the war on computation
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Yeah, I was using stock pixel launcher forever until the most recent "update" that added yet another button to the search bar that you can't remove, that I used daily, and the button went conveniently right where my right thumb tapped. Switched to Lawnchair, and it's not without issue. Why can't shit that has worked just continue to work the same way?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I also swapped to Lawnchair not that long ago. The only thing I miss so far is the ability to use app shortcuts on the home screen. Like opening YouTube directly to my subscriptions, etc. It also uses black text for the status bar on the home screen making it invisible but that might be user error.
Edit: There's a setting for "Dark Status Bar." I don't know if it was on by default or if I switched it. But now I can see it again.
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I returned my Samsung phone over that button. Haven't touched their shit since.
Fuck that button. At least let me map it to something else!
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Which one
wrote last edited by [email protected]This one: https://joaoapps.com/autonotification/ lots of features, somewhat confusing, but I literally only use it for the auto-dismiss, which works so well the notification doesn't even appear so it's effectively disabled.
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I switched to Linux and it is "too complicated." Imo. There are a lot of compromises you have to make when you switch. I couldn't even get my first couple distros to work because they don't play nice with Nvidia.
I switched to bazzite because it would actually work graphically and I mostly only use steam anyway, but it isn't all rainbows. I feel like I'm always switching Proton versions to get a game to load. I use Proton db, but idk I still have issues. GoG I use heroic and have the same problems. Also, installing software is a pain. It's not that hard to use CLI but I get sick of it when I just want my shit to work with 2 clicks. Ive tried to run windows apps wlbut just gave that up. Also getting used to the folder structure and placements take time.
Plus, I can't seem to Google (or whatever) my problems. The help you get in Linux forums is usually " just switch to insert distro".
I've worked IT jobs for about 10 years so I feel like I have some knowledge, but Linux has stumped me a couple times already. How is an non-tech person supposed to just switch?
I'll never go back to Windows but you can't expect people to leave something that works for something that they have to fumble with to get working.
Bro, Linux has GUI software installers.
Proton is a hack to run Windows game on Linux. Of course it's not dead simple
Non-tech people who don't game would be fine with something like Ubuntu or Mint.
Gaming is complicated because 98% of games are built for windows and then use Proton to try to translate (which is currently just built into Steam and then unofficial launchers like Heroic)
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Hmm... The tech industry looking a little rape-y...
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I hate that my phone is held hostage. My computer is free thanks to linux, it just sucks theres few linux phones that work in the US.
wrote last edited by [email protected]GrapheneOS is at least better than Google android.
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Fuck that button. At least let me map it to something else!
You can. They did an update to the S8 (and others, I assume) that let you remap it. I used some app before that, something from the Google Play Store but it's been way too long to remember the name. Nowadays there isn't a Bixby button anymore for us to remap. They tried to take over the power button with AI now, but thankfully you can remap this back to power as well.
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The worst thing is the past few years android updates brought fuckall exciting new stuff and just more spyware and worse performance .
My recent (unwanted) update changed the lock screen to this weird format where the two-digit hour is above the two-digit minute instead of next to it separated by a colon like normal people use. I keep setting it back to what I want but this weird over/under format keeps coming back. Some fucking douchebag of a UX/UI designer thought this was a genius new way of showing the time and now it's being jammed down my throat.
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Yeah, I was using stock pixel launcher forever until the most recent "update" that added yet another button to the search bar that you can't remove, that I used daily, and the button went conveniently right where my right thumb tapped. Switched to Lawnchair, and it's not without issue. Why can't shit that has worked just continue to work the same way?
Why can’t shit that has worked just continue to work the same way?
Line must go up.
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GrapheneOS is at least better than Google android.
I have a Samsung sadly
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I switched to Linux and it is "too complicated." Imo. There are a lot of compromises you have to make when you switch. I couldn't even get my first couple distros to work because they don't play nice with Nvidia.
I switched to bazzite because it would actually work graphically and I mostly only use steam anyway, but it isn't all rainbows. I feel like I'm always switching Proton versions to get a game to load. I use Proton db, but idk I still have issues. GoG I use heroic and have the same problems. Also, installing software is a pain. It's not that hard to use CLI but I get sick of it when I just want my shit to work with 2 clicks. Ive tried to run windows apps wlbut just gave that up. Also getting used to the folder structure and placements take time.
Plus, I can't seem to Google (or whatever) my problems. The help you get in Linux forums is usually " just switch to insert distro".
I've worked IT jobs for about 10 years so I feel like I have some knowledge, but Linux has stumped me a couple times already. How is an non-tech person supposed to just switch?
I'll never go back to Windows but you can't expect people to leave something that works for something that they have to fumble with to get working.
