It’s on by default for newly installed apps.

It’s one of the things I manually disable for pretty much all apps.

I also use Greenify and disable Shallow Hibernation/Background Free, because those don’t make apps restore any faster (because current phones have sufficiently fast ram/cpu), but it does eventually slow my phone down because I switch apps heavily (I’ve done a LOT of testing with this) and it takes references in memory for page swapping type activities.

That’s called gaslighting sunshine.

Exact same photo.

Hot dogs in a hallway

I haven’t used Keep for at least ten years. So many better solutions out there that don’t require Google services.

Haha, nicely done. I had to work harder and harder to read it.

Lol, Play is an exploit.

After 30 years in IT, I’ve seen 100x more systems taken down by updates than by exploits.

Actually, I’ve never had a system taken down by an exploit, 100% of outages have been caused by borked updates or changes.

I’ve had friends who’s clients have been taken hostage by exploits, and 100% of those have been because of poor security practices and phishing - neither of which is preventable by updates.

Here’s a question, if almost no-one sideloads or uses FDroid, where do people get the millions of malicious apps from? Play Store.

So where’s the problem again? Oh, yea, Play Store.

Why does Play need Play Protect if practically all apps come from Play Store?

Nah, then stuff breaks.

I’d rather have bezels - they make holding a phone easier.

So, they’re smaller, right? Or is that not how measurements work?

This whole argument is nonsense, and doesn’t change the pint that 6.3 is not “compact”.

That we can find any phone smaller given the market today, means it isn’t compact.

The Samsung S4 Mini was compact compared to the S4, by design.

Plenty.

And that’s an irrelevant strawman and goalpost move all rolled into one anyway. I’m currently running a Pixel 5,which is noticeably smaller.

6.3 is not compact.

Android isn’t Linux, Android is a Java implementation using a Linux kernel (IIRC) - the Linux part isn’t even “complete” - when you root you find there are tools you need to add to get typical Linux capability (busybox, init-d, etc). .

So you’re not going to install an Android APK on Linux or anything else, unless it emulates Android.

The language used doesn’t mean much - lots of stuff for Windows was written using C languages, and those would never run on Linux or Unix.

I guess we’re making up our own definitions these days… 6.3 is now compact?

If I understand you correctly, the developmental changes occurring between releases (every little step change/test) won’t be visible to us, just the final results in the form of the release code? (All corrections/clarifications accepted, hell, requested). We’d still be able to compile, but we wouldn’t necessarily have code for those small, incremental changes.

About every 3 days or it gets wonky.

Newly setup too, about 2 months ago, Android 13

And peoe want that sweet, sweet, “convenience”.

I want proper use of swap/cache by default, not something I have to root to get.

Why is my browser reloading pages because I switched apps, on a 6gb phone?

I could prevent this on a 2gb phone in 2017 with root by configuring it properly.

Check out the apps Hermit and Native Alpha. They make web pages run like an app. I’ve only run into a couple sites where they don’t work right.

I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That’s right, thirty megabytes.

It’s amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.

Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.

Anuto is fun, I really like the back-to-gradeschool graphics

Ok, now this looks impressive, since they publish the API and CAD files for you to build your own add ons.

I can’t think of add-ons I’d want - I’m more for smaller phones today, so the bulk doesn’t really appeal to me. But I’m eager to see what people create (may already be some stuff posted on 3D printing sites, I haven’t looked). Maybe an add-on battery that’s the size of the back but really thin?

Edit: LOVE that it’s a plastic phone. Please, more plastic phones, they’re lighter and tougher.