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Is pixel 4a too old for a new phone?
  • yes and P4a is already one major GOS/Android version behind, it's only getting "extended legacy support" releases. i.e. security fixes are merged and backported where possible, but it's overall not the best setup and they recommend to switch asap.

    I'm pretty sure GOS will drop Android 13 (and therefore P4a) as soon as they release Android 15, since the team won't be maintaining three major Android versions.

    CalyxOS ported Android 14 to P4a, so you might squeeze an additional year or so out of it if you switch.

    I'd either replace the battery in the old P4a, or get a newer model with 7y software support. But buying a new 4a is probably not your best possible move

  • Is pixel 4a too old for a new phone?
  • 4a is end of life already, so no firmware updates from Google. GrapheneOS has legacy builds available for it but doesn't recommend using them, and they might go away anytime soon

    get a used device which is still properly supported, don't buy brand new e-waste

  • Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
  • not OP, but I have to run fronted and backend of a project in docker simultaneously (multiple postgres and redis dbs, queues, search index, etc., plus two webservers), plus a few browser tabs and two VSCode instances open, regularly pushes my machine over 15gb ram usage

    pretty much like this

  • Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps
  • I've had to swap Firefox on my laptop for the deb package, the snap took like 5sec to open, whereas the deb opens instantly. Other than that, i don't see much of a difference, but i run into sandboxing issues quite often (same with flatpak though)

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