Sam Lehman :nixos:
Android 14 changed the color of the low battery icon from red to white.
Recently, for some reason, I've stopped getting "Battery low" notifications at very low percents...but I still get them at 30% & 25% (I have it set to start at 30%).
...so now I rarely notice when my phone is about to die. This has interrupted me on so many occasions.
My hatred of Android has been growing exponentially lately.
Sam Lehman :nixos:
for ref, I'm someone who has spent a HUGE amount of time/effort to avoid spammy services acting as a gateway to my brain for advertisers, self-host alt services that dont do this, & restrict notifs when I must keep a spammy service around
...and it still feels hopeless.
I feel so bad for non-technical people. I saw my grandma'a notification drawer when helping her w/ her phone, & it looked like a casino w/ 100s of attempts from various services to get her to buy or interact with their products
Sam Lehman :nixos:
My phone, despite my best efforts, works against my wishes on behalf of others.
This is a device society expects you to carry 24/7 & acts as your primary gateway to both digital & IRL services. i.e. mandatory.
#Google is a cartel colonizing the attention spans of billions of people. It must be broken up & the #AOSP project should be put under the control of a democratic organization
#MobileLinux cannot come fast enough. I'l tolerate **any** level of jank to never have to touch Android again.
Sam Lehman :nixos:
I use #GrapheneOS, which does a fair amount to curb some of my biggest problems with default #Android.
...but at the end of the day, the ecosystem is built on behalf of & in service of advertisers & spyware manufacturers, so problems like every app spamming notifications persist.
Google has tried to fix the notification spam (probably to prevent competing advertisers from encroaching on their market share), but ended up exacerbating this problem.
Sam Lehman :nixos:
Many versions ago, Google tried to address battery issues from each app perpetually running in the background to poll for notifications by providing its own cloud-based push notification service & blocking background services unless the app is posting an ongoing notification.
...so now, every app that needs to run in the background, *FOSS or not*, must keep a **useless** notification posted that does nothing but clutter the drawer.
Sam Lehman :nixos:
Every app wants to notify immediately. Within 30 seconds of booting, I have 11 notifications (excluding the grouped ones).
The only stuff I actually want to alert me are: emails, SMS messages, missed calls, & direct messages.
...but half of these are so flooded with spam that anything I actually want is drowned out by noise.
This results in me just ignoring my phone.
My initial complaint is the kicker, the only thing I actually want notified by that isn't full of spam **just doesn't work**
Børge
@Lehmanator Really? In every Android ROM I've ever used I have the opposite problem, where I almost don't get any notifications at all, since most apps use some kind of Google service to send notifications and that is turned off in degoogled ROMs. How does Graphene do it without sending lots of data to Google?
Børge
@cyberlyra @Lehmanator Looking at that installation instructions page you link to I guess the reason is that it supports very few handsets. But it does sound very interesting!
BTW, something seems very wrong with that sailfish.org website you link to, including the forum. not working, could you take a look?
Janet Vertesi
@Lehmanator Literally I don’t know why we are all still having this conversation when Sailfish is so many miles ahead of every other option out there. No battery issues. APKs run but are sandboxed. You are root on your phone. The terminal is just a tap away. Community-built apps and repos. The Sony handsets are lightweight and powerful with great cameras. The OS has full functionality, even easily integrates with Exchange (for work). Just check it out, honestly, cos the future is already here.
Janet Vertesi
@Lehmanator I have used #SailfishOS as my daily driver for years. Easy to install on an open Sony Xperia handset. Not janky at all. Smooth and straightforward. All modern conveniences, no spyware.
I have used many other Linux phones and other alternatives too over the years and SFOS is hands down the best. Don’t waste your time. With Sailfish you don’t need to sacrifice quality or ease by switching to #MobileLinux and you own all your data.
I blogged about it here
https://www.optoutproject.net/sailfish-the-iphone-and-android-alternative/
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