I also use a Fairphone and haven't encountered issues with gestures while using a third party launcher (previously Niagara, now Kvaesitso)
Admittedly I switched the gestures back off anyway because I'm just used to using the on screen buttons for the moment
Showing a notification doesn't "evade" battery optimization - as battery optimization is completely independent of Android's memory management.
Showing a notification allows Android's memory management to better assess what apps to kill using a weights system, based on whether they are in the foreground or background, if any of the app's overlays/notifications are visible to the user, and exactly how visible they are.
Battery optimization will kill any non-system app based on how frequently it is used, dependent on its overall background CPU usage, regardless of whether the app is showing a notification or not.
Set the battery usage of your essential apps to Unrestricted and your persistence problem is solved
The background app battery usage feature (otherwise known as "allow background activity", "battery care", or "Adaptive battery") is a different feature to what I'm talking about here sadly AFAICT, and doesn't affect the relative importance weight of apps when Android's memory management is looking for things to kill.
The only thing that the background app battery usage restriction does is stop "inactive" apps from running in the background if they are using up a lot of CPU time, and if the app is not being interacted with frequently: either directly by the user, indirectly via Google Cloud Messaging, or by another app on the device. From what I can tell, it's completely separate to Android's memory management and solely exists to extend battery life.
Android has vastly improved its security by cutting off the workarounds shady (and legit) apps have used to persist.
Shady apps already persist using Google (Firebase) Cloud Messaging, and this change does not impact them. Even if they are killed by the separate background battery app usage feature, a simple push message typically brings these back.
The hacky workarounds you speak of to maintain persistence on A14 should be killed off to improve everyone's privacy.
I wouldn't exactly categorize this as a hacky workaround, since it follows the documented relative app importance weights used by Android's memory management. Users can even bypass this themselves by swiping on the persistent notification, and hiding those types of app notifications.
If anything IMO it forces apps to be less transparent about their activity, since they cannot communicate to the user that they are running
If I'm wrong about the background battery app feature's seemingly lack of impact on Android's memory management please do let me know - I've yet to come across anything suggesting it does โน๏ธ
Their news has been all over lemmy for the past few days, a korean compamy decided it wanted to try and take the devs to court, so the main project packed up shop and some branches emerged in its place.
Would suggest migrating to one of the branches asap, as AFAIK you can still import your data from Tachiyomi, but in future this import capability may not be guaranteed as the codebases diverge
Since Android 10 the OS has really gone downhill IMO.
IIRC they have also been ripping out workarounds that people use to keep their apps open, so expect things like Syncthing/OpenVPN/Element/Termux etc to no longer be able to survive in the background - I believe the non dismissable notifications are a part of that too. To me this also means apps using their own push services are now being forced into a position where they'll need to consider Google Cloud Messaging.
The OpenVPN one is pretty poor because unless you have it set to be always-on, Android can kill it freely now, then completely bypass your VPN preference because "it's not working"
These new changes in A14 kind of show everything wrong with having an ad company in charge of a mobile OS
These analysts can take their ambitious thinking elsewhere. I for one have no plans to upgrade, especially while GPUs cost as much as a console (originally mentioned by @PP_BOY_@lemmy.world )
My R7 2700 + GTX 1060 will carry me until prices come back down
Yes! Definitely doable, although admittedly a bit longer than what i'd be comfortable with for a commute in my area (quite a few hills for me sadly).
My workplace is 17km per trip
So I'm assuming that would be 17km from home to work + 17km from work to home, totalling a 34km round-trip. Don't forget to give your body sufficient fuel to last the ride
Havent done it before
I would suggest going on some shorter rides first to build up your comfort and familiarity. After a while you should eventually settle into a comfortable pace and cadence, so you don't run out of energy on your commute.
OP is talking about software updates, and you are talking about one of the few products nowadays where decades old models can be maintained without excessive cost.
In most countries the Model T is exempt from any kind of safety inspection and classes of tax, making it an excellent option for the maliciously compliant engineer ๐
Maybe the EU ๐ช๐บ should legislate that German car companies should cease to produce new cars and instead commit to repairing what they have already produced, for free presumably?
Why not? While they're at it they can start making buses and trains.
Mercedes in particular absolutely nailed bus design with their Citaro, then promptly proceeded to make a hideous looking successor ๐คข perhaps their car designers can fix that
Parrot's older consumer drones. They took really long to power up, and ran very hot.
I believe you could telnet into them too, although that was later discovered to be a bug and not a feature
I'm going to be completely honest - I have no idea what other word can be used in its place to convey what it means in this context.
The intended audience will know that your post didn't intend to offend IMO
The bot quotes in this article completely messed up the AutoTLDR here, wow
I saw this on someone's phone and was wondering what it was, seems neat tbh but I already own a ship ๐ดโโ ๏ธ