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I haven't used an android launcher over a decade, stock LineageOS launcher works well for me i.e. to open app drawer and to click on apps.

What do you folks use 3rd party launchers for?


I've been using Nova Launcher to mimic webOS for almost 10 years. I might be slightly too resistant to change!


For not using the default Samsung launcher, which sucks.


Nowadays, even the default Samsung launcher is very customizable and usable. Obviously it's no Nova, but it's not bad.


I like to use non-default apps from F-Droid so it's easier to feel at home on any new device. I do try to only get phones with LineageOS support, but it's cool how much of my usual stuff I can throw on an Amazon tablet or Fire Stick also.


I've been using Nova Launcher since ~1year (after using it like 10 years ago) because Pixel Launcher didn't support double tap to sleep


Main reason I use it too.


Thanks for sharing, I'm into 8 bit retro games lately and I assumed this pico8 was some playdate emulator for some reason. My ignorance was rectified today.


I use it to ID cool insects I come across, I get responses within few minutes to hours.


Quoting Adam,

> And making it easier for LLMs to read our docs just means less traffic to our docs which means less people learning about our paid products and the business being even less sustainable.

> But the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business.

NYT and other Billion dollar media house can sue the AI companies for copyright violations and get into cozy deals. But the individuals and small companies are left in lurch.

Instead of ganging up on developers for not making their product LLM friendly, they should force the AI companies to ensure that a part of their $20 or $200 goes to the sources of the data used in the LLM responses.

Something like Ad words, where people whose content is used by LLMs can register as a publisher and get compensated.

Oh it wouldn't be sustainable AI companies? Whose fault is that?


I actually moved to Zed for AI, Claude integration is seamless and the IDE is so fast and crisp. I can use what ever agent I want, when I need them instead of being asked to use Copilot.

Except for few language related extensions, I don't have any other extensions on Zed. Which means I worry less about which of those extensions will be sold off to a malware developer.

I had more issues with official extensions on VSCode (looking at you flutter) than not having any extension on Zed and having to rely on the terminal (which feels much closer to the system than it did on VSCode).


Could you provide some detail on how you use it (the AI features)?


I just have a minimalist setup.

Configuration -

In external agents - I have Calude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and a custom agent for Qwen Coder via Llama.cpp [1]

In MCP - I have fetch, brave-search, puppeteer

In LLM Providers - I have configured Llama.cpp, LMStudio and OpenAI (Zed Agent can access models from any of these providers).

Workflow -

When I need LLM assist I mostly use just Claude Code for specific tasks, with thorough scaffolding. One major drawback in using external agents on Zed is that they don't support history[2], Which doesn't impact me much as I use Claude just for individual tasks. I'm not really sure on how well Zed works for someone who 'vibecodes' entire project.

[1] https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents

[2] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37074


Thank you!


Congratulations on the launch OP.

I'm currently using BuzzKill[1] for managing notifications on android. It's so good (and beautiful) that even though I use iPhone as primary device, I receive most of my notifications on android and relay it to my iPhone using a Termux script[2] after putting it through BuzzKill.

I understand that your USP is logging which BuzzKill also provides with numerous actions and Tasker integration on top of it.

It's great that DoNotNotify is free, but if any android app deserves to be paid for its BuzzKill. Perhaps being open-source could be a better differentiator for DoNotNotify?

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....

[2] https://github.com/abishekmuthian/apple-watch-with-android/t...


Seems like this AphyOS is de-googled android, not sure if they use MicroG but apart from FAQ there's no mention of 'Android'.

Being android the trade off between convinience and privacy might be lesser than a purpose built Linux Phone like Librem. Their marketing copy suggests it's not for the same audience as say Librem or Graphene OS phone.

Ofcourse many of their advertised privacy features can be achieved for cheap with any LineageOS/postmarket OS phone with self-hosted Nextcloud.


I don't understand why governments haven't started to fund F-Droid, almost all govt. apps are open-source.

Countries which fear they could be cut off from the duopoly mobile ecosystem should be forcing android manufacturers to bundle in F-Droid; For the amount of nonsense regulations they force phone manufacturers to adhere to, bundling F-Droid wouldn't be that hard.

Google won't be happy, but anti-trust regulations would take care of it.


What did your local politician say when you wrote to them and suggested it?

(I've worked with several politicians. You'd be surprised what a well timed letter or meeting can achieve.)


Not much...

I wrote a few times to my local MPs ("député", as we call them in France). I usually got a response, though I suspect it was written by their secretary with no other consequence. In one case (related to privacy against surveillance), they raised a question in the congress, which had just a symbolic impact.

It may be different in other countries. In France, Parliament is de-facto a marginal power against a strong executive power. Even the legal terms are symptomatic of this situation: the government submits a "project of law" while MPs submit a "proposal of law" (which, for members of the governing party, is almost always written by the government then endorsed by some loyal MP).


Because it's not their responsibility. Why they should care about these kind of stuff? Don't drop everything on governments.

A project like F-Droid is dumb to begin with where they're the one to build the apps.


> A project like F-Droid is dumb to begin with where they're the one to build the apps.

I heartily disagree. Linux distributions also build the packages themselves, and that adds a layer of trust.

It ensures that everything in the fdroid repo is free software, and can be self-built.


They don't. The community builds the packages.

There are other ways to ensure something is free software and can be self built. Their approach is highly inefficient.


It's now on Portmaster if anyone is curious -

https://portmaster.games/detail.html?name=balatro


Besides optimizations specific to running locally lands in lamma.cpp first.


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