I switched away from my flagship Samsung tablet when they pushed it to quarterly updates, meaning security issues often went unpatched for a while. In the fine print of the "X years of updates" they mention that they switch devices to updates only every 3 months and then every 6 months down the road.
Pixel 6a used to show a September patch as the latest, but tapping "check for updates" found a new one. As mentioned in other comments here, apparently tapping those buttons twice may help.
Says September is the latest system update. Click check updates, says it's up to date, click check updates again, says it's preparing system update and hangs out for a while - then says it's downloading and installing a 781M update.
WTF?
Update: OK finally the update completes an hour later, even the reboot took longer than usual - says it's "updated to December 5, 2025"
This phone running Android 16 for a bit over a month now.
Rumor is the Pixel 7a December update rollout was paused due to a severe wifi bug. You might not want to upgrade manually at this time, even if you find images available for download.
(The rumor is somewhat weak, it's apparently everyone regurgitating one seemingly AI chat.. Google needs to state the reason publicly.)
The December updates for Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are available to manually download on Google's website [0], so the updates do exist, although Google might not be rolling them out to the general public quite yet. But the December update for Pixel 7a are completely missing from that website, and trying to update from the Settings app also shows no updates available.
There are instructions at the top of the link. You need to use "adb" from the command-line on a computer, but it won't wipe any of your data, so it shouldn't cause any data loss. If you don't want to use "adb", you might be able to use [0], but I haven't tested it myself.
Legacy Update has been well-supported for over 3 years and takes donations via Github (11 current, 61 past sponsors) and Patreon (where you can sponsor up to $80 to fuel Adam's 3D printing addiction). I recommend it to our PortableApps.com users who are on older operating systems and use it in my virtual machines for testing our releases. I'm hopeful it'll stay as is for a while.
Hey its awesome but regarding donations since I actually wanted to talk about it.
But can you please look at adding yourself/Download Center archive to liberapay too as I was hoping to find liberapay.
You mention having kofi being the lowest prices but I think Liberapay has no fees other than payment processing and is itself an non profit and funded via donations.
Maybe then you would have "too many options to donate" but I think liberapay can be a good option to have honestly imo and I am interested to hear your thoughts about it.
Also I wanted to download windows 7 iso to run a simpler thing on my pc but Microsoft being shitty removed the download link of it and everything so great to see your project, Going to bookmark it right now and thank you!
OpenCollective is another good alternative, that use the same means to fund themselves as they're offering projects to use, compared to the GitHub/Microsoft way of doing things.
Oh yea, forgot about OpenCollective but its good too and I think can give legal way to get fiscal sponsorship/basically be treated as a non profit/get legal donation method as well which can be nice for this project and all benefits that get with it. He can check out OpenCollective too!
Legacy Update is my project, appreciate the thoughts. I’ll look at both. OpenCollective would be a great idea going forward for better transparency, as much as it requires more paperwork.
I do consolidate most of the expenses with my other projects, and ads cover most of the costs, but we’re planning some future projects such as hosting of custom Windows updates (opt-in) that will get expensive. So this will matter a lot more soon enough.
Thanks for spreading the word John, it means a lot. In my teen years I discovered PortableApps and would read through the forum threads, fascinated by the ways the community tricked apps into being portable. Another incredible resource, and I really respect that it’s stayed around so long.
And those $5,000 DoGE checks the Republicans promised will be coming out any day now. Along with the healthcare plan Trump promised within a couple weeks in the beginning of his first term.
It's the same as the Republican slogans of being the party of "fiscal responsibility" despite under-performing the Democratic party in nearly all financial metrics and constantly blowing up the deficit or being the party of "family values" while having leaders and 'respected' voices who are the complete opposite.
The 'other browsers' on iOS are just a slightly neutered Safari rendering engine underneath. Firefox on iOS doesn't use the actual Firefox rendering engine, so you can't install extensions on it. On Android, I use actual Firefox and run full-fat uBlock Origin on it to block ads, just like I can on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
While it is true the rendering engine is the same. The functionality is different. I have 5 browsers installed on iOS. They are not the same.
- Brave. Has native adblocking
- Orion. Supports extensions from firefox and chrome extension store (not perfect compatibility, but still quite amazing).
- DuckDuckGo Browser. Offers nice privacy features.
- Firefox. Allows to sync tabs with desktop.
- Edge. IIRC I installed this when LLMs were early and it had built in bing chat for free llm chatting.
So while the rendering engine is the same, that is one of the least interesting things.
Yeah, I noticed the same on my Macbook. I mainly use it for theater stuff (Qlab) and remoting into my main Windows desktop environment. I just stopped doing some of the workflows on Mac and do them on Windows because I didn't feel like trying to figure out why macOS wouldn't let GIMP open an image I downloaded from the internet. So dumb.
- try the usual tricks (holding alt and right clicking, i guess), no
- drag and drop file into Code, no
- right click>get info, lo and behold: the entire file contents displayed in the Get Info preview pane for me to copy
I'm actually getting a Windows laptop to do some testing on and i might just abandon Mac for the most part after that. Eating up five minutes of my day to figure out how to edit a file i created myself is just too much sometimes
I ran into this exact same thing recently with CSVs downloaded from my own app. I tried a few different filetypes and was baffled how seemingly any filetype I downloaded triggered Gatekeeper regardless of the app I set to open it (including stock apps).
I eventually found on Reddit that setting the default via the Get Info dialog was the only path that worked, so now I can click a CSV and open it in VS Code without needing to send Apple my passport and fingerprints. I keep seeing mixed opinions whether it's a bug that Get Info associations work differently vs the right click context menu, or if it's a deliberately obtuse garden path like the Settings/Open Anyway routine and "working" as intended.
Either way I hate it but it would be slightly more forgivable as a bug (assuming it was then fixed).
Huh? JSON? Did you insert executable preamble bytes and chmod the file to execute or something? Where is this file? Can you post a link?
My work issued MacBook is incapable of running unsigned binaries enforced by the MDM kext, and I do all sorts of development all day long. Occasionally I have to resign a precompiled dylib if it was compiled on a coworkers machines, but that’s it. I have never seen anything like you’re describing.
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