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Floorp looks nice in theory but in practice it is very outdated…

IIRC their point was that SMS is insecure, so they don’t want people using SMS in Signal to think that this is Signal. With RCS, they could do what Apple will - be interoperable while providing extras with own platform (iMessage).

Admittedly, that doesn’t sound like enough reason to reimplement SMS and RCS alone would still be kind of inconvenient.

Draw a straight line with GIMP.

Pencil tool, point 1, hold shift, point 2. Is it any easier in Photoshop?

Edit: yes, apparently there is a line tool in Photoshop.

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You still have ways to emulate it with software… Especially apps or Android 14 that make your flashlight act as one.

You can see the shape here at least:

From Unbox Therapy at 2:17

But is the QR reusable? If not, you’ll have to somehow prove your identity or existing number ownership to get a new one.

I can understand that part, but not why providing such update timeline would be “excessive” or “crazy”, if there are ways to achieve it.

How does it differ from buying a laptop at this point? The price is the same, the capabilities are similar, the form factor can be the same (Fold or tablets in general).

As long as the hardware can keep up with the software, and the manufacturer keeps building products, why should they ever end support? (a la Windows)

In my experience, several devices don’t display the emoji as a correct icon (instead show the rectangle “tofu”), but they still work with it.

Source: am using an emoji with some normal characters on SSID

Remember that all apps need to target the almost-latest target API at least. That means Android 13 for all new apps and app updates since Aug 31.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/11926878

Unpopular opinion, but phones these days don’t really need more buttons, but less. We have a huge touch screen after all, let’s take better advantage of it!

• “Action button” - Android phones have had a long press of power button be the assistant button since Android 12, just set your “assistant” as whatever action you want (e.g. with Tasker).
• Sleep/wake button - can be the power button for now, but also don’t forget double-tap on the home screen/lock screen/status bar.
• Power off/on - virtual button since Android 12, physical button for turning on. In case of emergency, I guess hold down for longer or do something like triple-tap.
• Volume keys - every video app should use onscreen gestures, same could be applied for music. In other contexts, statusbar or side swiping gesture could suffice, plus a notification shade slider like some OEMs already provide.

Huh, that’s interesting. Then again the US networks differ from the rest of the world anyway.

I would say there is. Many providers are disabling 3G nowadays and 5G is not available for all yet, so your phone essentially uses 2G and 4G. Now, imagine disabling 2G and calling someone on a moving vehicle…

That should mean better software dev (ROMs etc) though? One device to build for, despite the different names.

Wouldn’t using a degraded battery and a constant wired connection already be sufficient for this use case?

A similar idea used to be sold by Samsung.

Outside Chrome, the answer is that the extension support is a very big and fragile (hard to maintain) patch for Chromium.

Here’s a list of browsers with extensions:

• Kiwi and Yandex browser support most Chrome extensions
• Firefox, Mozilla’s Reference Browser and Firefox forks support most Firefox extensions, but you need to make a “collection” if you want more variety than the default list
• Samsung Internet supports some content blockers as app-based extensions
• SmartCookieWeb, Berry Browser, Sleipnir support userscripts
• Many other browsers also have some form of tracker and/or ad blocking

There is definitely market for flip-style foldables as they have the same price and are just more compact (and unique). Tablet-style foldables need more work to get the price down before they become mainstream.