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.

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?

Hey now that's not fair, they also made the ui huge so it looks like a fisher price toy! No you can't turn it off why would you want that??

The recent OneUI update on my Galaxy is shit. Performance and functionality overall are worse than before. Smdh

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Same with WhatsApp for me, there are new terms and conditions that allow engagement with businesses and sharing some personal data with them, I've been rejecting that shit for four years now, they still keep asking.

My Samsung forced update and installed bloatware. I'm looking forward to going back and getting a clamshell phone from to the 2000's

I do the same. I'm close to just delete my samsung account because I don't really need and/or use it.

I use an app specifically designed to automatically dismiss notifications and I use it to dismiss this Samsung one you mentioned and the voice mail notification, which for some ridiculous reason can't be disabled.

btw you might be able to block notifications from that app with long clicking

At some point it annoys me so much I just hit accept. It's probably nothing anyway.

I legit got this notification on my phone while reading this comment. I do the same and will continue to do the same.

It was sort of a big deal. The forbes malware injection attack by ads was ten years ago. It still ranks as one of the most hilarious 'poetic irony' bits in computer security. I'm sure ads were doing other insidious shit in 2010 that just went unnoticed because it didn't hit security researchers.

Praying for some stronger ROM support for foldables. As soon as ATT lets my phone go free (2 year contract) installing one would be the first thing I do, except my phone is a Razr Ultra 2025 and I can't even find much for the Z flip let alone the razrs.

For now though mullvad stays on with dns blocking and I just keep to Fdroid and Aurora store if needed, not sure what else I can do

wasn't there also some concern about messing up the radio communication for a lot of users?

the idea was that you actually can't mess with radio communications. if you send too much data, it kinda clogs the airspace of radio frequencies and that' actually illegal to do in many countries. rooting the android phone lets you access the radio antenna directly, and you can't let playful nerds mess up the city's mobile internet for a million inhabitants every other day. especially since the source of interference would be hard to track down.

Now i wonder what that would mean for mobile internet usb peripherals that you can plug into linux laptop and desktop machines. how do they solve this issue?

Which is our right. I paid for the phone. Google, Samsung, and Apple aren’t fucking paying me.

I am reading this with a rooted LineageOS phone with MicroG installed.

Canonical tried years ago and just didn’t get the funding they needed to release an Ubuntu phone. It would have been a dreamy device, especially in today’s tech market.

I can't wait until a PinePhone comes out that I actually want.

Graphene OS is a privacy focused OS that runs on Pixel phones.

Its not as seamless as native Google Android but it's still production worthy and works well enough for me

Sailfish OS existst, but it is far from beeing nice. Look out for Jolla OS too