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…

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It really should be put inside the settings section

Your enemy’s enemy is your friend. It’s “safe” as it will not try to steal your crenditials. Although it is a privacy nightmare itself but think as people in China wouldn’t care much about Google’s privacy policy as noone will use the information against them.

I don’t personally want any affiliation with Microsoft, someone please do this, I’ve searched the issues and there are no opening issues about this one.

I would really like to see this get integrated into SearXNG

Just block them, there aren’t many of these communities.

SearXNG is the king

To keep posts, comments is unlikely to happen. Transferring the sub list and bookmarks or just exporting them should be in the near future, at least with 3rd party apps.

Since most Lemmy instances won’t come loaded with Google analytics, solely relying on Google crawlers I would imagine will be very ineffienct at gathering all the posts and comments.

MITM is the endgame

The above, not much you can do

I do not understand how there is no mention of the fediverse.

It’s quite obvious not what you think about as many pointed out, that being said, an overly regulated instance is boring IMO.

Honestly though, I don’t think it’s a bad thing for free press. Some people say “free internet” when we are really talking about cooperative internet. I’d rather people get news from Lemmy than from Google or Facebook.

That instance is full of sympathizers of Mao Zedong, Stalin, they’re in favour of a authoritarian regime. If you are in favour of that stance may as well migrate there if you don’t believe in the so called free world.