Ok, that is pretty bad. As mentioned, I’ve had it happen once. I use the app search function a lot, which I’ve set to the swipe up gesture, and it just stopped working that day. Had to find a way to force reset the launcher. Having that happen every 2-3 days to multiple times a day would be a dealbreaker for me.
I think this is more tied with advertising analytics, but I share the same opinion. I don’t love it, but it’s not a killer. The fediverse tends to attract a more idealistic and paranoid crowd, which I don’t think is reflective of how most people are.
Hmm, I’ve had it happen once, thought it was odd. Are you on a Samsung too, like the other comment? How often does it happen?
Honestly, don’t care. Until it gets shitty (which it still has a good chance of doing so), I’ll continue to use it.
Ah, right, I don’t have AI on my phones. Can’t you just ignore them though?
Despite this community’s paranoia, I still use Nova. Can’t find anything that works as well yet.
Disclaimer that I bought the pro version for 99 cents way way back, so I’ve gotten my mileage out of that.
Also if you don’t mind Microsoft, the MS launcher isn’t too bad too. I’m using that on the work phone.
Huh, I’ve always updated and there’s usually not much change. There are some minor ones but they don’t affect my day-to-day. The biggest ones the major version changes, but even then it’s usually a new font or some minor display tweak more than anything. I haven’t felt like it’s been disruptive.
Really love this community, so one-dimensional and not willing to accept alternate views, and can’t wait to twist words in people’s mouth to make themselves feel better intellectually superior.
Good luck in growing this community.
One man’s bloatware is another man’s feature.
To talk about the article instead of ranting on about niche wants:
Which Chinese phone does that? They were the first to copy Apple when they removed all that. The only ones that still have card slots and headphone jacks are all the low-end phones, and heck, even those are going away. Xiaomi has been removing the card slots on the higher-end Redmi Notes.
That’s just missing data, I don’t have that issue at all.
Yea, like, basically the complaints boil down to, why am I not being handheld throughout the process more?
For me I just need the general direction and what bus/train line direction to take.
Feels like people in general are getting worse at basic spatial awareness.
Basically, ~7cm width is about the limit it seems, because I assume manufacturers realised that’s where most human hands are comfortable with holding a phone.
There were a few giant phones in the past, Sony Xperia’s Ultra at 6.4 and the Xiaomi’s Mi Max at 6.44" to 6.9". If given the 19:9 to 20:9 aspect ratios of today they’d be 7" phones (so again, don’t compare phone sizes based solely on screen diagonal). As they’re no longer made I assume they just didn’t sell well enough.
Well, it’s going to be worse now, with HyperOS devices not getting updates if they unlock their bootloader. I think they’re going to implement some more limits too, like time or device limits. It’s throughly depressing overall.
That ship has sailed a long time ago. Even Xiaomi is moving away from that.
You should look for custom ROMs that incorporate the official camera app. It’s been a while since I dabbled with custom ROMs but there’s always a few makers that’d do so.
Nevermind that, an approach like what Sharp and the old PDAs did with transflective displays would be pretty neat too. But I suspect what’ll happen is that they’ll be called out for not providing “rich colours and deep blacks”.
Is that what happened? Because it works absolute shite with Bluetooth keyboards too.
Like I’ve said elsewhere, the fediverse tends to have a lot of paranoid zealots. It’s a bit offputting really.