Thanks, good to know it hasn’t caused issues for many people, at least. Never tried Grapheme maybe it’s time to give it a shot 😁

Yeah, I mean it’s not that things are outlandishly big, but the text on, for example, the BBC News app, or Sync for Lemmy are both now noticeably smaller than before and the battery, wifi and mobile data icons are noticeably larger (plus larger than the app icons at the other end of the notification bar).

Adjusting scaling to sort one issue tends to exacerbate the other.

I’ll just need to play around with it until I find a compromise. Such a pain! 😁

Pixel 6 Pro here. Glad it’s not had a widespread effect. Very annoying, but I’ll just have to adjust individual app settings to try and find a happy compromise.

I use Total too - I wouldn’t say it’s quite 1:1 as it’s not as intuitive, but in terms of customisability, it’s amazing.

Yep - and I recall arguing at the time with one of the Nova people sent to Reddit to try and sell us on the idea that everything was just fine, and nothing would change, and hey, look over there, a huge distracting thing…

It was bullshit then, and so it’s proved. What a waste of a truly exceptional launcher.

No problem 😁

Agreed, that’s exactly what I do too - I use icon swipe all the time though, so I’m confused why you don’t have it.

Admittedly, I swipe folder icons rather than individual apps, but it definitely works, here’s a quick video (link lives for 2 days): https://streamable.com/liybvg

EDIT - looking again, I can’t set swipes on individual app icons either, just the folder icons. Weird, never noticed that before!

It’s a live wallpaper maker, it’s really good - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kustom.wallpaper

I use Total Launcher - it has up and down swipe gestures but also left and right. It’s a bit of a learning curve, much less intuitive than Nova was at its peak, but very customisable.

This is the story:

BBC News - Lucy Connolly released from prison after race hate post on X - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po?app-referrer=search

She’s since become a bit of a cause celebre for the hard of thinking right wing establishment.

EDIT

Because that story doesn’t have it, here’s more context and what she said:

In July last year, prompted by a false rumour that an illegal immigrant was responsible for the murder of three girls at a dance workshop in Southport, Connolly posted online calling for “mass deportation now”, adding “set fire to all the… hotels [housing asylum seekers]… for all I care”.

Connolly, then a 41-year-old Northampton childminder, added: “If that makes me racist, so be it.”

EDIT 2 - in fact, her exact words were this:

“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care … if that makes me racist so be it.”

At the time she had about 9,000 followers on X. Her message was reposted 940 times and viewed 310,000 times, before she deleted it three and a half hours later.

In October she was jailed after admitting inciting racial hatred.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3nn60wyr6o

Agreed. Also, she pled guilty.

That’s amazing!

Bloody toddlers! 😁

It was. Still felt dumb though 😁

Loved my S3. Broke the screen when I leaned against a wall to help my toddler climb down and heard a crack from my trouser pocket 😨

Is any of that because what would have been half their worth 15 years ago is now less than half of what it would be?

Like, if someone had 100 billion in 2010, and did give away 50 billion in that time, but also made a further 20 billion in that time, did they give away half their worth or not?

I’ve not read the article, so maybe that question is answered in there.

Who?

I guess it’s a matter of taste - I find a menu that tall, with gaps that large between the items, harder to read than a more compact presentation of the same info.

Either way though, it doesn’t seem like that was the issue, so not to worry!

Don’t think OP is complaining about the number of options so much as how they are presented.

That menu looks much taller than it needs to be, the spacing between lines is huge, and the icons are unnecessarily big too.

Might not be what OP meant, but that’s how I read it.

EDIT - upon reading down the thread, it looks like it IS the number of options, my bad, sorry.

I managed (entirely through text) to talk my 70 year old mother through transferring her Signal account from one phone to another. It really wasn’t that difficult.

Possibly yeah. Although these are villages you’d drive through in about 5 seconds, so no matter where the pin is put it’s not going to be 2 miles different. Maybe it’s starting in a different place though, that might do it. Cheers, will check that out.