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17 Jun 05:49

Could Have Been an Email

By mommagorilla
Could Have Been an Email
12 Jun 06:07

Please I Beg of You Do Not Use “AI” In Your Business Communications

by John Scalzi

The other morning I was clearing out the multiple daily emails I get from scammers who have used “AI” to praise one of my books in order to get me to use their “marketing” services and/or be on their “podcast” and/or show up for their “book club” and/or use them to become big in Hollywood, all of which is cover to grift money from me, one “Ai”-written email in particular caught my eye. This was not because it was any more authentic than the rest of them, but because the domain it came from was a specific and legit business domain, and not just Gmail or Hotmail or even (oh lord) AOL.com. In a burst of concern, I sought out the email of the company head and their management contact to let them know I suspected their domain had been hacked by scammers.

I got a reply back that, no, actually, the email, which to me had clearly been written using “AI,” was legitimate.

Folks: Don’t do this. Don’t use “AI” for your business correspondence, especially to creatives. Ever.

Let me put this in perspective: I get literally dozens of spam and scam emails every day, all of which use “AI” to fart out canned flattery about my work in an attempt to bamboozle cash out of me. I get so many of them, in fact, that I can tell at a glance not only that the text has been written with “AI,” but also, at this point, which of the “big four” LLMs was used to fart it out. Hell, I literally just now got a scam email in Spanish, and I could tell what it was going to say even before I pressed the “translate” button.

This is how predictable “AI” writing is, and how frequently it is used for fraudulent purposes. At this point, my brain immediately and directly associates “AI” text in email with “scam.” That is its only purpose.

The thing is: I’m not special. Every writer and creative person, from the most successful down to the very newest, is inundated with these scam spam emails. Lots of them, every single day. Pretty much every one of us, I assure you, now associates “AI”-generated text with attempted fraud.

When you, a legitimate business, use “AI” to communicate with me, I do not think “wow, that was a really well-composed email that makes me want to engage with the sender in a mutually co-operative way.” I makes me think “This is a fucking scam,” or, in the most charitable scenario, “This company has been hacked and a scammer is using their domain to fleece people.” Maybe you don’t know this, because you’re not the recipient of endless attempts at scammage via “AI.” But I know this, and it’s why I am telling you now: When you use “AI” in your professional communications, you do not look like a professional. You look like a fucking scammer.

There is a solution! Just don’t use “AI” to write your professional correspondence! Remember the day, like, just four years ago, when you pretty much wrote all your emails by hand? Do that again! It’s not difficult, you won’t look like a scammer, and your email has a better chance of being read and treated as if it came from an actual human, because it doesn’t look like every other awful scam email out there. It just makes good business sense.

Also, aside from the “you look like a scammer” angle: Why would I want to do business with someone who can’t even write a single fucking email on their own? This is a “basic competence” issue, folks. If you can’t get it together to write a simple business communication by yourself, what confidence should I have about any other aspect of your business? What value do you have for me? I mean, I also have access to “AI,” so if that’s what you’re bringing to the table, what do I need you for? As the saying goes, you have only one chance to make a first impression. If my first impression of you is that you’re letting “AI” do the talking for you, then my impression is that you’re not offering me anything at all.

So, yeah. “AI”? Don’t use it in your business emails. It does nothing positive for you, and does a lot that is negative. Just write the email yourself, or, if you’re a boss, pay someone to do it for you. It’s going to make a difference, and at the very least, your chances of being immediately and forever sorted into the spam folder will be a lot lower.

By the way, from the time I started writing this to right now, which is roughly a half of an hour later, I have received eight “AI”-written scam emails, including the one in Spanish mentioned above. This is what you’re up against when you send something to my email. If you’re using “AI” to write your business email, this is also what you’re sorting yourself into. Think about it, maybe.

— JS

11 Jun 12:21

Deezer släpper verktyg för att identifiera AI-musik: kan skanna dina Spotify-spellistor

by Lars A
Oakfairy

Hah!

Deezer släpper verktyg för att identifiera AI-musik: kan skanna dina Spotify-spellistor

Franska Deezer nöjer sig inte bara med att identifiera AI-musik på den egna tjänsten. Företaget har dessutom släppt ett gratisverktyg som gör att vem som helst kan skanna spellistor för identifiera AI – oavsett tjänst.

