Android

Android can bond Wi-Fi and cellular — but two cellular data paths at once? That's where the hardware and the OS both say no.

Your Android phone can already read and write an eSIM adapter card. So why does the company still sell a $15 USB reader?

NVIDIA's Parakeet beats Whisper on Android — but can you teach it Hebrew, or just your own jargon? Two answers, one much happier.

Your keyboard knows your email address, your phrases, your habits — and you can't take any of it with you.

One listener wants a one-tap jump between his Parakeet voice keyboard and his typing keyboard. Android says no — unless you know the trick.

A keyboard isn't one thing — it's a stack. Here's how input methods, composition buffers, and hooks really work on Linux, Android, and Windows.

Android Developer Verification enforcement just started. Can you define your installed app list as code — and what breaks if you try?

How F-Droid's repository model works, why it has five front ends, and what actually keeps sideloaded APKs safe.

Android separates keyboards from speech engines by design. Most apps weld them back together.

Why does your phone have no VRAM number? A tour of Android's runtime layer and what it takes to run ASR locally.

Android's code is open, but its roadmap isn't. What happens when Google changes the core and developers just have to cope?

Your file manager parses downloads before you touch them. Here's what that means for your security — and what you can actually do about it.

How many Bluetooth devices can one Android phone juggle? The seven-device limit is a stack artifact — profiles matter more.

mpv remembers. MPRIS, GstPlay, and Media3 don't. There's no standard for playback history.

An eSIM adapter isn't a converter — it's a eUICC chip in a SIM shell. Here's the silicon, the certificates, and the open source tools underneath.

Your phone has 15 volume steps. More steps won't fix the real problem — and the math explains why.

OpenWISP, OpenSOHO, DAWN, TIP OpenWiFi, FreeSDN — six real projects, one shared wall: closed firmware.

Those log lines during eSIM setup aren't noise — they're the GSMA provisioning spec running in the open.

Dedicated front-passenger screens exist across luxury cars — but they're built for TikTok, not for the co-pilot job. Here's why.

One in three new GitHub developers now comes from a country outside 2020's top ten. What that shift means for open source.

A chained on-device dictation pipeline — VAD, ASR, cleanup — and why "it feels smooth" isn't the same as knowing it works.

Why Whisper loses on Android, why Parakeet v2 beat v3, and how to benchmark speech-to-text without any tooling.

Local AI tools shouldn't need the network. So why is your on-device writing assistant uploading 40MB at 3am?

Daniel's Android dictation fork won't render "three point five" as a decimal. How many models does cleanup actually need?

Your keyboard's word list was probably frozen in 2014. Here's who maintains the open-source dictionaries — and why Gboard's stays fresh.

Pagers blink until acknowledged. Zello beeps until you tap. But nobody's shipped the wearable that bridges them.

Your phone app wants three shots. The optics want three hundred. Here's how to actually stack macro focus.

Same phone, same spot, same 5G bars — so why does a cheap carrier crawl? It's not the signal.

Destroying a 256-bit key takes milliseconds. Overwriting a terabyte takes hours. That gap is the whole story.

One drawer of screws, a hundred phone photos, and a schema. When does a small custom model beat a fine-tuned VLM?

Why your Bluetooth speaker ignores Zello's push-to-talk — and what to buy instead for a hands-full, phone-off fallback.

Every virus is malware, but not every malware is a virus — and that distinction explains why your antivirus keeps missing things.

Baby apps have templates for everything — except the metrics you actually need. The custom tracking framework exists. It just never shipped.

Small models plus strict JSON schemas should be a safe bet. A 15,000-generation study found the opposite.

What Linus Tech Tips and Linus Torvalds each model about play, mastery, and keeping tech fun as AI eats the tedious parts.

Your ASR pipeline is fine until someone dictates "three point two" and gets "three point two" spelled out. Here's how inverse text normalization ac...

Penicillin in Bangkok, paracetamol in London, Adderall at customs. What actually goes in the note on your phone?