I also have regular problems with some subtitles. My solution is to enable using an external player in the jellyfin AndroidTV app (i think its under playback->advanced options) and then use VLC player which i’ve also installed to play the movie. That has never failed to me.

Downside is that unlike the regular exo player i don’t think it supports dolby vision, so i have to change this setting back and forth occasionally. It used to be that there was an option that you could tick, so it asked you everytime which player to use before playing a movie (with the downside that it couldn’t resume playing at a saved timestamp), but after a somewhat recent update this went away.

Right, totally forgot about that step.

Haven’t used it myself, but similar to casa os there is also cosmos os, which looking here seems to offer some build in storage management options. Maybe this could be worth looking into?

openmediavault is ok for raid, but the containers aren’t one click wonder like in other NAS OSes

Since OMV also uses docker compose with a build in GUI to manage them, I don’t assume this would be what OP is looking for either? Unless trueNAS also comes with some repository of preconfigured compose files.

I am currently using Openmediavault for my NAS and can confirm that with an official plugin so far I havent had any issue with my ZFS pool (that I migrated from trueNAS scale since I didn’t like their kubernetes use and truecharts, but as someone mentions they seem to switch to docker).

Otherwise I am happy as well, but I am far from a poweruser.

Bloat and bad performance aside, you don’t see a benefit in having a all-in-one solution that in a way acts as a drop in replacement for people wanting to switch away from the likes of Google/Apple? I certainly do.

Yes, having a dedicated app selected for each use case will likely give better results. But it also means more management. And many users don’t actually need more than basic functionality.

But yes looking at the complaints, they should look at polishing existing features first.

Downside might be that this requires a good internet connection, which depending on where OP travels might not always be available.

This seems a bit impractical. 2 phones to keep charged and manage.

Depending in your use case can’t you just get some external USB storage?

I haven’t used it, but maybe look at Cockpit? You could install it on your generic Debian server and it would give you a nice gui and tools, while letting you do whatever you are currently using it for.

I am using openmediavault for my NAS, which seems reasonably lightweight and is debian based. If that fits the bill

Very late to reply, but thanks for posting. I got the OP11, Pixel 7a and Pixel fold in the standard test. I might do the others at a later point.

Always fascinating to see how much the skin color and sweater colour can vary between pictures.

That sounds pretty useful. Is this “tool” just software that could also be rolled out to other pixels or is there something physically different on the hardware level?

It’s not neccessarily about being unique, but also serving as a reference.

Microsoft introduced the Surface line in 2012, same year as windows 8 that had a new UI designed to be used with a touch screen. They’ve also released devices with ARM processors to bring windows into that space, presumably with the idea that others might follow. But those attempts so far have failed. Probably due to simply not having any great SoCs available like the Apple with the M1.

You do have a good point with the Pixel exclusive features.

Isn’t longer software support actually something that might decrease hardware sales, rather than increase them? Considering it might lead to people using their device for longer. That said i think it is partially to avoid bad optics compared to apple and some of the android manufacturers like samsung. This also seems like a point where the pixel line might try to set an example for more to follow. It might have benefits for google, if more phones are consistently running the newest version.

I wonder if they’d develop a SoC themself, if there were a great mobile SoC on the market with dedicated hardware for ai/machine learning. Apple has with the neural engine in their chips, but that obviously isn’t for sale. Google, like many others, is rolling out products that might make use of it, so it is definitely desirable to have. And Google is actually in a good position to develop it, since they didn’t start from scratch designing chips, but have done so for a while with the TPUs for their data centers (where they do care about hardware). So this might be aimed at leading the market due to neccessity, since outside of apple others might not have the hardware ready for when the software/service side might need it.

I can’t come up with a good explanation. But do we know how much Google cares about hardware sales and their promotion?

The main product they sell in the smartphone market is not hardware, but android. And through that the integration of their other services.

To me the pixel phones serve as a guide where they want the ecosystem to move towards, but at the same time are direct competition for their customers (the other manufacturers such as Samsung). Similar to Microsoft and their surface line

As if most people would ever see the back to begin with, considering most will use a case

I am reluctantly Team dongle now aswell.

I’d have liked to get something like a Sony that would fit a lot of my needs hardware wise (headphone jack, SD card reader, side mounted fingerprint scanner, and so on). But the shit software update policy and higher price made me just get a pixel 6a and make some compromises.

Wireless headphones have a battery that eventually will need to be replaced, which it usually is not designed for. Wired headphones dont have any inherently degrading components, so can (with care) be used for a very long time.

Tailscale might also decent be an option for remote access, right?

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As i undersfand it the special thing is not the phone itself, but who made its processor and how.

Most advanced chips are made by tsmc/samsung/intel with Western technology (especially by ASML).

This one is made by SMIC a partially state owned Chinese company with a lot of domestic technology used. Apparently they are using a 7nm DUV process, which is quite advanced. Although not as much as the current smaller nodes used by the other manufacturers, which use EUV (a newer significantly more complex technology that succeeded DUV).

The technology used in manufacturing advanced chips is one of the most complex things in the world. huawei and china are targets of sanctions limiting their access to western technology in this sector. So it is of particular interest how far they’ve come with their own domestic production. Another debate related to that is how much of that is based on stolen technology vs their own research.

I just did a new setup last weekend and everything works just fine. docker on linux for the server and the app on android tv, if that matters.

Do you mean it during movie playback or already when you enter the application?