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Making the 2023 [email protected] Buying Guide: Midrange

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USB-C

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Magisk v26.2 Released (github.com)

[MagiskBoot] Support extracting boot image from payload.bin...

The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from (lemm.ee)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/5636484...

PlayStation Portal: Hands On With Sony's New Remote Play Handheld (inv.zzls.xyz)

As a reminder, the PlayStation Portal, or Project Q, is (according to leaks) based on Android. It doesn’t run the games itself, it merely streams them from your PS5 and your handheld then serves as a controller with its own display....

Best Camera and Gallery app

Hey guys, Im trying to get rid of google apps so I have installed GCAM port MGC_8.9.097_A11_V4_ENG and simple gallery pro from fdroid. They are both amazing, but when Im in camera app and I want to use thumbnail to open last picture in gallery, it does open but then after 2 sec screen refreshes like I reopened the app. And even...

Android's Find My Device network will get a huge upgrade soon – here's how it'll work (www.techradar.com)

Asus only cut the PC department in July, and now the commercial department is also going to be cut (Asus Zenfone 10 is their last phone) (finance.technews.tw)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/907800...

Google Keep’s Android app is getting formatting tools and version history - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft Launcher for Android gets Bing Chat integration, powered by ChatGPT (www.windowslatest.com)

There’s also a new Bing widget that lets you access the chat from the homepage....

Why do apps build in Flutter lag horribly on my Pixel 6?

I have been dealing with stuttering apps whenever the app is built using flutter, I can’t really explain this given no one else seems to have this issue. Is it that the pixel 6 is weak sauce, graphineOS or something else?

The Galaxy S23 FE is almost here, and Samsung really doesn't hide it (www.androidpolice.com)

What you need to know about Project Mainline in Android 14 and beyond (androidpolice.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/805817...

App

Is there any app that stops certain social media apps from been installed on your phone

Is there an app that can show non-dismissable notifications to remind me to (not) do something during a certain timeframe?

I want to make sure to not forget that drunk-dialing or texting someone late at night might be a bad idea....

Snapdragon’s new G Series SoC will power Ayaneo's next gaming handheld (www.androidpolice.com)

Meta is pulling the plug on Messenger Lite on Android (www.theverge.com)

tl;dr: Messenger Lite, Meta’s “less than 10MB to download” lightweight version of Messenger, will no longer be available on Android after Sep 18, as Meta redirects users to the Messenger app. The main Messenger app will also drop SMS support next month.

Per app/URL VPN settings

I have two VPNs. One for privacy (e.g. general browsing) and one to reach my home NAS (e.g. to reach my selfhosted image backups). Is there a way to set the system up so that when I use applications X, Y and Z, it should use the privacy one, and if I use A, B or C, it should use the private one?

What happened to Boost for Lemmy?

It was announced back in June but I haven’t heard anything about it since.

Squawker, open-source Twitter front-end for Android, now works again

I previously made a thread here about alternative front-ends for Android and Squawker was among the ones I listed. It is an open-source Twitter front-end for Android, but sadly it stopped working that day because of the usual Elon changes to the website....

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