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Anon notices what they've taken from us (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 88 points 2 years ago (22 children)

This goddamn camera built into my screen instead of above the screen pisses me off so fucking much. So often I have to move a picture down to read the top of it.

IT'S BLOCKING MY MEMES GOD FUCKING DAMMIT MY MEMES

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Hey man, I know this is a rant, but in case you didn't know there should be a setting to resize things to make a black bar at the top. Google it for your phone, but for samsung it's something like "full sceeen apps".

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Just looked. Not a thing for pixel 6A :(

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Holy crap that did it! Thank you!!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    That seems like a weird thing to want. You'll have less screen space because the notification area is now using your useable screen area instead of being up in the unusable dead space.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    Not actually how it works. There's two options. One of them has the notifications in the "dead space", but the content never gets eaten up.

    Image showing what was described

    (Pinging @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world , just in case you didn't know about this!)

    I wouldn't use this myself. Most apps are designed so content fits underneath the camera hole so nothing gets eaten, and even if it does get eaten, the camera is so small that it's not an issue for me

    Edit: this is what you have to enable, by the way.
    Android menu: "Display cutout", with the "Render apps below cutout area" option enabled

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    People look at me like I'm fucking insane when I get as upset about the blighted notch on my screen as I do. This screen technically has more real estate than my Razer Phone 2 back in 2018 did, but between the obnoxiously tall aspect ratio and the fucking notch, it has like 75% of the usable screen space. You know what was really nice? Watching TV shows on my RP2, with the 6" screen, all of which was used for the video. You know what sucks? Having a half inch of black bars on either side of the screen so that the 16:9 aspect ratio video can fit on the 18:9 aspect ratio screen. And it's even more ass than that, because the top and bottom of the video look like shit because the screen wraps around the fucking sides.

    If the FBI could hear what I have to say about the engineers at samsung, I would have been arrested years ago

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (9 children)
    • the home button now being a part of my screen instead of... a button.
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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    You don't need a navbar if you switch to gesture controls

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Fuck gestures, gice me back my buttons

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If you're talking about physical buttons, please no. Gesture navigation is an incredibly useful feature for those with short fingers like myself, who have problems with reaching the "Recents" button without weirdly tilting the phone and then stretching their thumb to the point that it gets painful over time. And while it's technically possible to use gesture navigation on phones with physical buttons, it would definitely be weird. Not to mention that it's also wasted space, because physical buttons obviously can't just disappear when needed like on-screen buttons do, so you can have a bigger and more efficiently used screen. There are a lot of things that are dumb to remove from phones, pyhsical navigation buttons, in my opinion at least, are not one of them. I can't even think of an advantage physical buttons would have over on-screen buttons.

    If you meant that you want to keep the option for on-screen button navigation, I'm all for it. Can't hurt to have more options :)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well i meant physical buttons but i also think phone displays should be 5 inches, 5.5 at absolute most. Also, by the by, the main advantage of physical buttons is a) useabilty while gloved or with wet/dirty hands and b) being able to know precisely what button you're on by touch

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think this is a common use case for most people, but I can see how that might come in handy for some, so you've got some good points.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Thx. It's more about versatility in my eyes. A smartphone should be, above all else, practical. So a perfect phone for me would be something like Fairphone but with a 3,5mm jack, physical front buttons, and 2 cameras on the back (wide and normal/narrow lens). Mby additional sensors like a barometer, assuming that can be scaled down or done digitally/electronically.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's another thing they ruined! Oneplus had amazing gestures, but then Google enforced using their gestures only, and they're so much worse! I especially hate that back is swiping in from an edge, which is in conflict with every side drawer and cropping tool in every app ever!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I have the most problems with it in Thunder. I avoided using gestures for so long but they've grown on me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    With Oneplus gestures back was swiping up from the bottom left or right. So much better. And the screen-off-gestures with drawing the pause symbol for play/pause or < or > for jump back/forward in a podcast or song. I miss them.

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