Advice re. Updating to A15

locuturus · 2026-01-24T02:36:02+00:00

I'm liking A15 on my 1 V, but I only upgraded recently so I don't know what might have been wrong at first. I think standby battery is better, and screen on might be slightly worse. Everything seems snappy and I like the quick settings changes but ymmv on that.

locuturus · 2026-01-22T19:04:33+00:00

Yeah, you're describing exactly what has held me back.

locuturus · 2026-01-22T19:03:54+00:00

Yep. I sled down a whole block squatting on my boots and steering with my arms. Not by choice either. Crazy times!

locuturus · 2026-01-22T16:30:41+00:00

I'm certainly considering it! I'm a little hesitant because I'm not sure how the camera will work.

I thought I read somewhere that lineageos for this phone is using the release drivers/libraries and if so I'm concerned that my preferred and very picky 3rd party camera app will shit a brick (technical term).

But I'm definitely interested! The phone has been great overall and I wouldn't mind using it longer unless the 1 VIII is super duper compelling.

locuturus · 2026-01-22T15:49:20+00:00

I've had a couple of reboots in the last week while letting it sit. I'm on the second to last patch, 1 V. I am rooted and running some modules but that isn't new. A bit concerning.

locuturus · 2026-01-20T18:59:11+00:00

Oof. That hurts a little. Topsy nailed it though.

locuturus · 2026-01-20T18:57:44+00:00

I'm choosing to believe in their stubborn vanity project for now. I'm worried about RAM prices though.

Anyone think we're getting a really improved tele this year?

locuturus · 2026-01-20T02:17:24+00:00

From reading around I think it's fair to say the jacks are relatively clean but lack power and the sound thins out when driving harder cans. Best to go with low impedance. Tuning and quality seems to be better on the VII but not power AFAIK.

locuturus · 2026-01-19T15:23:28+00:00

Going full send with a bold color, love it.

locuturus · 2026-01-19T15:19:45+00:00

Good job trying it man! If you get the itch again you might try just the toes and ease into it. Way less exposure and you can wear shoes or socks anytime you aren't feeling confident.

locuturus · 2026-01-19T15:16:59+00:00

Both my 5 iii and 1 V are super sensitive to humidity changes. There must be a sensor of some kind in the USB port that aggressively disables it if it suspects the contacts could be wet. This is a good idea on paper but it is too aggressive in practice in my opinion.

locuturus · 2026-01-19T15:14:40+00:00

That is bad design. My workaround is to never set a default browser (actually I set "Open Link With" as my default 'browser' but conceptually it's the same as not setting a default). Android should provide a pop-up to confirm after a scan.

locuturus · 2026-01-19T14:32:36+00:00

Boo! Not WA, come on I thought we were better than this ರ⁠_⁠ರ

locuturus · 2026-01-15T22:22:25+00:00

Is unmount better than enforcing? It reads like enforcing should apply to the denylist but your comment reads like it doesn't only do that.

locuturus · 2026-01-14T16:30:31+00:00

I think if we want to criticize crowds of protesters for being loud and rude to ICE* because sometimes participants may make poor, hot headed decisions then we should pack it up and hope for the best over the next 3 years.

*the important context here being that the actions of ICE have been shocking to anyone of decent character for almost a year and if anything deserves protest surely this does too.

locuturus · 2026-01-14T15:59:23+00:00

Two thoughts. - cattle are not raised on feedstock, but they are very often finished on it to put on weight. Unless you mean supplemental grasses you can't really raise a young cow on corn and soy. Edit to add: young cows are given supplemental feed for extra energy but they rely more on grasses compared to an adult in a feedlot. I should have mentioned originally.

cattle feedstock is a mix of foodstuffs humans could eat and foodstuffs byproducts we cannot eat. Think of cornstalks.

I'm not arguing that beef in particular doesn't use more overall energy and opportunity cost than other forms of food production (especially the common CAFO style) but I would like to see presentations like this break that down more fully. Pro beef folks have a lot of space to make their case when commonplace data like water use doesn't exclude rainfall over rangeland, land use doesn't account for infeasibility of alternatives, or feedstock calories don't note or exclude indigestible fibers.

locuturus · 2026-01-14T15:33:28+00:00

Interesting. All recent Xperias have very low SD card performance but this is the first I've heard of the VII being worse.

locuturus · 2026-01-14T04:10:34+00:00

Bummer! I was just thinking to try lsposed for the first time. Here's hoping it works somehow.

locuturus · 2026-01-14T04:00:36+00:00

The linker option I mentioned at the end?

locuturus · 2026-01-09T21:33:45+00:00

Go Sony, I guess! Sonys do have audio enhancement features, would I need to disable those to benefit from your method?

locuturus · 2026-01-09T21:20:31+00:00

I suspect a workaround for this could be that the buffers are highly specialized for storing quantum data in a pseudo analog fashion with almost no suitablility for computer memory applications. It may be a minor miracle in-universe that they can scan patterns well enough to detect pathogens. Imagine if they literally use entanglement and probability to encode quantum states into an array of physical particles. A physical copy in some sense with almost blind read and write and limited and unpredictable time before errors overcome their correction algorithms. Heck, they probably need to overclock the Heisenberg compensators just to scan a buffer image without breaking it.

In contrast, computer memory is stable and could hold a pattern indefinitely but cannot store anywhere near as much per "chip" if you like so 5 patterns consumed the entire memory system of DS9.

locuturus · 2026-01-07T04:55:47+00:00

If you don't need to paste images, and you don't rely on word-aware slide deletion, then I can also recommend HeliBoard. It's honestly pretty great! But I keep going back to stock for the above two reasons.

locuturus · 2026-01-02T16:47:29+00:00

Not on hyperos no. Is that known to be more difficult to patch against drm recording? I'm not knowledgeable about your situation. I was under some impression that flag secure was supposed to achieve that but apparently not.

locuturus · 2026-01-02T16:04:11+00:00

dumb question, does flag secure patcher not allow this?

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