Verktyget stödjer Spotify, Youtube Music, Youtube, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music och en rad andra tjänster. Upp till hundra spellistor kan analyseras för att identifiera AI-genererad musik.

Många musikintresserade vet förmodligen vad de lyssnar på, men enligt Deezer har 43 procent av användarna som byter till Deezer redan AI-musik i spellistorna. Vi förmodar att statistiken baseras på de spellistor användare importerar när de byter tjänst.

Tyvärr fyller verktyget ett tomrum eftersom ingen annan musikströmningstjänst hittills brytt sig om att berätta för användare huruvida de lyssnar på AI-genererad musik eller inte. Bristen på transparens känns särskilt beklämmande med tanke på att det finns en efterfrågan bland kunder – i alla fall enligt Deezer.

En undersökning genomförd av Ipsos och Deezer med 9000 deltagare i åtta länder gav följande resultat:

  • 97 procent kunde inte höra skillnad mellan AI-genererad musik och vanlig musik.
  • 80 procent höll med om AI-genererad musik bör etiketteras för lyssnare.
  • 73 procent ville veta om strömningstjänsten rekommenderar AI-genererad musik.
  • 52 procent ansåg att helt AI-genererad musik inte ska få vara med i topplistorna (Sverigetopplistan förbjuder redan AI-musik).

Deezer bjuder på mer statistik. Enligt företaget var upp till 85 procent av den helt AI-genererade musiken bedrägeriförsök under 2025. Över 44 procent av all uppladdad musik till Deezer är idag AI-genererad.

Som tidigare diskuterats riskerar AI-genererad musik att minska intäkterna till riktiga, mänskliga artister på grund av hur ersättningsmodellen fungerar. En studie genomförd av CISAC och PMP Strategy hävdar att nästan 25 procent av intäkterna till artister och musiker kan försvinna 2028. De som vill testa Deezers verktyg kan besöka den här sidan.

11 Jun 08:51

Fjärrkontrollen för Chromecast med Google TV har fått fnatt

by Lars A
Fjärrkontrollen för Chromecast med Google TV har fått fnatt

Enligt inlägg i Googles supportforum och på Reddit har folk problem med fjärrkontrollen till Chromecast with Google TV. Problemet är att fjärrkontrollen tappar kontakten med Chromecast, så att enheten inte längre svarar på användarens tryck.

Fabriksåterställning och andra åtgärder likt att återkoppla fjärrkontrollen ska på sin höjd lösa buggen tillfälligt. Vissa av inläggen påstår att problemet uppstod i början av maj. För de som har drabbats kan Chromecast fortfarande styras med Home-appen.

Lyckligtvis verkar inte problemet särskilt utbrett och Google bör arbeta på en lösning. Är det några som råkat ut för fjärrkontrolls-buggen i Chromecast med Google TV?

01 Jun 09:00

Charlie Met a Skunk

by John Scalzi

It did not go well for her.

Nor, it must be said, did it go particularly well for us, since Charlie has now swamped the entire house with a gassy, onion-y skunk smell. Currently all the windows are open and the fans are running. It’s working questionably well.

To Charlie’s credit, as soon as she came into the house she ran upstairs and toward the bathroom. She was well aware she needed a bath. She got one. She will be getting another one soon.

Poor puppy. Poor us.

— JS

01 Jun 07:24

Nuremberg Withdraws 2028 Worldcon Bid

by Mike Glyer
Oakfairy

Verkar ju som att vi får kika på Australien 2028...

Nuremberg 2028 Chair Florian Bailey and Vice-Chair Ruben Wickenhäuser today announced they have withdrawn their Worldcon bid. The Nuremberg committee posted this official statement on the bid’s website: We are standing down. We are sad to announce that we are … Continue reading →
13 May 07:41

Google introducerar Gemini Intelligence för hela Android

by Lars A
Oakfairy

Hoppas att det går att stänga av skiten...

Google introducerar Gemini Intelligence för hela Android

Google har introducerat Gemini Intelligence som kan ”automatisera tråkiga uppgifter”, så användare slipper utföra dem själva och kan fokusera på annat. Funktionen kommer skickas ut i vågor nu i sommar. Serierna Pixel 10 och Galaxy S26 får första tjing.

