> What the government did succeed at was changing the pronunciation of numbers from 20 to 99. It was changed from how the Germans do it (“two and forty”) to how the English do (“forty two”).
Yet almost every single person I speak with every day here outside of people from the Oslo region say it the "two and forty" way.
Though, that probably still means most people say it the "forty two" way.
When I got my Pixel 7 Pro I was shocked at how bad the battery life was, even without google play services. (came from a 5a)
I love the phone, but the battery life makes me regret my purchase almost every day.
Then my coworker got the Pixel 8 Pro, and it has WAY worse battery life than my 7 Pro, he even went and got a new one at the store because it was so bad it had to be a fault, but no. It just is absolute garbage.
Out of curiosity, do you have any Meta apps installed? I've tried to kinda debug the issue by reading the system logs. In the end my battery life was greatly improved just by full removal of facebook, instagram and, especially, messenger. It also helps to disable background data for all the apps you don't explicitly want to run in background and to set "restricted" battery mode for them. I'm using grapheneos with sandboxed playservices by the way.
Opposite of my experience, I daily drove a Pixel 6 Pro from launch until 8 Pro launched and have been using 8 Pro since. I upgraded because I can, my Pixel 6 Pro is working just fine, I've added it to my growing device catalog for testing during mobile development. Over the course of the 6 Pro, I replaced it twice, once for a cracked screen and the second time for cracked back glass using preferred care (both close in time to each other from similarly stupid drops). I do not use a case for my phone. None of those three devices had any issues with battery. My partner is using a 7, two of my friends have 6 Pros, and I just upgraded my parents from 4a to 7a and battery hasn't really been a serious problem from any of them. It's not insanely good but it's also not a pain point for me.
As an engineering lead I do a lot of my non-programming work directly on Pixel, including tons of remote desktop, meetings, GitHub/productivity, k8s management, etc. I don't get to write code nearly as much any more, probably around 10-20% of my work week. At least for those workloads, things are fine. But the workload you run can dramatically change things, especially if you've got particularly power hungry apps involved. The OS gives you tools to identify what those apps might be when you dig into the battery area of settings.
> even without google play services. (came from a 5a)
Since you can't remove GMS from a Pixel without flashing a ROM to it as far as I know, can I assume you are not using stock software? A lot of Pixel's battery performance is made up using the adaptive battery features. When they are off, things are more dicey. Do those work on custom non-GMS ROMs to begin with?
To sum it up, battery can definitely be better, but I'm just not seeing the kinds of problems people complain about and that surprises me given my experiences.
Note though that I can attest the modem in the 6 Pro wasn't super great, and the design of the 6 Pro with it's curved glass definitely contributed to those drops taking out the screen/back.
I really do wonder what I do wrong with KDE every time I try it..
I see people write stuff like this, but my experience is the complete opposite.
KDE is the most sluggish horrible mess for me every time I try it, it feels like a game constantly fluctuating between 15 and 25 fps when interacting with it.
Gnome on the other hand has never missed a beat, despite having it's issues needing solved with extensions. Performance wise it's always been 10/10, even on my 3x4k setup.
Wish I didn't need wayland, because I really just want to go back to xfce..
That is odd, I have never had performance issues with KDE. It was no quicker or slower than any other high end desktop system.
My only issue with it is that it seems to try to do a little too much - but that is just a matter of taste.
Personally, KDE is the jack of all trades - it can do anything you ask it, Gnome goes a little too simple, I really like Cinnamon as a middle ground. But each to their own.
Yeah I really don't understand it. There really has to be something wrong somewhere because I can't imagine KDE actually being as bad as I experience it, because absolutely nobody would be using it if so.
To me my favourite is xfce by far, it is so simple and fast without being too simple where it becomes an inconvenience.
But, I need wayland so Gnome and KDE are the only really good alternatives for now. (Yes I know there are plenty of alternatives like sway, enlightenment, etc etc but no.)
Are you using Nvidia? I remember there was an issue with Nvidia and Aurorae (one of the window decorator used by kde). Try changing system theme in kde settings in case one of them doesn't trigger the slowdown issue.
Same issues on both my nvidia desktop, my amd desktop, and my amd laptop.
I definitely first suspected nvidia, since well, it's nvidia. But I wouldn't have the exact same issues on other machines without nvidia as well then..i hope
Haven't tried KDE lately, but I tried it a couple times on the last 20 years, and every time I couldn't sustain more than a couple hours.
Main complain is that it is noticeably slow and the GUI looks like an experiment to turn all pixels into clickable things. I think there is nice tech under the hood, but that's not what I'm looking for.
Cinnamon seems to be forgotten/underappreciated, I really enjoy using it.
I've tried a range of different desktops environments, and I end up finding cinnamon just does what I expect, with reasonable defaults.
> Cinnamon seems to be forgotten/underappreciated, I really enjoy using it. I've tried a range of different desktops environments, and I end up finding cinnamon just does what I expect, with reasonable defaults.
Cinnamon is pretty cool. It’s old school desktop paradigm but clean and modern looking. I urge anyone who likes XFCE to try Cinnamon.
My main issue with Cinnamon is that fractional scaling doesn’t work well (to be fair, it only works in Gnome and KDE) but since Cinnamon handle bigger text very well, I have a nice experience just by checking « bigger text » in accessibility settings (while XFCE will scale text up but will keep the rest - mostly icons - really tiny).
I can second this. I have no need for Wayland at the moment and am still happy with XFCE but every time I read a comment praising KDE I give it a go again to see what I am missing out on. But it always feels, 'off'. I cannot quite put my finger on it. It feels convoluted, a bit sluggish. There are some animations/transitions which get in the way for me. I really do want to like it and honestly wonder if I am doing something wrong.
Just one little thing ruined my workflow back when I tried KDE ~2018. It was the newest Plasma version back then. What really screwed me over were bugs with window focus. Sometimes you have to click twice to get a window to focus and it's really really breaking my workflow in a subtle way. It wasn't the only problem, but one that I didn't even notice at first that they really annoy the heck out of me.
It was then when I tried the obviously inferior Gnome (3.28 iirc). And while I felt a bit constraint with it, I was so much quicker with it.
> KDE is the most sluggish horrible mess for me every time I try it, it feels like a game constantly fluctuating between 15 and 25 fps when interacting with it.
This may be an issue with your specific hardware. I never encountered slow-downs with KDE, even when fancy compositor-effects were new and I went overboard[1] with them, everything was smooth as butter.
1. Who wouldn't want their wobbly, semi-transparent windows to disappear in a burst of flames when closed?
That is the weird part, it happens on all my various machines.
I have an RDNA2 laptop, KDE is sluggish.
I have a 3900x+2080Super desktop, KDE is sluggish. (Though that's nvidia so..)
Even my 5950x+7900xtx desktop, KDE is sluggish.
I really do not understand it, it's almost as if KDE just runs out of sync with my heads internal fps.
My KDE has fantastic frame-rates on an old Polaris AMD card. I never recall KDE being particularly sluggish, even when I could only use Intel's Integrated graphics.
