how come my monitor never shuts off even though it’s set to. but then, every once in a while, it will shut off. or it’ll shut off, and then come back on. fucking eye of sauron glaring at me every night
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having not played it, here is what I know about PS5 demon’s souls other than it is green for some reason:
vs
nope
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i have a cheap HDMI switch from aliexpress that works great for my purposes, has little green LEDs to indicate which input’s active, it’s cute
however: while everything else will like, i guess send the correct shutoff signal or whatever so that its green light turns off when it’s no longer displaying, my little rpi400 somehow keeps the green light on when it goes to sleep or shuts down, even though my monitor hours on standby correctly. what gives? how do i even start to dig around and suss out the deal
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My lame solution for annoying lights on electronics is electrical tape. But it’s strange that your Pi is the only offender!
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I’ve noticed thumb drive leds and the like stay on with my Pi even when it’s powered off too. My solution has been to get a little on/off switch which goes between the end of the usb ac adapter and the pi itself.
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i’m going to stop posting about it in this thread but the whole game is just a cornucopia of things like this
they added a ring that lets you move freely in the swamp
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messing around with podman this morning
seems promising
Finally downgraded back to Android 11 after months of misery on 12. I made a huge list of things that worked poorly in 12 on my Pixel 3a, and I could probably add 5 or 10 more, but the thing that tipped this over to “worth reformatting my entire phone” was that I stopped getting notification sounds.
I’ve always had this problem with Android - notification sounds stop playing eventually and the phone needs to be restarted. But usually we’re talking a timeline of weeks. Android 12 started at days then hours then minutes. Basically I would have had to restart my phone every 30 minutes to get notification sounds which is the primary way i engage with notifications. Hate hate hate.
Anyway, downgrading was the right answer. I thought about installing custom firmware but honestly? I hit one road block and gave up because I don’t care at all. I don’t need a customizable interface or privacy features or whatever they offer.
It’s been a breath of fresh air though. It’s like having a new phone again!! Runs smoothly, unlocks promptly (took about 1-3 seconds on 12 to unlock using my fingerprint), and actually gives me notification sounds. I don’t wanna chuck the thing out a window every 5 seconds, so that’s very nice.
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Actually, I went back to my list and I’d like to note the things that did start working again on Android 12:
- GPS voice changes in the middle of sentences
- Dismissing my overnight alarm early no longer dismisses the associated do not disturb mode
- Attaching things in discord means I can’t type for at least 5 seconds or I’ll click through my keyboard and attach more things
- When I am playing music and lock my phone, the screen always turns back on after about 30 seconds and never turns off
- The time on the lock screen is sometimes BIG NUMBERS, sometimes small numbers, and sometimes a second, slightly different set of small numbers
So that’s only 7 remaining issues out of the original 12, but I have to tack on the below:
- All apps began restarting in the middle of using them. I would be in the middle of playing a game and it would just halt for a few seconds and kick me back to the title, sometimes. Same for websites - SB would reload while I was reading a thread and kick me back to the home page.
- Notifications stopped making sounds after ~30 minutes of uptime
- My starred contacts stopped being able to break through “Do Not Disturb” consistently - it worked about half the time
- My widgets would just fail to load about 10% of the time
- Unlocking the phone via fingerprint often took 1-3 seconds, and it got slower and slower as time went on. Minor note as well - the little “donk” it plays when unlocking would sometimes repeat 3-4 times while the screen was still black.
And we’re back to 12. So yeah, all in all a terrible experience, would not recommend.
I am, of course, cursed when it comes to electronics so I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody else experienced any of these issues but yeah, that was godawful
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Seems extremely cursed that this is ostensibly the “good” Android OS update support
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I’d like to reiterate that most of the problems I have with electronics are either mysteriously localized to my general area or self-inflicted. Given that I’ve not seen anyone else complain about the myriad issues I’ve had, then I’m guessing it’s the latter. I probably installed and uninstalled one too many apps, or downloaded some fucked up unofficial app, or or or etc. and messed everything up.
It could be that flashing the phone was what was actually needed all along!
But I do think the performance issues are real, and I was able to find a number of similar complaints along those lines. I’m definitely not upgrading to 12 ever again - I immediately muted that notification - and it’s possible I will not be buying a new Pixel either whenever it’s time to get rid of this thing.
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ive had notifications just randomly stop working but i’m on much older android version. it’s really annoying tho.
My Android OS gripes:
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When I’m in the middle of using GPS navigation if I want to check a notification I have to unlock the phone even though the screen is already turned on. The fingerprint unlock never seems to work in this circumstance and I have to manually enter my unlock code. I’m sure they are probably trying to discourage using the phone while driving but all this accomplishes is making me look away from the road even more
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When the phone vibrates on an incoming call it doesn’t just go straight into the buzzzzzz, buzzzz vibration pattern. It does a quick bz-bz as the screen awakens and something about it seems unsettlingly organic, like please do not spasm you are an electronic device.
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Adjusting Bluetooth settings so that phonecalls aren’t automatically passed through to my earbuds (which don’t work particularly well for that purpose) has apparently also made it so my phone/earbuds don’t automatically pair when I turn the earbuds on.
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I confess ITT that when someone half-jokingly calls me a Green Text I get a little huffy about it. I try to play it cool tho
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over here whatsapp is so dominant i haven’t used imessage in years
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still bummed that kik didn’t take off because I managed to land thekikinside as my user name.
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I really wanna jam a graphics card into this small form factor lenovo PC i use for emulation. Its just noooot quite up to some PS2 emulation…
Are there OKish low (electrical) power graphics cards?
A GT 1030 typically fits in small workstations but the cheapest ones are $115 new right now. They bench ~10% worse than the integrated graphics on current Ryzen 5XXXG parts ($200). You can probably get a used Zotac 1030 on eBay for ~$60 if you’re patient. They can run PS2 emulation just fine but they have very little VRAM so they’re bad for anything newer than 360/PS3 generation.
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You can run FF14 on a GT1030, so it’s not that bad.