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Managed to reduce my 7 #Android home screens down to 5 by putting less-frequently used icons into a few folders, but still keeping the important ones out on their own for that sweet #SpatialComputing.

What would be perfect would be a #launcher that lets you name the home screens and jump between them quickly, rather than having to flick between them one-by-one (and having to remember how many screens there are between screen X and Y)

Got a ~AUD$100 #Android #TVBox from China.
The Google #Launcher/start screen it arrived with was ghastly.
#PlayStore is pretty much un-usable.
Effectively no search for apps.
Would not let Firefox install.
Didn't like scrolling down. 💩

Installed #Aptoide (EDIT: ❌❌❌❌️) from their website.
Installed #Projectivity launcher from Aptoide. And Firefox. (And Kodi but that looks like a lot of work to get set up. What is a PVR anyway?)

And #NewPipe from GitHub. And VLC. And #SBSOnDemand.

Usable now.

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@tron yes, and in essence all it needs is to be a more convenient version if @tails_live / @tails / #Tails with like @nextcloud / #Nextcloud integration for seamless sync (with like an encrypted /home for caching and convenience...

Maybe add #Dayon as convenient #RemoteDesktop solution and a basic #AutoUpdater (& Terminal) to it.

I think the #LightPhone3 is better than a shitty "#ProducedEwaste" #Android 8.1 brick from China but I don't consider it worth the premium asked [U$D 799 MSRP, U$D 599 preorder] for it.

I think people can get a better experience buying a #degoogled #Fairphone with #eOS and just put #RelaunchX as an #eInk-optimized #launcher on it and have a better option.

  • But I guess given #ForProfitHealthcare in the #USA is expensive I can see why a lot of people would rather buy such a device and sell their old one than seek therapy if they are susceptible to shitty patterns that #developers harness to maximize #screentime and #revenue.

Can't have #doomscrolling or #microtransactions if it doesn't support #NSAbook's #apps or shitty #PayToLoose #games...

What I do have to say is that #MKBHD acknowledges that he isn't the target audience and "that's fine"...

  • I just think that requiring people to sign up to some account just to be able to add/remove #Apps is a major #nope in my book.

I stayed off #GooglePlay for longer than it's being called like that and their "#lightOS" is most likely some tightly locked-down Android...

  • It's just an insultingly high pricetag for < $200 internals and the best feature they have isn't even the phone but offering a "no frills" plan which seems okay (by #USA standards!) but still...

I think people would be more accepting if it was a $299 or even $399 device, but at a price of a @monocles #phone whilst being way less versatile it's just not worth it.

  • Cuz it's not even a super "secure" device or offers something like a "concierge service" where the device price is artifically high to filter out average #WageWorkers without much disposable income...

I tried a couple of replacement app launchers on my #Android phone, like #Fossify #Launcher fossify.org from F-Droid.

But I have a problem: a few times a day, the home screen will freeze up! I have to force stop the launcher app to get it working again (which is tricky because I can't use the launcher to do it).

Doesn't happen with the stock Pixel Launcher, only third-party launchers.

Anybody got any ideas how to fix this?

www.fossify.orgFossifyAstro description

My youngest has now upgraded to their first full pc. This means they are now leaning in hard to the #minecraft #mod community, going so far to spend their pocket money on getting a copy of the java game! We have found the #prism #launcher which seems to integrate the popular modding sites quite well although I'm having to learn about the concept of mod loaders. What i don't know is how well #sandboxed these mods are. Can they access the wider system or are they limited to certain #APIs? #lazyweb

One other thing I've recently done is install github.com/nhirokinet/blueline as my #android #launcher, and I'm so far very happy with it. It's #foss, it's much faster (for me) than an icon based interface, and most importantly, no distractions, so I don't end up doing everything other than the thing I actually picked my phone up to do.

GitHubGitHub - nhirokinet/bluelineconsole: Blue Line Console, keyboard based launcher for AndroidBlue Line Console, keyboard based launcher for Android - nhirokinet/bluelineconsole