Gemini Intelligence ska efterhand släppas för hela Androids ekosystem, inklusive smartklockor, smartglasögon, laptops och bilar. Enligt Google har de lagt månader på att finslipa automatisering av flerstegsuppgifter. Gemini kan med andra ord självständigt riva av uppgifter trots att det krävs många olika steg att utföra dem.

Google nämner exempel som att boka gympapass, hitta och beställa studentlitteratur, eller beställa mat och taxi. Låt säga att du har en shoppinglista med matvaror i Keep. Öppna listan i Keep, starta Gemini och be assistenten bygga en digital kundvagn med alla varorna i din matbutik på webben. När Gemini plockat klart på hemsidan behöver du bara bekräfta och betala beställningen för att få allt levererat till dörren.

Assistenten agerar endast på uppdrag av användaren och stannar först när uppgiften är klar, varefter användaren måste bekräfta handlingen. Gemini kommer alltså inte lägga beställningar till höger och vänster utan ditt godkännande. Vi kan följa assistentens framsteg genom live-aviseringar.

Autobrowse och autofyll

Med start sent i juni kommer Androidenheter få en surf-assistent i Chrome som ska kunna hjälpa till med research, sammanfattningar och att jämföra innehåll på webben. En funktion kallad autobrowse kan riva av vardagliga och tråkiga uppgifter åt användaren, likt att boka olika saker. Nano Banana kan generera bilder direkt i Chrome. Autobrowse har skydd mot prompt-injicering och kommer be om bekräftelse innan den slutför känsliga uppgifter, likt köp eller publicering av inlägg på sociala medier.

Om du studerar och föredrar visuell inlärning kan du be Gemini att förvandla sidan till en ”informativ infographic”. Google klassiska autofyll – som fyller i formulär automatiskt – moderniseras. Finessen ska enligt Google bli mer intuitiv och intelligent tack vare Gemini och en allmänt större insyn i användarens Google-tjänster. Funktionen är valfri och kan stängas av och på.

Bättre tal-till-text genom Rambler

Artificiell intelligens har fört med sig moderna varianter av tal-till-text och transkribering. Googles nya tal-till-text heter Rambler (”svamlare” eller ”pladdrare” på svenska). Användare ska kunna prata naturligt utan att behöva tänka på hur de uttrycker sig. Det går att blanda olika språk i talet.

Rambler plockar därefter ut kärnan i vad du sagt och sätter ihop de väsentliga delarna till ett koncist meddelande. Utfyllnadsord tas bort. Enligt Google kommer Rambler uttrycka sig i användarens egna röst – bara mer polerat – men det återstår att se. Finessen verkar bli del av Gboard. Talet transkriberas i realtid och inga inspelningar lagras.

With Rambler, you don’t have to worry about getting your words exactly right before you start. You can speak naturally and it will take the important parts, then fit them all together into a concise message. Rambler will clearly show you when you’ve enabled it to help convert your voice to text and audio is only used to transcribe in real-time and is not stored or saved.

Skapa egna widgetar – generativa gränssnitt

Google ger sig in i så kallade generativa gränssnitt genom att låta användare skapa egna widgetar – något brittiska Nothing var först med i smartphones. Användare kan skapa widgetar med valfri funktionalitet genom att bara beskriva vad widgeten ska göra.

Du kan exempelvis säga åt widgetskaparen att göra en widget som föreslår tre recept med högt proteininnehåll varje vecka. Widgeten visar då nya måltider med tillhörande recept veckovis direkt på hemskärmen.

Om vindhastigheter och nederbörd är viktiga uppgifter för dig kan du skapa en widget som bara visar de specifika uppgifterna på hemskärmen, och så vidare. Widgetskaparen kommer erbjudas för smartphones, smartklockor och Googlebooks.

Tillgänglighet

Förhandsmaterialet Swedroid fått av Google nämner inget om tillgängligheten för själva automatiseringen i Gemini Intelligence, annat än att funktionerna under paraplyn kommer skickas ut stegvis under sommaren. Alla finesserna i Gemini Intelligence kommer dock inte släppas samtidigt globalt. Europa får vänta på flera av nyheterna.

Gemini i Chrome för Android kommer exempelvis bara att släppas i USA inledningsvis. Likaså autobrowse för Android, som dessutom kräver prenumerationen AI Pro eller AI Ultra.

