3d ago

soulless and one ruleful

everything is iOS in the future

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Meanwhile in Linux phones:
- Fun thing about linux phones is that they can all look different without vendor lock in
  (Yes i aplogize for the scuffed picture put pressing the screenshot button closes the menu)
  
  I like how there's a screenshot notification, too! Haha
  What phone is this, by the way? And how's your experience been?
  
  I want graphine on my phone so badly but I can't because it's carrier locked :(
- I wish I was cool enough to run a Linux phone
  
  You probably are! The hardest part might be getting a compatible phone, and sacrificing things that are only available on Android and iOS, specially apps that have no equivalent web version.
- Holy shit, you can have i3 is this? On Linux phones? So cool. How usable is it, I might try build postmarketOS for my old phone to try it.
- Oh I'm jealous. I'm currently knee-deep in debugging hardware so that linux can start on my phone
  
  Damn... Good luck
- When I first opened this thread the image didn't show, so I thought this was a "Linux phones don't exist" joke.
  
  They fortunately do :)
The latest version of Android looks even more like an iPhone than what is pictured.
- Is this Android 16?
  
  Yup, see under the "🏠 Home" button.
What exactly is the point of the volume slider in the control panel? You have two wonderful buttons for that...
- Sometimes having a couple different ways to do the same thing is good, most people like options. A big long bar for granular adjustments is pretty nice
- The volume in the menu is more granular than you can get with the buttons.
  
  But you can summon a touch volume control from the buttons.
I would personally argue theres no need to reinvent the wheel just for the sake of being different. As of now we dont really have something that looks better of funtions better (on mobile) so thats what companies embrace.
I’m an iOS user but stock android is the only one that’s any good in my view. There’s no reason that notifications should pull down over the current view but control center should float on top of it. It’s weirdly inconsistent. Also pretty much everything about notifications on Android is better, which is a shame since it’s pretty core to the user experience.
- Man I think Android is the worst of these!
  You have to pull that shitty drawer down twice, then swipe through pages. I hate it.
  There’s no reason changing your brightness needs to be that terrible.
  
  Android got rid of the wifi toggle. Now its a submenu of the internet tab, which is a toggle for the internet. Google's developers don't understand phones because they think disabling internet access is more important than disabling wifi.
  
  Back when I was using android, you could swipe down with two fingers to get right to the settings
Everything’s ~~computer~~ iOS
I think that’s actually part of the reason they are doing Liquid Glass. Everything looks like iOS in its current state. Supposedly the compute required to calculate the light refractions in iOS 26 will make it more difficult to copy. This is not an endorsement of Liquid Glass. Just what I’ve heard… though personally I don’t dislike it.
- didn't vista do that in the early 2000s?
  
  It did transparency but it didn’t do refractions
i miss android 5
- Ice Cream Sandwich was the best release IMO
  
  oh god no. 4 was awful. the original material design was such an improvement on that.
You forgot nothing OS!
It works well enough

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