Oh, that’s a pity. It’s nice to go down the nostalgia lane of old apps and games you used to use though, haha

It appears that some other brands like Xiaomi use higher amperage for their fast charging instead of higher voltage to deliver more power in addition to potentially more proprietary communication through the data lines. PPD likely has a lower current limit at the voltage a VOOC phone charges at too (apparently around 10A?). Mainstream 100W wires (20V 5A) might probably be “incompatible” even if the power supply were rated for higher amperage.

I do totally agree with you and hope for PD fast charging to be adopted, or for the PD standard to be made more flexible so that manufacturers can have what they want (but then again we will have the issue of USB-C where one connector does all but not all wires are made equal…).

Things just working as you expect them to is always very nice. If I buy a high wattage brick, I expect it to fast charge my phone.

My phone unfortunately doesn’t seem to support PD/PPS, but supports Qualcomm’s Quick Charge… meaning that it’ll charge in 2-3 hours from my laptop or a 25W/45W/65W PD/PPS brick… only at either 5W or 10W… but it’ll charge in an hour with a Qualcomm QC compatible brick or 30 minutes with the original 100W brick… :')

Also as an aside, the Find X8 seems to be using a silicon carbon battery - I thought that silicon electrodes expanded and contracted much more than previous generation batteries causing long term health to be worse…

It will be interesting to see if the battery health on these models really does stand the test of time. With the more efficient chip drawing less power, we can hope :)

You may be able to find the app in the list of not installed apps! There’s also a possibility that the app is now abandonware and no longer works on modern Android versions though :(.

With some apps (unsure if any open source ones exist), Android can become a Bluetooth Keyboard for a connected computer too! The keyboard isn’t very useful, but having a portable trackpad for a laptop during presentations may be helpful

In addition to the other reply, it helps align the tx/rx coils for higher efficiency

Older Microsoft Surfaces have quite terrible battery life, especially on Linux, have terrible thermals and aren’t very repairable. I’m in the middle of repairing a Surface Pro 7 and the wifi antenna is sandwiched between the frame and the screen, so taking the screen off is a death wish for the wifi antenna (even ifixit ripped it in their repair). The battery is also permanently glued onto the frame, saying that it should not be removed or replaced. The Surface, with an Intel CPU, absolutely fries itself trying to update Windows as well. The heatsink inside seems to use the screen and battery as a thermal mass? I believe modern Surfaces are better in both repairability and battery life.

iPads have pretty decently efficient CPUs and have decent performance - probably doesn’t get as hot as a Surface…

Samsung tablets seem ok too and definitely undercut the two when new

I would recommend getting something older (e.g. Tab S7, S8, S9, S7 FE, S9 FE, or iPads or Surfaces second hand if you don’t have much money - they may come with a keyboard cover which will cost you an arm or a leg when new.

You may also consider flip laptops if you don’t demand too much from your laptop. Compared to iPads and Samsung Tablets, you can use Windows or Linux or whatever. Depending on what you study, that may be important. Flip laptops typically have not great thermal performance so don’t expect amazing normal laptop like performance, but I’ve previously had an Acer Spin 5 and now I’m using a Dell Latitude 7440 2-in-1 and they’ve both been great for light workloads. They’re bulky compared to tablets and I’d only use them on tables, which isn’t a problem for me. I lose out on the higher wattage CPUs used in non 2-in-1 laptops though. Some people describe 2-in-1s as a jack of all trades, master of none, as they’re not great laptops and not great tablets. I’ve personally really enjoyed having everything on one device - online exams could be done in Xournal++, exported to PDF and just uploaded all on one device.

As a Dell user, not very happy with mine. Uneven backlight/bleeding, poor build quality (screen glass misaligned with the bezels, keyboard keys coming out which aren’t covered under warranty according to Dell, parts of the keyboard failing, trackpad click failing - the trackpad is integrated into the chassis so that had to be replaced) and it’s quite overpriced.

That said, some models are Ubuntu certified and get firmware updates without Windows Update

It may be possible to get past that, I’ve seen people disassembling the battery to get the BMC and connecting the DC power supply to that instead.

It sounds way more risky than OP’s initial idea. I wouldn’t recommend taking apart batteries.

I think they are wondering if one extension can use both v2 and v3 APIs at once? As in whether v3 APIs will be “backported” to allow v2 extensions to use them

I don’t think I have enough knowledge to solve this or say anything for certain, but I wonder if the power button is treated as an external keyboard and is getting ignored in tablet mode?

I’m using an app to use my Android phone as a webcam, which works great (good low light performance!) provided I can stand it up somewhere above my laptop screen (finicky). You can accidentally knock it over. Might be worth considering if you don’t use the camera much - otherwise an external one will probably attach better and he more stable

Regarding your mouse double clicking, some Reddit users suggest pressing the click button quite hard a few times…