Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

Tried to restart my fairly new Pixel phone a couple days ago by holding down the power button, but instead of showing the Power menu it prompted me to ask the Digital Assistant something. Excuse me? I don't remember enabling that. Every other phone I've ever had, holding down the power button has always been the way to power down or restart. I had to search Settings to find how to configure the power button to control the power. Or course maybe I could have asked the Digital Assistant - but fuck that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    So, how do you power it down?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    In Settings you select Power as the function of the Power Button instead of Digital Assistant. Then the power button works like it should.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Sure, but what did they expect you to do before making that change.

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