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Sure, done that. But the issues I have have been open for months (e.g. the really unresponsive screen since they "fixed" the ghost touch issue by reducing the screen sensitivity for all phones, even the ones not affected by ghost touches, making other phones ignore touches all the time).

Or Android 13 frequently crashing, resetting or freezing if you dare to use 5G. That's a blocker level bug that is open since Android 13 was released and support told me a week ago that they still have no clue why this happens.

And even though some of these bugs are super easy to fix (and I proposed some fixes that I got running on my phone using root, with no access to any source code) they still spend months not fixing them.

The very low screen brightness for example took from February to October to fix, even though it took me 15min and I sent my fix to support and posted it on the forums. No change happened until they updated to A13, which rewrote that part of AOSP.

And the ghost touch/screen sensitivity issue, which has a dead simple fix, is still open since launch. The issue there is that the screens have very different levels of sensitivity from the factory. So if they set one software sensitivity level, either some get ghost touches or others get an unresponsive screen. So the fix is to just add a toggle or a slider in the settings that users can use to adjust the screen sensitivity, just like e.g. Samsung has done for a long time. Instead, they just arbitrarily change that value to ruin the experience for someone else.

And yes, that proposed solution has been on the forums for years and it was also sent to support.

I'm pretty sure that most people are mature enough to differentiate between an organization that makes software and nothing at all to do with kids and/or sexuality and that old wierdo's personal views.

We live in a world where huge corporations with a revenue higher than the GDP of many countries routinely exploit child labour and work their workers to death or suicide, burning whole countries and pushing climate change while at it. And yet we collectively shrug and still buy Nestle, Apple, Samsung or H&M.

A shitstorm towards such a niche and unknown organisation as the FSF really doesn't matter. We all know the Stallman and the FSF, because we are into computers, software and/or open source. But ask any random person on the street, thew wouldn't know who Stallman or the FSF is if you told them that it's not Android but actually Chrome/Android SDK/Dalvik/Toybox/Linux that runs on their phone.

I totally disagree with Stallman's views and personally I do find them pretty worrying.

But I also disagree with the concept that employers should be the executive of the court of public opinion.

We have real courts and real police, we don't need to invent a secondary one where people lose their jobs due to shitstorms.

If you think he did something illegal, report him to the police or sue him. If not, then this is freedom of speech. Even though he uses the freedom to voice a pretty crappy opinion.

I mean, if everyone who said something that lots of people disagree with, I guess we would all be unemployed now.

Sadly, their software QA sucks and thus the phone is buggy as hell.

Whitch is really frustrating because otherwise it's a pretty good (if oversized and overly expensive) phone.

As long as it still boots, you can undo the change with a simple adb pm enable [packagename].

I wouldn't recomment disableing system critical things like systemui. You can google each package together with "Can I disable X" and you should get decent infos.

Regarding the launcher:

I don't have a Fire TV but I had a Fire Tablet. So if these two work the same, you can install another launcher without issues. But Amazon removed the setting for default launcher, so it will always pick the stock launcher when you press the home button.

To override that, there are two options.

• Install the Automate app by Llamalab and make a small flow that detects when the stock launcher is the currently active app and then automatically launches the new launcher. This option is completely safe.
• Disable the stock launcher. If Android doesn't find it's set default launcher, it will instead open the first launcher it finds. Worked good on the Fire Tablet, but I can't verify that this doesn't cause issues on a Fire TV. So this might be a bit risky.

Turns out the charmless brute really likes killing people.

How would you know in this situation that the big guy is a gentle giant and not a murderous giant? Not every big guy is automatically a nice guy.

Charm is necessary when the threat that you are using to intimidate isn't real or the victim doesn't think you'd pull through.

If you are tied to a wall and some uncharismatic weakling threatens you with a knife, the threat is very real after that guy starts punching holes in your arms.

Tbh, if a big guy pins someone to a wall and chokes them, the situation is not anymore about how intimidating the big guy is, but about whether the victim is prepared to die for the cause.

On the other hand, charisma-based intimidation makes a lot of sense in e.g. blackmail situations.

So I'd say, strength-based intimidation doesn't require a dice-roll since it only depends on the victim.

And charisma-based intimidation only applies for situation, where the victim doesn't know whether the threat is real.

It's really great for my work as a software developer. I used it for more than 10 years for work.

My entertainment PC is not Win11 compatible, so I'm trying to switch to Linux with that one too, but it's giving me a lot of grief.

This here is the solution for what you want: https://www.xda-developers.com/disable-system-app-bloatware-android/

You can disable whatever app you want until the system doesn't work any more. Just install an alternative for what you want to disable (e.g. the launcher) and then disable the Amazon version.

I wasn't specifically talking about this product alone, but about the general trend. I don't own any Amazon hardware.

A few years ago, piracy was all but dead because or really good offers like Netflix. All the stuff you wanted was there and the price was ok.

Now to get the same that you got for a tenner a month on Netflix, you have to pay for half a dozen of streaming services.

Youtube forces you to watch more ads than actual content. All services are increasing prices while decreasing what you are getting for that money. And all sorts of products are retroactively introducing ads.

I mean seriously, if someone bought that stick, they paid for it. They shouldn't have to worry about updates actively making the device worse.

It's an industry-wide trend that sucks, and it's one that creates resistance. People start pirating, use adblock and some hack their devices. Not because it's impossible to have a situation that suits everyone, but because they purpously use enshittification to suck more money out of their customers.

Yeah, that is what on demand is supposed to do. But when it freezes, the game already started and rendered the first few seconds on the dGPU. One time I managed to play for ~10 minutes before the freeze.

And it remains frozen. I once waited for ~1h and it didn't recover.

Tried it with and without, same result. It starts on the GPU and the whole system freezes.

Do you use xorg or wayland?

Are you using a laptop that can switch the GPU or are you running Nvidia only? What GPU and driver version do you have?

I'm running Xorg, because I've read a lot about the Nvidia+Wayland troubles.

That's the really crazy thing. With the market value crash of Twitter he lost more money than the GDP of a small country. Yet, it practically makes no difference to him.

I've heard it was a semi-automatic shoe with bump stock.

That's why piracy is back on the menu.

Why? All the Americans are also keep ignoring that the rest of the world exists.

English isn't spoken only in the USA. It's pretty much the language of the internet.

Of course, I just didn't think Android would support them. Haven't seen a single resistive touch Android device before.

Austria.

Don't start with the tinkering aspect first.

Ask yourself, why does your kid use Windows?

Probably to play games, access the internet and maybe do their homework. Most probably, they don't use Windows because they specifically enjoy working with Windows, but because it easily lets them do whatever they actually want to do on a PC.

Spending 5h on fixing some weird incompatibility between the Nvidia GPU, your DE and Proton might be fun for some, but it's most probably not what your kid wants to do when they could be gaming or doing whatever they actually want to do. Problems like that can scare them off quickly.

So first setup the PC so that everything they usually do on Windows works without issues.

The next question is, why would your kid want to run Linux instead of Windows?

The usual advantages (FOSS, free to use, better for developers) don't really matter to most kids. The only things I can think of right now are:

• Runs on PCs that aren't Win11 compatible
• Some games like Minecraft run faster (but some games also run slower)

With the setup completed and advantages thought of, you can let the kid use Linux quite similarly to Windows. When the kid wants new software or has an issue, work together with them to get everything running. First do everything and let them watch, later let them do more and more of the process.

That's basically it.