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Lawnchair 2 is no longer under development. The development team always starts to develop a new launcher based on the latest stock launcher every time a new Android version is released (so basically every year). This way the app usually never gets past the alpha or beta builds till they already move on to start from scratch. I don’t understand their strategy.

Android app dependency? (slrpnk.net)

I have found the translation from camera source feature useful in Google Translate and I use it from time to time. Last night was one such occasion, yet when I attempted to enable camera mode, I received the message shown in the screenshot, “Please install the latest Google app in order to use camera translation”. I...

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I use Google Lens and I also have to keep Google app installed. I agree it’s annoying that they just can’t make the apps work standalone. There already is a package that nearly all Google apps dependend on. The package is Google Play Services. Why can’t they implement this into Google Play Services as they do with all the other stuff (quick share, find my phone, location services etc…)?

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To anyone with a TV running Android I recommend SmartTubeNext: github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

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labs.perplexity.ai also works.

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Google implementation of RCS (Jibe I think it’s called) is proprietary. A third party client has to be explicitly allowed and supported by Google.

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Well the messages app that comes with samsung does support Google’s RCS as far as I know.

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I am not aware of any.

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Did you unlock your bootloader? Some apps just scan for Google Play SafetyNet or in some other way to check whether you unlocked your bootloader or rooted and if they think you do they will vaguely state you are rooted.

Other’s concern about your phone being infected are justified and I recommend you to try whether a dedicated root checking app thinks your phone is rooted. These usually don’t lie.

Regarding your rooting situation I always rooted the lazy way. Renamed magisk.apk to magisk.zip, flashed it and it always worked for me. But I rooted only 2 phones in my life really and this is not the recommended method by magisk developer.

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topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html

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Did you flash a custom ROM? Maybe it will work with a custom ROM.

EDIT: Your phone uses Mediatek processor, so it’s not going to be well supported. I recommend you to stick to locked bootloader and just live with the phone as it is.

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It is not only ironic but pathetic. They promote it as the new open standard and people who just don’t look further into the details believe it.

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I agree. Most custom ROMs already have such option.

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KOReader. The app is multiplatform (also for some e-readers and Linux) so the UI is not among the most beautiful (but I actually prefer it over Librera), but it’s feature packed, and does really well what it’s made for.

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You can with some tinkering. You can uninstall the default launcher with ADB shell and some Android TV show select launcher options when more than 1 is installed.

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There are new solutions constantly developed such as PlayIntegrityNEXT. With sone effort you can get rooted Android 14 device with custom ROM pass Play Integrity attestation.

Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)

“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...

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That’s how one spends time with his kids!

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It’s very fine unless you decide you just must and have to convert that audio to MP3 (the audio loses quality with every lossy compression), because you are an old boomer and other formats scare you even though almost all modern device can play OPUS or at least M4A or you are one of those people who call themselves “Audiophiles” to feel more special, but wouldn’t recognize a shit if I played OPUS 192kbps on their 2000$ home audio setup instead of the 24 bit uncompressed FLAC that has over 30MB in size each. I have most of my library from YT Music which is ~128kbps OPUS and it has been transparent on all audio devices I have played it till now.

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I am sorry. I went to a little rant, but I meant it rather funny even though I realize it feels aggressive 🤣. I am just enthusiastic about this topic even though I don’t know that much.

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So it was a lie to not lose potential sales

It’s sad, but only too tiny fraction of the phone buyers care about unlocking the bootloader for the company to be economically meaningful to care about.

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AFAIK Opera has some kind of patent for this, so other briwsers cannit implement it so easily.

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I am not sure if it’s only me, but I have noticed much faster Wi-Fi connecting after enabling Wi-Fi on Android 14, so that’s one thing. But it may be also caused by kernel update and has nothing to do with Android 14.

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I don’t understand. So if I only lock my phone (turn the screen off) without rebooting it, it is not fully encrypted (considering that the device storage encryption is enabled)?

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because they are the only devices on the market that allow locking the bootloader after installation

AFAIK on Xiaomi Mi A2 lite if I flash back the stock fastboot ROM (I had it do it once because I crippled the partition images (this phone is A/B partition device)) it locks your bootloader and you have to unlock it again. I don’t know if this applyes to MIUI/Hyper OS phones too, because Mi A2 Lite uses near to stock Android.

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Some probably use an API of some sort, because SmartTube for Android TV even synchronises your watch history, subscriptions, you login with your google account etc…

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I use AdAway on my rooted phone. Honestly there are plenty of ways to filter ads out on most devices.

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You can disable Chrome, but not uninstall it, because Chrome is what backs the modern WebViews used in all kinds of apps.

