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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • Been using it for a bit now with the new pebblebee and chipolo trackers. Support is extended back to Android 9, but that definitely does not mean people are actively contributing to it. You have to log in to your Google account again. Then, based on my prior location settings, Find My was off and my offline tracking was off. There’s only a subtle permission nag at the top of your list of devices. I would be willing to bet a not insignificant number of folks will setup offline support with only the lowest level of tracking/contributing. A lot of folks won’t even know they haven’t completely activated it.

    It’s not as forced “opt out” as Apple’s network, and you have slightly more granular controls for how much you want to share. It’s going to take a bit longer for it to match the accuracy of Apple’s network in North America, but it’s already giving me pings with better updates than Tile’s network.



























  • 4K120 is the most useful “extreme” video mode, and it’s a shame more companies haven’t supported it, just ZTE, OnePlus, and Sony. It’s crazy flexible. Can be easily dropped to 60 or 30 fps, and makes for absolutely stunning slow motion. It’s such an easy edit in something like LumaFusion to time stretch it. Even silly little family videos look so much cooler at that resolution in one quarter time. When done right, at a good bitrate, it looks much better than most phones’ potato quality 1080p slow motion. Sony absolutely chose right offering 4k120 over 8k24.