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Some good replies: "Comes with a built in firewall" "*Default Braiser?" "Still better than Internet Explorer!"
"Does it support cookies?"
"Welcome to the World Wide Weber"
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> the absolute inability to override the order of items in the sharing panel As an extra F.U., it also changes the list of contacts after a second. So I try to tap on my wife, only to have it substituted with the plumber who came once half a year ago... and this of course gets logged by the AI, ensuring the plumber continues to hold pride of place in my contacts.
This is quite literally my least favorite UI feature that Android has ever released. It's slow. It encourages mis-taps. I have intentionally tapped it literally ever despite using the share dialog thousands of times, since it almost never shows me the desired contacts, and even then I've tapped the wrong contact half the time. It's incomprehensibly awful , wantonly violates even the most basic user-interaction guidel…
Android is such a drag sometimes. Between mystery quirks like this, where I'm sure someone who has been making Android apps for 6 years will be able to explain it, and things like the absolute inability to override the order of items in the sharing panel[1], such that Android will routinely topline sharing to a contact you got one text message from three years ago. "F.U., that's why" is the simplest conclusion I can…
I dunno what's going on with you and some of the other child commenter's phones but my share panel is only people I text every day and always has been. Also, the share panel is configurable: https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/edit-androids-share-m... Can confirm this works, I just tried it.
Android 7.0 through Android 9
I run Android 10 on a (Google) Pixel 3a.
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Yeah, I'm also a single-issue Android user (have used Dvorak for nearly 20 years now, no interest in using/learning the iOS QWERTY keyboard), and if anyone asks me, I'm hard-pressed to recommend an Android device over an iOS device.
You can use Dvorak on iOS. One example (but not the only example): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dvorak-colemak-keyboards/id940...
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This is a Play Store curation failure _as well as_ a bug in the app. This sort of fault shouldn't have been allowed to pass.
It's funny how the chrome store has skewed so far the opposite direction (kicking out extensions that claim they need http://* ), but any Android app can claim they're a http:// handler.
The user has to agree to use that app to open http links.
Sure Google could kick this dev butt and ask them to use a more focused intent filter but that's way less of an issue than an extension siphoning all your web browsing.
Android is such a drag sometimes. Between mystery quirks like this, where I'm sure someone who has been making Android apps for 6 years will be able to explain it, and things like the absolute inability to override the order of items in the sharing panel[1], such that Android will routinely topline sharing to a contact you got one text message from three years ago. "F.U., that's why" is the simplest conclusion I can…
It used to be miles ahead of iOS but it has been pretty stagnant and for a while has shipped with an implementation that would ask at share time which apps can respond (Which explains why populating the share menu was pretty slow for several android versions)
I think it would be incredibly cool if this tweet especially was turned into reality:
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Is there an agreed upon name for this, where a website or app loads elements piecemeal so we click the wrong thing by mistake? I know it exists as an intentional dark pattern (so we just think that's what happened). But it also seems so common now across computing and it pisses me off every time.
This happens with Google Chrome address bar suggestions on Android too. Drives me nuts every time.
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Or who eat meat "too often".
I guess grilling vegetables is off the table, then?