Technology Chat Thread • Page 45

Material Expressive 3 is dropping now.

 

Nothing yet on my 9 Pro :(

 

Same, I saw posts this AM on Reddit but I just saw the blogs posting it too, in addition to the September Feature Updates

September 2025 Feature Drop: Pixel Live Effects, LE Audio sharing, more

I'm on T-Mobile though and we alwaysssss lag behind everyone else so I'm not expecting anything today for me lol.

 

Yeah, Verizon here and there seems to be no pattern for when I get it at a reasonable time or not lol

 

Finally got it - waiting for it to install now!

 

Nice!

 

Y'know it's really cool how Pixel phones can install updates while you're still using your phone, but it's so damn slow that I wish I could opt for it to just reboot and install the old fashioned way

 

Yeah this is a pretty sweet update. Pretty minimal changes but I like the improved animations, resizing quick tiles, and actually really like the new status bar icons like battery

 

Yeah it really is, although you're not wrong at how slowwwwww it actually updates haha

Yeah I've been a fan of the slow rollout that the Google apps have gotten, I like the redesign!

 

GOT THE UPDATE

And I am loving this new layout. Pull down/Quick Tile is smooth looking!

 

Yeah this is super convenient

 

I just got my Pixel 10 yesterday and given this is my first Google phone, I have no idea what the changes are

 

Mainly some subtle animations, changes to a few UI elements, new status bar icons, and resizeable quick tiles in the pull down menu

Quick tiles used to all be the same size with just two columns. Now you can have up to 4 columns of tiles

 

Yeah most of it is UI enhancements/changes. Google does this every so often, the last time we got a overhaul was in 2018. A good lil writeup with pics of 1 vs 2 vs now is here so you can see where we've come from haha'

Material Design 1 vs Material Design 2 vs Material Design 3 - Comparison

 

Seems like the old UI looked about the same as the One UI from my Galaxy

 

Nvidia Sets The Datacenter Growth Bar Very High As Compute Sales Dip


“The top four cloud service providers – that would be Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta Platforms had a capital expense budget of $300 billion two years ago and this is going up to $600 billion. For every $50 billion that companies spend on AI infrastructure, Huang said that Nvidia gets $35 billion of that. (This is a useful ratio, and that $50 billion is literally the cost of putting a 1 gigawatt AI factory into the field.)

And with enterprises and sovereign nations also getting out the checkbooks to build their own AI factories, Huang said there was a $3 trillion to $4 trillion global AI factory buildout between now and the end of the decade. If you do 35/50ths of that, which we call 70 percent around these parts, that is somewhere between $2.1 trillion and $2.8 trillion going to Nvidia. At current profitability levels, that would be net income ranging from $1.2 trillion to $1.6 trillion. Our model projected Nvidia would have maybe $1.66 trillion in sales in fiscal 2026 through fiscal 2030, inclusive, with diminishing profits due to competition and higher costs of putting stuff into the field as chips and packaging get more costly. Call it a mere $750 billion in aggregate profits over those years.”

 

Apparently the sole developer of Nova Launcher for Android has been pushed out by the company that purchased it, and they've halted him from creating an open source version of it that they originally gave him permission to do. Bummer. I've used that launcher for over a decade.

Trying out the latest beta of Smart Launcher and it's actually pretty slick.

 

https://www.xipu.li/posts/the-last-programmers?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

"We're witnessing the final generation of people who translate ideas into code by hand."

 

As a software engineer... This is scary haha.

 

In the last 15 minutes I got ChatGPT to build me a Python script that logged into a conference website chatbot, via an OTP password thing, go to a certain section of that chatbot, load up the full attendee list, and then scrape that full list of names, titles, and company names, and then export it to an Excel file. This is amazing, haha

 

Using GPT 4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4 through copilot Agent mode in my IDE has been very useful. It's able to scan the contents of my entire codebase and help me with tedious tasks that would otherwise require some digging through stack overflow posts. Also useful for writing unit tests. Just have to know how to closely review the code it creates and test thoroughly.

 

It's really helpful for understanding a new codebase as well.

 

Not gonna lie, I'm a pretty big fan of Smart Launcher now. Also allows stacked widgets which is so handy.

 

Interesting article. I didn’t know that it may soon be possible to clone an app via AI. I wonder if this will do anything to erode the system of everything getting made into a subscription. Why would someone pay for a subscription if someone else cloned their app and made available for free?

 

Is anyone using Graphene OS? It’s a de-googled flavor of Android. I’ve been considering checking it out

GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS