Markaos

If you don't sign into a Google account, you will never arm this mechanism at all.

Nah, this development version is way worse than both Android 12+ design and Android 11 design - it just has random unlabeled tiles for system settings where you have to guess the meaning by the icon.

In Android 11, this was only used for the six quick settings you could access when you were looking at the notifications, and they would get labels when you expanded the settings side. In 12+, there are no unlabeled settings anywhere. But this redesign introduced unlabeled tiles for settings you don't use often, which just seems insane to me.

Wow, first time I feel strongly about a quick settings update. It looks awful, taking the worst parts of the Android 12+ redesign and combining them with the worst ideas from the older design, like unlabeled icons.

It looks like there are unlabeled icons in the expanded state? Wtf? If I'm expanding the quick settings, that means I'm fishing for the less used settings, so there's no way I'm going to remember that for example the weird circle with a small segment cut out means "Data saver". It will just be a mystery icon that does some mystery action - that has nothing to do in a modern OS.

It looks like this design is heavily sacrificing usability for people who don't spend hours every day mucking around with quick settings in order to please some hypothetical user who feels more slowed down by swiping over one or two screens than by having to find the one setting they currently need in a big matrix of poorly designed icons.

Edit: also it looks like the home screen is visible under the quick settings - I'm not a big fan of that, I really like the current design where the notifications are pretty much their own separate screen without distracting app content, but that's just my subjective taste. Unlabeled icons are objectively bad.

How much Doritos dust are you willing to inhale?

Circle to search for music is pretty much just a shortcut to Google's music detection available from the normal Google app

The comment you replied to is a direct reply to the comment you linked - I don't think it was intentional, but if it was, then I'd like to say it's not a very helpful reply as OP already read it.

someone just plain lying about what OS they're using in order to break fingerprinting.

The idea with avoiding fingerprinting is to look like whatever the biggest group of users looks like, because that's who you share the fingerprint with. If you use an uncommon value for something, you make fingerprinting easier.

That's one of the reasons why for example Vivaldi on Linux sets its user agent to match the latest version Chrome on Windows.

It's easy to dismiss as an ad. I did, too.

Well, Vivaldi's built-in in adblock apparently agrees with this categorization. The video shows up if I disable it. Lol

Where's the article?

In my very limited experience with my 5400rpm SMR WD disk, it's perfectly capable of writing at over 100 MB/s until its cache runs out, then it pretty much dies until it has time to properly write the data, rinse and repeat.

40 MB/s sustained is weird (but maybe it's just a different firmware? I think my disk was able to actually sustain 60 MB/s for a few hours when I limited the write speed, 40 could be a conservative setting that doesn't even slowly fill the cache)

Fair enough. I misunderstood, my bad.

Then what's the meaning of this whole part?

On non-corpo linux syslog can be disabled if you want, though I'd prefer to just symlink/mount /var/log to a memory filesystem instead.

Is it just a random tidbit that could be replaced with a blueberry muffin recipe without any change of meaning of the whole comment? Because it sure won't help OP at all with their Arch-specific question, so it's either that, or it provides contrast to the "corpo Linux", which is how I interpreted it.

And here's the remaining part of your comment I left out, just to make sure people won't lose the context between two three sentence long comments (for those without any attention span, it comes before the previous quoted part):

If you're on arch you use redhat's garbage.