good, sometimes I need to quickly start a note, so I need to remember what to type while listening to the person talking; then Keep asks what kind of note I want - just open an empty note and my keyboard ffs

when i had to do it, they could only be exported to another google auth via QR code. I was forced to recreate the codes on every service.

Previously, you long-pressed on those six digits in the account list to copy to your clipboard.

With last week’s Google Authenticator update, a simple tap is how you copy those codes. (That being said, we’ve noticed that a long-press sometimes still works in version 7.0, but it’s inconsistent and the single tap is clearly the intended behavior.) A single touch is definitely simpler, but users have to adjust to this.

Google Auth and Authy lock you in, consider migrating to Aegis or Ente Auth.

fwiw the optical one in the Pixel 8 I use is pretty good and works better than the ultrasonic of my old Samsung, which was a disaster.

I briefly checked that the other day and it doesn’t seem to be the case. To my knowledge, the GNSS hardware will gather info on all available (supported + reachable) constellations to give the best location estimate.

There are ways to get raw measurements in some devices, but that’d be at the application level so I think it’s not what you’re looking for.

Physical connectivity comes courtesy from an RJ45 socket, a pair of USB-A ports, a sole USB-C connector, a microSD slot, and an HDMI connection

wasn’t expecting that

not sure it’s simpler, HeliBoard even has glide typing if you’re willing to install the closed source lib.

what features are missing from it?

I get the meaning of restricted, but I don’t think this makes sense here. My list of restricted apps has apps with small but non-zero data; so why is the list implying that restricted apps have no data used.

Exactly. A few months ago the headline was a patent of Roku hijacking HDMI to show ads.

I’ll save my energy to be pissed off when this garbage actually makes it to market.

Worth highlighting that Telegram in Russia and WhatsApp in Venezuela - both with vastly larger user bases than Signal - are not blocked…

oh they’re working on it too

• VPN access at risk in Venezuela ahead of elections - here’s how to get around it
• Russia says Apple blocks 25 VPN apps in Russia, IFX reports

Looking forward to the “Make all apps dark” setting

SOT?

Screen on Time?

If you had the right query, yes. But getting there if you didn’t know the exact words in the website used to take a number of attempts and google-fu. By early 2010s this was vastly improved.

I think people forget how awful google pre ~2008 was. Not in terms of the bullshit they do nowadays, just in quality of results really.

I had Nova prime and reluctantly moved to KISS when this was announced in 2022. The lack of features was quite the change, but I’ve been using it since and wouldn’t go back. Searching and quick launching apps feels the fastest it can possibly be with KISS.

this entire quick actions shade was redesigned either for children or for elders

the space now used for 4 quick actions could fit 12 quick actions before

They could just make it a different app, but they know no one is downloading it, so they ruin the default app instead. Outstanding move.

how’s more white space going to make it more cluttered

I have a 4k and a 21:9 1440p display and I’m sure anyone who gives 5 seconds to think about it will agree the bottom panel is a total waste of space past the usual 1920px width - unless you have an absurd amount of widgets there.

So not only I agree with the gaps, but I have my panel centered to approx. a third of the display width and there’s still plenty of space to fit open windows there.

Full width panel is a legacy choice that just doesn’t make much sense with nowadays screens.

I just realized

BS = Bull… ehrm BlueSky

They could have opened themselves when twitter went downhill. They missed this opportunity window Threads took advantage of.

That’s why I used to always keep at least 2 apps installed and check prices in both of them a few times ahead of my schedule. I never saw a change in price this steep. Sometimes it’s a reasonable supply/demand dynamic, common during game days around here, but you can never trust them.

🙏 🙏 🙏

typical map advocate

what do you think the world will be like if every idiot gets a map?

I wasn’t aware of the purchase. I just switched to Fossify.

as if you people haven’t learnt anything at all from LastPass

LastPass had a list of concerning design choices, using cloud is not one of them. Your personal preference here is irrelevant.

that’s a limitation AND a trade-off

It’s really not. You can’t expect the average user to set up yet another service to sync their devices in a way that is conflict-free and available at all times for writes. Sooner or later a write will be lost. It’s very much a trade-off between partition tolerance (synchronization of multiple devices), consistency, and availability - see the CAP theorem.

Bitwarden maintains consistency by refusing writes when the server is unreachable. Keepass just delegates partitioning to another service entirely (e.g. Syncthing), which opens the possibility of losing edits.

Outages may only affect you if you’re syncing a new device or making a write (adding or editing an entry), otherwise your entire vault is available locally.

And that’s not even a limitation at all, it’s a trade-off. The convenience of syncing devices beats the crap of keepass* solutions for most. And even as a syncthing user, I would absolutely hate having to manage vault sync conflicts myself.

send a request

yes, that part was failing without an explanation for me and other users.

Xiaomi also allows you to install your own OS and/or root your phone

Side note that I can’t recommend a Xiaomi to users who want a custom ROM.

I have a Poco X3 and they gatekeep the bootloader making you create a Mi account, add your phone number to it, download a Windows-only app to unlock it, have an internet connection through US servers (according to reports from other users), and I still wasn’t able to link the device to unlock the bootloader for unknown reasons.

I just got a Pixel after that.

now you don’t know when an app is running in the background.

we’ve always had plenty of apps running in the background that don’t use notifications

notifications you actually do want to persist

I think notifications should never persist. There should be an entirely different UI concept for apps that need to have information displayed at all times - like a widgets drawer or shade. Having a notification displayed at all times defeat the purpose of a notification, which should be an ephemeral / momentary display of information, usually time-sensitive.

That’s great news. I hate undismissable notifications and I always thought they were an awkward workaround for apps that needed to stay in the background and not be terminated or put to sleep by battery saving features

And as long as things keep working, I think dropping this feature is a great idea.

these are already covered by enhancer for youtube afaik

Forgot the return dislike btn. Even though I mostly just browse the subscriptions tab, I like having videos recommended though, so I’m not a target for unhook.

YouTube is probably the single website I spend most of my time on, but I only use Firefox. I have some 4 extensions to make it usable, not because google intentionally makes it worse, but because unmodded YouTube sucks. They’re ublock origin, dearrow, yt enhancer and sponsorblock.

it’ll all end with YouTube Search

Second. LibreTube has a much better feature set than NewPipe as far as I’ve tried them.

Just social polarization. For every obnoxious vegan trying to convert their peers you’ll have an obnoxious omnivore trying to annoy a vegan.

the headphone jack community is like the vegans of smartphones

it’s not about being “smaller than”, this is not agar.io. They are ideologically very different than China and Russia. That’s like saying China can buy out English politicians to do whatever they want because they have a larger GDP.