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Using apps for free. I use the app "1 second everyday" quite extensively. My friend tried it out on iPhone and lo and behold, a lot of the free features I take for granted on Android are paid features on iOS. What a strange result of the different perception of willingness to spend on the two platforms. (Or perhaps it's the result of having a more open app platform?)
This may be posted already, but I love that wherever I put my finger in a wall of text, the cursor goes there. I don’t have to press and hold, the cursor doesn’t jump to the start or end of the word, the word isn’t selected... the cursor just goes where I pressed. The middle of the word, the letter after the first, the letter before the last. Awesome. I hate typing on my iPhone or iPad and have to edit, the stupid ba…
Agree. But. Pressing anywhere on the iphone keyboard to drag and aim the cursor is awesome. So I can’t really decide which of the two is better in this dimension, now that “aiming” comes instinctively.
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Agree. But. Pressing anywhere on the iphone keyboard to drag and aim the cursor is awesome. So I can’t really decide which of the two is better in this dimension, now that “aiming” comes instinctively.
You can scroll your thumb along the spacebar to "aim" the cursor on android. I do like the knobs of android better than the zoom-and-select that iPhone does.
It seems that 3d-touch (hard press) can be emulated qith the spacebar.
1. Aard2 Dictionary
Offline Wikipedia for eg. travelling. Other Mediawiki dumps are supported as well. Bonus: if you deactivate image loading you don't leave any trace online.
2. use old saved app versions
3. USB-CDROM-emulator via usb gadget mode and a USB-CDROM drive app that "inserts" .iso files off your sdcard (eg. Win10 install disk, Grml.org live CD, servicepack disks etc)
4. rtl-sdr radio scanner, handy for eg. checking AirBnB homes for "bugs"
5. 400GB microSD cards for 60$ (e.g. on newegg)
6. the existence of specialty distributions like Kali Nethunter edition for Android phones
[1]: https://aarddict.org https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=itkach.aard2
[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwareba...
[4]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mantz_it.r...
Termux. https://termux.com I've got an actual userland Linux shell and package ecosystem, with 1,231 available packages (compare against ~6k for Red Hat / CentOS, 70k for Debian), including standard shell tools, editors, and scripting languages, plus several Android-specific tools and APIs. The scripting tools open up broader archives via pip (python), npm (node.js), and cpan (perl). Many of the "Linux" shell and scr…
It allows me to have mostly the same toolkit on my phone and on my home server, which is nice.
For example, see this Ted talk that describes how this security gap is a civil rights issue. Basically, Android phones are cheaper. But, they are much easier for the police to hack into. People with more money buy Apple, and it's much harder to hack them.
https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_soghoian_your_smartpho...
As another data point: in the last few years there have been a few high-profile news cycles about the FBI trying to hack into an iPhone of a suspected terrorist, and not being able to. They were pressuring Apple to get access, and Apple was pushing back. But the bottom line here is that the FBI couldn't get in to an iPhone.
I haven't ever seen a similar news report for Android...
Besides the already mentioned things (ff+adblock, termux, etc): 1. Aard2 Dictionary Offline Wikipedia for eg. travelling. Other Mediawiki dumps are supported as well. Bonus: if you deactivate image loading you don't leave any trace online. 2. use old saved app versions 3. USB-CDROM-emulator via usb gadget mode and a USB-CDROM drive app that "inserts" .iso files off your sdcard (eg. Win10 install disk, Grml.org live C…
By far the best feature for me is DUAL APPS: separate copy of an app that runs absolutely separated from the parent app. This way you can have e.g. two Slacks or two Facebooks or LinkedIns logged into two profiles without endless switching. Other sweet things: support for WireGuard VPN, customizable keyboards (I'm a big fan of "finger slide" typing pioneered by, I think, Swipe), giant Google Calendar widget on the ma…