mcc
As you may remember from me talking about it once a week, the three things I most want out of a cell phone are
1. RECTANGULAR screen with NO HOLES OR ROUNDED EDGES ON THE DISPLAY CANVAS
2. Big bezel/bevel/whatever it's called so I can hold it without activating the touch screen
3. Headphone jack
I search and search and even for high prices I usually cannot get these things
But the $35 carrier branded temp replacement phone I bought at the Wal-Mart by the airport?
All three
mcc
It may be that after all the many gross indignities I have solemnly endured at the hands of Google, Android 13 is the thing that finally drives me to build my own rom.
The full screen flicker is enough by itself, and on top of that, the thing where it displays a mandatory popup you must swipe to clear every time you copy anything is *really* bad. I thought it was gonna be bad and it really was
James Broadhead
@mcc I'm really worried that Android is getting worse and worse
mcc
I like limiting animations, but the reason I HAVE to disable animations is the grotesque, nauseating full screen overscroll animation in Android where everything stretches oddy. So now it's like they give me a Pavlovian punishment for doing that. Periodic bright flashes in my eyes. I'd consider this frustrating but acceptable if this happened because I used the "Developer" reduce animation options, which naturally aren't QAed, but it happens with the builtin accessibility "reduce animation" too!
mcc
Anyway sorry I spend so much of my time on this account complaining about computers, but is just the thing is, there are so many horrible things about them,
mcc
It feels like a loyalty ritual
mcc
In other news, it turns out on stock Android now, disabling animations adds an additional, extremely disruptive animation. Everytime you home button it flashes the icon of the app you're leaving huge, blurry and screen size for exactly 1 frame. It's glitchy and photosensitivity-unfriendly
I thought this was an Android 13 thing, but no, appears it's stock Android and Sony had somehow disabled it on my main phone. People have been flagging this issue for two years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pixel_phones/comments/tkci6q/new_minimize_animation/?rdt=59271
mcc
Meanwhile in dystopia news:
1. In Android 13 they made it even harder to disable Google Assistant. I activated it by accident like 3 times trying to disable. The first thing I did was uninstall Google Assistant, but this turns out not to disable Google Assistant instead it shuts you out from disabling Google Assistant. That is, to disable Google Assistant you must first install Google Assistant. Then you have to be careful not to tap it— that activates it— you MUST long-press and tap "Settings"
mcc
2. In the process of setting up my new phone, I at one point had to answer a nightmare CAPTCHA where the question was "Please select all objects crafted by humans", and then all the options were either fish or clocks, and that was was a fine question, except one of the clocks I was clearly required to select was *clearly* an image generated by "AI", meaning no it was *not* crafted by humans,
mcc
I don't like lying. I really, *really* do not like it when a software program requires me to lie
mcc
@jbo ever since the update where they made the notifications display taller than the status bar I have liked each version less than the one before i
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