Yup, same. Upgraded from P6 to P7 for $20 a couple Black Fridays ago. The P7 is starting to get a little wonky, so I’m waiting to see what the sales look like this year, it’ll almost certainly be either a Pixel 9 or Nothing Phone (2).

Being right and being suddenly under a car are not mutually exclusive.

I dunno. I changed nothing else at all, updated PIF, rebooted phone, opened Messages, and like, it was immediately in rcs mode. It even received a couple old messages that has apparently been waiting on it to finally connect. Certainly possible that it was something else, maybe updating PIF happened to flush a cache somewhere, I dunno. If it wasn’t PIF directly, it was either a huge coincidence or some other indirect side effect of updating, cuz that was the only thing I touched, and it magically fixed the problem for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Play Integrity Fix magisk module fixes it. For now, anyway. I had PIF 15.1 previously and my RCS stopped working a few weeks ago. I just updated to 15.9.2 and now it’s working again. I imagine it’ll be a cat and mouse game like everything else having to do with rooted phones.

I have a Zenbook 13 (model UX331F), bought new right around the start of COVID. Installed Linux Mint maybe 6 months ago, audio works just fine, and I didn’t have to do anything special, it just worked right out of the box. I had tried Pop_OS before Mint and I don’t remember any audio issues there either.

This is why I scoff every time Google takes jabs at Apple about iMessage. Pot, meet kettle. Until I can use rcs with Textra, they got no room to talk

I traded my pixel 6 for a pixel 7 for $20 in last year’s black Friday sale. If they do that again, I’ll upgrade. If not, I’ll stick with what I got and see if next year’s is any better.

Usually gotta pay extra to get a good SCP-196job.

Do we have a watchcirclejerk here yet?

Same. Tomatoes leave their gross nasty little wet seed things all over the sandwich, too.