deweydecibel

This is just Lemmy.World. You don’t have to be an admin here to help out Lemmy as a whole.

Yes, actually. Look up Oldlander addon for Firefox.

It’s new and kinda of rough but it definitely helps.

I know it’s not the point, but I love the completely arbitrary bit where they’re walking down a road together, and has absolutely no bearing on anything the happens.

Yes, nothing is exactly like Nova. But lots of other stuff is good too.

Then they aren’t good alternatives, they’re passable.

Seems crazy to me that the software that’s owned by an analytics company is also the one focused on giving the user the most customization options. None of the FOSS alternatives have the same mentality as Nova. They’re all focused more on minimalism, or evoking Pixel, or pushing a specific niche type of interface of their own design. None of them provide anywhere near as many tools to the user.

If I have to use a closed source app provided by an analytics company just to get a launcher that actually empowers the user, so be it. Maybe more of the FOSS alternatives could start taking note of why Nova is the most popular.

I think they’re talking about Nova.

It is significantly less than Nova. People keep suggesting it but it’s not a true replacement for those that were actually using Nova to its full potential. They’re frankly isn’t a replacement right now that goes all out on providing users customization options. That’s not in vogue anymore, apparently.

Agreed. Lawnchair was highly recommended, and when I tried it, I realized it’s recommended by people who were never actually utilizing Nova’s full potential. It’s basically just pixel launcher with more bells and whistles, and that’s not what I want. I use Nova because I wanted to make my own launcher that looked and worked exactly the way I wanted it to, not just be pixel launcher with some minor customizations.

People care about organizing their interfaces more than you, is that hard to understand?

The chances of some data being leaked is always possible but I’ll roll the dice if it means getting to keep using a launcher that’s not god awful or pixel-based until some other launchers become more mature.

If we’re were talking financial information or something, sure, the chance of leaks is a huge problem, but some usage analytics leaking is more annoying than anything else.

You didn’t have to yet.

Nova Launcher 7.0.57 is clean. It’s Nova 8 you want to avoid. Find an APK of 7.0.57 and it’ll work alongside the Prime app.

+1 for Tracker Control, though I will say updates are pretty slow. I’ve noticed a few things making it through every now and again.

You can stay on Nova 7, it’s not going to stop working. Nova 8 is what you want to avoid, so you just can’t let it update to a new version that will have all of the bullshit put in.

Obviously that’s not a permanent solution but there’s no reason to throw away Nova 7 right now if it’s works for you.

The last clean version was Nova 7.0.57

Install that APK, redownload the Nova prime app from Play store, they work together fine.

The last setting is called gestures. If you have navigation buttons enabled instead of nav gestures (see above) you could bind the home button to open the app drawer.

That would mean unbinding it from another feature. It feels kind of ridiculous that I have to devote my home button to something that should just be tappable on screen if three button navigation is being used.

Yeah I tried it too and that’s a major no go right there. The fact it’s based off pixel launcher is killing my interest out of the gate, but I at least hoped that it would provide the same degree of customization options and tools as Nova. Doesn’t look like it, and no ability to call the app drawer without swiping.

Frankly any app that pushes gestures as the default navigation method without respecting people that just want to use buttons and taps, I can’t say I’m interested.

Guess I’m sticking with Nova 7 until it just stops working.

You can download the APK of Nova 7, which was the last version before the buyout. It’s perfectly clean.

Just don’t update it.

Plan to just keep using it myself until it’s no longer viable, at which point I’ll look for a launcher that hopefully reached feature parity.

Both Lee and Lyman retweeted a post from Libs of TikTok, which the Washington Post says has amassed an audience of millions on X, largely by targeting LGBTQ+ people. In the video, a group of students speaking over each other complain that some students at the school wear masks and pounce on people.

This is kind of tacked on at the end. Looks like nothing actually happened or was reported to have happened, but one video of some kid saying it was happening in the middle of an argument got shared by a hate group on TikTok.

Matter of fact, the story seems to indicate the kids wearing animal ear headbands got food thrown at them, but didn’t actually do anything except take them off when asked. So we have a student bullying another student and the bullied student is somehow the thing that got inflated into being a problem.

Firstly, check if certain apps you use from Google Play are on there too. Some, like Bitwarden, Wikipedia, or Jellyfin, are on fdroid too without Google’s bullshit. Some even have functionality on fdroid that they’re not allowed to have on the Play store.

After that, the Fossify suite of simple apps are very basic, no bullshit, non-Google system apps. Gallery in particular is popular.

If you like Sid Meiers Civilization, search for Unciv.

NewPipe for ad-free YouTube.

TrackerControl will let you block ads system wide. It’s kinda touchy and takes some finagling, though.

Will there be a user survey too?

Can’t wait to graduate so I don’t have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap

Well, I’ve got some bad news depending on what industry you’re going into: the business world runs on Windows.

They said they can’t wait to graduate, so I’m assuming that means they are using a Windows computer from their school, and depending on what the CIT department’s policies are like there, WinAero may not accomplish much