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mottallion Google Pixel 4a old firmware is gone, trapping users on the buggy battery update

I applied for the $100 credit more than a week ago but it is at Google's discretion, and I've never heard back from them. Even if they offer the credit, I'm not interested anymore and I'll never use a Google Pixel again.

mottallion Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update

I received the email from Google notifying me of this "battery performance update" for my Pixel 4A which actually drains the battery faster, so it left me scratching my head wondering what a "performance update" is for Google.

After the update, my battery was depleted at an alarming rate. I applied for the $100 voucher but I've never heard back from Google. So I decided to bite the bullet and moved to iPhone instead. Apple might not be the best, but this was the last straw for me.

mottallion Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)

Honest question: syntactically noisy as opposed to what? In the context of this post, which is a critique of Go as a programming language, for me this is orders of magnitude better than the "if err != nil {" approach of Go.