There are a few things one can mention to get APK to come roaring out of his troll-cave, of which Delphi is the most prominent. Seriously, he loves it, even more than the HOSTS file. In fact, I'm surprised he didn't mention that he wrote his hosts file maintenance suite in Delphi, he usually does. We ought to compile a list of APK signal words so people can put trigger warnings before they use them.
TW: Delphi, may draw APK!
Not to mention fascist dictators predilection for mass murder renders any concern about staving off death moot. Then again, maybe this guy is just in the right [race|religion|political] group and would be more than happy to line up with the rest and shout whatever mantras the regime cooks up. America has a pretty strong history of Jingoism, so expect a hardline super baptist wrapped up in Jesus and the Flag.
The really crappy part is that it doesn't HAVE to be as difficult as it is.
If handsets weren't as locked down as they are, installing a new ROM could be a pretty simple process.
The problem of device support is a whole other ball of wax, especially for a custom ROM like Cyanogenmod. It's a shame there isn't more standardization in the parts put into a handset (e.g., radio, etc), but that's not something we're likely to ever see. The state of the art is moving so quickly Google would have a really hard time supporting the multitude of device hardware configurations. The Galaxy S4 alone has at least 6 different models and hardware configurations for various regions and cellular signal types. Add in stuff like S4 Active and whatever other form factor modifications and it makes for a pretty complicated field of possible handset configurations.
Cyanogenmod IS Android, without the bullshit. Pre-rooted, adds a few bells and whistles on top of the standard AOSP apps. I put it on my Galaxy S4, which as shipped by Samsung had 7.5GB of the on-board 16GB filled with dumb ass fucking bullshit. I can't really understand the reluctance of people to rooting and or installing a custom ROM. How many people here would bend over backwards to remove bloatware and crapware from a new PC but throw up their hands because, "Oh well, the carriers installed a bunch of garbage, what am I to do?" or "My phone should just work," even though history has shown that the company's that 'sell' the handsets don't give two fucks whether it does (just work) or not, just that we keep buying the damnable things. The status quo of "We, the almighty carriers outright own your handset, so fuck off and die" in the U.S. is mind boggling.
. Heaven forbid the UI tell you what gestures are available too, that would be cheating. Phones should be like puzzle boxes apparently.
It's all part of the User eXperience! UX uber alles!
Towelroot worked like a charm on my 2013 Nexus 7. Admittedly, this was long before this recent Lolipop debacle, but it was the easiest damn root I've ever done.
They didn't jump the shark! They bought the shark, re-released it with a new name and then killed it off a couple of years later because reasons. That's the Google Way! (tm)
It's gonna take some time for Samsung to bring Lolipop down to their abysmal standards. With a Samsung device, you're better off using Cyanogenmod in the first place, although they don't have Lolipop images for very many phones, and the ones they do have are all unstable/nightlies.
Cyanogenmod is the only thing keeping my S4 from being an expensive paperweight. I don't think there's any way I could go back to an official Samsung image without losing my mind! Especially the S4, which they loaded down with gobs and gobs of utter garbage. 16GB storage is paltry enough as it is without the base image sucking down half of it with useless bullshit.
The renderer isn't the issue. On iOS, alternative browsers cannot take advantage of the same Javascript runtime that Safari does, so they end up with pretty lousy performance. Unless they changed things in the last year or so. I ran screaming from iOS, through the misshapen abomination that is TouchWiz and into the warm embrace of Cyanogenmod Android, now with slightly less Googly-woogly-data-mining.
It's still better than fucking Chrome. From making it impossible to stop the address bar from being hidden to getting rid of the progress bar, every single update makes that dumbass browser worse and worse. I'd rather have an amature colonoscopy than use Chrome Mobile.
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Hope that helps! Cheers!
Why do you hate freedom? You can't socialize music into your little National Public Domain you goddamned red bastard!
Wouldn't that make it imaginary? Subtle difference, when talking about rationality in the psychological sense.
Not even a little bit. Considering that the multi window thing is only available on TouchWiz, developers have little incentive to bother with supporting a feature which only a fraction of the Android users have, of which only a tiny fraction even use.
The UI for the multi window setup is typical Samsung, I.e., complete, and utter garbage. The whole thing is just another pound of bloat shoveled into the TouchWiz stock ROM; another nice sounding, but ultimately pointless feature, created mainly to have one more check box in the Samsung/Apple dick waving contest.
It isn't, OP was making sarcastic jabs at the knee jerk SJW stance of "Only white people can be racist," and "white people have caused literally every problem faced by People of Color (PoC)."
In other words, the simple minded individuals who take such obviously illogical stances would crow about it being racist to imply that yes, their precious PoC's were just as guilty in perpetuating the slave trade as all the evil CIS White males they blather on and on about.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
