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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • To me it’s still Nova. Ever since they were bought out I’ve been trying to find a replacement but nothing seems to match it feature for feature. Especially on Samsung or LG phones, I’m using Nova constantly.

    I just developed a muscle memory to be able to swipe down or up on any app to trigger a specific task. It allows me to really keep my home screen clean.

    I’ve turned off automatic updates to try to limit branches intrusiveness but I’m eventually going to have to move on.

    After that kiwi browser or Firefox Nightly. I need at least one of those. Those are the only browsers that allowed desktop extensions.

    I guess I would choose with Firefox Nightly as it gets updated much more frequently and isn’t chromium.





  • I have 247 apps on the phone I’m using now. It varies a bit though because I use different phones and I swap my sim around. Include system apps so I don’t know maybe 200 or something.

    I would imagine the 10 I used the most not including system apps are:

    *Firefox nightly *Kiwi browser

    (these are the only two browsers are among the only aware of that use desktop extensions like sponsoblock, bypass paywall etc…)

    • Revanced YouTube
    • YouTube music revanced
    • Newpipe x sponsorblock
    • Musicolet
    • Antenna pod
    • Fire TV app (to use as a remote control)
    • Shortcut maker
    • Nova launcher (looking for a replacement and updates are turned off since branch analytics purchase)

    *Infinity for Reddit (RIP)

    • Keep notes for voice notes.


  • I mean there’s a subreddit for gaming and then there’s a subreddit for console gaming and a subreddit for patient gaming and a subreddit for video games in the subreddit for PlayStation etc…

    I understand a little confusion but if anything only having one subreddit for Android was a problem to begin with. And places like Android apps or Android gaming we’re probably a little too specialized



  • Trying to pivot to an alternative since Nova was sold but I just can’t find anything that matches it feature for feature. Like Niagara but not something I want to use always. I just really depend on the app swiping functionality on Nova and the customizable gestures like double tap to prompt my remote.

    But there is a cool launch aUG. lets you swipe a letter of an alphabet with a stylus or your finger and all your apps with that letter pop up. If it had landscape mode support and search function in the app drawer I would use it a lot more


  • Yeah I still have my Pixel 4a as the secondary device and I can actually fit it in my front pocket on one of my sweatshirts with a little zipper. End of life is August though, so I don’t know what I’m going to replace it with

    I’ll keep using it probably for a year or whatever but eventually I’ll need to replace it and it’s just hard to find anything that smaller light. Maybe by then the Motorola razr will be cheaper on the resale market or something.