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End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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Its insane that custom launchers are even needed. I gave the base Samsung version a try and it wont even let me move the app drawer button, its glued to the bottom right. I'd expect an android to let me customize more than windows. Never understood the big tech companies need for this much control. Some brand manager will have a heartattack if I change an app icon, a basic feature in any version of Windows.
They keep things locked down for the 50% of the population with below average intelligence. It makes things easier to trouble shoot when you can't move the important stuff. Also that group is usually the loudest complainers when they can't find something, or something goes wrong.
I lament Nova's demise, too..
I think the reason that the tech companies won't allow us to have our devices our own way ( Microsoft was doing this decades ago ), is "religious"/ideological, not practical:
I think they "need" to keep everybody permanently in a headlock, with our heads all twisted, because only if we are all in permanent learned-helplessness, only then can they automatically get away with everything they intend to be getting away with, in our world.
IOW, our autonomy violates their totalitarian religion, see?
It's the same as how ANY spirituality grates on Dawkins' blood: he wants it all gutted/butchered/destroyed, & suicides of ones he destroyed are no problem for him, & no alternative ever can have any validity to him.
Totalitarianism, whether traditionally "religious", or in any other ideology/prejudice/religion, is the same: it HATES violation of its homogenous dominion.
( comically: homophobic-religions want a homogenous het humankind, with no violation of that homogeneity. The existence of homosexuals is too heterogenous for them )
Autonomy is something that totalitarian supremacism ideology "needs" to obliterate from the whole world.
Consistently.
It seems to be a damn-good diagnostic for it, even!
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OnePlus does it pretty well. I just love the ability to have separate actions for swiping an app icon so I use nova