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I have disabled colors on my phone (it's an accessibility feature you can turn on easily), and it's become so boring to use. I didn't realize how much colors entice users to use various apps more. Now using my phone feels more intentional, so I don't waste my time on it as much.

Looking forward to improved desktop mode on Android 16 :ablobcatbongo:

Samsung DeX has helped maximize productivity on phones, foldables and tablets for years. In Android 16, we worked closely with Samsung to develop desktop windowing, a new way to interact with your apps and content on large-screen devices. In addition to the single app and split-screen modes, you can open, move and resize multiple app windows in a single screen, just like a desktop. This makes it easier to work across apps.

This is what I'm most curiously looking forward to on :androidalt: 16 (and One UI 8 on :samsung: devices :samsungcommunity:

Over the years many :android: features came from device manufacturers (one of the most notable - detailed permissions model), so perhaps this is finally the time a fully-featured desktop experience will land onto Android core and become mandatory to be supported by app vendors :blobcat3c:

Google · Android 16 is hereBy Seang Chau

My not quite 4 year old Pixel 5 wants to die, indicating it by falling into an infinite bootloop. Luckily, it wasn't quite infinite, and it managed to boot after all. But that means I'm on the market for a new #Android phone, unfortunately.

What people use these days? My choice of Pixel was mostly due to the least amount of crapware and tasteless custom launchers I'd find in Samsungs et al. Has anything changed by now?

Also, small size and without "AI"? Am I wanting too much?

I genuinely cannot understand how, with 8GB of RAM, #android is "unable" to keep more than one app open at a time. It takes several seconds to *press the circle button and go to my launcher app* because it completely evicted it as soon as I opened anything else. What a trash operating system.

Ugh you guys! The more I compare iOS with Android, particularly with Braille, the more I wish Android was like iOS. For example, the notification center. On my Android phone, TalkBack focus doesn't land on the time, or the first notification, but on the QR scanner.

When you open the Braille keyboard in Braille Display mode for the first time, sometimes you find that you can't type into the edit field because somehow the Braille Display message covers the text field, or something. So you have to switch keyboards a few times and hope it works the first time, or the second time.

And the most annoying thing, if you open All Apps and search for an app in OnePlus' SystemUI, and press Enter on an app to open it, well nothing happens.

I know I can use NovaLauncher, but that would require me moving my apps into place again, and the other two are pretty annoying. Android, as of now, just is not made for Braille users yet. It presupposes that a TalkBack user can touch any part of the screen instead of having to swipe and swipe and swipe. And as usual, a lot of people on the Blind Android Users group, and thus a lot on the talkback Trusted Testers team, are all like "well then explore by touch instead of swiping." But at least TalkBack supports Braille at all now, especially for HID Braille displays. I just have to be patient. But it's hard when something else already does it better. in many cases.

#Braille #blind #android #OnePlus #Google TalkBack #accessibility #google

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Now some folks may say: "Why don't you just get a regular-ass #AUI like a #NormalPerson?"

1. Simply because noone but the most tech-masochistic folks want to deal with like #coax cables, #VampireTaps, huge #MAUI boxes and rare vintage stuff + overhead to get a slow & underwhelming network experience. Pretty shure neither @ncommander nor @TechTangents would either.

2. The few late-era #10BaseT-based AUIs do exist but they are long out of production and thus quite expensive. And if you are on #10Base2 or even #10Base5 good luck finding a still working #switch that isn't sold by a #scalper like #ersazza way above #MSRP+#inflation!

3 An AUI is just an Interface port / media converter similar to #SFP & GBIC and necessitates a NIC already inside the machine.

4. AUIs are not just long outdated but also way more inflexible, whereas basically anything from an #Apple2 up to the latest #Android-#Tablet can be adapted cheaply to do #RS232 #serial and send AT commands to a #Modem.

5. Twisted-Pair Ethernet is cheap, commonplace and still supported and pretty much forwards- and backwards compatible. 10BaseT will run on Cat.3 but also on Cat.5 and even Cat.8 cables (In case one wants to hookup a vintage computer on a 40GBase-T port for no reason but to see if the switch does negotiate proper 10Base-T.

6. Because it's useful...

7. as said before: AUI port would be nice to have but not necessary...

8. it would allow Network access similar to #dialup abeit without the need for existing #PSTN infrastructure like @c3isdn has...

Does anyone have some working download links for an "up to date" #Android #customrom for #Samsung Galaxy 4 Mini VE GT-9195I serranovelte? (note the 2nd i)

#fedihelp

Edit: found lineage-21.0-20240302-UNOFFICIAL-serranovelte.zip and recovery-twrp-3.0.2-0-serranoveltexx.tar

They work even if twrp warns about no OS being flashed and its a pain to get into twrp (tried it like 20 times and every time twrp gets wiped and I have to flash it via Odin again...)