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But, did anyone notice the totally irrelevant "get rich quick" kind of comments on the TechCrunch article? Aren't the comments there moderated?
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Can't we just mirror a regular Linux distro model ? Or possibly a Enterprise Linux model where you pay a subscription and obtain bug fixes, stability gurantees & support.
Then they wouldn't be able to move closer to a world where general-purpose computing is not the norm. That's the real issue with computing nowadays, this desire to lock everything down. You see it with DRM, you see it with walled gardens, you see it with almost everything nowadays. I fear that a world like the one described in "The Right to Read" [0] is closer than ever. 0: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-rea…
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Pretty bullshit method. Any software that wastes my time begging me to market for them gets uninstalled, period. I don't know why anyone puts up with that.
>Any software that wastes my time begging me to market for them gets uninstalled, period. I hear you. I really hate prompts to post to social media myself, but companies do it because it is hard to get people interested in your product. I'm passionate about this issue because I faced this problem myself many times when trying to generate reviews for my Amazon products. It is hard, if not impossible, to compete withou…
Gboard came preinstalled on my phone and is not removable. I doubt they need more advertising.
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* In app library, clear and upfront expectations of what permissions each app uses (as well as an explanation for each permission in the app creator's own words). * In app library, ability to filter apps by permissions required ...... Specifically, I would want to be able to blacklist permission sets. Eg, search for Keyboard apps, but exclude any apps that require access to my contacts. * Ability to pay for apps dire…
This is the one I agree most with so I'll add mine here: - network connectivity as a separate permission (no reason every app should be allowed network access) - also, permissions systems everywhere need to get updated for this millennium. Some thoughts: -- to read my photos is OK as long as they don't have direct network access. -- but today every app has Internet access by default -- and just because I trust an app…
And in general, I would prefer most apps actually don't have any access to photos, the photo picker could be completely OS level and the app never actually has access.
I used to be a big fan of Fleksy app before the creators went to pinterest and sold their app to some company. They new devs probably didn’t know how to fix their previous bugs or work on the code itself. So they started adding new “features” , which was a toolbar for a keyboard app. Kept contacting them on fixing their error, but they just said we know it’s there. Until i switched back to Gboard. I would say, it’s p…
I'm bothered by how pilloried I am consistently when mentioning that most of these are 'free' apps and someone, somewhere, somehow needs to pay for it. Very few 'open source' projects make good 'Products' (they help, but alone OSS is not consumer oriented). It takes work to do these things. All kinds of work.
$1/download or 25 cents/month would wipe out 1/2 of consumer issues like this pretty quickly, but almost nobody wants to pay.
This is a tangent, but is there a good keyboard app for Android that doesn't have emoji? I'm tired of hitting the emoji button accidentally and having emoji show up in autocomplete.
If you are willing to put some effort into learning how to use it, you could give MessagEase a try: http://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php (I'm using it because in my particular case predictions and autocorrect of other keyboards always backfired, plus swiping on those big buttons works better than trying to hit the right tiny qwerty button)
Someday I might buy an ortholinear keyboard for the desktop, it depends really on when the DasKeyboard deck breaks.
I use Gboard, and today it had a strange prompt on the bar above the keyboard: "Do you like typing German?".. I was curious and I pressed it, it lead to a prompt where there was text I could copy paste and I guess post on my social media, about how much I enjoy using Gboard... So you fucking want me to advertise for you, Google? And for what reason? Does someone want their promotion/bonus and for that they have to re…
Windows apparently has the system dialog "how likely are you to recommend Windows 10 to a friend or colleague?" with a score from 1 to 5.
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This is the one I agree most with so I'll add mine here: - network connectivity as a separate permission (no reason every app should be allowed network access) - also, permissions systems everywhere need to get updated for this millennium. Some thoughts: -- to read my photos is OK as long as they don't have direct network access. -- but today every app has Internet access by default -- and just because I trust an app…
I would like finer grained control on photo permissions. Particularly I don't necessarily want to grant it access to ALL of my photos. And in general, I would prefer most apps actually don't have any access to photos, the photo picker could be completely OS level and the app never actually has access.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/documen...
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The hypocrisy of Google notwithstanding, I'm not sure why something being included in Unicode should have any bearing on its societal acceptance or consequently its age rating. The Swastika exists as a Unicode character, yet is outlawed in Germany, along with other Nazi-associated symbols (Strafgesetzbuch section 86a).
The swastika symbol in Unicode is the Buddhist/Hindu swastika, not the Nazi swastika (which is tilted at 45°).