HardwareUnboxed did a with/without ray tracing comparison. TL;DR in most games it’s not worth the performance hit. Don’t bother with ray tracing for now, especially on low or mid-range hardware. https://youtu.be/DBNH0NyN8K8

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Need? No. But hardware acceleration makes things faster and more efficient.

Those cost money too

I can recommend this site for up-to-date and fairly neutral parts recommendations split by budget https://www.logicalincrements.com

Revanced still works but it’s a cat and mouse game. Sometimes it will stop working but the next day someone will have found a workaround. Bit of a hassle to patch the new APK each time.

Has anyone here been in a situation where they thought “man, 4g sure is slow. Hope they roll out 5g soon”? I guess they need a feature to put on the box, otherwise people might think their current phone is good enough.

Mom: “We have Linux at home”

Linux at home: Google™ Linux

Yeah I was about to post the same. I actually modified my old printer (sparkmaker) to be my curing box. To solve the turning issue I put the LED panel upright by strapping it to the Z linear rail, chopped short the Z lead-screw and attached a lazy Suzan to that screw.

Edit: photo of my monstrosity

No config. It should just work

KDE Connect? Edit: It doesn’t look like that supports calling. But it does texting

What a horrible clickbait title, description and thumbnail. I refuse to click this and give it any views

That’s a solved problem. You use an app for setup, like so many other screenless devices.

The location permission is because in dense cities there are enough unique, stationary bluetooth endpoint that you can guesstimate a location.

Unless you have the ability to root it, does it matter? It’s likely a completely custom, stripped down distro anyway.

It’s a black square like any other phone