08 May 06:40

Common Sense

By pumberry
Uncommon Text Design
05 May 06:01

Never Forget Pluto

By SilentPancake
Pluto, Never Forget, 1930 - 2006
27 Apr 06:14

sit back and relax

By turborat
snoopy
23 Apr 05:43

I've never been this old before

By popnotic
A vintage-style quote for anyone aging in real time with zero instructions. Perfect for birthdays, over-the-hill jokes, and people who still feel like a kid in an older body. Bold typography with classic scrollwork flair.
22 Apr 12:45

Meta börjar fånga anställdas tangenttryckningar för att träna AI

by Lars A
Meta börjar fånga anställdas tangenttryckningar för att träna AI

Meta planerar att fånga anställdas tangenttryckningar, klick och musrörelser för att träna AI, rapporterar Techcrunch. Initiativet illustrerar hur värdefull träningsdata är för att utveckla AI-modeller.

I en kommentar till Techcrunch säger Meta att om de bygger agenter som ska hjälpa folk utföra vardagliga uppgifter på datorer, behöver modellerna exempel på hur datorer faktiskt används. Det interna verktyget ska fånga input i utvalda applikationer. Enligt Meta skyddas känsligt innehåll och den data som samlas in ska inte användas för något annat ändamål.

Verktyget kan framstå som integritetskränkande spioneri, men Meta menar att det är nödvändigt för att skapa agentisk AI för datorer. Träningsdata kan vara så värdefull att nedlagda eller konkursdrabbade företag har börjat sälja arkiv av intern kommunikation till AI-företag.

21 Apr 06:31

Undiagnosed

By pumberry
Text Design
16 Apr 08:37

Make It Myself

It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!
13 Apr 06:09

POSITIVELY

By turborat
STAY POSITIVE
13 Apr 06:08

I can't believe I grew up for this

By pumberry
Text Design
13 Apr 06:08

I came I saw I left early

By YiannisTees
I came I saw I left early
13 Apr 06:07

Franska myndigheter byter från Windows till Linux

by Lars A
Franska myndigheter byter från Windows till Linux

Franska regeringen vill minska beroendet av proprietär mjukvara från länder utanför EU och istället anamma lösningar med öppen källkod. Satsningen innebär bland annat att Windows ersätts av Linux.

Frankrike satsar på vad de kallar digital suveränitet – det vill säga att vara digitalt självständiga och oberoende av andra. Kommentarer från ministrar i tillkännagivandet nämner uttryckligen ambitionen att bli mindre beroende av amerikanska verktyg. Digital suveränitet kallas en ”strategisk nödvändighet”.

Även i Sverige har det talats om digital suveränitet. I början av året kom en rapport om att svenska myndigheter och företag enligt branschkännare blivit kraftigt beroende av amerikanska molntjänster, vilket anses kunna utgöra en säkerhetsrisk.

30 Mar 07:21

I'm An Adult and Pluto Is a Planet

By koalastudio
Old enough to remember 9 planets, not old enough to feel like an adult.
27 Mar 07:24

Well, It Finally Happened

by John Scalzi
Oakfairy

Scalzis bok som tar avstamp i Locked In syndrome.

I always wondered which of my books would be the first to be banned, and now I know:

Via this post from @thebloggess.bsky.social, I learn that my book Lock In has been banned from schools in New Braunfels, TX. There is irony here in that Lock In won the Alex Award from the ALA, given for "adult books suitable for teens." thebloggess.com/2026/03/25/t…

John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2026-03-26T08:09:00.591Z

I'm on a cruise so I'll have more to say about it at a later time, but the short version of this is, of course, fuck censorship, and also, my books will outlast these motherfuckers, we'll see them (politically) dead and in the ground and my books will be there to piss on their (metaphorical) graves.

John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2026-03-26T08:09:00.592Z

As noted above, I’ll likely have more to say about this when I get back the JoCo Cruise, but for now, two points, which I may expand upon in a later post:

1. On a personal level, I don’t expect this ban to move the needle much, positively or negatively, for sales of Lock In, which has been out for a dozen years now;

2. Please refrain from exclaiming “Having your book banned just means you’ll sell more!” or something similar in the comments. One, it’s absolutely not true for the vast majority of books that get banned; the usual result is a net loss for authors and publishers. Two, this is sort of comment that, however well-intentioned to be supportive, minimizes the seriousness of book banning as an intentional policy. The busybodies banning books in New Braunfels targeted more than 1,500 books, not just mine. None of that is a thing to be happy about; there is no actual upside to book bans.

