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Cake day: February 13th, 2025

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  • Android is just plain more customizable and if you need a quality of life feature, you’re probably going to find some way to have it.

    Yes.

    I used to feel that way about stock Android, but the really useful apps dried up on Google Play a few years back.

    Discovering F-Droid brought back the joy of customizing Android, for me.

    My conclusions:

    • Much of the charm of Android is already gone for the average user, but many haven’t noticed.
    • Making F-Droid harder to install isn’t going to help.

    I’m not sure what Google has done to alienate the folks writing quality free apps, but whatever it is, most of them are only on F-Droid, already.

    This feels like Google is just shutting the door on the walled garden they’ve been building for awhile.



  • I never really fully stopped caring for them, but I don’t want to build my life with them.

    An unexpected side effect is that I felt exultant when they found someone to build their life with. I sleep better knowing they are cared for.

    Anytime I look back and think “what if”, I realize it would have been bad. We’re both better off separate from each-other.

    And it hurt to be near each-other, so we don’t stay in close contact.

    But none of that invaldiates all the wonderful things we know about each-other, better than most people do.

    And it doesn’t stop us from celebrating each-other’s victories from a distance.