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[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They just keep making the quick action buttons worse, don't they?

I miss the Android 11 style ones, myself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

android 4-7 were perfect. it all went to shit with Oreo, we just didn't realize it at the time because we thought the changes were minor inconveniences we'd get used to. once md2 dropped, we should have realized we were cooked, but it was still… innocuous how small and mildly annoying the changes were. by 2020 though i had noticed: no good updates had come to my phone in almost 4 years and every update just broke something that used to work. then in 2023 google announced gemini was adding new features to the assistant. features that had slowly gotten broken but had worked back in 2015. this is our lives now. a constant churn of features being taken away and brought back