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They call me from my own number? How does that work out?

Sadly WhatsApp isn’t skippable where I live but thankfully Meta takes cautious approach enshittifiying it.

Yay we don’t have to work anymore! Good news right? Right?!

/s

Thanks man, will try these out.

Mint was everywhere when I searched beginner linux distros. I tried Manjaro because my friend had it running and likes it a lot and we thought we can recreate issues and find solutions together if we are on same distro.

The thing with windows is that you have gui for everything and can find video solutions on YT easily which often work.

With Linux, you can’t get those as the user base is split in many different distros, DEs etc and much of the stuff you do is in terminal. Most of the time whenever I faced an issue, I would try to fix it with a solution I find which it would require another application and running that application causes another issue. I had this many times and only rarely fixed the issues I faced.

I had issues with starting with display colour calibration, speaker sound and any application that isn’t Linux native even if I got it from the Package Manager/Appcenter.

Last time I tried as trivial as changing a theme on linux, it broke my taskbar(idk what you call it in linux) and wouldn’t respond at all. I looked for solutions online and couldn’t find the solution as the forum threads keep closing before they arrive on a fix.

So I tried to fix it myself and changed to another theme. This theme doesn’t have the same issue but somehow it breaks the only game I play which used to run just fine before.

And that’s the last nail in the coffin for linux for me.

Brb ordering a big mac

Is there anyway to permanently stop windows from updating? I tried few methods off YT but updates do not stop.

(No, don’t recommend me Linux. I have tried it(Mint and Manjaro) and it is way out of my skillset)

TIL it’s CoRning not CoMing.

Haven’t been using Google search in a long while and shifted completely to DDG. For me DDG gave straightforward and accurate results. If people want Google results they can try SearXng too. There’s Brave search as well.

You make a fair point but it’s not all doom and gloom. Custom ROMs are a great to way to boost an old phone and run it a bit longer. Your use cases are definitely not mine hence I had a great experience using custom ROMs for the past 4yrs. Agree on it being a time taking process.

Damn I thought we would have more easier unofficial methods to unlock bootloader.

This is horrible because Xiaomi devices have a great scene in custom ROM community.

Is this a good news or a bad news?

Lol same thought. I just got a new phone which came with Android 14 and I’m not updating this device.

Afaik new feature in android 15

Edit: Nvm, just read the article, apparently a feature in latest OneUI. So unless you use Samsung you wouldn’t know it. That aside, with android 15 you will get some sort of “feature” which discourages sideloading.

Whaaaaat

I tried so hard to stick to Florisboard but gboard is waaay too convenient that I keep going back to it. I wish Florisboard at least adds feature to search among emojis.

This is Pixel launcher feature. Exclusive to Pixels but also gettable via custom ROMs. I love this feature but Pixel Launcher doesn’t have good customisation features and hence I have ditched it.

Yes. They’re just better on a budget device like mine.