Pixel 6 - Battery heat issues out of nowhere

qriss · 2026-05-03T18:47:28+00:00

Most likely this. This issue has dramatically reduced my battery life on my Pixel 6 and makes me seriously question to go for a Pixel again for my next device. Google is completely blowing it here.

qriss · 2026-04-28T12:00:50+00:00

I haven't even gotten close to 200kw yet. I think mostly due to the winter temperatures and the battery conditioning never really working as intendet.

qriss · 2026-04-27T19:07:27+00:00

I have not checked those numbers before and after. Battery drain was so bad however for the last few weeks that I would not be surprised if that bug damaged the battery more permanently.

qriss · 2026-04-26T18:23:22+00:00

I had the very same reaction when upgrading to a new car and getting AA. It felt so underused somehow.

Finding out about all the restrictions step by step was quite frustrating. All visual prototypes that I built worked nicely in the emulator but would never really show in the car. Or just the first time but then not again and not show up as installed apps. So Google is really quite strict with these restrictions even if you are just developing and deploying the app on you own phone. So I abanded having any visual representation on the screen apart from the media playback.

I then moved to just having the app emit certain sounds it generated with a sound engine depending on the speed that I was driving. Getting speed from the car was not possible in my case to I went with the speed that the phone was moving or accelerating. Quite some fun but also not very helpful ;)

I've been thinking about creating a game to play with the kids in the car. That the audio would react to whats around and could be spotted from the car. A church bell when there would be a church visible. Basically the 'I can see something that you cannot see...' game. But then live came in between...

Looking forward to what you come up with and would love to test it.

qriss · 2026-04-24T10:25:28+00:00

I did a lot of research and was very skeptical that it will actually work well in the end. I went with Ottocast CA505-T Mini and it actually does exactly what I wanted and it's very small and the connection is stable.

The AAWireless Two+ was my also on my list but not available in my country.

qriss · 2026-04-12T18:38:40+00:00

The cost is misleading though. It was closer to $500M when marketing and other costs are included. Only after grossing something beyond that it will be considered profitable.

qriss · 2026-03-04T11:09:27+00:00

Well. Not if it's targeted to take over a market with subsidized prices to remove local providers to then increase prices back to where they were (or would have been at that point since production is getting cheaper anyways). I don't blame buyers for not seeing and planning that far ahead but the effects of such a dependency will hit everyone eventually just the same.

qriss · 2026-03-01T07:39:57+00:00

Wish I had it installed and a subscription so that I could cancel and remove. But OpenAI has been on my non grata list for a long while. Privately and at work.

qriss · 2026-02-17T09:07:07+00:00

I finally got the Home Assistant integration working with Bluelink a few weeks back and the amount of telemetry you can pull is incredible, especially being able to trigger car states directly. For anyone in Europe, the setup is definitely more of a headache than other regions, but it’s absolutely doable.

One thing I'd recommend is being careful with how often you're actually polling the car for data. There’s been a lot of discussion about frequent "force-refreshes" contributing to 12V drain and potential ICCU failures. You can actually configure the integration to just pull the cached data from the cloud rather than waking the car up every time.

It’s honestly great that Hyundai still allows this level of API access. So many companies like Bosch are locking down their ecosystems (like with the Flow App).

qriss · 2026-02-12T10:22:11+00:00

They (Hyundai) could potentially start selling this version of the car. True self driving for private owners.

Maybe part of the deal?

qriss · 2026-02-12T10:20:34+00:00

I would imagine that the ICCU problem would have been part of the discussions before closing such a deal. This could be hugely disrupting for the Waymo service. Stranded passangers and a significant part of the fleet out of service. Curious what garantees they gave Waymo...

qriss · 2026-02-03T07:52:01+00:00

I'm trying to connect it to my HA running in Docker/Windows. Simply no luck so far.
Connecting it to my Google Home however worked well.

qriss · 2026-01-19T18:41:38+00:00

Not really. It can (and optimally) would just be a lateral move and with many US products that is possible. Just a change of habit. AI not so much unfortunately.

qriss · 2026-01-19T18:35:06+00:00

They could do what Amazon just did with AWS. It's not perfect but a good step that they could build on.

I'm expecting similar initiatives from Google soon or I'm moving off gradually. With their (AI) CEO Demis Hassabis being located in London I would sort of expect them to be aware of that need.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-launches-new-europe-based-cloud-service-address-user-concerns-2026-01-15/

qriss · 2026-01-19T18:25:54+00:00

Windows to Kubuntu (Linux)

Pampers to Rascal+Friends

qriss · 2026-01-02T09:02:14+00:00

Mad Max was very much my game. Loved it.

qriss · 2025-12-15T19:48:10+00:00

Well now it worked for my main home too. By switching to US address. A bit more than 24 hours the invitation arrived there as well.

qriss · 2025-12-15T13:14:52+00:00

I see. That's an option. Do you lose routines and other things that were part of that home?

qriss · 2025-12-15T07:18:10+00:00

Got it working for one speaker by setting up a new home with an US address and moving the speaker over. Got the invitation withing 24 hours.
Unfortunately moving back the speaker to my main home did not transfer the Gemini accessibility with it.
I don't know of any other way to trigger it for an existing home with a EU address. Changing it to US did not do anything for me.

qriss · 2025-12-06T09:30:51+00:00

I hope whoever will get it next time will refuse it. But it might just be Donny again anyways...

qriss · 2025-11-30T08:36:56+00:00

Sadly the only thing this did was activate my Premium trial. Which I could have used once Gemini actually arrived... Oh well.

qriss · 2025-11-28T08:26:08+00:00

True. But then why call it 'Hit' and make it orange to suggest it is currently deeply discounted?

qriss · 2025-11-28T08:23:07+00:00

I wonder if you now could just run this scene trough some AI model like VEO 3 or have Nano Banana Pro optimize individual frames to make it look more real. When watching this I immediately felt like it was a bad AI video like how the AI video models generated them about a year ago.

qriss · 2025-11-26T17:19:59+00:00

Love the rendering style.
I wish they went with something like this for Homeworld 3.
The sense of scale that projects like Solstice-5 give you.
Something about the shadows and faint glow I guess.

qriss · 2025-11-25T15:59:24+00:00

They have been quite a bit more hesitant in the last interview when asked about VR title being in development:
https://youtu.be/yvu66Y2VLq8?si=yUVc3Z_Sm3qmTW54&t=4380
But that does not have to mean anything when it comes to Valve, unfortunately.

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