It still works actually.

That’s you assuming they show you what YOU want and not what THEY want you to see.

I looked just to make sure, and it’s actually 652. But only 445 are user apps.

I wish I could say a lot are junk, but there are a solid 100+ that I consider invaluable. I probably have 10+ backup apps alone (Google photos, Amazon photos, synctoy, Swift backup, folder sync, etc). Tasker and its app tree/plugins are probably close to 10. It adds up quick.

Then I have 7 or 8 for lemmy (waiting for one to separate from the pack), same number of news apps, and so on and so forth. My main issue is that if I have to do something more than a couple times (or need to remember to do it), I automate it. Tasker does a lot, but I have to use ifttt to do web things so I don’t smoke my battery. Open with allows me to use different apps as defaults. Basically, I have 3-4 apps for every task since a single one can never handle what I want completely. I have a VPN app, but another to remote into my server. I could use just the last app, but it doesn’t automatically switch to fastest VPN, so I have to use a 2nd. I have 4 file managers because Google likes to kill access to root areas, so they all go in and out of functionally.

Long story short, multiply the number of apps you have times 6 for how many of each type I tend to have, and that’ll be more accurate. But either way, yes, it’s stupid. And I HATE wiping my phone because it usually takes about 2 days just to restore everything (even using rooted Swift backup).

I seem to be like most and while I’ve tried tons, I’ve always stuck with Nova (at least since I switched from Apex).

My main sticking point and the reason it’ll be a long time before I switch? I NEED to be able to assign up/down swipes on icons. Tap opens app/folder, up swipe opens another app/folder, down swipe opens another app/folder.

At this point my homescreen has 6 icons and within 2 touches I can get to any of my 500 apps with nearly zero scrolling. If anyone knows another launcher that can do that, I’m all ears.

Flash firmware on a soldering iron. What a time.

Hard sell to consider towns of 20k and 10k people are cities. I grew up in rural Midwest with higher population densities than that.

On one side you have people that think 5g causes cancer. On the other, you have people directly beaming shit into their skulls to open their cars from a couple extra feet away.

Wild

So where has the left functioned successfully in the real world?

Guess it was Freedomville that caused Soviet Russia and China to be so oppressive, right?

I’d be interested to hear where communism, socialism, or any far left government has ever worked in the real world.

Because there are plenty of examples of it being a nightmare.

Moonfall. So where to start…

It was a big budget action flick, with sci-fi mixed in. Now don’t get me wrong, I can suspend my disbelief just fine - you want to tell me that a zombie can rip a mountain in two, so be it. But the scientist in me just couldn’t get past a couple things. It’s an absolute blast of a movie, with great visuals. Mild spoilers below.

They successfully hide from gravity behind a concrete barrier. A space shuttle launches from the ground through a tsunami (literally in the water). Just absolutely bonkers. But so, so fun.

I actually sat down a coworker years ago and did this. It was surprisingly easy once I realized something - I’ll sit down and watch a lot of movies on TV, but there are a few I refuse to. Too many commercials and edits just make me furious… those are my favorites. Getting down to 10 was hard enough, so top 5 are in no order. Some changed how I thought about things, some just entertained me for years:

The Matrix

Interstellar

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Fight Club

Schindler’s List

And because it was so hard, here are a few more that just as easily could be top 5:

Silence of the Lambs, Inception, V for Vendetta, OG Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Kung Pow, Blair Witch Project

Edit: Forgot one - Arrival. Probably in top 5, no idea which to demote. Fight Club maybe

Growing up our male dogs were named after middle linebackers by my grandfather and I - Butkus, LT, Lloyd, Lambert, etc. - as they were Newfies. One of my greatest young successes (in my mind) came when we had a half Newfie, half something else: Polamalu. Wasn’t technically a linebacker, but played like one.

Female dogs were named by my grandmother. it was usually some uncommon human name - Cora, Molly, etc.

This is the stuff I come here for 👏

After reading that post, I’m actually pretty glad they’re leaving.

So far I have no problems with 99% of what everyone else seems to have. It’s not super intuitive to sign up and figure out all the instances/sites, but it wasn’t THAT hard and I’m not planning on signing up too often. Finding new subreddits (for lack of the terminology knowledge) really needs to be improved - it took me well over a day to figure it out (but admittedly I was only using jerboa).

The only things that bug me are some missing quality of life features my 3P Reddit app had, like automatically making as read when scrolling past and being able to quickly hide/dismiss seen content. I’m not used to seeing the same articles over and over. Also, and it’s pretty dumb, but being able to double tap for up vote and triple tap for down vote. Don’t need it, just drive myself crazy since it’s so ingrained.

The only other “complaint” I have is simply the amount of content. I was subscribed to quite a few niche subreddits that fit my interests/humor well, and those obviously haven’t migrated over. The YEARS of help in computer subreddits or whatever isn’t here. There’s no crazy specific subreddit to discover with tons of content.

With all of that being said, I currently have zero plans or desire to go back to Reddit, and it really hasn’t been all that hard so far. I swapped out my homescreen shortcut on my phone and I’ve been enjoying my time so far. I’m desperately hoping that this doesn’t die out in a couple days/weeks/months because it’s good to have competition, Reddit is effectively dead to what I need it to be, and I have zero desire to give Reddit any money after their views on us came out (to name a few reasons of many).

I also hope the toxicity stays away, but I’m not that naive. And I’m REALLY hoping that people with more time than I have bring over their comments/posts so I can search for them here. Reddit was one of the last places I knew that wasn’t stuffed full of ads and bot-generated, search-optimized posts that made little sense and didn’t help at all.