Stop forcing updates on the lower level stuff that forces people to spend billions on maintaining code. This way, we could return to a world where you can just buy software and use it for years without some update borking it.
Also outlawing financially motivated (i.e. greedy) retroactive ToS changes.
You probably mean the 13700H, but yeah. I wonder if there’s a way to separate the P and E cores in the graph.
The unfortunate consequence of this is that old working apps need compatibility updates.
Interesting. I’m guessing the changes were too big to just be added incrementally in updates to GTK 3?
Thank you for the explanation! What specifically does Qt 6 do that Qt 5 can’t do?
I’m not the most knowledgeable on this subject, but I’m curious to learn more.
Why do various toolkits have major releases that seem to reset the features of the last one?
GTK 3 seems like GTK 2 but slower to me, and before the transition was even complete GTK 4 showed up, which just seems like GTK 3 but a bit different. Qt 5 works really well and is efficient on resources, so why are we switching to Qt 6? It seems like reinventing the desktop over and over again.
I understand updates for the kernel for compatibility, small to medium updates to all software for bug fixes and new features, and major updates to toolkits when there are big problems with the current release (X vs Wayland for example). Or if the current release was unreliable and bloated, which I heard was what happened with Qt 4 and why they switched to 5. But I also heard Qt 3 was really stable and lightweight, so why did they switch away from it?
Over-ear for me (both for wired and wireless). In-ear devices will fall off my ears every 5 minutes.
For a specific recommendation, I’d recommend the Monoprice BT600-ANC. It has really good ANC for just $100-$150, good battery life, and the sound quality of it is on par with my $70 wired headphones. You can also use it with a wire (albeit without ANC) if the battery dies.
I currently use Monoprice BT-600ANC headphones. They’re not too expensive and the ANC punches way above its price class, can be used with a wire if you want, have great battery life, and most importantly don’t require an app.
My demands in Cities Skylines 2 is just endless low density sprawl. My citizens don’t want anything else despite them whining over high rent while the low rent zoning stays empty. How do you have actual demands for larger buildings?
They still allow sideloading through F droid and the like, as long as the app is specifically made for a newer Android version. There is a prompt to confirm (as with the Google Play Store), but this is good because it makes the user aware that they are installing an app.
In my opinion, no. At least not under the reins of Google.
Android 11 added scoped storage, severely limiting file access from apps, although app developers have found ways to work with it.
Android 12 did a lot of UI redesigning, including the horrible Internet toggle and it just seemed like there is way too much whitespace.
Android 13 did something right: Made you confirm if you want notifications from apps. IDK why it took this long for such a basic feature even iOS had for forever.
Android 14… Nothing really useful, but they are limiting sideloading of old apps that tend to be super efficient on storage, memory, and CPU. It’s a defeat in the ongoing war between Google and sideloading. They also are trying to force the volume down when it’s too high for too long, even when it’s paired with a Bluetooth device at low volume, another braindead move with possibly good intentions but terrible execution.
With other OEMs (Samsung, BBK, Xiaomi, etc), they still sometimes add useful stuff, but I have a Motorola, so I don’t have much of an opinion on the extra stuff.
Google is saving their actually innovative and useful features for the Pixel line of phones. Many of these features are really software that Google arbitrarily locks to the Pixel.
And many of the Google stuff has just been getting worse and worse, they’ve been getting more and more pushy on me when I do something they don’t like (disable location, for example). Google likes the idea of trying to make Android more like iOS and restrict user freedom. This is why Android market share is declining in the US: If you want iOS, buy an iPhone.
FX File manager. Super fast even on weak hardware, customizable, and feature rich, with virtually no bugs. It’s not only the best file manager I’ve found on Android, it’s the best file manager I’ve found on any platform.
This looks like it could become a meme song
Lawful neutral for me.
Explanation for the downvoters: The double up arrow is the symbol for tetration.
This is a good feature if and only if there is an official way to turn it off. I do like that it might actually give you info on how loud it is, although I’m not sure how well that’ll work. This can’t possibly work as intended on all sound outputs, as some get much louder than others.
I have the 2022 version of this phone, and it’s great value for money in the USA. Adequate performance, lots of internal storage, headphone jack, MicroSD slot, and good battery life. I didn’t buy it for the (crappy) stylus, I bought it for the good value for money.
The 2023 version most notably updates the SoC from SD695 to SD6g1, which is about 15-20% faster and more efficient. It also adds stereo speakers, which is nice. It seems like everything else is only a marginal change or the same from last year.
I get this feeling, but with iOS. Oh, I want to save a picture I found on the internet and message it. It’s incredibly unintuitive to me and I feel like a grandma, even though on any other platform it would be easy.
Kdenlive (my video editor, already donate them $40/yr)
Krita (image editing program I occasionally use)
Linux Lite (my first distro)
Lemmy (obvious)
uBlock origin (obvious)
Internet archive (to preserve what we had)
EFF (to fight against corporations trying to bend the laws in their favor)
Some Apps I’ve used from F-droid
Small security updates when necessary would be fine, but all the time I just see software (especially with the web) be like, we’re deprecating these features (that millions of websites use).