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As a final thought, why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?
In addition, why is known spyware on the top of the recommended list if I were to open the play store: temu, snapchat.
Or getting pissy if I use an ad blocker when their platform has served malicious ads.
Could be the battery. My 5a5g died after 3 years and it was the battery. I couldn’t get it to boot that I could tell even while charging. Didn’t try calling it though to see if it rings.
Sounds odd, but have had similar issues with a Nest cam. Main powered doorbell camera resets when someone rings it until I replaced the battery.
Can’t remember if the 5a5g had a headphone jack (using 7 pro now), but you can kiss that goodbye. Fingerprint reader is in the screen now instead of the rear, but otherwise its been functionally similar.
The 8 line has extended support. If you care about security updates I’d check https://endoflife.date/pixel and pick what’s affordable. (a) models are at the lowest end, followed by the regular 8/9, then pro models for the best hardware.
Graphene also recently added some options like:
- Cap charging to 80% to extend battery life.
- Fingerprint reader + 4-6 digit pin. My normal pin is long so I’m happy with this change as forcing my biometrics won’t unlock it alone. Capped at 5 attempts.
- Kill switch pin. If forced to give up a pin it will factory wipe the phone.
I’ve been using Olauncher which is on F-Droid / Play Store.
It is truly minimal AF. Up to 8 apps on the home screen. Assign a swipe left/right app (calendar and weather for me). Swipe up opens a search for the rest of the apps. A clock if you want it that can be configured to open another app.
No icons. No widgets (other than a built-in clock). Reminds me more of a terminal than a traditional launcher. Really happy with it after all the time configuring Nova. Been using it for 3 years now.
It’s a font, there is no risk of data collection…
TeamViewer checks for a font their app installs when visiting their website to fingerprint you.
diep.io and only domination. Stopped going when they put that game mode on some stupid rotation.
It respects quotes. I literally got like 6 results total with your example.
I use pretty much the same stack except I use Standard Notes over Obsidian. Obsidian I will agree has more polish, but Standard Notes is open source and undergoes 3rd party security audits every couple years. I’m okay with things being rough around the edges if a project aligns with my own principals.
Totally agree with your overall point.
That said, I have to come to the defense of my terminal UI (TUI) comrades with some anecdotal experience.
I’ve got all the same tools in Neovim as my VSCode/Cursor colleagues, with a deeper understanding of how it all works under the hood.
They have no idea what an LSP is. They just know the marketing buzzword “IntelliSense.” As we build out our AI toolchains, it doesn’t even occur to them that an agent can talk to an LSP to improve code generation because all they know are VSCode extensions. I had to pick and evaluate my MCP servers from day one as opposed to just accepting the defaults, and the quality of my results shows it. The same can be done in GUI editors, but since you’re never forced to configure these things yourself, the exposure is just lower. I’ve had to run numerous trainings explaining that MCPs are traditionally meant to be run locally, because folks haven’t built the mental model that comes with wiring it all up yourself.
Again, totally agree with your overall point. This is more of a PSA for any aspiring engineers: TUIs are still alive and well.