Huawei runs it’s own branch of Android since it lost its ability to offer Google services.

In the case you’re not paying for “Android” but for the tech, whatever you think about it it’s a tech that no-one else is yet doing, least of all Apple which in real terms is still playing catch-up with Android and it’s insistance of a walled garden .

You could try https://2fas.com/ open source mobile application with browser extensions and cloud sync for backups.

Or www.bitwarden.com password manager is also open source and for a small “premium” supports 2FA for mobile/desktop/browser.

The only saving grace with Samsung washing machine was it had two years of warranty and after about the 6th repair in just over 14 months the retailer swapped ot for another brand.

Typing this on a S24 Ultra and have numerous tvs but will shy away from any elctro domestics in the future.

I had a similar issue with Mint on my Latitude 7480, ended up using Fedora where everything just seems to work.

Best advice I can suggest is always use a live USB because if something doesn’t work there it won’t after install either.

Good to hear, I’ve not had any issues so far. The only “niggle” I’ve had is when pairing my Bluetooth devices I’ve needed to turn Bluetooth on and off for each pairing bit once done they’ve reconnected fine.

Thanks. Finally after Mint didn’t recognise my network adaptor I tried Manjaro (everything worked great, but I don’t think I’m ready for Arch) so ended up on Pop_OS … everything works so I’m going to stick with this for now.

My weekend project will be install mint for my first flurry into Linux.

I’m going to set it up for some light gaming and media streaming.

Running on a Dell Latitude 4980, long term hoping to learn enough to set up a home jellyfin server.

To each there own, but if your cousins up for it I’m game.

I have Disney+ until Jun when my annual subscription renews.

As they’ve decide to hike the price I won’t be renewing, for the little it’s used they can pull from other sources.

I’ll keep Netflix for the others in the house.

Thanks for this. I’m on android 14 on Pixel 7 and had no idea you could pin items in the share tray.

Now I’ve been able to pin my two most frequently shared contacts and my most two used apps.

Your pain has been my gain so thanks but sorry.

I’m not quite sure why, but I would feel somewhat uncomfortable swiping against a phone.

How can you be 100% sure it’s not being used to clone your card details.

It’s a completely illogical way of thinking because it happens with normal POS machines anyway so I truly can’t explain my irrationality.

In fairness for non-US this makes even less of an issue as my birthday is 20/4 and 4/20 as a date is meaningless.

Great more extensions, but still no tabbed mode for tablets and larger screen devices… /s

This for me has been a work changer:

https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/

Can open in tab or sidebar. Honestly, can’t recommend highly enough.

I agree, on the phone it’s a great app.

My problem is that as I only use tablet and phone it doesn’t make sense to use two different browsers so until it’s changed Vivaldi it is.

IF FF ever implement support for tabs on tablets I might consider using it.

I only use phone and tablet and to use a glorified phone app on a tablet is not a great experience. Almost every other browser in existence supports tags for larger screens.

Until FF fixes this it doesn’t matter how many extensions they allow in the browser I’m out.

It’s exciting news for them 😀, money money money

If you want ad-free use Instander on android

This is why I use Smartube on my android TV and revanced/NewPipe on my phone.

The few times I’ve witnessed naked YouTube it’s made be realise that if any of the sources mentioned stop working then I’m simply not going to use YouTube.

Thanks Google /s

Now that podcasts have migrated to YouTube music , which isn’t available in my location, I’ve lost access to podcasts via Google.

In fairness I don’t use Google podcasts anyway because it was a really poor podcast app but the swap will suck for people who do use it and don’t have access to YTM.