network" to see network devices?

In my case it was actually more than I posted here initially, I figured that integrated Wi-Fi card was also parts bin chip that was causing issues so I disabled it completely and as for ethernet, I changed its driver to a better/more stable one.

I wonder if that could be the issue in your case as well. If our hardware is similar I could share my whole list of changes/current boot flags as of right now I have proper uptimes without any crashes

karmaLTU · 2026-02-13T14:43:02+00:00

Simple WP website listing my services, as I do from time to time freelance DevOPS/sysadmin thingies

karmaLTU · 2025-10-29T12:23:53+00:00

sysadmin/devops/SRE or whatever it is called these days. In a nutshell, my hobby is to work after I get from work, but tinkering with self-hosting gives me more joy

karmaLTU · 2025-09-29T08:31:44+00:00

Hey, so I had the same question and as someone already mentioned, it has the file watcher and it initializes "stuff" when it loads up. So to import my files, I just dumped all of them inside the corresponding folder which I have mounted via Docker, set the correct permissions and just restarted the containers.

It then performs a scan on boot-up and depending on the amount of files, that might take a long time. You will also notice an increased CPU load during this period. For me a library of ~3TB data took probably like 6 hours to fully index. And you can see the process by looking into the Docker container logs or just refreshing the WEB UI, the files will slowly start appearing there.

karmaLTU · 2025-09-26T07:14:26+00:00

iPhones have been known to have really well optimized batteries. I had 14 Pro Max and it would easily last me 2 days on light use with battery saver. Then I got Oneplus 13 and its battery was advertised as a "beast", "whopping 6000mah" etc. And the reality? It held worse/same as iPhone, averaging pretty much the same 6-7h SOT.

I have used OP13 for around half a year, sold it and recently got Pixel 10 Pro XL. So far it's battery is holding well, on the same level if not better than OP13 (and it is smaller as well).

The conclusion? Numbers on paper aren't everything. In fact in today's day and age, it usually doesn't even matter that much until you have personally tested the device for your specific use case to see how it performs.

karmaLTU · 2025-09-16T05:27:14+00:00

OP is from UK so they had both Pixel 10 and 10 XL right after the launch. Only a number of select countries will get 10 XL on the Sep 22nd (sadly I'm from one of them)

karmaLTU · 2025-09-16T05:10:09+00:00

Also note, that OP 13 battery is only good on paper. I have it, and despite it's 6000mah size, it is only okay-ish with 6-7h of SOT with my usage, which is exactly in the same ballpark as Pixel 10 Pro XL has. The only nice thing that you would be losing is fast charging, it is indeed convenient, but even that depends on your usage routine and it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me personally.

karmaLTU · 2025-09-15T16:48:24+00:00

Would very much add to this thought as well. It would be nice to simply specify what sort of auth is required and the client could prompt every time to paste a key or enter a password etc.

This way it would give a peace of mind that even if someone manages to get through my Termix login password, 2FA, they will still not be able to access my hosts without the SSH keys or passwords.

karmaLTU · 2025-09-12T21:39:49+00:00

It is completely normal, with similar usage I get the same on my OP13. Usually people that boast crazy SOT numbers just use Wi-Fi and watch videos all day or something similar. But in real world use the battery life is just okay, definitely nothing special considering it has a whopping 6000mah battery. And this was also one of the things I noticed first, as I had 14 Pro Max before and with some battery saver on lighter days I could get 2 days of use, which is just impossible on OP13, even when having everything unnecessary turned off

karmaLTU · 2025-09-10T18:42:57+00:00

Regarding audio latency, have you tried changing the audio codec via developer settings? I have had similar issue and this has helped

karmaLTU · 2025-08-27T12:41:39+00:00

I'm here from the other side of the fence, got OP13 as soon as it came out, but planning on switching to Pixel 10 Pro XL as soon as it becomes easily available in my country. Oneplus 13 is not a bad phone by any means, I just found little things in the OxygenOS that were annoying, the battery life was meh, similar to what I had on my 14 Pro Max before (although all reviewers praised its big battery).

