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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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it was bothering me for at least two weeks now with "nova launcher can't open network connection". today it finally presented this shitty ad dialog with missing reject all option where you can either accept all, or dive into few dozens of separate section, each of them containing few dozens sliders, all of them enabled by default.

let this be warning to others and you can deal with it before it surprises you when you are somewhere outside.

what privacy concious launchers do you people use? i have tried kiss launcher, but that doesn't seem to be for me.

i want classic launcher where i have icons on desktop where i put them and i can manipulate them blindfolded, not something that is trying to reinvent the wheel.

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

that is what i am currently trying, seems to be working reasonably well and i swear it is faster than nova was.

there are some minor annoyances that are not really functional problem but will piss me off for some time (the icons of apps grouped into folder are far smaller than they could have been) and there is one big wtf moment, which is that screens do not wrap, so there is no left screen from the home one, resulting in number of screens being reachable of one slide cut to 50%, which is just... why?