James R Kirk

My recommendation:

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.mm20.launcher2.release/

Nothing like Nova but the best I’ve found.

Shorts should have been a different app in the first place

I understand their reasoning. There is a (good) argument to be made that orgs like this should stay on Twitter if only to remind people to delete Twitter (I believe Cory Doctorow does this with his account). It seems like they thought this through.

How would they know? I assume they must track IPs used by popular VPN services?

They’ve just rebranded La Suite Meet anyway,

I was basing it off the top comment here which said “They’ve just rebranded La Suite Meet” (which isn’t E2E) but it looks like that person might have just been talking out their ass anyway.

The open source version isn’t E2E encrypted fyi

100% this is a great idea

I love these semi-smart phones coming out but none of them check all the boxes for me. The Light Phone has maps on it now which makes it the best, IMO.

My jaw is on the floor

As soon as I heard about this I knew 404 Media would be on top of it. Very happy with my subscription there.

It’s not, but you bring up a very good point about responsibility. We need to be using language like that and not feeding into the hype.

I don’t even like calling LLMs “AI” because it gives a false impression of their capabilities.

I’m the same way and finally had to accept I’m going to need to change because Nova isn’t coming back 😭 and to my knowledge nobody is recreating foss.

Kvaesitso is what I went with. It’s a different style of launcher but very well put together. So far I’ve been quite happy.

Been looking forward to this one. Might finally be time to switch over. I wish there was a Graphene build for it.

I would like to see 8K for movies in cinema, especially for remasters/digitizations from existing film negatives and archival purposes.

While I wouldn’t say no to it, 8K on a TV under 75" is not going to add much value to the average consumer.

wow 9/11 changed everything

Not off the top of my head, but I haven’t used it in a year or two so it’s probably changed a bit since then.

The one feature of Nova I wish Kvaesitso had is swiping on icons can do other things than tapping on them. For example swiping on the wallet icon opens a specific card. Swiping on podcast apps opened audiobook app instead.

You can adjust it in settings up to as many that will fit

Looks a lot like M-Launcher on F-Droid.

I am using Kvaesitso which is great, but not Nova.