mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧<p>The history of my phones: <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Motorola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Motorola</span></a> ROKR E6 (running MontaVista Linux) → moto e(2) → moto G6 (stock <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> → <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LineageOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LineageOS</span></a>) → <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> Pixel 8a (<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GrapheneOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrapheneOS</span></a>). Why the change? Well, <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Lenovo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lenovo</span></a> is killing Motorola brand for years now.</p><p>A few thoughts after the first day using it, and comparing it to 5 year old Motorola with barely working software:</p><p>1. Pixel: 7 years software updates + good alternatives. Motorola: 2 years + poorly working LineageOS port, whose support just ended. You could say you either pay directly to Google, or you buy competition and pay in your data.</p><p>2. It made me think of "value" moto e(2) — no charger, not even a back cover, but there's Gorilla Glass and good hardware. Well, except that the price isn't "value".</p><p>3. It's not really pretty, I'm going to need to find a case to even out the back. Moto G6 was a piece of art compared to it.</p><p>4. It didn't reboot of its own accord even once yet. Moto G6 rebooted at least daily.</p><p>5. You can call more than once. Moto G6 used to hang after a single call — you couldn't make or receive another one, and it drained the battery.</p><p>6. Location catches in a few seconds, compared to a few minutes of standing still with Moto G6, in good weather.</p><p>7. Data transfer was successful. It's much easier when you're doing it across phones, rather than from backups. Even Matrix and <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GadgetBridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GadgetBridge</span></a> didn't cause any issues.</p><p>8. Restore in <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FreeOTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeOTP</span></a> doesn't work. Fortunately, during the last migration I've backed up all the secrets externally.</p><p>9. The fingerprint reader in the screen is usable, and I'm getting the hang of gesture navigation. However, the under-screen fingerprint reader + navigation in Moto G6 was just brilliant. I still couldn't find any convenient way of locking the screen.</p><p>10. Performance and RAM is much better. It just doesn't keep killing the apps I'm using.</p><p>11. I haven't tested the screen in the sunlight yet, but I suspect it's going to be better. G6 was pretty horrible, even compared to the value e(2).</p><p>12. The government mObywatel app is working. Just saying.</p><p>13. Multiling O keyboard sometimes shows under the bottom "keyboard control" bar, sometimes above it — very annoying.</p>