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For things that you’re using by yourself, sure, it’s doable. However, for content creation, it’s pretty hard. Some of those alternatives just don’t have the critical mass yet. Maybe it would be an option to do both in parallel for some time before switching completely, but might not work for everybody.

Practical example: I’m a hobbyist photographer. Small timer, less than 1000 followers. My livelihood doesn’t depend on this, but I’m still serious about it. I mainly do concerts and sport events (so a lot of things involving other people) and my main outlets are Facebook and Instagram. Switching to something else would mean either 1) that no one will see my work or 2) that people will see my photos on the alternative place, they’ll copy them over and they’ll still end up on Facebook and Instagram, but this time without my creative control (thus badly cropped and recompressed several times - so even if I pay special attention to those things when publishing by myself, the effort goes down the drain when someone else does it).

Developers developers developers developers

If software was your kid.

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Medicine. I just don’t see myself being responsible for the health and lives of other people - but I’m grateful to the people who practice that.

Off the top of my head:

• complex gestures (tap + swipe, two finger swipe/rotate)
• frequent/recent/new apps in app search
• app drawer tabs
• icon customisation for folders
• creating home screen shortcuts for activities (or if that’s possible, I couldn’t find it).

Of course this shouldn’t sound as a blame - I know Lawnchair is relatively young - those are a bit more advanced features that I grew used to over more than 10 years with Nova. When I manage to get a development environment running and some knowledge about Android, those are some of the first things I’d try to implement in Lawnchair.

I’ve tried it, but it’s missing some things I’m used to - both functionally and visually.

I was gonna suggest “just launch cmd directly”, but then remembered that this usualy just launches Terminal if it’s installed.

Dang… I saw this a while ago, but thanks to this post I looked again and it turned out that mine had automatically updated to the new version on Play Store. Went ahead and uninstalled it and then installed the latest Beta from before, and I was lucky that my email license still worked - don’t know for how long though (not sure if the check is hardcoded in some way or if it makes an API call).

It’s had a great run, but it’s just sad that it has to end like this. Would’ve been spectacular if it was open-sourced as promised.

I started looking into alternatives and it seems like no other launcher is quite there yet, but Lawnchair looks promising for my use. The whole situation started looking like the appropriate time to learn some Android development; a while ago I was thinking of forking the AOSP launcher and trying to implement some stuff by myself, but now it seems like contributing to Lawnchair would be a better idea.

Bit late to the party…

Opera had this 20+ years ago. Once you get used to it, there’s no going back.

Firefox too.

Would’ve been perfect if they were switched.

Glad I bought a bunch of 20 TB ones some months back. I’m good for a few years.

Well… it depends on the language too - although I’m not a native English speaker, I would use 12-hour in spoken English too (like I would in my native Bulgarian) - often without even appending “AM” or “PM” because it would be obvious from the context.

Yeah, we get it, Bezos. You want us to shove more and more money down your throat.

Reading the article, the analogy with an own generator and the power grid kind of makes sense at first… until you also make an analogy with broadcast and cable TV for example - you don’t get to choose what’s on, and in the latter case you’re practically paying for ads and some programming in between. So… how about no.

My fear is that those shortages (artificial or not) might at one point really drive us in a different direction. My only option for now is to vote with my wallet and use my stuff for as long as practically feasible.

EU fella here. I’m strongly pro-Metric and yet don’t see a problem with 12-hour time. 24-hour is kind of clumsy to use in informal speech or chat/text, but I would use it in all other instances.

That’s kind of like the practice of hiring someone and putting them on the bench just so that they don’t go work for a competitor. It’s just sad.

Context is everything.

“When are you guys coming over?”

“We were thinking 20th, but I couldn’t get off work then, so 21st it is.”

If you’re in that conversation, you’d be perfectly clear of what’s up. Imagine having to append “of December” to both dates (or also the year for that matter).

If it’s something more than a year ahead, then sure, I’ll include the month and the year - but that’s still going from most specific to least specific (i.e. day, month, year).

Depends on the language honestly. In my native language (that’s not English) it sounds somewhat clumsy with the zero in front, but it’s still sometimes used. Depending on the context it might be a simple number (zero two) or it might be an ordinal (zero second). From 2010 and on it’s been easier because you just say the equivalent of “tenth”, “eleventh” and so on.

In writing it also depends on the context - if it’s something ambiguous (that could be 1925 or 2025), then sure, write the full year, otherwise two digits are fine.

So they don’t have the resources to check returned goods or what? Or they simply don’t care enough?