I was going to make some smart ass comment about browser version numbers being ridiculous anymore (after Firefox 3.6 I stopped keeping track), but then I saw it
touchpad & touchscreen gestures, swipe-to-nav
Hot diggity damn. This might make me less likely to revert to Chromium every new install, if Firefox works well with touchscreen at last. I'll have to check this out on my Pi 5 on Ubuntu.
Update: the 30 fps limit I'm experiencing with Android appears to be only with this display. I checked with another display I have at work that is 1920x1080 and Android renders at 60 fps. It doesn't change the game performance any, but I wasn't expecting it to--at least the 30 fps jank is gone through the rest of the system.
I tried it out for a bit and it's ok, but I couldn't get my preferred desktop touch environment to auto start on boot (KDE Plasma), and there aren't as many apps/games available for Linux. Android was built for primarily-touchscreen use, and has a larger developer base, so I'd really like to get it working better.
The first and third commands made things load up a bit quicker. Thanks! Second command seems to have been removed. I wish I could figure out what's limiting the system to 30 fps on this display...it OUGHT to be able to handle 60 fps at this resolution
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe there's more to the ".LITTLE" part of all those big.LITTLE chips, and stuff that normally gets thrown on the small cores is sucking the big ones dry on this CPU. I wish I knew more about Android and optimization along those lines.
It could also have a lot to do with the GPU. Even with my overclock, I could only manage probably 15-20 FPS on Asphalt 9. Honkai Star Rail installed but is unplayable (everything is pink and/or not rendered at all). Not sure what other games to try to get a feel for its capabilities
Average every day use is fine if you can get past the jank feeling of <= 30 FPS, though. Browsing, YouTube, Spotify, etc. all good, even split screen / PIP.
My experience: Android on Raspberry Pi 5 has finally reached low end tablet performance, almost acceptable!
I flashed it on mine, and have a 10.1" 1024x600 15" 1920x1080 touchscreen hooked up to HDMI/USB. I installed MindTheGApps to get Google Play and install stuff.
Really wanted to check out Genshin Impact but Play says not compatible. Asphalt 9 is a stutterfest. High end games and web pages will make it suffer. At least it can just about handle angry birds 2 ¯(ツ)/¯
I overclocked to 2.8 gigglehertz CPU and 950 MHz GPU and it's a little better, it'll multitask ok, but still I was hoping for something more from the $60 computer.
Maybe I'm expecting too much of it.
[edit: The display I originally chose to use was causing Android to limit to 30 fps; I switched to another and Android can render at 60 fps. The overall jank is gone, making me much more pleased with Android on the Pi 5, but it still can't handle certain games]
Me still trying to figure out how to get it to auto start / auto login on boot on my fresh new Raspberry Pi 5 without locking up at a flashing cursor screen: 😩
Good luck getting all the developers to rewrite their apps. The only reason you had any apps was because it was based on Android so it was little to no effort to port. Going plain ol' embedded Linux is basically the death knell of your developer story. Source: been there, had no third party apps, switched to Android
Mastercard and Visa both offer the same zero liability protection on debit cards as credit cards. So both my cards are comparable to credit cards in that regard. If I was at a bank that didn't have good fraud protection I'd be shopping around.
I've never had a situation where fraud took money out of my account. Someone got my debit card information somehow (I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often). The bank called me, asked if that was me that was in London trying to buy something out of a vending machine, I said nope, they turned off the card and sent me a new one. No money ever left my account, and I wasn't terribly inconvenienced, other than having to change a few autopay thingies.
I do get cash back bonus on my PayPal debit card. I appreciate the irony of taking advantage of that in contrast with my original comment. But I presume since PayPal is not a credit card company, they're paying for it with the merchant fees they collect. I could be wrong.
¯(ツ)/¯
All that said to say there's nothing a credit card can offer me that a debit card can't, except debt.
It's possible, just tricky sometimes. You can have credit without a credit card, you can rent a home or a car without a credit score, and you can even buy a house without a "good" credit rating, you just need real landlords or real mortgage underwriting that looks at your financial situation as a whole.
It's really silly. You could have a million bucks sitting in an account somewhere and your credit report wouldn't say anything about that, but one look at your bank statements would be enough to tell a landlord or a mortgager you're good to go.
I was fortunate enough to be able to sign up for a house payment (in this market! During the zombie apocalypse?!). When the time came for underwriting, they looked at 4 months worth of bank statements since my credit report just had my student loans and a car payment I got rid of in 2017 (in other words, not a "good enough" credit score). It was quite the eye opener of a process, having to explain every deposit to convince them I wasn't laundering money.
Once that house is paid off, that's the last time I'm going to have a credit score. I can get everything else without debt, I just didn't have a cool $155k to drop on the house at the time. Hotels, car rentals, phone bills, electric bills, everything I've tried works fine without a credit check just using EFT or debit cards. Sometimes they charge a deposit, and that's fine. I budget to account for that.
Depending on how mission critical your data is...Set up delayed replicas and backups (and test that your backups can actually be restored from). Get a second pair of eyeballs on your query. Set up test environments and run it there before running it in production. The more automated testing you put into your pipeline, the better. Every edit should be committed and tested. (Kubernetes and GitLab Auto DevOps makes this kind of thing a cinch, every branch has a new test environment set up automatically)
Don't beat yourself up too much though. It happens even to seasoned pros.
I had an 8 digit, lost the password, had to sign up again and got a 9 digit number that time. Felt weird.