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Okay y'all, I need to understand this. So someone said that a Pixel 8 is faster than an iPhone 15. Can someone help me understand why someone would say such a thing? The iPhone 15 has a much better SOC than even the Pixel 9, and Google has said that they aren't pushing for benchmarks. This person is using a screen reader, TalkBack and VoiceOver. Meanwhile, to me, the Pixel 8 feels even slower than my iPhone SE 2020, and the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. Like I guess it could be their way of coping with Android, but I mean there are people who genuinely like it. And yes, it has LLM image descriptions now, so I mean there are people that will put up with it just for that feature. But, meh, sometimes people are unknowable.

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aaron
aaron
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I suppose that in their use case it might be faster. VoiceOver isn't perfect.
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Martin from Toronto
Martin from Toronto
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@fireborn Have you tried Prudence or CSR? Taht really shows you how responsive your Pixel can be. No idea why Talkback can be so sluggish sometimes. I mean, it's been much better in the last while, but man!
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aaron
aaron
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@mcourcel Turning off handle gestures in talkback in developer settings helps
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Mason
Mason
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@fireborn @mcourcel Wait, what is this setting and what does it do? What breaks if you have it off?
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aaron
aaron
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@Mason @mcourcel Nothing. In fact more breaks with it on, considering that with it enabled, on some devices double tapping will simply fail to work.
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aaron
aaron
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@Mason @mcourcel yup, so turning it off is something I would recommend everyone do, as it's on by default.
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aaron
aaron
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@mcourcel Prudonse not so much, it’s modified talkback, but csr really does increase performance.
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Martin from Toronto
Martin from Toronto
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@fireborn I'd love to pay for CSR, but you just send a guy some money? Seems suspect to me.
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aaron
aaron
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@mcourcel Even so, for most people the free version will offer more than enough.
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Devin Prater :blind:
Devin Prater :blind:
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@fireborn @mcourcel My issue is that both of the Isp's I use, although I suspect they're both Spectrum, that I use at work and home block CSR's license confirmation thing. Maybe they use Baidu, but I don't know. So I'd have to be on cellular to verify, and since the ESim is in the iPhone, I don't wanna deal with all that. Although maybe I could use the hotspot? I suspect I'm one of very few users that run into this, however.
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