— JS

25 Mar 14:17

Stephen Colbert and His Son Are Writing That Tom Bombadil Movie We Never Exactly Asked For

by Molly Templeton

Stephen Colbert and His Son Are Writing That Tom Bombadil Movie We Never Exactly Asked For

Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dill-NO!

By Molly Templeton

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Published on March 25, 2026

Screenshot: Warner Bros.

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Billy Boyd in The Fellowship of the Ring

Screenshot: Warner Bros.

If you were old enough to be online when Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies were being made, you probably remember the debates about what would and would not be included. Some people really, really wanted Tom Bombadil, the quirky fellow who helps the hobbits on their way and rescues them from some barrow-wights. Some really didn’t want Tom and his songs (personally, I always cared more about his companion, Goldberry).

Stephen Colbert is apparently in the former camp. Last night, in honor of Tolkien Reading Day, Peter Jackson got online to provide an update on The Hunt for Gollum, the questionable LOTR film Andy Serkis is making. Jackson says the script for that one is coming together, and that he thinks it’s going to be “a really good film.”

But then Jackson, in his very casual way, announces that another film is in development, and invites a guest to explain. That guest was Colbert, who says, “The thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in the Fellowship that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day.”

He goes on to specify the chapters: “Three Is Company” through “Fog on the Barrow-Downs.”

Some things that happen in those chapters: Frodo, Sam, and Pippin leave Bag-End (Merry has gone ahead to prepare Frodo’s new house). They sing some songs. They eat some meals. A fox wonders what these hobbits are up to. The hobbits meet some elves. (The scene with the elves is a favorite of mine; it would, I admit, be nice to see some less depressed elves than the ones Jackson gave us.) They get a ride from Farmer Maggot. They see some Nazgul, though they don’t know what they are yet. Merry and Pippin get stuck in a grumpy willow tree, and Tom Bombadil comes to the rescue. When they leave him, they encounter some barrow-wights, and Tom Bombadil comes to the rescue. And then they go to Bree and meet Aragorn, and the rest is cinematic history.

These chapters are great. It’s also very easy to see why they were cut from Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring.

Colbert says, in the video, that he thought, “Oh, wait, maybe that could be its own story that could fit into the larger story. Could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys had already made?”

And that’s what he—and his son Peter McGhee, and regular LOTR writer Philippa Boyens—are doing. The film is called The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, and Variety reports that it has a logline:

Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began.

After Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, and with Serkis’s upcoming unnecessary Gollum movie, it is really hard not to see this as these men squeezing every last franchise dollar out of these novels, even as they talk about how much they love Tolkien’s work. It also feels like they’re trying to get ahead of criticisms that these books have few female roles. (Have they considered other books?)

It’s not clear if Jackson will direct this film, or if any actors will return from his original trilogy. But we have time to prepare ourselves; The Hunt for Gollum is still being made, and this movie is next in the franchise pipeline.[end-mark]

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20 Mar 06:46

Doors

By pumberry
LOTR Fanart
19 Mar 07:12

Emerald Isle

By piercek25
Ireland
18 Mar 07:08

Game Shell Tattoo

By studiomootant
This awesome, cool, and funny t-shirt is perfect for those who love old school tattoo, body modification, retro designs, classic vintage games, fantasy, adventure, and funny memes. It features a turtle winged shell, with the quote "Friends are temporary - Glory is forever".
16 Mar 12:06

Fairphone 6 börjar få Android 16

by Lars A
Fairphone 6 börjar få Android 16

Fjolårets Fairphone 6 har nu börjat få Android 16. Uppdateringen skickas ut med start idag, 16 mars. Även om Fairphones uppdatering inte är snabb är den ändå snabbare än vad företaget hade räknat med, då Android 16 förväntades vara redo först i april.

Eventuellt baseras uppdateringen på en tidig version av Android 16 och inte på någon av de senare QPR-versionerna med designspråket Material 3 Expressive. Fairphone har specialiserat sig på att skapa smartphones som är lätta att reparera och med batterier som går att byta ut själv. En annan fokus är mer rättvis ersättning till alla i ledet, samt minskad miljöpåverkan.

