1100€ for a phone with 128gb of storage is absurd.

man, i just hope my pixel 7 lasts long enough that a viable alternative emerges. i just cant go back to a stockrom filled to the brim ai bullshit, other bloat and spyware.

Very sad state of affairs.

But 26,000 Eiffel towers cracks me up. Yes, ofcourse i can relate to that as the general manager of the monuments warehouse where we store thousands of monuments.

Since i started to use my Pico 4 as a sort of poor mans Vision Pro i really want XR to take off. Even though the GUI is kinda shit, that Snapdragon 865 is severely underpowered, the passthrough is abysmal, the heat and fan noise directly in front of my face is annoying and my UX is cobbled together with sideloaded Android apps(of which only three can be open at the same time). Its still fucking awesome. NGL i really want to start putting some money aside for a future XR device with a decent soc, good passthrough, better OS, highres screens, etc.

But as an old timey nerd its hard to be excited about tech giants trying to get their foot into the next possibly big market to be the dominant force with their walled gardens so they can force ads directly into our eyeballs.

But even with that in mind. If Apple wouldnt be Apple and made a few sensible changes i would easily drop 2000$ on a standalone headset. A desktop grade OS should be integrated and accessible by the XR frontend so you can actually get some shit done without the need for an additional macbook. Drop the ‘premium’ materials and design first approach. Make it as light and comfortable as possible. Yeah and thats about it already? Sure, it would be lovely if they wouldnt upsell ram and storage for five times what they are actually worth. But that would be too much to ask.

hey, i just run in the issue again today where an file would have taken several hours. instead i tried the app zarchiver and it was done in under a minute. idk if its the best app for that matter. but it worked for me.

hell yeah! thanks

https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community.

These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.

As a result, many contributors teamed up and forked the project, establishing CoMaps, a new alternative focused on openness and being not-for-profit.

But from user perspective there arent much benefits yet. I like the new muted green a bit more i guess haha

Comaps for navigation. Replaced Organic Maps

Öffi for finding public transit connections. Sadly replaced Transportr which doesnt work anymore for me

Bura for weather forcast. Replaced Geometric Weather which stopped working quite a while ago.

Etar as a calender. Idk i dont use it too much but its enough for my needs.

Quillpad for note taking. Its a fork of a fork of apps which didnt get support anymore. Best notetaking app i came across so far. Love it. Looks good. You can keep it simple but it also has more than enough extra features.

KDE Connect Comes in super handy for quick transfer of files or just the clipboard between the PC and phone. Remote input and mediacontrol is also pretty sweet.

Material Files Best file explorer i know of. I tried so many over the years and its always the app which stays forever on my phones. Its not perfect but so far i found it better than anything else.

Silicone Calculator A simple and pretty calculator

VLC for local playback. Works well with folders which is a must for me. VLC just works for me on whatever device for 20 years.

Too lazy for the rest, sorry: Accrescent as an alternative appstore. From there: Ironfox as browser and ri music for streaming… music.

Pixel Camera, Google Photos and Snapseed are the only non open-source apps on my phone. Need to spend a bit more time with ImageToolbox. Maybe its enough to sunset Photos and Snapseed.

In my experience the unzipping speed roughly matches my expectations of a phone unless the archive contains thousands of small files. I have a phone with a Snapdragon 870 SOC, 8GB RAM und UFS 3.1 storage and a Pixel 7 with Tensor G2, 8GB RAM and also UFS 3.1 storage. Performancewise they’re roughly the same. On both decompression is fairly speedy for phone hardware. But when i tried to decompress texture packs for PS2 games with thousands of small texture files time to complete exploded up to several hours. I uneducatedely believe UFS3.1 is the bottleneck here? Decompression scales pretty well with multithreading so i dont expect the SOCs to be a problem. Maybe something something how android handles blocks of data, idk?