Jiří Král @ FrameXX @discuss.tchncs.de

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Is this really the fault of the format or the fact that it just isn't that much well supported?

For easy fast sharing over local LAN there are services like https://pairdrop.net which are far from hard to use. It may not be as fast as USB, but in most cases it works well. I just wanted to point out that sharing things over LAN is not that hard.

Even better service is LocalSend.

Regarding privacy on iOS, I recommend watching [this video] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHnBOUNxHsw). You can get more privacy on Android with some tweaking (custom ROMs, AdAway, uninstalling pre-installed bloatware, etc...). There are several ways to get more privacy, some easier than others. I know most people won't even try. On the other hand, with iOS, you're handing your privacy over to Apple in good faith, but you have far fewer options to take things into your own hands. People want privacy out of the box, but that often clashes with companies' interest in making as much money as possible (simply put). Some companies use privacy as a selling point in their marketing campaign, but often it is just false advertising.

Try SmartTubeNext for Android TV.

Try LibreTube.

Key mapper is great for remapping keys, but it is not a replacement for an automation app.

Meta services is not a part of any package, but it's an independent package com.facebook.services that a lot of manufacturers preinstall as a system app, because they get paid for that by meta. The package runs in the background and most meta apps communicate with it, use it for push notifications etc... You can uninstall the app with ADB command adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.services.

If you have com.facebook.services you may also other meta system packages com.facebook.system and com.facebook.appmanager preinstalled on your phone.

I do so. When you start the browser it's bloated of course, but you can customize it and remove almost everything you don't like. The browser itself has a lot of its own neat features, so it's not really just a reskin of chromium. I am tired of pretending it's only bad.

AFAIK you can download every extension as vsix file from vs code web marketplace and then import it into VSCodium. That's how I have been installing missing extensions so far and it works well.

Ouch!

to ensure she doesn't break anything or end up where she shouldn't...

So she uses an operating system that's near to 2 decades old OS with years of live without any security patches whatsoever? I would say that's rather more dangerous for her, than using an up to date operating system.

Just install an up to date os of your choice (be it Linux (Mint) or Windows) and create her an account without admin privileges and some reliable antivirus (especially on windows). If you want to be really safe you can filter her network traffic. There are countless tools for this. One of the easier ones to use is NextDNS even though it's possible there are even better solutions.

Yeah, but that is not an op's desired solution. I think he/she is aware of the navigation gestures option.

Because he hates his child and wants her/him to suffer, so he forces him to use windows vista. That's an obvious answer

Sometimes just a simple phone restart can do a lot. You could also try changing the navigation mode to gestures and then back to buttons which should force update the navigation bar position.

I can approve you that the settings mentioned here doesn't even exist in Pixel 4A. Only some ROMs add this option into their settings on their own, but it's not a stock Android feature.

It is potentially unsecure both as a process and with its consequences, but if you know what you are doing (carefully read tutorials and guides step by step especially if you have no beforehand experience) you have a very low chance to brick your device or corrupt it in any other way.

It's important to note that rooting is different from device model to device model and especially from manufacturer to manufacturer. Some manufacturers totally prevent rooting. Officially you lose the warranty of your device if you root it.

Some of the other commenters have mentioned that some apps check for root and refuse to work if the device is rooted (or only because the bootloader is unlocked) which is true, however if you are rooted there is variety of tools to prevent these apps from recognizing a rooted device (or just unlocked bootloader) so I wouldn't count this as that much of a problem. I am using banking apps and google pay on my rooted phone just fine.

👉 LibreTube

👉 NewPipe

But it should still work in cases when you lost your phone and nobody else rebooted it, shut it down, or even wiped it, which is still a large portion of cases. I wouldn't call it "completely useless" in that case.

German shepherd?