I remember seeing your original post.

Now, how about one step further:
How in heavens can you make Thunar show embedded thumbnails instead of auto-generated ones?

Well damn, federation took its sweet time to show me your reply

Does that mean we can make moon photos that are even further from reality now?

Federation had a hiccup there, I’m only seeing your reply now

Supersampling is definitely something interesting, but up to what point? On a sensor this small, even something like 48 sampled to 12 already suffers to a degree where I would stop calling it useful.

Don’t get me wrong here, I can see the use first hand on my own phone. My second lens for night mode does 20MP to 5, and while the image is brighter than the main lens, it’s just as grainy, and a much lower output resolution too.

Now granted, my phone is a few years old now, and modern devices surely have better sensors, but no amount of trickery will make up for those physical limitations.

If it were an actual zoom, at least. I was absolutely delighted when I first learned that some phones do in fact have lenses with a variable focal lenght.

Having that 2x zoom through actual optics instead of it being a cropped image is fantastic, gotta say. I really want my next phone to have that, so that zooming is actually useful.

pixel binning as a ‘solution’ to a problem which needn’t even exist in the first place.

Well, I fully agree with this article. There is one other good use of binning/supersampling though, and that is better chroma resolution relative to luma.

But even that won’t do much, with all the other shortcomings already present.

It is, and I hate it so much. Like, even a full frame sensor would need some proper ISO magic at 200MP

I really don’t get the use of super high resolutions on tiny sensors like that.

Sure, you can have a crazy zoom (aka crop) while still retaining good enough resolution, but at this point?
All the detriments that minuscule, high-res sensors bring about won’t just disappear.

never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with

I highly enjoy using EndeavourOS. But then again, I wouldn’t classify it as a spinoff, it’s pretty much vanilla Arch, but purple.

Now Manjaro on the other hand… Tried it and understood why so many people don’t like it within the first week.

I didn’t know that, this is super cool!

And brings the most recent version of something to any system. I’m astounded sometimes by how much a native package can lag behind

I wouldn’t have thought any board newer than the original Ryzen platform X370 has a problem with this. Do they?

Besides, the fact that these two CPUs have more cache and all cores on a single CCD makes them much less dependant on fast RAM.

You could run the 5800X3D with 2800 memory and get very close to its maximum potential already, it’s crazy.

But when the time comes and the kid needs to write some assignments for school, you can be like Your Steam Deck can do that too, have a look at what this dock does

Imagine if handheld gaming is all they’ve ever used it and known it for, and all of a sudden you show them than it can be a full desktop experience, too

My mind would’ve been blown back when I was a kid

I was going to say Siege, but they removed the ability to play as a team of exclusively shield recruits, I’ve heard.

True, I always forget that exists

It does uninstall them completely.

However, the installation files are still there for the system to use. A factory reset for example wouldn’t work the way it’s intended to otherwise.

Though I don’t know about how updates behave in that instance, so that sounds annoying if it’s like this.

I guess I’ll file this under only proceed if you know what you’re doing

I removed a package that was needed for the sim card to function once. Didn’t remember what that package was, because I just went to town without documenting what packages I uninstalled.

That’s a learning experience right there

If not buying a phone that comes with these preinstalled wasn’t the first option you picked, then ADB is your friend.

• Install Android Platform Tools on your PC
• Enable USB debugging in Androids’ developer options
• Connect phone to PC via USB
• Open terminal, type adb devices
• Authorize the connection from your phone
• Type adb shell, and now you can wreak havoc on your phone

so only continue if you know what the hell you’re doing

To uninstall an app, type
pm uninstall --user 0 *package name*

For example,
pm uninstall --user 0 com.facebook.services

Should you uninstall something by accident, you can reinstall by using
cmd package install-existing *package name*

I think it’s enabled by default, but you can also just disable it for specific apps.

But if you leave it enabled and permissions get revoked after a while, you’ll get a notification telling you about it. I think that’s fair.

There’s always going to be a debate on whether something like this should be opt-in or opt-out, but for the purpose of privacy and data security, it makes sense to be on by default, I reckon.

Would using root to remove an app remove everything? Because if not, why not simply use adb to uninstall an app like YouTube, for example?