I’m in the same boat as you

Also, most of these replacement suggestion in this article and many others, are not FOSS

No tabs in the app drawer… just all your apps on one page and have to scroll all the way down to find wikipedia, for example

Drawer tabs is really what i want

Cant find any modern launcher with tabs

None of these are a good replacement for nova.

I’ve been using android since 2007. Nova allowed me to stick with the old school UI paradigm of dock and app drawer… nova was so good, that i set up my homescreen in 2013 and basically never touched the settings again until i migrated a new phone…

All these new launchers break my 20 yr old workflow… i dont like the “everything is a search bar” thing

if you choose to back up to your own storage, does it still cost $1.99?

i’ve been using android since 2007… and the home screen paradigm for me has always been a customizable dock at the bottom with an app drawer button in the middle, and multiple home screens with whatever widgets you want…

i’ve tried almost all the suggestions for a nova replacement and almost all of them break my workflow i’ve used for almost 20 years. it’s very frustrating. it seems like the latest launchers fall into two camps…
“minimalist”, no widgets, have to search everything with keyboard
“modern”, takes a lot of cues from iOS on the home screen

that’s the problem with finding a “nova replacement”… almost everyone’s “nova” is completely different from each other… does anyone have a suggestion for a launcher that carries on the old school android layout, but also FOSS? (GO launcher still maintains the old-school paradigm, but not FOSS)

GPU hasnt been profitable to mine for many years now.

People just keep parroting anti-crypto talking points for years without actually knowing what’a going on

To be clear, 99% of the crypto space is a scam. But to blame them for GPU shortages and high prices is just misinformation

Omg they are so cute!!

Or… live in a place or advocate for a place where spyware cars arent a necessity for simply existing…

When something is 100% required for life, someone WILL exploit it

The pagerank algorithm worked fine for many years in the 2000-2010s before google transitioned into a full time advertising company

The good people don’t become billionaires in the first place

You have extra money to name a hospital wing after yourself? Should have been taxed appropriately in the first place so that the hospital didnt need to sell naming rights just to fill a funding gap…

You have extra money to donate to your family charity? Should have been paid as appropriate wages to your workers instead of accumulating in your personal net worth…

All billionaire philanthropy is a failure of policy that allowed them to unjustly accumulate those billions through exploting others, thereby creating most of the problems that they “solve” through their philanthropy later in life

tin foil hat people.

This particular community is full of totally unhinged people who dont know the difference between privacy and anonymity. 90% of people here act like they’re living in north korea and will be disappeared if their phone number leaks

All the prior cases from these chatGPT lawyers should be reviewed. What other shortcuts were they taking before? Did an innocent person end up in jail because of some prior negligence?

How about you take up a full time job on the noble task of “informing the public” but also don’t ask for any monetary compensation

Thank you for your service

I’m not giving up a small pleasure like butter just so that a billionaire can buy another private jet and wipe out whatever tiny carbon footprint savings comes from giving up butter

I dont know if you’re all 6’10" giants… But modern phones (including ALL fairphones) DO NOT FIT in my pants pockets…

Make Small Phones Great Again!!!

#tty
/dev/pts/0

I have it on physical CD!!

Toronto Dominion Bank

mean…you really don’t need an extensive subway network here

Found the 905’er

The streetcar network is a complete shitshow. Multiple streetcars bunched up, with hundreds of people inside, being blocked by a few SUV drivers and parked cars on the side of the street.

Its faster to bike or walk in most cases.

Same for the buses. There’s a reason the bus lines here have nicknames like “the sufferin’ dufferin”