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Google is sending out emails to 6a owners affected by potential battery issues in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

If its anything like my experience, you might as well just buy a new phone now. I opted for the battery replacement for my pixel 4a, and the place I took it to (one of the only places working with google to do the replacement) was super slammed because of all the pixel 4a replacements, and I'm willing to bet they didn't properly glue the battery in place as a few weeks later I dropped it on my carpet from like 4 feet high. The screen didnt crack as I'm using a screen protector and a case, but the center of the screen had a line across it that wasn't cracked glass, it was the actual LCD display damaged, right where the battery should be in the phone. I'm guess the battery was just hanging out loose in the phone, and dropping it was enough to slam the battery into the screen and damage the LCD. From there it spread purple and black dead pixels across the screen over the following 24 hours until the entire LCD was dead.

After all that hassle, new phone required anyway.

Google is sending out emails to 6a owners affected by potential battery issues in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Is this the same handy work of the 1 lone google developer that messed with the pixel 4a builds (and that were built on a personal dev machine instead of a proper build infrastructure) and sent out a shoddy battery update that required battery replacements?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/google-pixel-4as-ruinous-battery-performance-update-is-a-bewildering-mess/

Immigration thugs use explosive charges in assault on family home in Los Angeles-area raid in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, I vaguely heard about that decades later, so doesn't that mean they got away with it?

Firefox/Fennec being sus? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

sigh what'ya know, checked my fennec search and you're right, it changed from startpage, back to google and deleted my custom search entry for startpage. Thanks for the heads up.