Developers need to make money. If app development is not sustainable they will stop developing apps.

Accubattery atleast offers onetime payment option.

Where? Can you share that issue?

Personally, I want them segregated. I answer help posts when I have the power to do so. But, I skip when I don’t want to. Seeing them when I don’t want to would be an energy drain.

Someone mentioned they can be filtered. But, I do not see tags or an easy way to do so. I use Sync for Lemmy and Voyager.

Phone news and discussions about android and its ecosystem are the only reason I’m here.

Rumours are also a part of that. But, unless you can quantify true and false rumours. They are a part of news. But, I get what you are saying. You can share news, reviews, new features, etc and upvote those when someone posts them in this community.

Voyager and Jerboa are a safe bet if you want compatibility and stable features. Bonus points for being Foss clients.

That’s a dumb reason. Why don’t we go for usb 1.1 so proles understand their place better?

USB 1.1 is not made anymore. USB 2.0 has always been the minimum standard. USB 3.1 is considered a premium feature. The last time I had to transfer data was a year ago when I was setting new phone. Even then it could’ve been done wirelessly. Its not a necessary feature like a good camera, battery so its always ignored.

Same with wireless charging. Although some manufacturers(Motorola) may include it in their midrange phones.

I know that usb type-c is a connector.

Sorry, I was surprised you asked this question. Manufacturers have been omitting USB 3.0 from midrange and sometimes even flagship smartphones since ages ago. This has always been the case. Surprised you didn’t notice this sooner.

usb 2

But why?

Because its a midrange smartphone. If you need USB 3.0 or USB 3.1 you need to buy a flagship smartphone.

Note: USB version 2 and 3 correspond to data transfer speeds. The USB is still type C if that was the reason for confusion.

Ok, thanks for the info. HMD should add this info it its product page.

It does not according to GSMArena

Everything is accurate except the headphone jack part. I checked GSMArena for info.

You can use localsend to securely send data back and forth. There’s also KDE Connect which you can use.

That’s the hard part. You can only unlock the bootloader once per year per user.

https://www.androidpolice.com/xiaomi-bootloader-unlock-restricted-to-one-device-per-user-year/

A scummy move by Xiaomi. Even with google and SOC manufacturers making it easier to update devices. We have Manufacturers pulling this move.

Parental control software like Adguard or Adguard DNS family protection, filter out NSFW content like this website. A website doesn’t even need to do a thing for it to work.

If I have learned anything about safety features. They probably do.

Yeah, this change (scoped storage) is annoying. You need adb, root or system level apps to bypass the requirement. File access is also slow. That’s the reason image loading and image deletion is slow in Google Photos app compared to the native gallery app of my smartphone.

Anyway, the trend is clear. More security for the end user. You can root, flash a custom rom, or use a linux based smartphone if you do not like the restrictions. It’s more friction but that’s not going to change for the better.

Yeah, the author and people are fussing over without reason. Regular users do not understand the implication of sideloading apps. I have had people get their telegram/whatsapp hacked because someone sent them a malicious link and they sent their login credentials to that website/app.

Restricting sensitive permissions will mean such people are better protected from such mistakes. Advanced users can still bypass the requirements even though it may be slightly complicated.

You can use Google Lens or Circle To Search to select text on other Smartphones.

You can use this app to trigger circle to search: https://github.com/parallelcc/MiCTS

In colorOS smartphones you have the old fullscreen google lens function which can be accessed from the Smart Sidebar.