When using bazzite you can use fedora instead as that's the basis. It should help with hitting more results.
What exactly are you installing through the CLI? They have an app store where you can find ( most? Probably? ) of the stuff you're looking for.
You can use the CLI to find flatpacks and install them. And as a power user, sure why not. But if you're not comfortable with it, why not use the GUI?
What games are you playing that are causing you issues? I don't think I've had any game issues using the latest proton version , but most of the games I've played recently arent very old.
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I've been an IT professional for nearly 30 years and it seems like every new version of Windows they do everything they can to make me feel like an idiot who has never used a computer before. Simple things like turning off the computer isn't intuitive. I only use Windows at work now, my personal computers are all either linux or MacOS... and I just installed linux on my old 2012 Macbook and 'it just (mostly) works'.
Simple things like turning off the computer isn’t intuitive.
Lol like that's even possible in Windows. I can't remember the last version I had where the "Power Off" option actually worked. I still just hold down the physical power button until I hear that click.
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I mean it didn't really change much? The few things it did, like the notification/action panel being separate you can undo
It's more to do with AI integration of certain things, a downgrade in the capture tools, and the utter idiotic change of the grid system so I can no longer center anything. Aesthetically, this is the dumbest update.
Functionally, many of the things I used often have been borked by bullshit AI integration.
I've tried to change and fix and adjust, but there's only so much to be done
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Yep, updated Sunday night after I pushed off the notifications for months. I feel like they punish you for making them do it too, because it turned my alarm off and I was late to work because of it. Funny how my last phone, an S8 never had the issue of me having to unlock my phone to initialize start up after restart.
Did you have encryption enabled? I just upgraded from my s8 3 months ago, if you have the encryption turned on then you need to put in the password after every reboot for it to decrypt the phone. I he that its not 'initializing' and the device encryption is optional and you might not have had it on
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My recent (unwanted) update changed the lock screen to this weird format where the two-digit hour is above the two-digit minute instead of next to it separated by a colon like normal people use. I keep setting it back to what I want but this weird over/under format keeps coming back. Some fucking douchebag of a UX/UI designer thought this was a genius new way of showing the time and now it's being jammed down my throat.
I always keep at least one notification so I don't have to see that stupid format on my lock screen.
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Why can’t shit that has worked just continue to work the same way?
Line must go up.
At the top of the world, we're all just the bottom line.
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GrapheneOS is at least better than Google android.
wrote last edited by [email protected]GOS by all its strenghts, is following the paths treat by Google and Apple on defining what a smartphone has to be and how its security model has to look like, where only the OS distributor has full privileges, and you are just allowed to use it.
If you have the same requirements for your system as the people who designed these phones assumes you have, then GOS is great for you.
But if you want to tinker and customize, like we can with Linux systems, then Android and especially locked down systems like GOS aren't for you.
I am using GOS myself, because it is good, but I also have a separate device of tinkering.
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Did magisk become a lot better at hiding from banking apps? Because people have been saying "it's fine, just install magisk and use the option to hide it" but my experience is "it only works sometimes for some apps, otherwise you're fucked or you will be fucked next time the app updates its countermeasures". But that was a few years ago.
It's an absolute dealbreaker though. Without reliable mobile banking and eID it's very painful to do any kind of online payment or admin work.
No idea, I don't use magisk. I have lineageOS installed and mobile banking set up and never had to do anything funky...
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You know you're on the right track when you click something, and suddenly the Fisher-Price interface goes away and it opens a dialog box that hasn't changed since Windows 2000.
I've been writing software synthesizers for Windows since the Windows 95 era. The low-level audio API for that (sometimes called "waveOutX" and "waveInX" was a pain in the ass to deal with programmatically but once you figured it out it worked very well and totally reliable. I've been continuously amazed (and secretly happy) that for the last 30 fucking years they've just kept bringing that same exact API forward. Even Windows CE/Windows Mobile had that shit in it in the early '00s, which let me get my code working on PDAs and the earliest smartphones. Every attempt Microsoft has made to replace this API has somehow managed to be much more difficult to work with and simultaneously buggy as hell.
I think MS actually used to have some capable engineers (one of them who helped develop the waveOutX API I actually know by name, Larry Osterman) but they all fucked off with their tens of millions of dollars in stock options decades ago and what's left is a disasterclass.
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Did you have encryption enabled? I just upgraded from my s8 3 months ago, if you have the encryption turned on then you need to put in the password after every reboot for it to decrypt the phone. I he that its not 'initializing' and the device encryption is optional and you might not have had it on
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not the guy you're asking but I don't think it's related to encryption. I've had the same thing happen on my S24 with nothing encrypted
Edit: I am wrong, see below
