My dogs always leave footprints paw prints on the sidewalk before I sweep off the snow. They’re cute until they freeze into ice and I nearly make a cartoon sound effect as I slip on them lol.

Us shit.

That’s why I’m planning on investing in a solar+battery system for my home this spring. Well, that, and because my electric rate keeps rising.

Maybe not PSU shortages, but definitely power supply shortages.

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/04/11/energy-demand-will-outstrip-supply-in-virginia-as-data-centers-proliferate/

This is her when she was younger (about 7 y/o). Don’t have any recent ones I can post right now where I wouldn’t have to blur out the background, etc. Blame the AI tools that let you feed pictures in and return a location. Grr…lol

My 11 year old dog still gets the zoomies.

What do you call Jeffrey Combs standing around by himself?

“A Star Trek convention”

From what I gathered, these would basically have been used as a last resort when the only other option is dying in space. Given the choice…I’d flip a coin I guess? lol

And also Secretary of Treasury

Star Trek but without the show’s lessons…isn’t that basically just the Dominion from DS9?

According to the support ticket I put in last week when I saw the first post about this, the bootloader will be unlockable. Or, at least that’s what they said. So here’s hoping we see nice debloated/de-googled ROMs.

At the very least, it should be immediately rootable with Magisk.

Don’t feel bad or at least don’t feel alone. Such is generally my luck too.

One thing has become abundantly clear: You, me, and so many others in the comments here need to be in charge of phone design and not whoever’s been doing it for the last 10 years.

Yeah, I’ve got all those turned off. Actually, they came disabled by default (one of the OS customizations Minimal does in their base image). I usually turn those to at least .5x on my other phones to make things feel faster, lol, but in this case, they were already off.

But there’s still subtle transitions and some animations that aren’t affected by that. One of the latter is the animations on the lock screen when you’re entering your pin. Those have to be disabled separately in the security settings (and weren’t disabled by default by Minimal).

I’d love to see the keyboards and trackballs manufactured again if for no other purpose than having them available for other projects.

There was a project a while back called Beepberry that was a little handheld Linux thing that used Blackberry keyboards. Among other reasons, the supply of the Blackberry keyboards dried up so the project died.

Quite possibly. I don’t think I have anything running below A11 that still functions so that’s been my baseline. Most recent was my OP3 that had LineageOS’s A9 but the battery finally gave up the ghost a few months ago.

Yep, to all of that.

disable that annoying “you haven’t used those apps in a while so permissions were removed” thigny

AFAIK, you can only do that on an app-by-app basis.

Settings -> Apps -> {App} -> Permissions -> Pause app activity if unused

That’s on Android 14, so YMMV if they took that away or made it worse since then.

AFAIK, it’s just the base Android UI because it’s the same in LineageOS and vanilla builds.

• The quick actions have gone to hell. There’s nothing quick about them anymore and customizing them is even worse than it already was.
• Every UI element is oversized and seems made for the hot doggiest of hotdog fingers
• The organization of the settings, especially the network/mobile settings, somehow makes even less sense than before
• You can’t configure a wifi profile without a gateway. God forbid I want to do anything on a local network.
• You can’t disable the connectivity checker and Android treats not being able to reach Google with not having internet. And if there’s no internet, you have about 5 seconds to catch the prompt to stay connected otherwise it’ll disconnect.
• Even if you do catch the prompt to stay connected to the no-internet wifi, the DNS resolver will not use its DNS server unless you’re in airplane mode. I’ve got a RasPi-based “internet in a box” mobile server that’s useless when accessing it via my phone (unless in airplane mode) because I had the sheer audacity to configure it to use proper DNS hostnames and SSL certs.
• The wallpaper / background config is just awful nowadays. I don’t know if that’s “Material You” or what, but just let me pick an image or no image or a solid color. Don’t present 3 different apps to handle changing the background, two of which do nothing.
• On the Google side, they’re shoving more Gemini shit in
• Now Google is gatekeeping even the apps you want to sideload
• Even with animations disabled, there’s still too many animations/transitions. I’m using an e-ink phone and this alone just destroys the experience.
• Gesture navigation is just terrible but at least you can dig through the settings to re-enable 3 button nav
• A litany of other small gripes

I pre-ordered last June and got it toward the end of July. It seems to ship directly from the factory in Hong Kong, so you have to use the tracking link they send you until it clears customs in your country.

I did a first impressions post about it when I got it.

I’m really starting to feel like Android 11 is the “Windows 7” of Android.