You can safely uninstall Chrome over adb shell. There’s a specific webview package that takes care of webview (com.google. android. webview), not Chrome.

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It’s a design system from Google: m3.material.io

Research: The Growing Inequality of Who Gets to Work from Home (hbr.org)

Research: The Growing Inequality of Who Gets to Work from Home::There is a large and growing divide in terms of who gets to work from home. Research on job postings found that remote work is far more common for higher paid roles, for roles that require more experience, for full-time work, and for roles that require more...

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I had to wait a little for the while article to load.

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MiXplorer gang rise up!

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This is official from MiXplorer XDA thread.

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sends requests to websites that can identify you

What requests? I though that only information that the browser gives to website regarding dark theme is that your preferred-color-scheme is now dark.

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I also have a 120hz display and use Fennec and can state that it works smoothly and scrolling feels like 120hz.

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I think you are over exaggerating here. This isn’t just a case for Chrome to first introduce the new features to iOS, but many other cross-platform apps choose to do so. And it doesn’t need to be because nobody cares about Android. Android still has a larger user base especially when it comes to Chrome. But when you develop for iOS you optimize for tens of devices (maybe not even that) and maybe the latest 3 iOS versions, but when you develop for Android you optimize for thousands of devices from different manufacturers, that put different skins on top of Android, where one runs Android 13, the other one Android 11, and the another one Android 9. Hence when releasing a new feature you first put the work to the iOS version, see the user feedback, change and tweak some things and then put the work to make a functional Android version. I am not a professional dev myself by any means, so I can’t really say everything in confidence, but developing for Android probably takes more debugging and time, because of the variability of the environment the app will run in.

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Oh and an android TV version while you’re at it

It could hardly get better than SmartTubeNext.

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AFAIK this is not all. Doesn’t Shizuku allow apps to also execute shell commands with higher privilege?

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Our local Google competitor has an map app and they did add Android auto and Apple carplay support.

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It uses openstreetmap data, except for our country and slovakia, where it uses its own map data. Although it has a some features aimed only at our country it can be used by anyone around the world without problem. In comparison to google maps it’s much more usable for hiking and cycling thanks to it’s less dull map graphic. Since the app is owned by a profit company it requires you to login to be able to use some of the basic features, like saving routes or recorded tracks, which is a pity. I am not really fan of Seznam (company behind it) and their services, but their maps are probably their most useful and well-done usable service. It has a web version too: en.mapy.cz. when it comes to navigation it has no traffic information except in our country. I would say that the navigation is average, but generally works well.

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The video is based in mentioned sources. I don’t see a reason why every video from LTT should be non-credible.

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FOSS! 🤤

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Android 13 and later.

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YouTube has gone far from Material Design long time ago. The thin ugly icons are just one from many of the examples.

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A think that a lot of devs take “themed icons” as a gimmick feature on top and rather focus on app stability and other features, or they just don’t care because they don’t see it as a deal-breaker in any means.

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Even though they might not be for the techies they feel much more transparent than other companies. I don’t think Nothing is even trying to be for the techies. They are just going their own way.

Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates (stackdiary.com)

This affects all browsers and not just Chrome, as the media falsely reported it. Mozilla just rolled out a fix, and Brave is looking into it. This bug is likely related to the “zero-click” iOS 0day that was reported by Citizenlab last week.

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Is this really the fault of the format or the fact that it just isn’t that much well supported?

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For easy fast sharing over local LAN there are services like pairdrop.net which are far from hard to use. It may not be as fast as USB, but in most cases it works well. I just wanted to point out that sharing things over LAN is not that hard.

Even better service is LocalSend.

Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates (www.windowscentral.com)

Microsoft is done supporting the original Surface Duo, three years after it first launched on September 10. The company has stated from the very start that the Surface Duo would receive just three years of OS updates, meaning today is the last day that Microsoft has to stay true to its word....

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Regarding privacy on iOS, I recommend watching [this video] (www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHnBOUNxHsw). You can get more privacy on Android with some tweaking (custom ROMs, AdAway, uninstalling pre-installed bloatware, etc…). There are several ways to get more privacy, some easier than others. I know most people won’t even try. On the other hand, with iOS, you’re handing your privacy over to Apple in good faith, but you have far fewer options to take things into your own hands. People want privacy out of the box, but that often clashes with companies’ interest in making as much money as possible (simply put). Some companies use privacy as a selling point in their marketing campaign, but often it is just false advertising.

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https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/8376fb19-53fd-4d98-bb56-2395f6ad0753.png

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Key mapper is great for remapping keys, but it is not a replacement for an automation app.

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