I know one guy in one of our Telegram chats that simply loves their Android turtle emoji

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The reason I switched from Gboard was because it autocorrected a capital “I” to a small “i”

Asus ZenPhone? Have you been living under a rock these past few months lol

Just wait until Google eventually kills it off lol

IIRC, that is literally just a skinned KDE Connect lol. Probably even just a name change. Never used Zorin, but this is what I remember either DistroTube or Chris Titus saying.

Back in the day, it was a really great way to find new apps. And by back in the day, I mean when it was still called the Android Market.

Its initial transition to Play Store in the ICS era also wasn’t too bad. It still kept a lot of the good things from Android Market. But since the launch of Lollipop, things have really deteriorated. It might not have really been the fault of Google, but there’s a lot more noise with subpar apps that crowd the store now. There’s also the incessant ads for sketchy apps featured prominently that leaves a bad aftertaste in your mouth.

Like you, I’ve probably spent like 30 minutes on the Play Store over the last 4 years probably. Every app I want today is either on F-Droid, or already pre-installed on my phone. Or they’re PWAs, and it’s easy to install them just by going to the website.

Nextcloud News, Nextcloud Notes, Nextcloud, and DAVx5/ICSx5. I also really like FairMail; it’s one of the best email clients I have tried.

The former set of apps allows me to ditch most of Google’s services.

Yes, most definitely! It’s the reason I avoid Android tablets in general. I have a random Android tablet from Lenovo that runs Lollipop and is stock-ish.

Used it for about a year, and now it sits as a paperweight.

There have been very few good affordable Android tablets: both the variants of the Nexus 7, and then the only other one I can recollect is the Amazon Fire Tablet 7, which launched probably sometime in 2015 or 16.

Yes, definitely! I don’t have as much use for a tablet these days, which is an unfortunate thing. My phone is big enough to cover most use cases, and my iPad 2017 is too big to be used comfortably for most things - it’s not ergonomic to hold upright in most conditions, it’s slippery without a folio case (and cases are hard to find unless you get an official Apple one which is very expensive), typing on it is a pain because of how thin it is, and the only saving grace it has in terms of typing is the mini floating swipeable keyboard added to iPad OS in recent years.

I’d definitely love to run something like a Nexus 7 again! Perfect form factor for most things, including media consumption, reading books, and much much more!

I add it through their web interface. I signed up several years ago, but I spent 2020 and 2021 updating OSM for my city to be as good as Google Maps for major places, posting their open and close times, better pin placement and such.

Man, I always wanted a Nexus 7, but it was never easy to get one in my country back then. And then Google officially partnered with Amazon and Flipkart to launch the tablet…right after I’d gotten a new iPad.

So that they can abandon it in short order like they do with their messaging apps

Interesting, I saw some of this UI on my Android TV last week. Unsure if that’s how it’s always been or if they were doing some A/B testing. It was refreshing to use a UI that was intuitive, NGL.

The last phone I tried it on was a Redmi Note 8 back in 2021. I waited for a year using the stock ROM, and finally applied for the bootloader unlock. Got my code fairly quickly (7 days), and unlocking from there was a breeze. I don’t think the process has changed much these days, but yeah, it’s a pain having to go through that to unlock your bootloader.

Man, I loved ICS. I’ve spoken about this before on a post from a few days ago.

Here’s when I used ICS as my main operating system on my computer for over a year

Was that typed from your Galaxy phone from Tapatalk?

Oh man, the LG Optimus One! That was a pretty sick phone. Ran stock FroYo OOTB. Can’t recall if it ever got an update to GB though

Android tablets are just hard to come by in a good configuration. Last time I found decent ones were in 2013: Nexus 7, and before that the Motorola Xoom.

Both had great support for custom ROMs.

There’s also the fact that modern Android has simply gone away from the design philosophy that set android tablets apart in Honeycomb.

Maybe in time. Most Xiaomi devices are pretty custom ROM friendly, so it shouldn’t be a huge problem as such.