Android’s stock backup misses a lot of things, apps can opt-out and many do, it also doesn’t backup files or documents or photos. Photos are “backed up” if you enable Google Photos cloud sync, but that’s separate. It basically just backs up your phone calls/SMS, system settings and what apps you have installed (but not their data unless they tie into the backup APIs).

Still waiting for an OTA image to fix the boot loop. Or, an admission from Google that users data is lost.

Except for those who had the issue and rebooted their phone and it’s stuck at “pixel is starting…”. This update doesn’t fix the issue for those devices. They are still working on it, possibly.

I used GitHub’s search across the entire Graphene org, but couldn’t find any references to the issue. Doesn’t mean its not there, I just couldn’t find it. If the technical details of the issue were public, it would help people know whether or not their data is recoverable if they are already stuck with a “pixel is starting…” phone that doesn’t boot.

Some rough estimates:

Even if it only affects 0.1% of users, that still puts the number of affected users in the thousands to 10s of thousands range, with an estimated 10-15 million Pixel 6-8 phones out there. T-Mobile (and Google Fi) haven’t even allowed Android 14 to go out as well. So between the 800 stars and 500 comments on the bug, and the other 564 votes and 260 comments on the community forum post, and given that only a fraction of people do that, many are going to contact Google Support privately, or take the phone to BestBuy or wherever, that somewhat lines up.

I’d still think someone would’ve run into in the beta, particularly since beta users are even more tech savvy and likely to use multiple users. But perhaps not enough reports to get Google’s attention.

But this is something that Google’s automated testing should’ve caught. You don’t have to do anything other than use the feature, and switch between accounts several times. Not a hard bug to hit at all.

They said that, but I couldn’t find the fix in their github repository. Does anyone know the commit that fixes this bug? It would help shed light on the technical details of the issue.

SDF has been having some scaling pains. But it looks like it federated to lemmy.world, how about this link? https://lemmy.world/post/304685

You will be pleased to know that Lemmy went to the source a few weeks back: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/151820

To be fair, I think the idea would be to change the albedo of Earth so that more sunlight is reflected back into space. But it would need to reflect more light/heat than it produces in waste heat for the refrigeration, who wants to do the math?

Jackpot!

I agree. The all new feed with federation is the only thing that has enough content for me as well. I could see users moving away from all the involved servers or maybe just beehaw. There are still a lot of instances that link with beehaw, lemmy.world and shitjustworks so you can see everything.

Looks great! Is this compatible with Lemmy’s dark theme?

I’d like to know too. And also if it’s important we set it, is there a way to make it default to English?

Maybe during signup it should nudge users to set their language preferences.

When they put it up on streaming it changed. They had different songs in different regions when it originally aired and the streaming version uses one of the other songs. Seems like a licensing thing?

The Sopranos, it really sets the mood. Game of Thrones too. And The Wire!

I liked the Dexter intro too. Breaking Bad, though its pretty short. And House MD when it was Massive Attack.

I wondered this a bit too and share your concerns. On one hand I like the idea of populating Lemmy with more content, particularly for niche communities, but there’s also a good amount of unique posts here that might get drowned out.

I also think option B is a good idea. It could split up the load of a large topic.

As for maintaining the distributed philosophy of Lemmy, I think it could possibly work by moderators of each community vote on/approve other members of a super community, like and alliance or union. They may want to agree on a standard set of rules. Then if you subscribe to one, it can pick up the others automatically. And if a community/moderators go rogue then the members of the super community moderators could vote to expel that community.

This keeps it still mostly simple/automatic for most users while allowing for a decentralized way to group communities and handle bad actors.

Not sure how feasible it is on the technical side or how it would fit into ActivityPub. But hopefully we find some solution to these fractured communities.

As a workaround, if you login with your account on the web site you could subscribe to your desired communities and then they’ll show up in jerboa.

I put “jerboa@lemmy.ml” in the search area, it took a while (a few minutes), but eventually it showed up. I think it takes a while to sync/federate in the background if you’re the first person on the instance to subscribe to that community.

Edit: nevermind, this doesn’t seem to be working when I tried again… :-/

The factory must grow!