Canadian here, can confirm. Every time I've ever won any prize of any kind in an official way, we have to do stupid basic algebra problems. Very odd.

I've been using Sia for about three months to backup some personal files. Nothing crazy, but it seems to work well.

I'm looking forward to seeing this project mature as well as have some more layers build on top of it moving forward. I really wish the client offered synchronization or access across multiple devices. For now you have to try third party layers on top of Sia to accomplish this.

> I'm looking forward to seeing this project mature as well as have some more layers build on top of it moving forward. I really wish the client offered synchronization or access across multiple devices. For now you have to try third party layers on top of Sia to accomplish this.

Yea I'd actually pick it up now and give it a try if it had this feature.

First thing I noticed too. That's awesome.

I've had nothing but issues trying to run Ubuntu in Hyper-V. Even the Windows Ubuntu LTS image that comes with the quick-create didn't work for very long.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I've never has success with non-windows OS's.

What host version? I'm running 18.04 on Server 2016, for reference, did absolutely nothing special or unique, downloaded the iso, built the machine and loaded it and it's up running dns & unifi controller 24/7 for my home network with no issues.

This is ridiculous. This is why I hate installed third party software on my computer.

Thank you. I have blocked all incoming traffic on that port.

I'd be much more concerned about traffic from localhost (from malicious web pages)

I'm wondering why this is exclusive to Pixel 3 and not made available to Pixel 2 owners? If it's an algorithm that stiches together many images, Pixel 2 should be able to do this as well. The Pixel 2 camera already meshes together many images when you take photos, and already gives users the ability to take "motion" photos.

Google is actually backporting a quite a lot of Pixel 3 functionality to the older phones - e.g. night sight (which makes a enormous difference for photos taken in less than ~3 lux), call screening, adjustable blur. (Full list at https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/13/pixel-3-features-co... )

It's pretty generous actually, Apple and Samsung rarely backport marquee features. I figure Google is trying to build up loyalty amongst Pixel and Pixel 2 owners so that they stay with the brand.

> I figure Google is trying to build up loyalty amongst Pixel and Pixel 2 owners so that they stay with the brand.

As a Pixel owner: it's working.

As a nexus/pixel user since the Galaxy Nexus I'd say so too :)

Super Zoom needs a better lens than what the sensor strictly requires. That was probably not the case on the Pixel 2.

Also, can the Pixel 2 control the OIS the way the Pixel 3 does? I own both, but have no way of checking.

Specifically if the lens is too good one gets aliasing which cannot be removed through software.

The pixel 3 hardware requires this super zoom method at all times, or the output will be aliased.

Google gets to sell a couple of new Pixel 3 devices?

People have gotten a lot of Pixel 3 exclusive features to work one Pixel 1 + 2 by install Pixel 3's camera apk. I'm assuming most of the reason for backporting features is not a hardware limitation.

Could also be improvements necessary to the "Pixel Visual Core" that are necessary to make this run fast enough.