If people can function only with a phone, there’s a LOT they aren’t doing.

I use my phone constantly, but trying to get even a rooted Android phone to replace my PC’s? Yea, no.

I’m not doing spreadsheet stuff only on my phone, or documents, or page layout, etc.

That younger folks are heavily mobile centric is a result of pressure by Google/MS, etc to get them used to it. When they’re used to the limitations of mobile it’ll be easier to limit PCs in the same ways.

And business, yea, no, mobile isn’t replacing computers. They’re great adjuncts, but even my laptop screen is sometimes too small - and I’m not someone that needs a large screen although time.

App switcher is a component of the native launcher, so not really going to be able to change it anymore (since about Android 11 or 12) - God knows I’ve tried, because I used a different app switcher for years.

If you just need to close all apps (not sure why, Android is much better about memory management now, and I say this as someone who abuses a phone), just create a shortcut with Tasker/Macrodroid/3C Toolbox, etc

Macrodroid has a drawer it can open from a side swioe, and Jina App Drawer has something similar. I use both, and have some shortcuts there for things.

Bold move, Cotton!

(Not really, Lineage updates are the most seamless I’ve ever seen).

Uggh, feel bad for them.

I’ve tried for years to get friends and family to have their data sit in a single point in the house and use backup services. That would be a massive improvement.

Family won’t listen, so I’m building minicomputers for them all that will handle it. Just have to configure their devices to store data there.

I don’t do upgrades (well, not in the sense most people think of them).

My approach is that upgrades are too risky, things always break. It’s also why I don’t permit auto updates on anything. I’d rather do manual updates than dedicated time. Keeping things working is more important, and I have backups.

I run everything virtualized (as much as I can), so I can test upgrades by cloning a system and upgrading the clone. If that fails, I simply build a new system based on some templates I keep. Run in parallel, copy config and data as best I can, then migrate. Just migrated my Jellyfin setup this way.

This is a common methodology in enterprise, which virtualization makes a lot easier for us self hosters.

I haven’t had a disruption from updates/upgrades in 5 years.

I don’t know how private/secure it really is, but Teleguard doesn’t require a phone number.

I’d really like to see some research into them, though, to know how good/bad it is.

I don’t know where to even start.

Alternative: XMPP has been around for 25+ years, can be self-hosted, there’s numerous solutions available.

And neither would Proton…

It’s Baileys - I used to drink it in my coffee in the morning in regular days. There’s almost no alcohol to it.

They do?

Seems an odd take considering the videogame market is so massive.

Wonder who’s buying all those games?

I’d you’re in a hurry measuring BP, it’s not going to be a good measure. Just a thought

Technically no, not instant, but very close if you setup a sync job to be more sensitive.

The desktop client (Linux/Windows) has a lot more flexibility with scanning. Not much you can set in the Android client, even with ST-Fork.

For anything I absolutely need to be on my phone, I permit it to sync over cell, like a password DB. Plus that’s tiny. Like any photos I take sync instantly - it’s worth the data cost from a backup perspective. But local backups by Neodroid only sync on WiFi and when charging.

Fortunately ST-Fork lets you set this in the individual folders.

Mouse over for anything needs to die.

This is nothing new.

Work emails need to be short and to the point. I know, it sucks when you have something complex, but people prefer to talk. So email needs to be more of a record of high points of conversation, or a quick verification of something.

If you choose to read literate writing as passive aggressive, well then you can fuck right off.

And that would be my response to anyone behaving this way toward me. It’s wholly a you problem.

Good afternoon.

You first.

YOU made the initial claim about this “new” meaning, onus is therefore on you to substantiate it.

For my defense, I’ll start with Elements of Style, the OECD, and any other English dictionary or grammar book.

Because if you really want to play “who has the best evidence for their case”, you’re gonna lose to several hundred years, and millions billions of written documents.

They didn’t make Publisher, it had been around for a few years before they acquired it.

At the time (early 90’s), DTP was growing, fast. Publisher was stupid cheap compared to Aldus and Quark and could do all the day-to-day stuff for a fraction of the cost (and faster).

I was using all 3 at the time, and my go-to was Publisher as it was easier, and way faster on the hardware then.

I’d use PageMaker for multi-page, ongoing docs, but a single page? Publisher.

MS acquired Pub around 1995. (They’d deny it, like they do with OneNote, but I was using Pub before they owned it).

(area code) 867-5309

Nice bigotry, only “minorities” door dash?

The racism is in your head

Syncthing or Resilio Sync for regular, instant, no-fuss between devices you control.

I use Syncthing-Fork in my phone (has more flexible sybc conditions) to keep specific folders in sync.

I use Resilio Sync on my file server just for the Selective Sync feature, which enables me to easily grab any file from the server from anywhere.

As I recall, 8 inch store no more data than 5.25