Onomatopoeia

And peoe want that sweet, sweet, "convenience".

I want proper use of swap/cache by default, not something I have to root to get.

Why is my browser reloading pages because I switched apps, on a 6gb phone?

I could prevent this on a 2gb phone in 2017 with root by configuring it properly.

Check out the apps Hermit and Native Alpha. They make web pages run like an app. I've only run into a couple sites where they don't work right.

I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That's right, thirty megabytes.

It's amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.

Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.

I use Davx to sync with my mailbox.org account, but I also use SD Contacts (on FDroid). It automatically exports contacts to the SD card when there are changes. This is useful when first setting up a phone, or setting up a phone with no sync functions like DAV.

Anuto is fun, I really like the back-to-gradeschool graphics

Ok, now this looks impressive, since they publish the API and CAD files for you to build your own add ons.

I can't think of add-ons I'd want - I'm more for smaller phones today, so the bulk doesn't really appeal to me. But I'm eager to see what people create (may already be some stuff posted on 3D printing sites, I haven't looked). Maybe an add-on battery that's the size of the back but really thin?

Edit: LOVE that it's a plastic phone. Please, more plastic phones, they're lighter and tougher.

Lol, nice.

Not that it matters, really, as it's all about battery chemistry, and there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Apple may do something differently than Android manufacturers, but they all have the same choices - tweak the voltage/current profile, manage temp, limit recharge bounce when a phone sits on the charger.

Actual answer: fast charging will always do more damage than slower charging. It's all tradeoffs, and I will trade my battery longevity for fast charging when I need it. When I have time, slower charging is fine.

I'm tech savvy, been in IT for nearly 40 years. Wrote my first program in Fortran on punched cards.

Linux is no easy switchover. It's problematic, regardless of the distro (I've tried many over the years).

My latest difficulty - went to install Debian and it hung multiple times trying to install wifi drivers.

Mint can't use my Logitech mouse until I researched it and discovered someone wrote an app to enable it. The most popular mouse on the planet doesn't work out of the box.

Typical user would be stumped by these problems.

I can go on for days about "Year of the Linux Desktop" (which I first heard in 2000). Can Linux work as a desktop? Definitely. And it can be pretty damn good, too, if your use-case aligns with it's capabilities. But if you're an end-user type, what do you do a year in and realize you need a specific app that just doesn't exist in Linux?

Is it a direct replacement for Windows? No. Because Windows has always been about general use - it trades performance for the ability to do a lot of varied things, it includes capabilities that not everyone needs.

Linux is the opposite, it's about performance for specific things. If you want a specific capability, it has to be added. This is the challenge these different distros attempt to meet: the question for all of them is which capabilities to include "out of the box" (see my mouse example - Debian handles it just fine).

This is also the power of Linux, and why it's so great for specific use-cases. Things like Proxmox, TrueNAS, etc, really benefit from this minimalism. No wasted cycles on a BITS service or all the other components Windows runs "just in case".

I've found speed via USB/MTP is awful because of the instability of MTP, especially with larger files. It's so unstable that wifi with a sync tool like Resilio is faster in the end (and I don't have to watch it).

So this worked on Mint before?

If so, what's changed on either end since then? Had there been an update to either Graphene or Mint since the last time it worked? Maybe Graphene improved a security feature or you need to reset the approval on the phone (maybe toggle the USB debugging setting).

I don't bother with MTP for file transfer any more - at best it's clunky and tedious, at worst it's unreliable. Better to use network.

Setup a share on your PC, and use Mixplorer or any other network-capable file explorer on Android.

Even better, use an app like Syncthing or Resilio, and you'll never think about file transfer again.

I have a Syncthing sync pair/folder for every folder on my phone to my home server, so I can manage files there and the changes sync back to my phone. This also provides a first step to backing up my phone. (Use Syncthing-Fork for finer control of each sync folder).

There's one folder I specifically setup for that random file I want to send to my phone. It syncs over any network, under any charge condition, so files show up nearly instantly (at most a minute later). I could tweak that sync folder to scan more frequently, but it's responsive enough.

Alternatively, using Resilio Sync you can selectively sync files from your PC, from the phone itself. The "Selective Sync" option is something Resilio has that Syncthing doesn't.

Both of these have an a phone and PC app. Install on PC, Select folders to sync and they'll index those folders. Install on phone, and select the local folder to connect to the sync jobs (folder) in the app.

I've found Resilio is hard on memory for the phone because it keeps the index in RAM, so I only run it when I want to grab files from my home pc. If you only sync a couple small folders, this isn't an issue. I use it for selective sync of my media folder (which is terabytes), so the index is large. This way I don't sync my entire media folder but can grab any music or movie file, from anywhere, and then I close Resilio.

I think SMS Backup Restore can export to HTML.