elly on Nostr: Just realised that apparently google-oriole (Pixel 6) is losing support next month... ...
Just realised that apparently google-oriole (Pixel 6) is losing support next month... after only 5 years.
CPU in this thing is still really fast (in fact, it's maybe 20% slower than current top-of-the-line and could easily be used as ARM64 buildhost) and feels extremely snappy (doesn't slow-down at all).
Cameras still take great pictures and battery is a bit tired (lasts roughly a day, compared to 3 days when it was new) but I got a replacement from iFixit that's been waiting on the shelf for a year to install.
Could totally see myself using it for another 5 years (despite the fact it's a brick that breaks my wrist) and it's ridiculous that Android vendors want people to replace perfectly good devices after just 5 years... and even more of a reason to mainline/port pmOS to them
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