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Gregory

@jack if only I had an idea. I'll install all updates first, maybe it fixes itself. Maybe the modem firmware is buggy or something.

8 December at 13:16 | Open on mastodon.social
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@grishka yeah I've never seen that before, that would most likely fix it

8 December at 13:16 | Open on mementomori.social
Gregory

@jack nope it didn't. So naturally I googled it. I honestly had no idea SIM cards come in different classes that operate at different voltages and mine is around 10 years old, so...
8 December at 14:33 | Open on mastodon.social
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@grishka oh wow yeah I've never heard of that 😅

Goodluck getting a new one - probably not too hard

8 December at 14:35 | Open on mementomori.social
Gregory

@jack took me a whopping 20 minutes, most of which was walking to the carrier store and back. They told me that "SMS wouldn't work for 24 hours". Which is reassuring lol, they don't trust their own procedures/employees enough even tough getting a replacement SIM requires an ID

8 December at 15:23 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

Another YIKES moment: the data transfer process still doesn't transfer apps installed from outside of Google Play, of which I have too damn many. I assume it does transfer the data, so it's only the question of finding all the apks, but still, damn, was all that antitrust stuff for nothing? There's no technical limitation to just transferring the damn apks across devices automatically without me having to do `adb install` 30 times.

8 December at 13:22 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

Some of those are just open-source apps from places like F-Droid. Some are debug builds of my own apps. Some are mods. Some are apps from sanctioned Russian companies.

8 December at 13:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

Are you sure about this, Google? Doesn't really check out with your SafetyNet hardware attestation bullshit.
8 December at 14:02 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

One thing bothers me A LOT. The content of the status bar is centered within it geometrically instead of with the camera hole like it is on the Pixel 4a. And the screen radius is larger than on the 4a. It does look totally fine on screenshots, but in real life, it's close to one of those deliberately very fake OSes they use in movies.

9 December at 1:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Gregory

They fixed it in today's update but they made the entire status bar CHONKY to also keep the geometric alignment. So not only did they align the icons vertically with the camera hole, they also made the padding above and below it equal. Not sure I like it.

11 December at 5:32 | Open on mastodon.social
mittorn

@grishka how to contact it without a working sim?

8 December at 14:39 | Open on masturbated.one
Gregory

@mittorn put it into your old phone. Or visit a carrier store. Or borrow someone else's phone. Or use VoIP

8 December at 14:44 | Open on mastodon.social
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