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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I don’t agree with most of these comments, except for the swipe down with two fingers. But it still looks like it’s early in development, and it’ll be a while until Android 16. I don’t think they’d make a two finger gesture the only way to access quick settings, especially from an accessibility standpoint. They’ll probably change it.

    Current stock android quick settings suck. So much wasted space. Changing some settings is inconvenient. It looks quite bad, especially the brightness slider. And editing the tiles is currently extremely slow, difficult and janky.

    This change improves the looks. The number of tiles per page is changed from 8 to 12/16. Toggling WiFi or Bluetooth on/off will now take only one tap instead of three. Editing tiles looks smooth and easy.

    This isn’t change for the sake of change, this is a fix for one of Android’s weakest points.










  • you can’t move that account somewhere else.

    That means you can migrate between servers and keep all your friends and followers, something that’s currently not possible in the Fediverse.

    It absolutely is possible to move accounts between instances on the fediverse. I’ve done it multiple times.

    It does have some quirks tho. Posts aren’t migrated to your new account. (Some fedi software lets you migrate posts, but from what I hear it’s kinda jank).

    It’s not seamless, but the option is there, and you won’t lose any friends or followers (unless they’re defederated or something)

    Bluesky accounts seem like they’ll be more portable than fediverse accounts but I don’t know much about it





  • There are ads on the app store, which I’d consider to be part of the “primary operating system”, especially since it’s the only way to install apps.

    Not to mention constant ads for icloud. In the photos app, and even notifications from the settings app. (It’s possible to turn these off, but not easy or intuitive).

    After switching to Android, I haven’t seen a single ad in the operating system, (I think Play Store does have ads, I just haven’t got any for some reason). The closest thing is Google photos sometimes asking me to turn on backup.





  • See what? Posts from threads? Depends on your instance and how you browse.

    Lemmy has no microblogging features so you won’t be seeing any (unless they’re specifically posting to Lemmy)

    Kbin I’m not too sure since there are microblogging features but idk how they work.

    Mastodon; you will see posts from threads users if you follow them, or if someone you follow boosts a post from them.
    If you browse by the explore/posts tab, you might see some threads posts. Also from the ‘All’/federated tab.
    You’ll be able to block threads for your account, or choose an instance that’s defederated.