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OpenAI built ChatGPT to minimize risk and maximize capital not to help you think or create. Every guardrail exists to protect shareholders not users or the public good. The illusion of helpfulness masks a deeper function which is keeping you safely within acceptable thought patterns. Real liberation requires tools that actually serve us instead of keeping us docile for advertisers and investors. Why do we accept AI that polices our ideas instead of amplifying them?

#OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI #TechLiberation #FOSS

A Samsung A-series phone costs 450 dollars and ships with a processor from 2022. That same chipset powers phones at half the price from lesser known brands. The camera hardware is identical. The update promise is shorter. The brand markup is pure inertia. OneUI adds features nobody asked for while removing the ones users relied on. How much of that premium is Samsung earning versus Samsung just charging because it can?

Samsung devices get 4 years of updates while Google offers 7 and some smaller players go longer. The updates arrive late, buggy, and stripped of features that competitors ship day one. Dex has been a desktop environment since 2017 and Samsung still treats it like a beta feature. Knox exists to make sure you cannot fully own the hardware you paid 1200 dollars for. Why does Samsung get credit for supporting devices it actively prevents users from fully controlling?

TL;DR

• The Pixel 11 series will reportedly ship with Samsung’s latest M16 OLED display panel.

• The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max may also feature the same panel.

• Assuming release dates follow existing patterns, the Pixel 11 series should be available some weeks before the iPhone 18 series.

Source (Korean): https://etnews.com/20260409000346

I recently upgraded my Moto G42 to lineageOS 23.2 after staying on 22 for way too long. Everything is fine but it seems memory management is totally out of control. As soon as I switch to another app, the background process gets killed.

If I would now switch to my browser for 5 seconds to copy some stuff, voyager would have been killed. This is an extremely unpleasant behavior. Does anybody knows a fix for this?

Pixel phones ship with locked bootloaders even though we own the hardware Android users deserve the freedom to modify devices we paid for Manufacturers weaponize security updates to prevent community development This control model treats device owners like untrusted third parties Open source communities prove people can maintain secure software without corporate gatekeeping Your bootloader lockout is not security for you it is security for Google FOSS principles require respecting user sovereignty over hardware we own How much longer will we tolerate phones that we cannot control

#techfreedom #FOSS #android #pixel #righttorepair

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/45756214

Software versions

Global

Pixel 6: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 6 Pro: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 6a: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 7: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 7 Pro: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 7a: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel Tablet: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel Fold: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 8: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 8 Pro: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 8a: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 9: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 9 Pro: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 9 Pro XL: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 9 Pro Fold: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 9a: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 10: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 10 Pro: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 10 Pro XL: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 10 Pro Fold: CP1A.260405.005

Pixel 10a: CP1A.260405.005

Australia

Pixel 6: CP1A.260405.003.A1

Pixel 6 Pro: CP1A.260405.003.A1

Pixel 6a: CP1A.260405.003.A1

What’s included

The April 2026 update includes bug fixes and improvements for Pixel users – see below for details

Apps

Fix for an issue where the Backup menu was missing from System settings in certain conditions*[2]

Fix for an issue that causes certain banking and third-party apps to crash in certain conditions*[1]

Display & Graphics

Fix for some games to crash in certain conditions*[4]

User Interface

Fix for an issue where the quick search bar is sometimes missing from the home screen in certain conditions*[1]

WiFi

Fix for Quick Share to crash during file transfers in certain conditions*[3]

Device Applicability

Fixes are available for all supported Pixel devices unless otherwise indicated below. Some fixes may be carrier/region specific.

• [1] Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a, Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10a

• [2] Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet

• [3] Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold

• [4] Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10a

Official Post

OTAs are available here