I know what you meant but unless you’re gaming there’s nothing you can do with a Pixel 8 that can’t be done with the 4a (though I usually reccomend the P5 because for a few dollars more you can get wireless charging and significantly better battery life).

extremely old

Dude it’s less than four years old lol I get what you are saying but Q3 2020 is not that long ago.

The Pixel 5 is not much more expensive and is still a great phone with good battery life and good camera, and the last Pixel small enough to used one-handed. It also has wireless charging which is missing on the 4a.

If your friend isn’t gaming or doing anything CPU-intensive the P5 is what I would reccommend today. Everything afterwords has been an incremental upgrade for significantly more money.

Don’t make the mistake of confusing the Linux community (an absolute mess, just read the comments here) with the software itself (Actually cleaner and better organized than Windows).

Yeah it is a beta, but the actual final update that was released lacked that gyro functionality over 2.4ghz that was in the beta. So yeah, you kinda do need to “downgrade”.

Hopefully they do release an update with that functionality enabled one day but it’s been well over a year now and they don’t even officially provide that beta version anymore. So it’s not looking hopeful.

The 8bitdo ultimate you linked to is great. To be clear I have only used it with Windows.

But if you get it there is a hitch that’s not made clear anywhere- in order to use on 2.4ghz mode (with the dongle) with gyro enabled, you need to downgrade the firmware to an old beta version 8bitdo doesn’t host anymore. Someone uploaded it to google drive in that reddit thread I linked to.

How much energy is used by our current financial system?

Orders of magnitude less than Bitcoin requires, which is the criticism.

A better comparison would be energy utilized per user, in which case the energy requirements for Bitcoin are miles and miles ahead of what the average person produces using a computer in the same amount of time. Even a gamer, playing 4k 120fps ray traced games 12 hours a day would use a fraction of the energy of someone mining bitcoin.

I would be surprised if this ever sees a physical release, or even gets past the “concept render” phase.

I didn’t know that, my google-fu turned up nothing do you have a link with more info?

ya know seems odd that a phone by such a data hungry company, can be made into exactly the opposite.

It shouldn’t feel odd, because we should have control over the hardware we buy, yet here we are.

I don’t really think it’s what most people want or expect from this community, that said I watched this this the other day and it was a very entertaining and well told story!

7840U is a beast. That’s what Framework puts in their high-end AMD laptop.

This is it. Lots of complicated answers in this thread. It’s built into uBlock, just not on by default.