“Android is open and Google Play is not the only way to get apps”

I feel like Google never completely blocked apk installation on Android so that they can use this argument whenever it is convenient.

Huh? It seems to me these are all books about technical skills.

Brands want to push their own style on people, to make themselves recognizable, and to push their ideas about UX to their users

That’s not a universal behavior though. There’s so many utilities and simpler apps made by indie developers or smaller companies that don’t care about this.

It seems that it is based on Qt, so there might be a easy way to fix this unless they’re creating their controls from scratch. I know QML can be used as a canvas to draw custom controls, so it depends on the code.

TumbleOS

Thanks!

Although I already agreed to it from a users’ perspective (the more protectionist, the worse user experience), this article is very thought provoking.

Unless they play the Twitter/X card and only allow seeing Reddit if you’re logged in and limit the amount of requests one account can make…

I had similar experiences and nowadays I just ask for sample exemples of how to do stuff in isolation then I piece them together myself.

One example was trying to create some hooks for git to avoid copy-pasting something every commit. After trying to often correct it again and again, I just decided to start fresh and ask for a generic sample. It finally gave me a correct one. But I did the work to customize if for my needs and test it.

Also this makes you think (assuming it’s true lol): https://www.reddit.com/r/Lemmy/comments/14h965f/comment/jpdemet