Btw, you can keep circle to search on and use GoodLock to remove the nav bar. You just press and hold in the middle where the nav bar would be to activate circle to search

I would generally agree with you, but in this case, Verizon has already been subject to such a rule for over a decade as a condition of the 700MHz spectrum. Verizon does offer subsidized/financed devices like the other carriers, it just doesn’t SIM lock them beyond the initial period.

Given this data point, I think it’s a good idea to expand to the other carriers.

Just want to note that this effectively doesn’t apply to Verizon because they already have such a rule, which was imposed over a decade ago as a condition of the 700MHz spectrum.

This means we already know such a rule works for carriers and we can apply it to the others.

I have a Galaxy S24 with the gesture bar hidden. It lets me do circle to search by holding down where the gesture bar would be.

I would love to put Linux on the computer side for daily use and then use the Android side for high resolution video streaming (Netflix, etc). Looks like a very unique device that will be great for those who can appreciate what it has to offer. Very cool!

Yup. It could also be hardware failure in the sense of a flakey power button. Either way, it’s probably not people intentionally pushing the power button a lot

In my household of four, we typically use about 400 GB of data per month (at about 4:1 download to upload ratio) on our fiber Internet connection. It’s a lot of VC meetings for work and after school activities and the usual media streaming. We also have phones on the Wi-Fi while at home.

While not great as a general file manager, I use this app to launch into the hidden, built in file manager in Android. The major benefit is that it can access apps’ data directories. Every other file manager is blocked from that (at least without root).

Hmmm, sounds like all extensions will need to adopt the module system. I guess I’ll be careful about making sure my extensions are updated before updating to Gnome 45