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A bit better maybe, but still the worst phones you can possibly buy, in my humble opinion.
I had a Samsung A50 for some time. Worst phone I’ve ever see in my life. Terrible build quality, the thing came apart all by itself, and it’s my work phone that I really use at a minimum. And the worst is how slooooow this phone as always been.
Last year I got it “upgraded” to a A35 5G, it’s a little faster, but the build quality still seems to be rubbish and the bloatware is through the roof !
My SO has had several and really liked them until they broke or got lost (the phones’ quality really aren’t to blame here). I’ve offered the Sony Xperia 10 VI to my dad last Christmas and it doesn’t come with much bloat at all, I would call it good.
But if you want a completely bloat-free phone, you can’t beat Google Pixel flashed with GrapheneOS.
Media bias is one thing for sure, but there are data showing that gun related death are much higher in the USA than whole of Europe (except, well… Ukraine).
Gun related death per 100k inhabitants, in 2019: USA=10, Netherlands=0.5. Gun deaths by country - WorldPopulationReview.com
I am tempted to compare the market of handheld PC to this of Single Board Computers.
You have on one hand the Raspberry Pi and steamdeck: first successful on a niche market, develop the hardware and the software to deliver a complete experience, open and hackable.
On the other hand, you have all the followers, throwing out some random imitations, with better spec. sheets, but no Software support, or just the bare minimum and ultimately the experience offered isn’t a match.
How are they hoping to compete with the steamdeck if none of them put in the effort to develop a complete and functional user experience? Acer and Asus with collect the scraps and nothing more.
There’s also updated music for the games by Andrew Hulshult (who worked on the music for Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods DLC)
That’s nice! This explains that: 11 Years in the making…IDKFA (DOOM + DOOM II) is now official / @AndrewHulshultOfficial / YouTube.com
NVIDIA is only open-sourcing the kernel module. User-space librairies and firmware remain closed source and proprietary.
For comparison, AMD and Intel provide both open-source kernel module and libraries while firmware remains closed and proprietary.
User-space librairies also have a major impact on performance, NVIDIA didn’t make a move towards making these open-source. Also, GPU older than RTX 20xx will not benefit from the new open-source kernel module.
While it will certainly improve things for using NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, it’s nothing revolutionary.
There is a playable demo available: UNBEATABLE [white label] / Steam Store
I mean, in the cas of Projectivity at least, when you launch Projectivity the first time it will ask you to change specific settings and it will take you to the corresponding menus. You just need to read the instructions and press OK. Sorry I can’t be more specific at this time, as I am away from my TV.
Didn’t know this one, looks very nice ! Will give it a try.
Maybe nothing amazing, but rather basic utility:
I use a few of the google apps via the sandbox google-play services on GrapheneOS and it works fine (Maps, Android-Auto, Camera, Playstore).