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Another thing that annoys me on Android is the setup experience itself. All my recent device presentcthe same behaviour: login with a Google account, transfer data, setup voice assistant and some other defaults,done.

Then after the first app updates is done, a notification comes with "let's finish setting up your phone" and again asks to setup voice assistant, check defaults and whatever else is in the flow.

Has no one noticed that the setup flow seems to run twice?

And it's not one specific device. I do it with eight to ten devices a year, from different OEM, writing reviews and testing. They all have the same behaviour.


Another annoying thing: very few apps are copied from old device to new devices and bring their settings and most importantly login. Of about 80 apps on my device, only five or so are ready to use after a migration.

Going through dozens of apps, doing logins, 2FAcand changing settings is a PITA.

Devs do a poor job on that front.


Developers basically need to opt out not to use that feature. 2FA apps do that for understandable reasons (including on iOS).

In my experience just about everything but WhatsApp and maybe Signal work out of the box for apps downloaded through GPlay.


I noticed that as well, I thought it was just a bug or a conflict because I used Smart Switch instead of a "built-in" Android tool.


Isn't that just Google trying to dark-pattern you into finally clicking that checkboxes you unchecked during setup?


Subscribers can share the link as a gift, so readers can see the original, not the proxied version.


I cannot trust that a gift link does not tie to my IRL identity I subscribe under. I can trust that archive links do not. The NY Times gets my money either way. It's an opsec concern. Trust no one.

If someone wants to post gift links in every thread, just let me know who to pay to enable that, I am happy to.


Their consitution says elections can't be hold in times of war.


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Putin can stop invading Ukraine whenever he wants to.

If your home is invaded by burglars, is that also "two sides"?


> Who cares?

There's no way this is a serious comment from a serious person.

> everything to do with the genocide of slavs

Confirmed, unmitigated botfarm horseshit.


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> It's most definitely a serious comment from a serious person.

It literally isn't, no matter how many lies you make up about it. What politicians did in the 90s has no relevance today and pretending they're the same is, again, unmitigated horseshit from someone who thinks everyone will just nod with him when he screams that 1+1=3 now.

For the rest? "I know you are but what am I" should've been left in elementary school. What you're saying is bullshit. You're using words you don't understand because you think making things emotional will get you points, you're pretending that Ukraine is just throwing people away and not, you know, ensuring that it continues to exist as a country, and you don't even know what the fuck "events leading up to ... 2013" means, given that it's followed by "and then a hostile foreign country invaded. Twice."


So history has no relevance? Who is being unserious again?

Excuse me, but you're the one that started off with the insults, become emotional, adopted an aggressive tone and started swearing. Regardless, Ukraine won't exist without a working-age male population. I very much do understand what events transpired between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the present. I also don't view the situation in a vacuum nor do I pretend it's a simple case of bad guys versus good guys.


"Portal team includes former DOGE member Coristine"

"...user activity on the site will not be tracked."

Ok, stopped reading right there.


And the original is gone.


For redundancy in case archive.is is down:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260105115129/https://devblogs....


The superior link; no Google captcha.


Some lawyer at Microsoft probably had a big scare browsing HN today.


The rates are so low that they don't need to measure anymore. That's what they were told, probably.


But this government was just collecting the worst of the worst from the streets.

Or were they lying all along?

(Narrator's voice: they have been lying all along).


Can't read because someone on that website thinks Opera is "not acceptable":

"Not acceptable. Your browser is not supported. Please upgrade your browser to continue."


Which opera? The new one is spyware.


Opera Mobile.


"-> Publisher is not harmed"

How? Publishers do need revenue and this can deprive them of this income.


Fair enough. I took the principle that revenue = 0 if no conversion, but in reality this is not true at all.


No, it's not, as there are ads that pay per impression, not click.


Ads pay in different forms. Some pay per click (PPC), some pay per thousand impressions (CPM).

Clicking with the intention of helping doesn't help. Only clicking with genuine interest helps.


I don't think the question was about whether this would actually help the advertisers. (I suspect it was rhetorical.) Of course the defense will now be harder to execute for anyone who reads this thread.


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