Just use distrobox as long as it doesn’t hinder much the program’s functionality or your convenience.

I am not well informed, but I would expect that a lot of the tools that come with Android Studio can be installed as separate CLI utilities you can control from the command line, but maybe I am wrong. You will get worse IDE integration than with Android studio, that’s for sure.

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Webp is actually good format AFAIK better than the traditional alternatives it’s just that it doesn’t have such wide support and jpeg-xl is superior in many things.

I just use the “Just perfection” extension to hide to top bar and only make it visible in overview. It may sound annoying to have to use overwiew each time you want to see or interact with the top bar, but honestly for me it’s not that often to make that 1 or 2 extra keypresses annoying. When you get used to it it saves a lot of space.

I think Zorin OS 18 based on Ubuntu 24.04 was released just few days ago? will be released tomorrow. Also Zorin OS uses heavily modified Gnome Wayland session which is by many standards more “modern” and “leading edge” than X11 Cinnamon session. The desktop environment is by far the most significant thing an average Joe user will be affected by. If their packages are bit older they won’t notice as much.

I though many distros setup zram automatically? I know Fedora does. I would expect Ubuntu to do the same.

I don’t think the new changes will mean that all sideloaded apps are banned. We don’t yet know how much Google will misuse this to make installing apps that they don’t find “appropriate” even though they are completely safe a burden. The verification will probably be fully automated. Can anyone clear this out?

You are right. I forgot, that there actually is a GUI panel for NVIDIA. It’s pretty simplistic, but still that makes my previous claim false.

On Linux you have no official GUI companion app for your graphics card from NVIDIA AFAIK.

You protect yourself against “propaganda” by educating yourself and not falling for emotions. Not reading LLM responses won’t safe you from propaganda.

Just throw out LLM ideas you don’t find reasonable and only use ideas that you yourself find reasonable. You don’t instantly turn into a zombie when you use LLM. You can still use your head.

This. It doesn’t make sense for the eye to be minimalistic and the hand to be very detailed. Either they are both detailed or both minimalistic.

why would swiping away an app not kill it? why would you do that? leave it be until it’s done wtf

how much RAM you got? on my two A15 phones with 6 and 8 GB RAM nothing extraordinary happens in that regard, whereas my A15 4 GB RAM tablet can’t handle a lot of open apps and OOM kills some in the background.

EDIT: I tested the same with my file explorer while moving files, but the task didn’t get killed. This might jusz be issue with the browser.

All the stock Android versions I used until Android did not kill tasks that are run with a persistent notification. Swiping away killed the app activity, but it did not stop its tasks or services.

My device has 6GB RAM and I never had such behavior.

Are you allowing notifications for background apps?

I do. However permanent notifications was usually a workaround on OEM modified versions of Android that had a more agressive process killing policies and on stock Android this usually wasn’t needed at all. And many apps which use push notifications don’t run a constant background service, but instead run some checks at regular intervals like e-mail apps. I use K-9 mail which checks e-mails every hour and I stopped receiving notifications after the Android 15 update.

I reflashed the ROM yesterday with a newer nightly build and used Basic NikGapps instead of MindTheGapps so I will see if the situation gets better. For now I seem to be receiving notifications from Protonmail, but that may be only because their app is maybe using Google play services for notifications.

I am running 22.2-20250714-NIGHTLY-surya.

There’s a constant barrage of notifications, and by the time you have dealt with them, chances are you have forgotten what you wanted to do in the first place.

There’s a notification permission since Android 13 and you can always disable any apps notifications since I don’t know when. If you download a ton of shitty social media applications and games and then click “allow” on every notification permission prompt don’t be surprised then.

Then there is Gemini, Google’s artificial intelligence bot, which won’t leave you alone. Press the home (middle) button for half a second too long, and it pops up, offering to “assist” you.

Change the default assistant settings. You can disable the assistant feature altogether.

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I will be honest that I don’t know what exact shit are we discussing here I rather wanted to point out that Apple might not be as much privacy first company as they like to present themselves.