This update is all about the user experience, providing a fast, clean, and intuitive interface that feels modern and personal. We’ve worked hard to ensure that these new features, from the smart notification management to the enhanced privacy tools, feel like a natural and positive evolution of what it means to use a Fairphone.

Fairphone (Gen. 6) 5G 8GB RAM 256GB
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16 Mar 07:52

Here we go again

By pumberry
Text Design
16 Mar 07:12

Two Long-Lost Doctor Who Episodes Have Been Found; Co-Star’s Flabber Has Never Been More Gasted

by Molly Templeton

Two Long-Lost Doctor Who Episodes Have Been Found; Co-Star’s Flabber Has Never Been More Gasted

Many, many Who episodes remain missing. Check those closets!

By Molly Templeton

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Published on March 13, 2026

Screenshot: BBC Studios

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Animated version of the First Doctor in "The Savages"

Screenshot: BBC Studios

Two Doctor Who episodes that no one has seen since the 1960s have, astonishingly, turned up. Among the objects in the estate of an anonymous collector, whose films were donated to the charitable trust Film is Fabulous! after his death, were copies of two episodes that aired in the show’s third season.

“The Nightmare Begins” and “Devil’s Planet” both originally aired in November 1965. In the 13-episode The Daleks’ Master Plan arc—written by Dalek creator Terry Nation—the first Doctor (William Hartnell) faced the Daleks as they planned to take over the galaxy. This storyline, according to the BBC, was “dark and gritty,” and was “ordered to be wiped.” (There were kind of a lot of deaths.) Apparently, neither Australia nor New Zealand would take the episodes, finding them too violent, and “without their buy-in, selling to other markets was not profitable.” So these episodes have never been seen outside the UK. (A third episode in the arc was found in 2004.)

The two newly found episodes were apparently the gems in a collection that mostly included film of canals and trains.

Possibly the funniest part of this story, though, is the fact that actor Peter Purvess, who played the Doctor’s companion Steven Taylor, was lured to a screening of the episodes “under false pretenses.” For unclear reasons, he was told he was going to do “interviews with the media about television in the 1960s.”

Purvess, bless him, said, “My flabber has never been so gasted.” He also immediately had his eye on the future: “I’m absolutely thrilled and maybe I’ll [get] quite a few invites to conventions and various things.”

Purvess was invited to the screening by Doctor Who historian Toby Hadoke, who said, “I’m a grown man and I’ve been wishing I could see ‘The Nightmare Begins’ since I saw the name on a list of missing episodes of Doctor Who 30 years ago. Forget Glastonbury, I think if you put on a screening of these tomorrow it would sell out in seconds.”

A special screening is in fact taking place in London on April 4, which is the same day the episodes will arrive on BBC iPlayer.

Seven episodes in this story arc are still missing; they’re among the 95 remaining lost Doctor Who episodes. Perhaps yet more will be found in the unlikeliest of places.[end-mark]

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11 Mar 07:09

FIVE DAYS A WEEK

By turborat
100 PERCENT
11 Mar 07:08

SOCIAL ANXIETY

By turborat
SNOOPY
11 Mar 07:06

Google har gjort det svårt att nå 80 procent laddning i Pixel

by Lars A
Google har gjort det svårt att nå 80 procent laddning i Pixel

Om du äger en Pixel och har valt att stanna laddningen vid 80 procent för att förlänga batteriets livslängd har du kanske lagt märke till att det blivit svårt att överhuvudtaget nå 80 procent. Laddningen stannar nämligen vid 77 eller 78 procent och tycks inte komma längre.

Det nya laddningsbeteendet är del av Android 16 QPR3. Telefonen sänker laddningshastigheten efter 77 procent så pass att telefonen till synes slutar ladda. Enligt ett inlägg i Issue Tracker är beteendet medvetet och till för att ”hantera batterihälsan”. Beteendet kommer optimeras i framtida versioner.

Laddningshastigheten sänks alltid när nivån börjar närma sig 100 procent – ofta sker sänkningen vid 80 procent. Att Google kraftigt sänker laddningshastigheten innan 80 procent kan därför tyckas en smula märkligt. Att laddningen stannar vid 77 procent gör dock mindre i praktiken och ändringen märks endast för de som laddar dagtid och inte över natten.

Om du undrat varför din Pixel plötsligt stannat vid 77 eller 78 procent laddning finns i vilket fall en naturlig förklaring och det är ingen bugg i just din telefon.