Interesting, so it seems to depend on how accessible the manufacturer makes their camera api?

Does that make sense? I don’t know much about how this all works, to be honest

Oh, that sounds annoying. If it’s any consolation, there’s clip-on macro lenses for closer focus that can be had for just a few bucks.

Speaking from experience, you can produce some really cool shots with those, if there isn’t any other solution for that problem.

Ohhh, okay. Gotta say, wouldn’t have surprised me though.

auto-focus on the macro lens just doesn’t work (making that one useless)

So you basically have a fixed focus distance, or is it all over the place because the auto-focus freaks out?

Oh wow, so it’s even worse than I thought. It works on my one+ 5t, but maybe because I’m running DivestOS? Or one+ has just closed down the camera api on newer models

Yeah, the only alternative I know of would be Gcam with unnecessary permissions removed.

Other than that, the LineageOS default cam can use all the lenses, but doesn’t have any useful manual settings.

OpenCamera is pretty damn good, offering pretty much all the manual settings you could want.

There is only one downside to it:
As far as I know, it can only use the phones (back and front) main camera lens. So if your phone has extra lenses for tele, night mode or whatever, OpenCamera can’t do anything with them.

At least from my experience.

I remember seeing your original post.

Now, how about one step further:
How in heavens can you make Thunar show embedded thumbnails instead of auto-generated ones?

Well damn, federation took its sweet time to show me your reply

never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with

I highly enjoy using EndeavourOS. But then again, I wouldn’t classify it as a spinoff, it’s pretty much vanilla Arch, but purple.

Now Manjaro on the other hand… Tried it and understood why so many people don’t like it within the first week.

I didn’t know that, this is super cool!

And brings the most recent version of something to any system. I’m astounded sometimes by how much a native package can lag behind

The saying still has a very negative connotation, that’s all I’m saying

That statement just makes all of FOSS sound bad, and then people have even less of an idea what alternatives they could be using

But when the time comes and the kid needs to write some assignments for school, you can be like Your Steam Deck can do that too, have a look at what this dock does

Imagine if handheld gaming is all they’ve ever used it and known it for, and all of a sudden you show them than it can be a full desktop experience, too

My mind would’ve been blown back when I was a kid

I was going to say Siege, but they removed the ability to play as a team of exclusively shield recruits, I’ve heard.

True, I always forget that exists

It does uninstall them completely.

However, the installation files are still there for the system to use. A factory reset for example wouldn’t work the way it’s intended to otherwise.

Though I don’t know about how updates behave in that instance, so that sounds annoying if it’s like this.

I guess I’ll file this under only proceed if you know what you’re doing

I removed a package that was needed for the sim card to function once. Didn’t remember what that package was, because I just went to town without documenting what packages I uninstalled.

That’s a learning experience right there

If not buying a phone that comes with these preinstalled wasn’t the first option you picked, then ADB is your friend.

• Install Android Platform Tools on your PC
• Enable USB debugging in Androids’ developer options
• Connect phone to PC via USB
• Open terminal, type adb devices
• Authorize the connection from your phone
• Type adb shell, and now you can wreak havoc on your phone

so only continue if you know what the hell you’re doing

To uninstall an app, type
pm uninstall --user 0 *package name*

For example,
pm uninstall --user 0 com.facebook.services

Should you uninstall something by accident, you can reinstall by using
cmd package install-existing *package name*

I think it’s enabled by default, but you can also just disable it for specific apps.

But if you leave it enabled and permissions get revoked after a while, you’ll get a notification telling you about it. I think that’s fair.

There’s always going to be a debate on whether something like this should be opt-in or opt-out, but for the purpose of privacy and data security, it makes sense to be on by default, I reckon.