Yeah, I missed that. Added.

Hopefully, by the time it gets an fdroid release it will be slightly stable.

Interestingly, he says no vivo phones supported.

Every generation of pixel A series is mixed in controversy. The regular pixels don’t have good battery life and charge slowly. After 200 charge cycles they further reduce the battery capacity and charge speed until 1000 charge cycles.

Avoid pixel if you care about battery longetivity.

AGPS uses data not just from towers but also from bluetooth and wifi Access points around you. You can turn this off. If you wanted to there are settings to do. It was GPS, AGPS in older phones. Now, its scanning for wifi, bluetooth which uses google server. Also “Improve the location accuracy” toggle which uses signal towers.

If network based location triangulation was so accurate. Why would the telecom providers lobby to have this always on without user consent. Not to mention the potential indicator of location tracking being actively being used with an indicator.

That app being installed was just a test. They actually want phones to have always on A-GPS for location tracking.

Also, they want the pop-up which notifies about GPS usage to be off. So, you don’t know that you are being tracked.

Don’t know what’s up and why everyone wants to track everyone and all. Maybe, testing 1989? But, a reminder any device which is not foss is not owned by you and can change things in the future for worse.

It seems the function is not implemented. It has an active bounty of certain amount, and if someone does implement can claim it too.

Maybe, it will be implemented in 2026.

Any particular reason NFC payment apps don’t work? Atleast some should work with MicroG.

Personally, I’m more effed by the borders and the squigly icon shapes of your launcher.

But, you can use a 3rd party icon pack like Material You or Material You dark/light icon pack. Or maybe use Icon Pack Studio to create a custom icon pack for your phone.

The app is limited for TV which limits the reach. Plus, I do not download apps outside of fdroid for the most part.

This is a 3rd party youtube client. Did it not stop working when you did not update the app for almost a whole month?

Fortunately, its an app for TVs. Still, sometimes you have to be extra careful when downloading 3rd party apps. Especially, those which do not exist on fdroid.

E2E encryption is useless if you don’t control the encryption method and storage.

Doing this when even apple does not handover such data is stupid on Google.

Glass costs more. So reviewers often list plastic as a con. Plus, it can be get scratched. You get ceramic coating on the black and violet variants back panel with glass.

The sandstorm white variant uses fiberglass on its back. But, the frame and camera deco use Micro-arc Oxidation (MAO) which should be durable.

Yeah, welcome verified apps on PC.