Disabling the Lockscreen Magazine garbage in NothingOS will cause extensive battery drain in Nothing smartphones

Carl Pei recently added bloatware to Nothing smartphones, especially the Locksreen Magazine which will show ads to the users on their Lockscreen. So, some users disabled the feature via ADB or by going in App-info.

It turns out that, if you disable the Lockscreen Magazine service, NothingOS tries to start the service every 3 seconds indefinitely, which will cause eventually extensive battery drain. However, it stops if you keep the service enabled but toggle OFF the option.

Now, if you keep it enabled, Lock Glimpse is running in the background doing whatever it fancies as it is a "private system app".
Someone on reddit noticed that wiping the app data and never even toggling Lock Glimpse on it sent around 25kb of mobile data and later the "User Data" eventually grew by 5mb and it sent ANOTHER 30kb of mobile data even when the Lockscreen glimpse is toggled OFF in the settings.

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I'll just leave it here

https://www.google.com/search?q=67

LG webOS TVs are now installing Microsoft Copilot automatically with no option to remove it

LGTV owners on Reddit are finding they the recent WebOS update features pre-installed Microsoft Copilot.

LG's own support docs note that "some of the apps for the TV cannot be deleted," and now LG has made Copilot part of the same.

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Womp Womp, OPlus smartphones have Battery Gacha System

OPPO, Realme, and OnePlus have mastered a new feature – random battery life.
After 100 to 200 cycles, the BMS starts freelancing.
One day you get 5 hours SOT.
Next day 7.
Same usage. Same phone. Zero explanation.

Your cell might be 6000mAh, but the charge counter casually reports 4800mAh like nothing happened. Rooted battery health tools? They just roll dice every reboot. Health goes up, down, sideways. You never actually hit a true 100% charge again, which is why the battery suddenly feels worse without any update causing it.

In short, Oplus battery life is "Gacha". Reviewers never catch it and Find X9 Pro still gets phone of the year.

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BREAKING: Samsung Halts SATA SSD Production

After Micron ends Crucial Consumer RAM and SSD Business, Samsung is now preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business.

The problem is not whether SATA SSDs are technologically outdated, but rather how much supply they still represent. DDR3 is still manufactured today for older servers and a vast majority of the servers still runs on them.

Please be prepared for SRAM, DRAM and especially NAND prices to blow up and this will not settle down before 2028 atleast. OpenAI is also heavily purchasing NANDs.

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I feel like YouTubers are the biggest fools as they will believe any non-sense someone would say to them as "leaked".

Introducing Google Incognito Rewind

You visited P*rnhub 69420 times in the year 2025 and your most searched word is ....

The 2025 year of the word, searched by most people worldwide is ... "say gex"

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Another honorable Authoritarian mention: niggerx.com/peach2k2/status/1931418089926619296?s=20

So which one are you?

The year 2031 in the AGI era

Bro enjoyed the FaceTime bug which fakes Caller ID for 3 years and then only reported to Apple. Nice

Apple has now fixed the bug.

Google kills its dark web monitoring feature which scan the dark web for personal information revealed in breaches.

Google argues that:

While the report offered general information, feedback showed that it didn’t provide helpful next steps.

Asus predicted the future 4 years ago 💀

Google Translate with Gemini integration
- Powered by Gemini behind the scene, now capable of translating sentences with nuanced meanings better (first available in the U.S. and India with around 20 languages)
- Live Translate will let you hear real-time translation if you have headphones (beta in the U.S., Mexico, and India; 70+ languages supported)

Language learning tool (on Android and iOS)
- Added speaking practice, with a streak counter you can keep track of
- Now made available in Germany, India, Sweden, and Taiwan
- Newly added courses: English to German and Portuguese; Bengali, Mandarin Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, German, Hindi, Italian, Romanian, and Swedish to English

More info: Google Blog
#Apps #Translate @PixelHubUpdates

Firefox is adding AI to the web browser.

Yeah, I'm killing myself tonight.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-AI