Mortol is the game of the year.

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The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
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I/you

Pick one.

This may not be helpful to you in particular, but I wanted to throw this out there.

I don’t like Auto Rotate because apps can undesirably rotate when the phone is in odd positions. However, I think it’s great for video apps, camera apps, and photo galleries.

Auto Auto-Rotate fixes this. It’s free and open source. When you toggle the Auto Rotate setting on or off, you’re doing it for just the current app!

So now I just rotate my phone the way I want and YouTube matches. No need to hit the full screen button.

Also, if you don’t know, in the YouTube app you can swipe a video up to make it full screen without having to use the full screen button. Of course, it’ll rotate the “natural” way first, which is what’s annoying you. Just thought I’d mention it. I sometimes use that feature when my phone is flat on a table while I’m eating or something and I don’t want to pick it up to engage auto-rotate.

To work best, Auto Auto-Rotate equires a persistent notification, but even with that off, it will work for a long time before you have to relaunch the app. Battery optimization for the app should be off, of course.

I was the first person to post on the pluriverse in 2008.

Cookie cutter engagement bullshit questions. “Which blah would you blah if you could blah a blah? Let me know in the comments”

I don’t even sell flowers!

No, I meant the person who said, “Media literacy skill: 0”

Don’t listen to the haters. The original sentence was ambiguous.

You gotta admit it’s confusing and abnormal to put a single “no” entry in the middle of a comma-delimited list of “yes” entries. Normally you’d say,

It has this, that, and the other thing, and no bad things, malthings, or blahs.

Sometimes the “and” and “or” are left out.

It has this, that, the other thing, and no bad things, malthings, blahs.

The original commenter took this format, and mixed it all up like

It has this, no bad thing, other thing

Is that no other thing or yes other thing? Who can tell? Only people who didn’t need to be told these things in the first place.

Username appropriate.

It’s a fixed bid. The faster you get the work done the more you make per hour. (Per minute, really.)

Ok, how does $5 sound?

I definitely had the bug when double-tapping the app switcher on my Pixel 4a, but I never had that problem on my Pixel 7 Pro, nor this one:

For example, Google Pixel owners running alternative launcher apps can’t use the “select” feature seen in the Pixel Launcher’s recents menu, which allows users to select text and images in any app.

the continued influence of pizel-art

Pizzelle-art

PS3wii360

That’s pronounced “pthwee sixty”

Mull, which is based on Firefox, but removes all the telemetry and stuff. I forget why I chose it over other versions of Firefox. Someone here on Lemmy recommended it.

It’s working! Thanks! I got Mullvad configured inside Rethink, and blocked Gboard from the internet. I was enjoying HeliBoard, but it doesn’t have emoji search. ☹️ Also, autocorrect on HeliBoard was pretty bad. A combination of too aggressive and not aggressive enough at times. Plus the “swipe spacebar to select text” feature of HeliBoard never felt as good as Gboard.

Of course, now I can’t use the GIF feature of GBoard, which was another occasionally useful feature.

Man, does Rethink have a lot of options and settings. Definitely not for the faint of heart!

I also blocked “Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google” which I think is used when you do voice typing. Voice typing is still working, so that’s good. It does most of it locally. Except I noticed months ago that if I have a very spotty cell connection, Voice Typing takes forever to initialize. I thought it was fully on-device at all times, but it turns out it’s not.

Anyone else know some other things I should block? I blocked Chrome because I never use it and I pretty much immediately saw it was using the Internet in the background when I enabled Rethink.

Nice! I’ll have to try it out.

Are there any system apps that are worth blocking that won’t make my phone less useful? Kind of an ambiguous question, I know. I just blocked GBoard, for one.

Oh, never mind. It uses a pseudo VPN to filter traffic, and I’m using an actual VPN, so its not compatible. I only learned this after setting up some rules and finally trying to enable it.

It’d be cool if they integrated a VPN client into the app.