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> The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Sounds very scientific. Except when change happens.

MIUI > AOSP/Google Android, but that's my opinion.

They even fixed the shitty non existant backup/restore situation on Android, hence why Titanium Backup&Restore is the best selling paid app for years. Built in solution backups apps with data (also overrides backup permission set in manifest) and all system settings. You can run it periodically, save in desired storage location, locally or in MI Cloud. After I had to reflash cousins phone which had a vendor MIUI installed, the restore did everything and was almost a 1:1 copy.

Not to mention updates, my budget 135€ device has January 2017 Android security update and is updated weekly.

It has it's own funny things though, like expanding notifications with two fingers only and a bit fiddling to allow apps to run in background and receive notifications, but this whitelisting isn't anything different that other Android vendors have done to save battery.

> One problem that was specific to my device I guess is that the notification LED is stuck in red - it blinks in other colors when I get notifications, etc. but it's always red (and this was before I installed CM).

MIUI has options to set all notifications, calls and messaging. So any app that doesn't have own color settings blinks in the color of the default set. For apps that don't have LED notifications (I'm looking at you Instagram, is it really so hard in 2017) I use Light Manager app.

They were. American mobile phones didn't even have SMS.

While this picture captures a single moment, you suggest people should have a grin over the whole ceremony ?

I hope your logic process when choosing your voting preferences is more sound that this statement.

Must be something with the "magic pill for everything" PR that is popular in USA. Goes hand in hand with non existing public healthcare, so "market can handle that".

Thanks for this, tried it in Android Canary version and it works great.

Is there any official reason why DDG isn't among the list of possible search engines on Google Chrome Android build ?

> Maybe he one you linked to is better

So you didn't try it.

> but I've always felt

Stop feeling, do some testing instead.

O&O Shutup even suggests doing a system restore point before doing any changes and its settings can be restored easy.

Left wing media and governments go hand in hand.

Well it still tells something that 90% of majority of Googles revenue is based on fabricated BS.

Where's the line for number of people having to flee the Middle East because of the regime coups by the US ?

Statistics is a bitch.

>Why should Microsoft cater to people who want to boot Linux?

They don't need to cater to them, they need to NOT block them from doing so, because they're a monopoly in this space.

Sorry to hear that then. I'm positive this doesn't happen in the EU though, yet we're willingly giving Google more data.

It still baffles me why would someone use Google DNS over local ISPs and 8.8.8.8 being advertised anywhere make me cringe.

Personalized searches can at least be disabled. AMP on the other hand, not.

Thanks, I tried some Chromium based browsers on the Play Store, but they all have unreliable or even non working Chrome Sync. I'd go full FF, if scrolling on Android wasn't so jerky compared to Chrome.

It sure would be awesome if Chrome on Android had it available as an option. But, it's Google.

That's the same argument as giving up privacy for security.

Fuck Google and their eagerness to govern the World Wide Web.

Yeah, more people needs to get scammed, then the media will advertise how it happened and how to prevent it. It's called learning and is a sign of maturity.

Precisely, developing coping mechanisms to deal with sadness is crucial from childhood on without suppressing it with pills and/or stimulants (and yes modern day Internet + Social media is just that). No wonder there's more people "depressed" then ever.

1986 - I feel sad. Well that's life.

2016 - I feel sad. It must be that I'm depressed, let me read more about depression so I'll know even how I fail in life, because everyone around me on social media is so much successful and happy.

Nah, it only shows the amount of frustration over it and fear for the future.

The iPhone itself is marketed with "communist" propaganda - one true smartphone for everyone and customization being hindered down that all the desktops on it are basically the same. Which is hilarious based on the "think different" mantra.

You say crippled, one might say made it useful for the cause. One huge feature of Android was and is the application packaging, which is a PITA on desktop Linux to this date.

Fake news didn't start in 2016 [1].

> Following the news, global media had a fit and made wild assumptions about the accident. In fact, only 2 men had died when these were published.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/EF8o29L.jpg

The sites who enable AMP are strong-armed/baited by Google, because they rank AMP sites differently.

This is just the beginning guys. It shows the BS business Google Search has become. Either comply to Google Internet™ or get lost.

If Google collapsed tomorrow, nothing of value will be lost and I'm awaiting eagerly for that day to come.

Obligatory CES of Shit: https://twitter.com/i/moments/817537697535250432

> apparently it makes more sense in 2016 to sync a song with uploading it to an other computer (teh cloud™) then download it back instead of copying it locally within 1m of proximity.

From the original post.

Been there done that, waiting in a full sport gear in the room for a playlist to sync going around the fucking planet while being 1m apart.

Well iTunes already syncs to iPhones natively in the same manner, also via a wireless connection. The only difference is that you control which playlists are synced in iTunes itself (not whole library, checkmark beside playlist), not on device.