I find GBoard autoincorrect to be as bad as any other. I stopped using it because of that, and I’ve been on Android since 2009

I find GBoard autocorrect to be as horrendous as all the others, so it offers no tangible benefits.

Isn’t it adjustable already? Or is that only in the versions I use (Lineage forks).

It would be nice to be able to set a default other than 50:50

Sometimes you need to work in 2 apps simultaneously. Switching is not the same at all.

Android, unlike iOS, actually runs apps simultaneously.

Using a pass code for an app/website that won’t allow copy/paste, for example. I don’t use it a lot, but occasionally it can be useful to have maps and media player going together. Or 2 mapping apps.

Except it takes effort to get an OS without Google Spyware.

And regular, everyday people have been targeted by police because of Google.

I turn off so much crap as it is, and crank all animations down to 0.5 (I’d go lower but this is just fast enough to no have stutter). I don’t need iOS-slow animations that “look cool”, I got shit to do.

Blur is garbage I don’t need.

Fix the crappy space-wasting nonsense.

Google is refining animations, adding blur

How about refining UI control back to the user’s hand? Instead we have garbage that people with vision or motor-control challenges can’t use.

The thing is, this change isn’t new, it’s been coming for a while (as in years, it started with at least Android 13).

Though it’s weird, some apps still get full access, such as Resilio Sync, though other similar apps such as Nextcloud and Syncthing don’t.

I recently setup a phone and when installing Resilio it asked for permissions to the entire SD card, so clearly there’s still a mechanism, but only some apps are permitted to ask for it.

Something fishy going on.

Because no one wanted to?

You haven’t, right? Why? As you said, you don’t have the programming skills (neither do I).

It’s always just that simple - someone with the expertise doesn’t feel like doing it. Nothing more, nothing less.

Sometimes, people like you and me get motivated enough to go learn how to do these things, or find people with the skills.

Notes of cherry and almond, hint of oak. 😜

I run 5’s with Lineage. Because they’re so cheap I have 3, one for testing, one as a hot spare.

Still cost less than a new phone.

I’ve been using Blacklist for probably 10 years, recently switched to SpamBlocker. Wow, what a complex and flexible app.

I get no messages or calls I don’t want.

Combination of Macrodroid’s drawer feature and Jina Folders. Works pretty well.

I think the market for it really isn’t there for a few reasons.

Performance is questionable, depending on the apps. Android isn’t really a desktop (or even laptop) OS from a UI standpoint. Tied to this, Android apps aren’t designed around desktop use.

Then we have laptops that have come a very long way in the last ten years, where battery life now approaches tablet OS (my newest laptops run all day, which is what my iPad does if I use it all day like a laptop). Considering the battery life equivalence, I get a lot more functionality from a desktop OS per charge cycle than I do from a mobile OS (not by watts, but by how often I need to charge).

I used to take my iPad with me on trips when I needed a little more than phone functionality, but not desktop. Now my laptop is marginally larger and heavier than an iPad with a keyboard case, and it charges from the same USB C cable as my phone.

All this seems to be something this idea returns to every time it comes around. Having a single device sounds brilliant, but I’d have to carry a dock anyway, so there’s not really a benefit in the end, may as well carry a laptop too.

Lol, so you were fine with Google spying with all the prior administrations back to 2000…

There is some strong evidence that Google was created with strong ties to the NSA… During the Clinton administration. You were OK with that?

That would be saying you were OK with the creation of this spying behemoth because it was under an admin you agreed with.

I’m not OK with it, regardless of which admin it was. It’s not a good thing, and at a minimum violates the spirit of law.

Ooh, ah, thinner sliders, background blur in quick settings.

Quit fucking around, and give us real changes. Like letting us fully disable immersive apps (I’d like to see my status bar in maps, thank you very much), fix the worthless waste of space oval quick settings, which I just stopped using because they’re now useless. I went and loaded a sidebar app, because it works so much better than the now pointless quick settings.

And let users adjust a lot more stuff, like for accessibility. I can’t imaging handing a new phone to someone with vision or motor issues. I hit the wrong thing all the time, and I don’t have either issue.

Oh, bringing color back to the status bar, but only for Google icons? Can I please have the color back like I had, oh 15 years ago? So I know who messaged me by the color of the icon?

Keep on dumbing things down, while also making them more opaque.

This is great news.

As an early Android user, the F-Droid app is challenging enough that I don’t recommend it to people, because I don’t have the time to hold their hand everyday. This is unfortunate as F-Droid repositories are the easiest way for non-technical people to get more privacy-friendly apps.

Create a table in Libre Office, I’ll wait…

(Hint,the devs have flat out stated they will never add tables to Calc, as it’s wrong to do).

99% of Excel usage includes a table in the first, or second, sheet. Without tables a spreadsheet app is useless, in my opinion, regardless of how “wrong” it is (and I agree that it’s wrong).

Since 2018!

And terrifying.

Amazing shot.

(For those not in the loop, storms in a place like that bring high winds and torrential downpours, making for flash floods).