Project sandcastle was always a PoC thing to me. On release, only the iPhone 7 was even close to being able to properly house the OS. Most devices would be missing important things like sound and cellular support, and wouldn’t be able to use the camera (among other things, some losing out on more than others depending on the exact device, there’s a whole spreadsheet that shows what works and what doesn’t for all Sandcastle-compatible devices)

Not to mention, file changes on Android using Sandcastle wouldn’t save, essentially meaning every time you reboot it’s like a factory reset (your iOS files are fine, just the Android bits wouldn’t be saved through a reboot)

There was some fork or continuation of this that brought on a bit more progress since then, but I can’t remember the name anymore. No new updates from that one for a while either

Xorg is compatible with Actiona

I know that’s not a huge reason for most people but I have a lot of automations that run through it

neat! I’ll definitely look at a side by side comparison to Zorin (my distro) out of curiosity. always nice finding new rabbit holes to dive into

Update: made the switch. worth it? maybe, maybe not. there are issues, a few visual glitches here and there (gets better with each set of updates, but still), but the proprietary Nvidia drivers being installed out of the box instead of the (apparently) not as good FOSS ones was a plus

Plus, the UI is still clean, and a lot of apps, updates, packages, etc. are installed for you from the welcome screen, so you won’t be left googling for things you might need. Also comes with GE proton, Wine, Lutris, Bottles, and a few other things pre-installed so you won’t lose hours setting up windows support for games/apps

If you still have apt or snap packages you want to run but can’t since Nobara only used rpm and flatpak, you can simply look up Distrobox to get you started (I did this by looking up distrobox in the software store where I found an app that deals with it)

I also like that if you try to mount other existing partitions, it will ask for a password. Usually if I wanted to mount my Windows partition and access something there, other distros will just let me. Nobara asking for a password means no one, in person or via some program, can go snooping around, or potentially try to mess with my other operating systems or other partitions. Nice little security buff

nice wallpaper! never heard of nobara but looking at it, it looks similar to Zorin OS. what’s your experience so far?

I’ll take my barely superior cam quality with a side of almost no freedom, thank you very much /s

and the clear choice for the best place to put said messaging feature is in… checks notes… Google Maps

i can’t see any way how this would be both inconvenient and possibly distracting. nope, no way.

they were godsends back in the OnePlus 6/7 days because their phones and custom OS was meant to be more root friendly than the rest. it was what sold me and a buddy of mine on them in the first place

sadly, it’s gone south now but it was fun back when it happened

i mean in this case, if you’re planning to root you’d much rather use a custom OS that will still give you OS updates

or, just buy a different android and avoid the bs entirely

didn’t work for me at first too, but other YouTube specific ad blockers had side effects (videos opened in new tabs would play automatically instead of waiting for you to switch to that tab, etc)

here’s what I did:

• reset uBlock to default settings, then purge caches and update

• clear all caches in your browser (in Firefox/Chrome you can just search for cache in the settings search bar and it’ll come up)

• fully close and reopen browser

installing better adblockers

or just updating uBlock lol. not sure what YouTubes team was expecting here

kind of - there’s the issue of a low framerate when scrolling

but it’s more the icons - like the distancing/placement of certain UI elements like the timestamp, vote buttons… maybe its just me at that point. I’m already used to Boost/Eternity. not easy to get myself used to a significantly different layout after that

TrackerControl

Google claims that privacy is a priority

lmfao

You can somewhat protect your own privacy via VPNs, adblockers… I personally use TrackerControl, which for the most part can identify and block unnecessary trackers and URL connections on an app-by-app basis to better protect your privacy

Trying this, and on first glance, UI seems to be a bit clunky compared to Boost or Eternity. Would like to see an option to keep the bottom tab bar visible when scrolling, that would be nice

Changing the subscriptions/main feed sort order doesn’t apply sometimes until I close and reopen the app

Still has a lot of potential, nice seeing these new client apps being worked on for Lemmy!

I get it now, thanks

is accessing other communities of other instances what this app helps with?

can someone explain how exactly Lemmy works? I was told it was something like an alternative to reddit, but I don’t understand what instances are