Why is it written with USD?

The holy grail / unicorn of a phone would have:

• no notch / punch hole
• a headphone jack
• an sd card slot
• nfc
• a proximity sensor

This currently results in Sony phones and one Ulefone one with outdated Android and a lack of updates. Sony’s phone branch is currently dying and it’s very much possible there won’t be any new phones next year. They released a single flagship this year which they recalled because of issues.
Next year phones might get a bit more interesting because of the new EU regulations coming into effect this June but almost no phones have been released just since then.

I have no idea what I’ll get but for now my current phone (Asus Zenfone 6, from 2019) just refuses to die.

If it’s a moving mirror camera* and it’s used to take stills it’s probably fine, as the sensor is only exposed for a fraction of a second per image.

You can say goodbye to live view then

That? The loss of sales for Pixel was a wake up call? Not like literally no other company buying capacity from them for bleeding edge consumer tech?

Adreno 840 GPU inside the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 is said to feature 16MB of graphics memory.

Might be just enough to run SimCity 2000

RIP, it’s been a good run

Android 4.0’s aesthetic was peak design.

Not really an “Average Windows/MacOS user will run into” issue but most power users would run into it

Also, there is some talking on github on how they will probably completely drop LVM in the near futur… That’s not what someone should expect from a Linux installer!

It’s a shitshow. Looking at their repo’s issues list has lots of noise, but the worst of them is that the LVM issue has been open for over a year now. Sure, open source, anyone’s free to work on it by why would distros use such a feature incomplete installer?

Even then those who have to installers don’t really have a good experience with distros of wide market share (narrowing to Linux distros only), especially with whatever fresh hell Calamares is. (It doesn’t even support LVM or just installation with specified mounts points if you already set up your partition layout!)
Seriously, I’ve had better experience with the installer Ubuntu Server uses.

I wonder if you can have it make long distance calls by whistling

…Anything interesting in the recent releases? I stopped following a while ago, I’m not sure there has been any actually exciting features after like what, the redesign of 12

on some but not all Australian 5g networks, the camera closes after a few seconds and is unusable unless you switch to 4g etc.

The what? How?

It’s not released yet.

but even things such as phone thickness are announced in ml

Phone thickness in millilitres? I knew they have a hard time mixing metric with imperial but this is kind of ridiculous

I thought you were going to ask for better RISC-V support.

Does it have a trackpoint?

I think your issue has been fixed: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22289253

There are different flavours of Ubuntu with the other desktop environments (called Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and so on). The posted screenshot is indeed a mishmash of Gnome and Xfce though.

I guess they VC funding ran out