• Google Update to Android BRICKS Phones

    From 186282@ud0s4.net@186283@ud0s4.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.usa,alt.security on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 21:17:02
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13987527/Android-15-update-pixel-6-phone-brick-unusable-dead-Google.html

    This year's annual update to Google's operating system,
    Android 15, is leaving some Pixel 6 users with a 'brick'
    instead of a smartphone.

    Panicking Pixel owners have rushed into online forums
    reporting that their device is 'is basically a paper weight
    now' — with phones failing to respond to even standard
    troubleshooting methods to reboot after the update.

    Early complaints from those seeking help on social media
    suggest 'bricking' risk may be higher with use of the
    update's new Private Space feature.

    The feature allows users to wall-off sensitive apps
    (everything from banking services to photo rolls) into
    a discreet area off the main page which can then be
    locked with a pattern code, PIN, password or fingerprint
    identification.

    'It's completely dead,' one Pixel 6 owner warned others
    on Reddit.

    . . .

    Yet they want their AI to rule the planet ...
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