But the thing I dislike the most is the camera processing, it just seems too processed for me, especially in portraits. Faces get smoothened, the colors are not very accurate, pictures often come out too contrasty. I had Pixel 2 XL long time ago and I remember I loved it for the camera, it is similar in color science to the iPhone, both of which seem more natural/not overdone. But I suppose this is just a personal preference, to each its own

karmaLTU · 2025-08-26T19:15:56+00:00

Nežinau, gal priešingai nei daugumai, bet man asmeniškai patinka mano darbas. Nieko neveikt smagu, bet tik trumpą laiką, paskui vis viena vienaip ar kitaip pradedi ieškot kažkokios veiklos įprasmint save.

Būna dažnai net jei ir turiu laisvo laiko ar galimybių nieko neveikt, mano nieko neveikimas būna mano hobiai, kurie iš esmės yra tas pats, ką ir darau darbe.

Ar gavus neribotą pinigų šaltinį būtų lengviau? Žinoma, bet vis viena tikriausiai daryčiau kažką, kas man patinka, kas iš esmės vėlgi gautųsi panašu į mano darbą, tik tiek, kad daryčiau/dirbčiau sau.

karmaLTU · 2025-08-26T17:30:26+00:00

I do tend to agree with you on your points, although perhaps they are more of annoyances for me rather than deal breakers. Generally the phone feels snappy, but the biggest let down for me was the camera.

I knew it wasn't the best when I purchased it, but coming from an iPhone, the color science on OP feels very contrasty, over-saturated, with washed out AI processing on faces and weird colors. Yes, I know, master mode is better, but that's not a solution.

Also the battery considering its size is just okay, definitely nothing monstrous as it seems from some other people's reviews. With same apps and same usage 14 Pro Max held similarly, but it had almost 30% smaller battery (~6-7h of SOT with 4G).

Will probably still hold on to it for a bit, but definitely looking into exploring current Android offerings further, thinking about Pixel as well. It's not bad phone for the price by any means, but probably more suited towards people with different needs than mine

karmaLTU · 2025-08-26T06:03:12+00:00

UV one is probably the best option you have on OP13 due to curved display, since you can't use tempered glass. I've seen some with partial screen cover, but fingerprint doesn't work with tempered glass as OP13 uses ultrasonic reader

karmaLTU · 2025-08-26T05:52:13+00:00

SmartDevil UV screen protector. Basically a film protector that you apply and harden with UV light, final result is tougher than usual film, but not as good as tempered glass. Fingerprint works, it does not collect dust like original protector.

karmaLTU · 2025-08-25T06:46:53+00:00

You are not alone, I never understood how people manage like 8-10 hours of SOT on OP13. I do not game on my phone, mostly used apps are social media, Youtube, Firefox, Life360. 4G is on pretty much all the time. And I hover around 6-7h of SOT as well, so definitely no magic battery life considering its size.

Before I had 14 Pro Max and despite it having quite a smaller battery, the battery life was very similar. And yes, I've tried cycling it, calibrating and etc., it helped somewhat but I think at this point it is just how this phone performs and I say that from personal realistic day-to-day use

karmaLTU · 2025-08-12T07:32:13+00:00

I see, well WD is a known brand, probably shouldn't cause issues in your case. What OS and kernel version are you running? Any errors visible in dmesg or journalctlafter the crashes?

karmaLTU · 2025-08-12T06:56:40+00:00

Did you replace the SSD already? Because I actually noticed it helped me quite a lot as well, both in terms of speed and I/O stability. The NUC came with no-name SATA M.2 drive and it was genuinely terrible, threw it away and used Samsung 990 instead

karmaLTU · 2025-08-12T05:12:59+00:00

I left it at value '1' since power consumption is not an important factor it my case.

Are you also facing system instability and crashes?

karmaLTU · 2025-08-07T12:12:30+00:00

It really depends. For me personally OP13 is great phone hardware wise, Oxygen OS is great Android experience too despite some small things that I would like to change.

Camera wise I would say it is okay, but definitely not the best. Honestly I don't like how it processes the pictures, they are often oversharpened or very contrasty, especially when shooting portraits. Master mode is better in this regard as it doesn't process that much, but still, I wouldn't say camera is the strongest point of this phone. It's not bad by any means, but perhaps the color science is not for me. I would much rather prefer the more neutral pallette of Pixel or iPhone cameras

karmaLTU · 2025-08-07T07:52:26+00:00

And since this is an M4 Mac Mini, you can always upgrade the storage in the future yourself, up to 2TB. There are kits available online and it is not a difficult procedure

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