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Nova Launcher could soon add a proactive AI assistant that sucks up all your data (www.androidauthority.com)
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Nova Launcher could soon introduce Nova AI, a built-in AI assistant complete with a chatbot, and a new Nova Plus subscription tier

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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not easily. Most mention it in descriptions or have links to GitHub/etc. For me, I used to search FDroid to check but I'm pretty selective about the apps I use. Now I do most things through Obtainium, but as a Graphene user I'm certainly not the norm.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I couldn't find Lawnchair in F-Droid.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sigh.. Lawnchair is the absolute worst of the worst for install/discovery. Because it got taken over by another developer, it's been all "beta" releases on GitHub forever, even though a truckload of people daily drive it.

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/releases

[–] uselessartifact@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been daily driving it for a while and really want it to be better. Its hard to complain since it's FOSS, but one of my most used features from the old Lawnchair 2 version (tabs in the app drawer) hasn't been implemented in the new version since development was effectively reset/restarted.

Maybe it's time to move on and check out Octopi...

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

OK, so I don't recommend this often, but there is a FOSS option closer to Nova than Lawnchair. It's called Neo Launcher: https://github.com/neoapplications/neo-launcher

It may be worth a shot, I ran the release on GitHub for about a year. I stopped because the devs are doing this brainrot thing of putting releases as beta in their Discord, so the release file on GitHub is old. I hate that practice so much that I stopped recommending it, even though it's a slightly better launcher with more options IMO.

[–] uselessartifact@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I appreciate the recommendation, however, I can't support any dev who uses Discord for releases/support. I'm doing what I can to move friends and family once a viable alternative is available. I know a bunch were being recommended a couple of weeks ago, but I need 80%+ feature parity and simple a install and use flow before most will consider it.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Yup, totally get it, it's why I don't use it. I have Lawnchair's GitHub URL added into Obtainium, so it's as simple as Play Store for updates.