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Gaza hospital bombed: Health Ministry says death toll in Gaza City hospital blast caused by Israel strike rises to at least 500 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is fake news.

Play Service green dot location indicator and the SOLUTION in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is very likely Samsung has whitelisted Play Service from showing the green dot, my Pixel certainly does not, although it probably should and a bug might have the made the whitelist invalid.

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Play Service green dot location indicator and the SOLUTION (sh.itjust.works)
 

The first part is where I posted it on numerous places asking for help with no luck.

I have not found anyone talking about this which makes me wonder if I'm the only one facing this issue.Essentially Play service uses the location permission every single time I wake up my phone. 23.35.14 still uses location every single time I unlock the phone even in safe mode, the green dot privacy indicator pops up all the time. As early as the version I have tested, 23.26.17 doesn't have this issue.I have this issue with all recent updates on Android 13. For now, I have to uninstall the Play service update so it won't get updated.Should I back up my data and do a flash with full wipes? Are you facing this issue?Edit: I'm on stock Android 13.To be honest, I am slightly disappointed as this is the 7(?)th Android system Google has made for its Pixel phones. Google has full control over the system and the Play service, unlike other vendors and I'm still facing this kind of weird issue that I just don't remember ever happening on iOS aside from the poor performance on iOS 11.

This is the part where I finally tackled the issue after a full month of research(started having this issue in early August as I can remember).

Edit 2: I have finally figured out what it is, It's the "Unknown tracker alerts" under "safety and emergency" within the Play Service settings. This seems like a new feature and I doubt Google has actually tested it before shipping it, I'm still not sure if I'm enrolled in some kind of A/B testing since no one's really talking about this. And yes, turning it off does stop the green dot from popping up when I wake up the phone.

The official page of "safety and emergency" which doesn't include "Unknown tracker alerts" yet. https://support.google.com/android/answer/12464968?hl=en

The page talks about "Unknown tracker alerts" which does say the feature is under "safety and emergency". https://support.google.com/android/answer/13658562?hl=en

Conclusion: This is the most frustrating issue I have ever had with any smartphone ever and there is absolutely no way an average user(non-technical) would find the solution. Google really needs to up its game and make its phones and software reliable for normal people in order to compete with giants like Samsung and Apple.

Play service causing location green dot to pop up in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have that function disabled on my phone. It's not about not doing that during sleep though but rather the green dot will pop every single time when I wake up the device, say I lock the screen just 1 second ago 1 second later when I wake up the phone the dot will pop, this can be reproduced repeatedly. I honestly think this must be a bug on my phone specifically but downgrade the Play service does fix this and the updated version is still behaving like this in safe mode. I'm seriously thinking about switching to Lineages OS at this point...

Access Locked Folder in Google Photos across your devices with cloud backup in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Unless it's end to end encrypted it's useless, false sense of security is worse than insecurety.

Source: Google Pixel 8 will get more Android OS updates - 9to5google in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

It's good but I personally don't care, phone manufactures will eventually stop updating their old phones, since Pixel phones are so open I can rely on third party ROMs comfortably, that's also why I got the Pixel 6 Pro at the first place. Although I would admit for the mass majority an Apple like updating experience is essential.

I would really like to see Google improve their hardwares, I have no complaints with my 6 Pro whatsoever, but it's obviously inferior to the Samsung's S Series Ultra or the Apple's iPhone Pro, both in terms of specs and designs. I have no issues with specs since I don't play games but I believe most people still do, designs however is much more important especially in the premium phones frontend.

@SmartLauncher: "Smart Launcher 6.3 will make Material You Themed Icons compatible with ANY version of Android" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The notification icons are definitely better than the colored ones. I probably exaggerated a bit about the “guideline”. What I really meant is that on iOS all icons have to be exactly the same size and shape, and they all look crisp, on Android it’s not guaranteed.

@SmartLauncher: "Smart Launcher 6.3 will make Material You Themed Icons compatible with ANY version of Android" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I enjoy Material You design overall, the themed icons though are not my flavor, I would much prefer icons following a strict guideline like on IOS and still remain very differentiated.

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The Lemmy app with the best performance (sh.itjust.works)
 

There are many UI layouts I don't like about this app, I prefer the layouts of Jebora but it's laggy on a 120hz display and scrolling physics feels weird. This app on the other hand is very smooth and feels right, I'm enjoying it so far.

[Alexandrite (a desktop-first Lemmy web app)] New features! Side-by-side feed layout, themes, community blocking, better markdown formatting, all client-side API usage in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best Lemmy web app so far, a light theme will be much appreciated, also the voted vote counts color does not reflect the hue setting.

Do e-cigarettes actually work? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (13 children)

E-cigarettes is designed to replace cigarettes nowadays, not to help you quit smoking.

The FTC wants to make it easier to cancel subscriptions just as streamer cancellations are peaking — read how Disney, Netflix, and more are pushing back in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is simply a positive thing. Corporations have the right to conduct their businesses, the consumers should also have the right to abndon those businesses they no longer wanted, as easy as adopting them.

[Discussion] Let's create a banner for sh.itjust.works! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It can be a happy sealion playing at the beach

3 buttons next to each other in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It really should be put inside the settings section

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[Lemmy-UI bug]"Back button" results in turning to the previous page (sh.itjust.works)
 

Supposedly you are on the 1st page of the timeline. Click the next page button twice so that you are now on the 3rd page. Enter any post by left-clicking it, now click the "back button" of the browser of your choice You are now on the 2nd page.

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Maybe all the Top sortings should be put into one place under second menu... (sh.itjust.works)
 

The sorting menu has become so crowded

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Oftentimes the Feed switcher will do nothing (sh.itjust.works)
 

By Feed switcher I mean when you switch from say subscribed to all. Can’t say what input exactly is causing this, it’s probably the most annoying bug so far.

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PWA shortcut disappear after phone reboot (sh.itjust.works)
 

This is extremely weird, I have never seen anything like this before.

I've been using wefwef for days just fine on my Android 13 Pixel 6 Pro, today, after rebooting the phone though, the wefwef PWA is gone.

Reinstalling wefwef and rebooting multiple times reproduce the same results.

To make sure this is not a browser(KIWI) or system issue, I tried installing Twitter PWA and reboot after that, the PWA remains.

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Top hour, a much needed way of sorting (sh.itjust.works)
 

Active and hot or even new comments as these currently stand become stale real quick, hopefully, there will be a new api for the devs to use.

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[Feature Request] Manul Light/Dark mode switch (sh.itjust.works)
 

While I do prefer the Dark mode visually, I often find myself having a hard time reading with it. Please consider adding a light/dark/auto mode under the appearance setting section.

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Does wefwef show splash screen on your iPhone? (sh.itjust.works)
 

While launching the app, wefwef shows a blank white screen, Twitter pwa does show a proper splash screen.

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